Posted in Uncategorized on May 17th, 2013 No Comments »
Dr. Samuel Clyde McCulloch, founding dean of the School of Humanities at UC Irvine and professor emeritus of history, died on May 13. He was 96. An authority on the British Empire, McCulloch earned his Ph.D. in history at UCLA and served as Dean of the College at San Francisco State College (now San Francisco [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 21st, 2013 No Comments »
The Los Angeles Times examines Telling the Bees, the first novel by English professor Peggy Hesketh. Peggy Hesketh is no stranger to facing her fears. For her debut novel, “Telling the Bees” (Putnam, $27), Hesketh comprehensively researched and observed the world of beehives and bees—an insect to which she is highly allergic. It is this [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 5th, 2013 No Comments »
History professor Jon Wiener writes for the Los Angeles Times. The Nixon Presidential Library and Museum opened a new exhibit in Yorba Linda and online Feb. 15, “Patriot, President, Peacemaker.” It covers Richard Nixon‘s entire life, like the permanent installation there, and claims to present “a fuller picture” than ever before. But there’s a gap, [...]
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