Why are we forgetting history's lessons? We're told in school that we study history so as not to repeat its mistakes. But what if those lessons aren't sticking? Today's guest regularly invokes what he ...

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 ...