history

The center will foster teaching, research and collaborations across campus and beyond the university that will direct historical insights to shaping policies and solving problems.

The Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World will be the first center in the Western Hemisphere that aims to advance the knowledge of ancient Iranian languages, history and religions.

In a city famous for traffic jams and rush-hour gridlock, a return to rail may be putting Los Angeles on the right track.

The Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA is hosting a series of events held in honor of Black History Month.

This year's Alden-Berg Lecture will feature Benjamin Madley, UCLA associate professor of history and American Indian studies. He is the author of "An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe."

History professor and presidential historian Robert Dallek recalls former presidents speaking up to defend their legacies and achievements.

A standing-room-only crowd gathered Wednesday, Jan. 18, in Little Tokyo in downtown Los Angeles to hear two UCLA scholars with expertise in immigration law and the historic underpinnings of the Japanese-American incarceration.

A new book, "Nonviolence and Social Movements: The Teachings of Rev. James M. Lawson Jr.," was recently published by the UCLA Labor Center and was written by UCLA students who were inspired by a class he and UCLA faculty members taught.

Zócalo/UCLA, the Japanese American Museum and KCRW host a discussion on understanding the proposed Muslim registry through the lens of the Japanese-American experience.

The UCLA Sephardic Archive has acquired one of the most significant collections ever assembled chronicling Los Angeles Sephardic Jewish history.

Appleby, an emerita professor of history, was a nationally renowned historian who wrote prolifically about America’s founding fathers.

UCLA professor Henry Kelly examines historical canonical legal procedures to correct the popular myths around the Italian astronomer’s belief in a sun-centered solar system.

At the time of her three-year incarceration in internment camps, she didn't ask herself why this was happening. But in the ensuing years, she and her husband began a tireless quest for answers.

They created a website and searchable database that highlights African-American actors, crewmembers, writers and other artists who were making films in the early 1900s.

Stephen Aron, chair of the department of history, leads a discussion with faculty, campaign strategists and media.

Sarah Abrevaya Stein's 'Extraterritorial Dreams' tracks the immigration of Sephardi Jews from the Ottoman Empire.

A 1964 interview with Martin Luther King Jr. is one of many historical moments from KTLA-TV in a new online portal created by the UCLA Film and Television Archive.

History professor Stephen Aron examines how more accurate and nuanced depictions of the time period are pushing out the idealized depictions of Wild West films and literature.

“Nkame: A Retrospective of Cuban Printmaker Belkis Ayón” features 43 prints that explore the founding myth of the Afro-Cuban secret society Abakuá. The exhibition opens Oct. 2.

The “Fowler in Focus: The Spun Universe: Wixárika (Huichol) Yarn Paintings” exhibition chronicles artistic production by the Wixárika people, commonly referred to as the Huichol.

Professor Shana Redmond connects the language and themes of slave narratives with the song Jay-Z released in response to the police killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile.

A valuable resource for research on the United Kingdom's historic vote to exit the European Union, the archive is a collection of 46 of the campaign's most important websites.

The 1985 film depicts modern LGBT history as an epic story of sweep and grandeur.

Thanks to a major grant from The Ahmanson Foundation, scholars and students will have access to digital copies of some 1,100 rare and unique Syriac and Arabic manuscripts.

Professor Caroline Ford and associate professor Kelly Lytle Hernandez will apply the grants to their current research.