Hana Maruyama, a history professor at the University of Connecticut, was the host for the history department’s “Wednesday Workshops” on Wednesday, Dec. 4. The original title of her presentation, “The ...

A long-held theory about the earliest migration to the Americas is under fresh scientific fire. For years, many believed that the First Peoples came from Japan, tracing their ancestry to the Jomon, a ...

During a trip to Japan this summer, Lafayette native Colette Bernard learned many things about the Japanese culture, including a world in the heart of Tokyo that seemed to parallel south Louisiana.