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Humanities

How is slavery represented at American tourist sites today?

That's the question UC Berkeley's Stephen Small, a professor emeritus of African American studies, seeks to answer in his book 'In the Shadows of the Big House.'

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Events at Berkeley

Berkeley Talks: Heather Cox Richardson on the evolution of the Republican Party and what gives her hope for America

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Humanities

How Trump’s immigration policies compare to those of America’s past

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Arts & culture

Berkeley Voices: From Victorian-era letters to Swiftie bracelets, an evolution of American friendship

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New African American history lecture series created to honor beloved professor

Uncovering the roots of prison labor in America

An extended family (grandparents, mother, small child, father) eat. and serve Thanksgiving table in this black-and-white photograph.

How to think about Thanksgiving like a food historian

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How World War I helps explain what gave rise to Trump’s second term

Jack Weinberg sits in a police car in 1964 with his arms folded out the window, surrounded by police and protesters

How Freedom Summer activists brought the Free Speech Movement to Berkeley

huge plumes of smoke billow into the sky over New York City's buildings after the terrorist attack on 9/11/2001

9/11 shaped the U.S. in unimaginable ways. This class helps Gen Z students grasp how

New Palestinian and Arab Studies program established at UC Berkeley

dozens of tv screens showing various sporting events from the control room of the Beijing Olympics

What is lost — and gained — when Olympics coverage becomes a round-the-clock spectacle?

Berkeley Talks: Reconsidering Black America’s relationship to the plantation

William Carter wears headphones and listens as a computer program reads text from transcribed slave ship logs, the original of which is displayed on a computer screen.

With newly digitized slave ship logs, Berkeley Ph.D. student examines race, power — and literacy

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Claudia Sheinbaum just became Mexico’s first female president. It’s not surprising, Berkeley historian says.

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Berkeley Voices: Medieval song holds clues to lost dialects

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