UCLA |

Egyptologist gives new life to female pharaoh

No usurper, Hatshepsut was just really good at her job, according to new biography.
UC Berkeley |

Berkeley and the making of Yosemite

Digital book brings to life the revered national park that's marking its 150th anniversary.
UC San Diego |

Capturing ancient Maya sites from both a rat’s and a ‘bat’s' eye view’

Drones and lasers help archaeologists study ruins hidden in Guatemalan jungle.
UCLA |

Archive unveils digitized speeches from turbulent Sixties

UCLA’s communication studies department has posted full speeches given on campus between 1962 and 1973, featuring major figures of the era such as Cesar Chavez, Lenny Bruce, Jane Fonda and Eldridge Cleaver.
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Into the archives of animation

Long before Pixar and today's CGI special effects extravaganzas, early animators of the silent era introduced new techniques into filmmaking.
UC Berkeley |

Life stories of early black faculty offer window onto history

Eighteen African American faculty and senior administrators, hired before the advent of affirmative-action policies in the 1970s, recount their stories in an oral-history series.
UCLA |

Rare documentary about early Japanese immigrants resurfaces

After 30 years, film about first-generation Issei in California reaches new audiences.
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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.
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 Newsroom |

Legacies live on in special collections

Collection of iconic band's materials is one of many rich archives entrusted to UC.
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 Davis |

Historian wins Pulitzer Prize for second time

"The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia: 1771-1832" nets award for two-time winner Alan Taylor, expert on early American history.