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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.
What are the future horizons for indigenous repatriation work? What are best practices in repatriation settings, and how might they inform r...
Jesmyn Ward has been hailed as the standout writer of her generation, proving her “fearless and toughly lyrical” voice in novels, memoir, an...
In this program, Lerone Martin, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education...
Poet, novelist and Native American scholar N. Scott Momaday has spent decades bringing his culture and the landscape alive through his writi...
On March 4th, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln delivered his Second Inaugural Address. He considered it his “greatest speech” and his “best e...
In this program, Emily Lin, with the UC Merced Library, explains the process of digging into archives, including a look at how archives are...
The Kumeyaay are native inhabitants of San Diego and Imperial counties and Baja California, Mexico. For thousands of years, the Kumeyaay peo...
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....
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...
“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...
Twentieth-Century African American Freedom Struggles transformed both US and World History. These seminal liberation struggles include the i...
America’s pre-WWII anxieties, Depression-era economic disparity, and the potential for positive social movements arise in this conversation...
UCLA history professor Brenda Stevenson studies slavery and the Antebellum South, some of our country’s most painful moments and eras. Becau...
Should your art send you to prison? Rap lyrics are increasingly turning up as evidence in courtrooms across the country. The fictional chara...
Ron Goode, Tribal Chairman of the North Fork Mono Tribe, led UC Davis professor, Beth Rose Middleton Manning's, students through a cultural...
In this candid and heartwarming interview, Tam O'Shaughnessy, the life partner of the late astronaut Sally Ride, describes her long relation...
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...
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Harvard Professor Annette Gordon-Reed for a discussion of her work as a lawyer/historian focusing...
As the contentious 2016 election season heads into its final weeks, California Live speakers from the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC...
From the moment Myrlie Evers-Williams faced the murder of her husband, civil rights activist Medgar Evers, she became a pivotal figure in th...
Former California Supreme Court Justice and UC Davis School of Law Professor Emeritus Cruz Reynoso recalls his days working alongside Cesar...
Former UCSB professor Gerald Horne, the award-winning author of more than thirty books, discusses his book “The Counter-Revolution of 1776”...
A distinguished panel of community leaders and activists share anecdotes and answer questions about Chicana/o involvement in the Vietnam-era...
Eminent California historian Kevin Starr traces the emergence of San Diego’s role in the distinctly Southern California aesthetic of “Medite...
The founding fathers were political theorists of the highest order, and founded the modern era of constitutional design. But how have their...
Rabbi Laura Geller looks at the role Jewish women played in some of the struggles that have shaped our country. She also explore the differe...
A love of learning and teaching about pirates inspired UC San Diego’s Mark Hanna to tap the world-renowned Hill Collection of Pacific Voyage...
University of Virginia’s Charles McCurdy explores how the Founding Fathers dealt with the unanticipated emergence of hotly contested, increa...
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Charles McCurdy, Professor of History and Law, University of Virginia, for a discussion of the in...
The UC San Diego Library announces the purchase of the Farmworker Movement Documentation Project, an online archive containing thousands of...
Benjamin Franklin and the American dream are often associated with the uninhibited pursuit of money. Nothing could be further from the truth...
“The Brick People” chronicles the story and legacy of Mexican immigrants who came to work at Simons Brickyard #3 in Los Angeles during the e...
Angela Davis visited UC Santa Barbara for a screening of "Free Angela and All Political Prisoners," a documentary by Shola Lynch that chroni...
Renowned author and Middlebury College Professor Jay Parini charms his dinner audience with selections from his “Promised Land: Thirteen Boo...
Harry Kreisler welcomes George Packer for a discussion of his new book, “The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America.” Packer discuss...
The political fight that has broken out in the US about contraception is both surprising and at the same time traditionally American. Linda...
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Pulitzer Prize winning historian Eric Foner for a discussion of his book, “The Fiery Trial.” The...
A distinguished panel moderated by Scott Shafer opens the forum on democracy and the culture of civic conversations with a look at contempor...
This panel focuses on the fate of print journalism and the impact of new information technologies in creating an informed society. With Tara...
This panel focuses on direct democracy, emerging majorities and civic participation, and what needs there are for reforming government. With...
This panel looks at US pluralism in the post-Civil Rights era and the new demographic map of America with Lisa García Bedolla, Graduate Scho...
After a day spent exploring democracy and discourse in the 21st century, a panel convened to synthesize the ideas discussed and consider wha...
This panel looks at the history of the US’s learning curve on pluralism and the struggles to defend it. With William Deverell, Dept. of Hist...
This panel focuses historically on how legal, economic, and social structures have shaped the possibility of engagement in the public realm...
This panel examines from a historical perspective how we access the information we need to participate in a democratic society, with a focus...
UC Berkeley alumna Geralyn Ryan produced this video oral history from interviewing the employees of the Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans...
Roger Daniels, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Cincinnati, examines and analyzes the changing place of the World War II incarce...
Host Harry Kreisler discusses his new book, "Political Awakenings," and tells the story of the Conversations series. Kreisler traces the ori...
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes historian, critic, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Garry Wills for a discussion his new book, “...
Ronald C. White. Jr., a leading Lincoln scholar, explores Lincoln’s religious ideas and their role in policy making in this Burke Lecture fr...