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Alumni $2.3 million pledge ensures unprecedented access to ‘news we all can use’
Irv and Xiaoyan Drasnin’s commitment will help realize the vision of late communication professor Paul Rosenthal.
Fowler Museum at UCLA permanently returns cultural objects to Australia’s Warumungu community
The repatriated objects — including clubs, picks, knives, sheaths, adzes and a boomerang — will go back to their Aboriginal owners in the Northern Territory.
Alumni couple gives $25 million to propel UCLA’s Department of History into the future
The landmark gift from Meyer and Renee Luskin will support the department’s mission of leveraging historical knowledge for the public good.
Meyer Luskin on the future of history
History professor David N. Myers speaks with the alumnus and longtime UCLA supporter about the power of the past to shape what’s next.
Honoring Juneteenth with art, education and community-building
Professor Cheryl Keyes invites everyone to join UCLA’s inaugural campus prelude celebration on June 5 at Royce Hall.
‘Let people own it’: Secretary of the Smithsonian discusses the power of history
Lonnie Bunch delivers UCLA’s Luskin Lecture for Thought Leadership.
Excavating women’s history from the archives
By transcribing a once-forgotten scientist’s writings, a UCLA doctoral candidate is teaching students about female representation in STEM.
Watch UCLA Library’s ‘L.A. Stories’: Inside the Richard Neutra architectural archive
Learn about the work of preserving the legacy of the Austrian-American architect who influenced modern architecture in Los Angeles and beyond.
UCLA recognizes Armenian Genocide with week of public events
Student groups and UCLA’s Promise Armenian Institute are among those hosting free programs from April 17-29.
Gold Dust Twins: How two law students made a civil rights–era connection
Katharine “Kitty” Young and Evan Mitchell Zepeda discovered their relatives, both civil rights icons, were longtime best friends.
A look back at the Inquisition’s prosecution of Galileo: What really happened?
Today, on what would have been the Italian astronomer’s 460th birthday, we revisit one of Newsroom’s most-read stories.
Fowler Museum at UCLA permanently returns objects to Asante kingdom in Ghana
The items from the museum’s collections were personally handed over to Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the Asante king, in Ghana on Feb. 5.
Bringing Black history, lives into focus at UCLA
Join Bruins across campus for public performances, art and discussions happening this month.
Oscar Wilde’s final hours: UCLA’s Joseph Bristow to correct the record in lecture at Clark Library
Could the common story that the Irish writer and bon vivant died of syphilis be wrong?
Watch: ‘L.A. Stories,’ UCLA Library’s new video series
The series, which highlights the city’s past through current library collections, kicks off with an episode on Los Angeles labor history.
Vive la ‘short king’ season!
With “Napoleon” storming into theaters, we ask UCLA doctoral student Wilfrid Grandhomme about the infamous emperor.
UCLA Department of History receives $4 million gift for graduate fellowships
The bequest intent epitomizes retired administrator and adjunct professor Tom Lifka’s longtime service to the university.
Newly digitized Florentine Codex reveals Aztec culture, language
UCLA scholars contributed to Getty project, which makes 16th-century Indigenous Mexican knowledge and culture available online.
Q&A: Documentaries will take audiences behind the scenes of Oppenheimer-era weapons testing
Filmmaker Ross Lipman talks about his in-depth look at “Crossroads,” which will be shown at the Billy Wilder Theater July 30.
In memoriam: Richard Hovannisian, 90, celebrated professor of Armenian history
A faculty member for more than 50 years, he was a renowned expert on the Armenian Genocide.
Exploring the fraught nature of memory and comparison
Professor Michael Rothberg, a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, examines how people and societies recall traumatic historical events.
Cracks in the glass ceiling?
Landmark 1960s anti-discrimination laws intended to increase wages for women may have been more effective than previously thought, UCLA research shows.
UCLA’s Brenda Stevenson on reclaiming the history of the Black family
The historian and author discusses her ongoing research and her new book, “What Sorrows Labour in My Parent’s Breast?”
UCLA professor receives Bancroft Prize in American history
Historian Kelly Lytle Hernández was honored for her book “Bad Mexicans,” which looks at the Mexican Revolution from both sides of the border.