Prior to Dr. Ilan Pappé’s lecture Thursday evening, some were critical about the Israeli historian’s stance on the Palestine/Israel Peace Process. But during the discussion in the Peter’s Education Auditorium, Pappé faced a rather mild-mannered crowd, despite some uproar from the university’s choice to support the Middle East Lecture Series event.

This weekend thousands of Valley residents will descend upon Kearney Park for Fresno’s annual Civil War Revisited reenactment.­ They will be treated to “the sights and sounds of the 1860s,” as self-styled “living historians” ”” most clad in Union blue or Confederate gray ”” set up camp, march in formation and demonstrate antebellum crafts.