STEPHEN PYNE is the world's foremost historian of fire. A Regents' Professor at Arizona State University, and the author of twenty books on environmental history and the histories of science […]

The historic actions, protests and strikes of last fall and spring showed our state and the nation that students, teachers, staff, and our communities are determined to fight against the […]

Matthew Garcia is Associate Professor of American Civilization, Ethnic Studies and History at Brown University. Part of the History 294: Colloquium in Work, Labor, and Political Economy, 2010-2011 lecture series. […]

Say “Lompoc” and most people think of Vandenberg Air Force Base and flower farms, or maybe the prison. But our neighbor to the north has a fascinating history, preserved in […]

John Borsos, Vice President, National Union of Health Care Workers, is our guest at the next meeting of the Colloquium on Work, Labor, and Political Economy. Just last week one […]

The establishment of direct sea contact between the Mediterranean and South Asia in the first century CE is one of the most remarkable developments in ancient history. Scholarship has focused […]

This roundtable will address the rapid growth of Islamist political parties, the expanding Turkish economy and the rise of the "Anatolian Tigers," and new cultural trends in Turkey. Coffee, tea, […]

Please join us next Tuesday, October 26, for a talk by Shigeru "Shig" Yabu, a Japanese American who was interned at the Heart Mountain Concentration Camp from 1942-1945. He is […]

This talk is about an American Arabist organization that received clandestine support from the CIA. In 1967, it was revealed that the CIA had secretly funded the American Friends of […]

Critical Issues in America "'God Made Marriage but the White Man Made the Law': Slavery and Marriage in the Nineteenth Century" Tera Hunter, Professor of History and African-American Studies, Princeton […]