July 11, 2008 Welcome to another collection of viewer responses to what they saw and heard on PBS in recent days. This week, most of the mail, and certainly most of the heat, was generated by Part II ...

UCSB Arts & Lectures will present Sir Niall Ferguson, Why We Study History: Standing at the Crossroads of Past, Present and Future, 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 8 at the Granada Theatre. A foremost historian ...

Historian Niall Ferguson holds the John E. Herzog Family Chair in Financial History at New York University's Stern School of Business. He is the author of The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern ...

As the world continues to struggle to find its footing amid rising unemployment, constricted credit and crumbling banks and industries — raising questions about how the economic system collapsed — PBS ...