BERKELEY — On an afternoon this week, a truck maneuvered its way through the crowds of students traversing UC Berkeley, making its way to the center of the campus. It lumbered to a stop outside the ...

America's great age of sailing ships produced the beginning of another great American era - the age of advertising. This is the message of a new exhibit at UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library and a small ...

As a postdoctoral scholar at UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library, Giuliano Sidro is a serious expert on ancient writings, but his seriousness turns to silliness when he explains one of the findings in a ...

World-renowned writer and Bay Area literary icon Amy Tan is now a part of the Bancroft Library archive. A Bay Area native and critically acclaimed writer, Tan is best known for capturing the ...

UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library is a place where papyrus from ancient Egypt, pamphlets from the 1964 Free Speech Movement and photographs of the Gold Rush can all be found under one roof. Now it's also ...

As students reenter UC Berkeley’s hallowed libraries, controversial legacies remain; regardless of the push to rename Bancroft Library over two years ago, campus will retain the name despite ...

In 1905, the University of California decided to purchase the personal library of publisher and historian Hubert Howe Bancroft, a San Francisco bookseller who later established a business that grew to ...

In the Jan. 19 issue of the Nevada Appeal, we enlightened our readers about a collection of regional panoramic maps from the olden days, published by Library of Congress. Under Nevada’s collection, ...