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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In light of a proposal to rename Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley has established the Bancroft Library Reckoning Committee, charged with considering the history of the Bancroft name and proposing steps ...

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, ...