UCLA |
Rare documentary about early Japanese immigrants resurfaces
After 30 years, film about first-generation Issei in California reaches new audiences.
California Magazine |
Hunt for Depression-era national park posters leads to Berkeley
Surviving prints, commissioned by the WPA and printed at UC Berkeley, were sought for "POSTERity."
UC Merced |
Bringing attention to overlooked artists
Art history professor is on a detective mission to find works produced by Asian-American artists from the early 20th century.
Fig. 1 by University of California |
Renegades of bike culture
Today’s hipsters and their fixies are not the first to embody the too-cool-for-school persona of the cyclist.
California Magazine |
Cal’s plan to shrink a big, impersonal campus
Berkeley Connect is Cal’s plan to shrink a big, impersonal campus and reintroduce elements of the small liberal arts college experience.
UCLA |
New book explores L.A.'s Nisei girls clubs
A UCLA historian explores the vast network of social clubs that helped Japanese-American girls navigate the prejudice and exclusion they faced in Los Angeles between 1920 and 1950.
UC Davis |
Law students seek to right historic wrong with posthumous California Bar admission of Chinese lawyer
Law students seek posthumous California Bar admission of Chinese lawyer who was denied license in 1890.
UC Newsroom |
Legacies live on in special collections
Collection of iconic band's materials is one of many rich archives entrusted to UC.
UC Newsroom |
Archive captures breadth of moving pictures
Big screen or small, UCLA's Film & Television Archive has this medium covered.
UC San Diego |
Library gets digital archive of farm worker movement
Rich collection documents the work of Cesar Chavez and others in the labor struggles in Central California.
UC Riverside |
Remembering lives lost
California poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera's poems honor victims of bus crash, Kansas City shootings
UC Berkeley |
Oral histories feature Brubeck, others
Jazz legend Dave Brubeck is among notables discussing music with UC Berkeley's Regional Oral History Project.