history

Starting this winter, freshmen will have a chance to dive into UCLA’s rich history through a series of Fiat Lux seminars designed to explore various aspects of the institution’s  founding.

UCLA history professor examines how the evictions of Mexican-American residents from the community to make way for a ballpark had deep-seated effects on civil rights, Chicano/a culture and more.

For the last 18 years, UCLA’s Lisa Snyder has been bringing to life the bygone glory of a true architectural, social and cultural wonder — the Chicago World’s Fair.

UCLA's Julia Burtenshaw talks about working with ancient Colombian ceramics.

“Encountering Ancient Colombia — A Journey through the Magdalena Valley” seeks to question our knowledge of the ancient objects on view and to illustrate the world of precolonial Colombia.

Waugh, an authority on American history and lifelong baseball fan, explains how baseball has (and hasn’t) changed, why it became the national pastime and how she teaches the sport’s history.

When UCLA history professor J. Arch Getty presents “Dead Man Talking: Lenin's Body and Russian Politics,” the UCLA Academic Senate’s 119th Faculty Research Lecture on Oct. 19, he will be speaking from a deep well of scholarship in Russian history.

The associate professor of history was recognized for 'Hobos in Heaven: Race, Incarceration, and the Rise of Los Angeles, 1880–1910.'

Nova Jiang’s playful artwork, "Red Car," came together because of a collaboration between the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture and Australia-based Westfield Corp. to support emerging artists.

The beliefs and practices of magic were part of philosophy and science for centuries.

How to refer to the forced removal of Japanese Americans and their immigrant parents during World War II remains an issue.

The UCLA Asian American Studies Center has launched the Suyama Project to gather and make available online evidence of resistance among Japanese Americans forcibly removed from their homes during World War II.

UCLA Byzantine art history and archaeology professor Sharon Gerstel has devoted much of the last year to studying how architectural changes in Byzantine churches enhanced the performance of religious music.

Soraya de Chadarevian, a professor in the UCLA Department of History and the Institute for Society and Genetics, has been awarded an NSF grant to explore the history of genetics research.

“Treasured Textiles” traces the flowering of three different weaving traditions.

Professor Melvin Rogers writes in the Atlantic that Ta-Nehisi Coates’ bestselling new book about racism and African American identity fails to recognize the importance of hope.

On the 50th anniversary of the Watts riots, historian Robin D.G. Kelley writes in the L.A. Times that the era gave birth to social justice and arts organizations that remade the community and whose legacy continues today.

History professor Brenda Stevenson writes that 150 years after emancipation in the United States, there are still 20 to 30 million people enslaved around the world.

Ten UCLA students will be headed for talks with staff at the State Department, White House and United Nations and other Middle East experts before heading for ground zero of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Dismissing unrest in America’s cities as aimless violence overlooks the roots of people’s anger, according to the panelists at a UCLA-Zócalo event examining the history of urban resistance.

Tobias Higbie is a UCLA scholar of labor history who is using digitized historical records to gain new perspectives about labor and social movements of past eras.

The jazz legend mentored musicians, and in this spirit the virtuoso grad students study with modern masters like Herbie Hancock and Kenny Burrell, and in turn share their expertise with thousands of students in local schools.

UCLA history professor Ivan Berend, who was liberated from Dachau 70 years ago and became a key figure in Hungary’s transition from communism, retired last week at the age of 85.

In his recently published book, Aron reveals how Manifest Destiny influenced the Nazis and talks about how modern scholarship of the West now encompasses the area’s demographic diversity.

On Tuesday, April 28, the campus community, together with 2,000 K-12 students, will gather for events to commemorate the day 50 years ago when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. visited UCLA and addressed nearly 5,000.