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After 10 years of research at UCLA, the first mobile website to function as a storytelling trail guide to help people explore the past, present and future of certain downtown L.A. neighborhoods —  as they walk, bike or skateboard in those locations — was unveiled.

In the 18th century, two teams of scientists set out to answer whether the earth was shaped more like a tomato or a Japanese eggplant?

Join UCLA history professor William Worger at the Fowler Museum on Thursday Oct. 16 at 12 p.m., for a discussion of post-apartheid South Africa.

In a new mainstream biography, Kara Cooney sets out to rehabilitate the image of the pharaoh Hatshepsut, a woman whose successes were later erased or reassigned to male forebears.

A new book by a UCLA professor shows how ailments presented in 19th century French mental hospitals held up a kind of fun-house mirror to the often horrific political dramas of the country's post-revolutionary era.

UCLA’s communication studies department has posted full speeches given on campus between 1962 and 1973, featuring major figures of the era such as Cesar Chavez, Lenny Bruce, Jane Fonda and Eldridge Cleaver.

Hidden away in the history department student lounge on the sixth floor of Bunche Hall is one of UCLA’s greatest treasures, but not many people knew it until an emeritus history professor pointed out its significance and landmark status.

UCLA linguist Pamela Munro started a Facebook page to revive and promote the Tongva language, once spoken by Southern California's Gabrielino-Tongva Indians. Through social media, their descendants are now learning words, phrases and songs in Tongva.

In a new book, a UCLA historian explores the vast network of social clubs that helped Japanese-American girls navigate the prejudice and exclusion that they faced in Los Angeles between 1920 and 1950.

"Issei: The First Generation," a film documenting the struggles and triumphs of first-generation Japanese Americans, will be screened on May 8 from 4-6 p.m. in UCLA's Broad Art Center.

 'Blood Royals' by UCLA's Eric Jager tells the story of a gory murder and its incredible investigation in 15th century Paris.

Eric Jager's newest nonfiction thriller, "Blood Royal," looks at the brutal murder of King Charles VI's brother, the Duke of Orleans, in Paris in the midst of the Hundred Years' War.

The man who edits and publishes Martin Luther King Jr.’s papers isn’t just a scholar of the civil rights movement. Clayborne Carson lived it.

UCLA has the second-largest moving image archive in the United States after the Library of Congress, and the world’s largest university-based media archive.

Union Army General Winfield Scott Hancock, who played a key role in stopping Confederate attacks during the pivotal Civil War battle, had an important role in Los Angeles at the beginning of the war, according to UCLA grad student.

In this Q&A, UCLA law professor Stuart Banner talks about his new book documenting the litigious history of America’s national pastime.

A look at how the October 31 holiday evolved from a colorful but relatively minor-league American celebration to an iconic autumnal festival.

Marcus Garvey, the larger-than-life 20th-century African-American activist, left a large and sometimes swashbuckling legacy.