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Aboriginal and black youth are overrepresented in Ontario's correctional facilities, says Akwasi Owusu-Bempah , a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies and a Junior Fellow at Massey College.

Sisterhood And After, a unique national oral history archive that tells the stories of the women involved in the Women's Liberation Movement, is to be launched on International Women's Day (8 March)

Stanford Report, February 27, 2013 As the French intervention in Mali continues, Stanford experts who study the history and culture of West Africa examine the significance of Mali's racial and religious histories.

Historians from UCL have produced the first freely accessible database of Britons involved in slave-ownership.

The margins of books that were read centuries ago could explain why we spend less time reading a book today than people did in the 18th century, according to two University of Alberta researchers.

History Carl Wennerlind 's most recent book focuses on a financial system come undone, a public looking to its government for answers, and a monetary system badly in need of trust and transparency.

The Battle of Bosworth Field may never have occurred if Henry Tudor's first attempt to seize the throne from Richard III, two years earlier, hadn't been thwarted by the inclement weather of October 1483, a researcher investigating historical sea floods at the University of Bristol has discovered.

Paul D. Murray, Director of the Durham University's prestigious Centre for Catholic Studies at Durham University, gives his reaction to the surprise resignation of Pope Benedict XVI.

A unique account of life in a concentration camp, written by a young girl between 1938 and 1944, has been translated into English by an academic from the University of Sheffield and is set to be published by Penguin this week (14 February 2013).

Entomologist Elson Shields, who spearheaded the development of a biocontrol practice for controlling alfalfa snout beetle (ASB), will receive the Entomological Foundation Award for Excellence in IPM in March at the Entomological Society of America meeting.

While Shakespeare's mastery of language and stagecraft is universally recognised, the historical accuracy of many of his plays is open to question and the recent discovery of Richard III's remains has reminded us of this.

The recently discovered body of Richard III puts all the pieces in place for an important historical investigation that will help quell the disquiet surrounding Shakespeare's account of the ill-fated English king, says a University of Alberta researcher.

James D. Jordan today announced his retirement as President and Director of Columbia University Press , effective Sept.

The expression 'standing on the shoulders of giants', made famous by Isaac Newton, is often used to acknowledge the fact that no discovery or leap forward happens in isolation and that progress owes to the efforts of all the minds gone before, whose work we build upon.

History has long denied the political genius of the Black Panther Party. At worst, its members have been cast as unconscionable criminals.

Fisman, the Business School 's Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise, and Tim Sullivan, editorial director of Harvard Business Review Press, look at why organizations are central to human achievement.

There is a huge amount to be learnt about the Assyrian civilisation from investigation of the thousands of Assyrian sites in north east Iraq, which was the hub of the empire.

The vitrines are meant to be happened upon as you come and go.

Winterbourne House and Gardens has a new range of fascinating rooms for the public to explore following its full restoration to its Edwardian glory in May 2010.

With her longtime interest in feminism and film production, historian Hilary Hallett was searching for an interesting angle on the cultural history of early Hollywood.

An academic at Sussex from its earliest days, Rod Kedward, who is made a Doctor of Letters on Thursday (24 January 2013 retired as Emeritus Professor of History in 2002 after 40 years of teaching and research.

The hostage crisis on a BP oil base at Tiguentourine in Southern Algeria brings the issue of Islamist groups back to Algeria, where they developed in the early 1990s before the Algerian army routed t

Stanford Report, January 17, 2013 In his new memoir, Martin's Dream , Stanford historian Clayborne Carson recounts his personal journey from a young civil rights activist to preeminent Martin Luther King Jr.

Shirley Curtis-Summers did not expect to solve a 750- year old mystery when examining the skeletal remains of a body from an ancient monastic site. Studying a PhD at the University's Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology , Shirley is examining human skeletons of monks, canons, lay-people, and benefactors from Norton Priory , Cheshire and Portmahomack, Scotland, to understand the diet, disease, and health of people living there between the 6th and 16th centuries AD.

ANN ARBOR-Geoff Emberling is doing what few archaeologists do anymore in a world that has been worked over pretty well by picks, trowels and shovels.

In 1950, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology sent scholars to a site in central Turkey, about 50 miles southwest of Ankara. There they began an effort to uncover - literally and figuratively - details about the societies and cultures of the people who lived there hundreds to thousands of years before.

A dramatic story of survival and reflections on Hitler's 1933 appointment as Chancellor of Germany are on the programme for the University of Sussex's Holocaust Memorial Day on 30 January 2013 The ev

Leslie Freeman, a leading scholar of Paleolithic Spain, died on Dec. 14 in Portland, Ore. Freeman, Professor Emeritus in Anthropology at the University of Chicago, was 77.

A new exhibition about plaster and the casting process, highlighting the sculpture models of the neo-classical artist John Flaxman (1755-1826), starts at the UCL Art Museum this month.

Downton Abbey, the critically-acclaimed and immensely popular series depicting the lives of British aristocrats and their servants in the early 20th century, kicked off its third season this week.

What if you had a "Wayback Television Set" and could watch an entire month of ancient prehistory unfold before your eyes in real time? David Rubin of the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) presented just such a scenario to the American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting in Long Beach, CA, when he announced the discovery of a striking astronomical object: a Type Ia supernova with a redshift of 1.71 that dates back 10 billion years in time.

Jenyns used his vicarage at Swaffham Bulbeck on the edge of the Cambridgeshire fens as a base for studying the flora and fauna of the region, as well as its meteorology.

UC San Diego historian Mark Hanna, an authority on the rise and fall of pirates during the first British Empire, will deliver a lecture at 1 p.m. on January 16 on "Pirates in Print: Seafaring Treasures of the Mandeville Special Collections Library.

Taking into consideration its size, an ancient relative of piranhas weighing about 20 pounds delivered a bite with a force more fierce than prehistoric whale-eating sharks, the four-ton ocean-dwelling Dunkleosteus terrelli and - even - Tyrannosaurus rex.

An unlikely collaboration between a Sheffield-based Americana band and an academic from the University of Sheffield has produced an album with a difference, inspired by 19th century American history.

Stanford Report, December 20, 2012 Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States" offers bad lessons in historical thinking, says School of Education Sam Wineburg.

Twitter hashtags: #UnderstandRace, #UMtheme ANN ARBOR-Few subjects provoke as strong a visceral response as the topic of race.