National Merit Scholarship Program finalist; U.S. Presidential Scholar Program semifinalist; AP Scholar with Distinction; ...

Lawmakers reintroduce a bill to study making Cahokia Mounds a National Historic Site, highlighting its cultural and ...

Two thousand years before the Inca empire dominated the Andes, a lesser-known society known as the Chavín Phenomenon shared ...

Snuff tubes uncovered at Chavin de Huantar in Peru reveal how leaders used mystical experiences to cement their power.

That includes ancient Egypt, as well as ancient Greek, Vedic, Maya, Inca, and Aztec cultures. The Urarina people who live in the Peruvian Amazon Basin still use a psychoactive brew called ayahuasca in ...

Christopher Hill’s work on 17th-century England has been remarkably influential. In books like The World Turned Upside Down, ...

By Debra Herrick, UCSB Who gets to build wealth — and who gets left behind? A new article by UC Santa Barbara sociologist ...

This is what historians—and humanities scholars at large—aim to do. They explore the “what,” “why” and “how” of human ...