Think America’s political discourse is nastier than it’s ever been? Think again. According to History Prof. John Majewski, the political scene now is downright genteel compared to what it was […]

For over forty years, "Looking Glass" was the nickname of the Airborne Command Post--an essential element in the command and control of the Strategic Air Command's forces. This made-for-TV docudrama […]

The catacombs of ancient Rome form the single most important source of information concerning the rise of Christianity from an archaeological point of view. This lecture focuses on exciting new […]

Nicholas Cahill is Professor of Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Director of the Sardis Expedition. During the seventh and sixth centuries BCE, the Lydians, a native Anatolian […]

Nicholas Cahill is Professor of Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Director of the Sardis Expedition. Please RSVP by March 6th by contacting Ryan Abrecht: ryanabrecht(at)umail.ucsb.edu Participants may […]

Susannah McGowan, a Ph.D. candidate in Education, will be leading a discussion on teaching on Wednesday, March 14, at noon in HSSB 4020. Susannah will describe the some key theoretical […]

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For over half of a century, the University of Pennsylvania Museum has conducted excavations at the ancient site of Gordion in central Turkey. The site is best known as the […]

To the media and in the minds of the general public ‘maritime archaeology’ often suggests the study of shipwrecks, perhaps because of the prominent role they played in the development […]

Kevin Vennemann will be delivering an introduction to and a lecture from his widely acclaimed debut novel Close to Jedenew, published in German by the prestigious Suhrkamp Verlag 2005 and […]