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El Teatro Campesino:
Videos Now Available Online
A Grant from UC MEXUS to the UCSB Library as part of the ImaginArte multidisciplinary initiative has helped to fund the conversion of 118 video tapes into 5 different formats. These videos are part of the El Teatro Campesino Archives [CEMA 5], at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Davidson Library. They are an important record of El Teatro Campesino (ETC) and the Chicano and farm workers movement. Some of these videos can now be seen on the ImaginArte Website.
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Current Exhibit
The U.S. and the World after 1945
May 15 - August 15, 2009
Our current exhibit materials that reflect the political and cultural state of the world after the end of World War II. Topics include:
- the Beginning of the Atomic Age,
- Post-War Japan and Post-War Germany,
- the Cold War: Duck and Cover,
- the Atomic Age: Popular Culture,
- Books from the Stuart L. Bernath Memorial Collection,
- the McCarthy Era and Anti-Communism Crusades,
- American Interests Abroad,
- and the Post-Colonial World.
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Department of Special Collections
Acquires Lou Cannon Papers
UCSB Library’s Department of Special Collections has recently acquired the papers of author Lou Cannon, former White House correspondent and noted biographer of Ronald Reagan. He has also authored an extensive social history of the Rodney King beatings and the resultant 1992 Los Angeles riots.
"The Ronald Reagan and the Rodney King archives that are now housed in Special Collections at UC Santa Barbara represent my life's work, and I'm pleased they've found such a good home," said Cannon.
Cannon’s works include Ronnie and Jesse: A Political Odyssey (1969); Reagan (1982); President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime (1991); Governor Reagan: His Rise to Power (2003); and Official Negligence: How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD (1997).
"On behalf of UC Santa Barbara, I would like to express my deep gratitude to Lou and Mary Cannon for choosing our campus to receive their extraordinary gift of the Lou Cannon – Rodney King, Los Angeles Riots archive," said UCSB Chancellor Henry T. Yang. "We are also immensely grateful to UCSB Foundation Trustee Sara Miller McCune, Patricia Van Every, and the Donald T. Leahy Trust for their generous support to help us acquire Lou's Ronald Reagan archive. Together these papers represent an important and valuable legacy. We appreciate the devotion of both Lou and Mary for making these papers available for study by future generations of scholars, and we are honored to be chosen as the home for this historic body of work."
For additional information about the collections, please see the press release or contact the Department of Special Collections at (805) 893-3062 or special@library.ucsb.edu.
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