Repatriation Futures at UCSB and Beyond
What are the future horizons for indigenous repatriation work? What are best practices in repatriation settings, and how might they inform r...
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American History (Video)
UCTV programs take a closer look at the events, people and places that shaped the American experience from the history of early exploration through modern times.
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20 of 50 episodesA Conversation with Jesmyn Ward - Writer's Symposium by the Sea 2025
Jesmyn Ward has been hailed as the standout writer of her generation, proving her “fearless and toughly lyrical” voice in novels, memoir, an...
The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism
In this program, Lerone Martin, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education...
A Conversation with N. Scott Momaday - Writer's Symposium by the Sea 2023
Poet, novelist and Native American scholar N. Scott Momaday has spent decades bringing his culture and the landscape alive through his writi...
Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural Address
On March 4th, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln delivered his Second Inaugural Address. He considered it his “greatest speech” and his “best e...
Digging into Local Archives: Approaches and Methods for Planning Research
In this program, Emily Lin, with the UC Merced Library, explains the process of digging into archives, including a look at how archives are...
Triton Talks: The Kumeyaay Nation in San Diego
The Kumeyaay are native inhabitants of San Diego and Imperial counties and Baja California, Mexico. For thousands of years, the Kumeyaay peo...
LSD and the War on Memories with Joel Dimsdale
Beginning in the 1950s, the United States embarked on an elaborate program to study how LSD might be used to alter the behavior of an enemy....
The Partisan Divide - Election 2020: UC Berkeley Big Ideas
This lecture takes on the question of why we have only two political parties in the United States and how the two party system shapes our po...
How Democratic is the US Constitution? - Election 2020: UC Berkeley Big Ideas
“We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.” As look at the history of American democracy, we begin with the na...
Deep Soul: Twentieth-Century African American Freedom Struggles and the Making of the Modern World with Waldo Martin
Twentieth-Century African American Freedom Struggles transformed both US and World History. These seminal liberation struggles include the i...
Meet John Doe Discussion with Victoria Riskin
America’s pre-WWII anxieties, Depression-era economic disparity, and the potential for positive social movements arise in this conversation...
Gifts of the Storyteller with Brenda Stevenson - UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
UCLA history professor Brenda Stevenson studies slavery and the Antebellum South, some of our country’s most painful moments and eras. Becau...
Rap on Trial: Is it a Crime to Rhyme?
Should your art send you to prison? Rap lyrics are increasingly turning up as evidence in courtrooms across the country. The fictional chara...
Fighting Fire With Fire: Using Cultural Burning Practices
Ron Goode, Tribal Chairman of the North Fork Mono Tribe, led UC Davis professor, Beth Rose Middleton Manning's, students through a cultural...
Honoring Sally: Tam O'Shaughnessy Aboard the R/V Sally Ride
In this candid and heartwarming interview, Tam O'Shaughnessy, the life partner of the late astronaut Sally Ride, describes her long relation...
Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination
Thomas Jefferson had a vision for the United States of America but race and slavery complicated his views of what kind of society was possib...
Thomas Jefferson Sally Hemings and the Burden of Slavery with Annette Gordon-Reed - Conversations with History
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Harvard Professor Annette Gordon-Reed for a discussion of her work as a lawyer/historian focusing...
Surreal Politics: How Anxiety About Race Gender and Inequality is Shaping the 2016 Presidential Campaign
As the contentious 2016 election season heads into its final weeks, California Live speakers from the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC...
Tomorrow’s Leaders: Building on the Legacy of Selma with Myrlie Evers-Williams -- Helen Edison Lecture Series
From the moment Myrlie Evers-Williams faced the murder of her husband, civil rights activist Medgar Evers, she became a pivotal figure in th...