Tag Archive for: History

head and shoulders portrait of Richard Hovannisian

In memoriam: Richard Hovannisian, 90, celebrated professor of Armenian history

Michael Rothberg in a blue checkered dress shirt, with a walkway lined with stone columns in the background.

Exploring the fraught nature of memory and comparison

Black-and-white photo of President John F. Kennedy signing the Equal Pay Act

Cracks in the glass ceiling?

Gillian Smith smiling while wearing a purple sweater and red baseball hat, with canyon formations and a blue afternoon sky in the background.

Gillian Smith is living history

This graduating senior changed her academic direction—and life—at…

UCLA’s Brenda Stevenson on reclaiming the history of the Black family

The historian and author discusses her new book, ‘What Sorrows…

A Victorian-era computer pioneer gets to speak for herself

Ada Lovelace published the first description of a computer program;…
Alex Haley seated in chair in backyard, surrounded by foliage

Time capsule: Alex Haley’s deep dive on Malcolm X and ‘Roots’ at UCLA

50 years ago, the celebrated author spoke in Royce Hall about…

Professor’s book spotlights legacy of Mexican political organizers in the American West

Kelly Lytle Hernández’s ‘Bad Mexicans’ comes at a time…
Historic image of cameramen recording Michi Tanioka, 5, as she waits to be sent from Los Angeles to the Manzanar prison camp in April 1942.Image credit: Library of Congress/Russell Lee

Exhibition puts viewers in midst of WWII-era removal of Japanese Americans

‘BeHere / 1942,’ presented by the Yanai Initiative of UCLA…
Overhead view of Destination Crenshaw’s Sankofa Park featuring designs for works by Maren Hassinger, Kehinde Wiley and Charles Dickson.Rendering by Perkins&Will, courtesy of Destination Crenshaw

Destination Crenshaw pays tribute to Black creativity and history in Los Angeles

UCLA faculty and alumni contributed ideas, expertise and artworks…