Honored for two decades of research, teaching and mentorship at UC Santa Barbara, David López-Carr, a professor in the Department of Geography, has won the 2024 CLAG Teaching Award from the Conference ...

"This book was originally planned as an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. When Covid-19 closed the museum in the spring of 2020, the show was canceled."--Sandra Phillips Drawing ...

Americans often talk about the world as if peace is the natural state of humanity. It isn’t. Peace is the exception, not the rule. For most of human history, nations and tribes have competed, often ...

The 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence offers a chance for overdue conversations about what schools should teach when it comes to history, government, and social studies. Today, ...

GEOGRAPHY and economics, aided by time and the progress of industrial science, afford more than sufficient explanation for the change recently witnessed in the relationship of Latin America to its two ...

1. Since 1921, this city has been the home of the Miss America pageant. 2. Name the largest park in Manhattan. 3. The fishhook shape of this Atlantic resort area is easily recognized on a map. 4.

Geography is a function of time as much as location. Even static-seeming places such as deserts or small towns are constantly in flux. How to depict that change, and in doing so convey the forces ...

Capitals: a new light on American cities and territorial processes -- Capitals as places of memory -- Geographical patterns in the migration of capitals -- In search of explanatory models -- Capital ...

Peter Rogerson, a UB faculty member in geography and biostatistics, has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The academy was founded in 1780 during the American ...

Yet years later, the city remains incomplete, underpopulated, and far from its original vision. This is the story of how one ...

Awhile back, I hired an amiable local kid to help me move some boxes, explaining that my husband was in Saudi Arabia. My teen helper’s brow puckered for a moment before he inquired, “Is that near ...