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 recently acquired a collection of personal papers, articles and photographs from local disability rights advocate Anthony Tusler, offering students a look into four ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kim Bancroft's "roots" journey took her back four generations, back to an ancestor whose career was intimately tied to the early history of California. Bancroft's great-great-grandfather was Hubert ...