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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?

July 24, 2024

Close up of Alisha Gaines

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

June 28, 2024

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

June 12, 2024

Claudia Sheinbaum pumping her fist and smiling while delivering a presidential victory speech behind a podium.

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

June 4, 2024

Saagar, with short dark hair and glasses, wearing a powder blue suit, holds a viola to his chin while standing in a courtyard

Berkeley Voices: Medieval song holds clues to lost dialects

March 5, 2024

Black-and-white line drawing of Walter Gordon with a Cal football to his side

Berkeley Voices: Take the first Black history tour at UC Berkeley

February 1, 2024

A black-and-white illustration of hundreds of Irish immigrants and families with all their belongings

Afterthoughts: The true origins of American immigration policy

January 8, 2024

illustration of a wave behind a red barbed wire fence

New podcast series explores the legacy of Japanese American incarceration

December 14, 2023

A black and white image of boats being rowed in a race as they cross under a sign that says finish

New ‘Boys in the Boat’ movie — and a unique campus class — spark pride in Cal’s rowing history

December 5, 2023

a sepia toned photo of about 100 white men in hats shaking hands and celebrating, some of whom are on top of a train.

They built the railroad. But they were left out of the American story.

November 13, 2023

An image of a succulant plant with small boxes on leaves showing a magnified version of the plant that is meant to symbolize how AI interprets the world

UC Berkeley historian of science ponders AI’s past, present and future

September 11, 2023

side by side headshots of the scientist and the actor playing him

Oppenheimer: July 28 panel discussion focuses on the man behind the movie

July 19, 2023

a person stands next to an image of a book

Berkeley Voices: How the Holocaust ends

May 18, 2023

Jefferson Cowie smiling

Berkeley alumnus Jefferson Cowie wins 2023 Pulitzer Prize for history

May 11, 2023

two images side by side: One is a book cover that reads

Berkeley Talks: How a lie from medieval Europe spread antisemitism across the world

May 5, 2023

Archival image of Palestinian refugees displaced in 1948

Berkeley course examines Palestinian history, ‘putting the people first’

April 25, 2023