Primary Sources: 19th Century British Pamphlets

Due to budget cuts, the Library ended its previous subscription to this resource. Access has been restored through a purchase of JSTOR content by the California Digital Library.

From the JSTOR site: “Throughout the 19th century, pamphlets were an important means of public debate, covering the key political, social, technological, and environmental issues of their day. 19th Century British Pamphlets, created by Research Libraries UK (RLUK), contains the most significant British pamphlets from the 19th century held in research libraries in the United Kingdom.”

More than 26,000 pamphlets from seven major UK research institutions are searchable and browsable in JSTOR.
Bristol Selected Pamphlets 1800-1899
Cowen Tracts 1603-1898
Earl Grey Pamphlets Collection 1800-1900
Foreign and Commonwealth Office Collection 1545-1900
Hume Tracts 1769-1890
Knowsley Pamphlet Collection 1792-1868
LSE Selected Pamphlets 1800-1899
Manchester Selected Pamphlets 1799-1900
Wilson Anti-Slavery Collection

I recommend reading the guides provided by the project, which describe more fully the content of the collections and how to search them. The guides also point out that the pamphlets don’t only reveal contemporary viewpoints, they contain statistics, illustrations, maps, and other evidence that would inform your research. Because pamphlets were sometimes published in response to another publication putting forward an opposing viewpoint, tracking them can provide insight into public debates.


World War II-era Japanese American Incarceration: A Guide to the Oral History Center’s Work

Anthology created by the Oral History Center
Research by Sari Morikawa, Serena Ingalls, and Timothy Yue, undergraduate researchers

After the entrance of the United States into World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, which mandated the forced removal of Japanese Americans from their homes on the West Coast into incarceration camps inland for the duration of the war. This forced removal uprooted families, disrupted businesses, and dispersed communities — impacting generations of Japanese Americans. The Oral History Center, or the OHC, and other archival collections in The Bancroft Library, feature several projects on this chapter of American history, comprising hundreds of interviews, photographs, artifacts, graphic illustrations, and podcasts for use by scholars and the public. 

Find these interviews and all our oral histories from the search feature on our home page. You can search by name, keyword, and several other criteria. Find all the oral history projects mentioned here, along with more in-depth descriptions, on our projects page

There are six parts to this collection guide to Oral History Center and other Bancroft Library resources:

  1. Projects about Japanese American incarceration
  2. Related projects
  3. Individual interviews
  4. How to search our collection
  5. Selected articles that highlight and synthesize this work
  6. Acknowledgements

Part 1: Projects about Japanese American Incarceration 

Japanese American Intergenerational Narratives 

The Japanese American Intergenerational Narratives Oral History Project is the OHC’s newest project on this subject, consisting of interviews with child survivors and descendants of those who were incarcerated. The project documents the ways in which intergenerational trauma and healing occurred after the United States government’s incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Conducted by Roger Eardley-Pryor, Shanna Farrell, and Amanda Tewes, these interviews examine and compare how private memory, creative expression, place, and public interpretation intersect at sites of incarceration. Initial interviews focus on the Manzanar and Topaz prison camps, and pose a comparison through the lens of place, popular culture, and collective memory. Exploring narratives of healing as a through line, these interviews investigate the impact of different types of healing, how this informs collective memory, and how these narratives change across generations. The first set of interviews, comprised of 100 hours of oral history interviews with 23 narrators, continues to grow with interviews featuring child survivors and descendants of the Heart Mountain and Tule Lake prison camps.  

“‘Dad, were you put in the camps?’ They didn’t talk about it. It was something you didn’t bring up…. He was honest but then he said, ‘But that happened in the past. You don’t need to dwell.’”
—Peggy Takahashi, on intergenerational silence related to her family’s incarceration

The project includes interpretive materials as well. Season eight of The Berkeley Remix, the OHC’s podcast based on oral history, explores themes from the project’s initial oral histories. “‘From Generation to Generation’: The Legacy of Japanese American Incarceration,” is a four-episode season featuring stories of activism, contested memory, identity and belonging, as well as artistic expression and memorialization of incarceration. In addition, ten graphic narrative illustrations created by artist Emily Ehlen vividly express the experiences of Japanese American incarceration during World War II and its effects on future generations. The interpretive materials, along with the oral histories, are available for use in classrooms. 

 

Japanese American Confinement Sites

Interviews in the Japanese American Confinement Sites Oral History Project document the experiences of Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during World War II, including UC Berkeley students who attended college before or after the war. Themes running through these interviews include the experiences of forced relocation and incarceration; loss of property and livelihoods; identity; education; challenges faced after the end of the war; and emotional responses to their experiences. Many of the narrators went into fields such as public service, the military, advocacy, art, and education; some of them participated actively in the redress movement.

“Never again should there be such an event as a mass removal of an entire group of people without due process of law. … I try to pass that message on to as many people as I can.”
—Sam Mihara explains why he decided to become a speaker and share his stories

The voices of these narrators are brought to life in the slideshow: “The Uprooted: The Incarceration of Japanese Americans.” This slideshow was made to accompany the 2021–2022 exhibition in The Bancroft Library Gallery, “Uprooted: The Incarceration of Japanese Americans.” All photographs were drawn from the War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement, 1942–1945, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, BANC PIC 1967.014–PIC. The oral histories are from the Japanese American Confinement Sites Oral History Project. 

Japanese-American Relocation Reviewed 

Japanese-American Relocation Reviewed is a multi-interview volume of oral histories from the Earl Warren in California project, dedicated to a discussion of Japanese American incarceration.  In “Volume I: Decision and Exodus,” staff of the Justice Department, legal advisors to the US Army, and US and California State attorneys discuss the role of the US Department of Justice and the Western Defense Command in defining and administering policy towards enemy nationals, California Attorney General Earl Warren’s role in the forced removal of Japanese Americans to incarceration camps, the civil defense program, martial law, and the development of a constitutional argument for forced removal. 

“We kept saying that we won’t do it and haven’t got the authority to do it. And there are enough precedents, you know with Lincoln suspending the writ of habeas corpus, that if the military wanted to do it, they could do it. But we frankly never thought they would. We thought they were too damn busy getting the troops to go fight a war some place else. That was our mistake.”
—James Rowe, assistant to United States Attorney General Francis Biddle

In “Volume II: The Internment,” members of the War Relocation Authority discuss the authority, selection, and administration of incarceration camp sites; resettlement out of the incarceration camps; origin and activities of the Pacific Coast Committee on American Principles and Fair Play. It also includes an appended interview with a wartime YWCA national board member on Idaho’s Minidoka camp in 1943; an address given by Robert B. Cozzens in 1945, “The Future of America’s Japanese;” and reproductions of Hisako Hibi’s paintings of Tanforan and Topaz.

The Office of Redress Administration Oral History Project

In 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act, a historic piece of legislation that sought, for the first time, to provide a measure of justice to Japanese Americans forty-six years after their incarceration during World War II. Over its decade-long operation (1988–1998), the Office of Redress Administration reached over 82,000 people with a redress payment and official apology letter from the President of the United States. Redress: An Oral History Project, by Emi Kuboyama, project creator and interviewer, with Todd Holmes, Oral History Center historian and interviewer, documents the complex history of Japanese American redress. The film, Redress, provides the first in-depth look at the historic program as told by both those who administered and participated in it. Additional educational materials supplement the film by providing historical overviews of the Japanese American experience and redress program, as well as a list of resources for further study and discussion. The project received the generous support of the Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Foundation and the National Park Service, US Department of Interior.

 

The Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Records and Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive 

The Bancroft Library’s documentation of the Japanese American experience during World War II includes thousands of primary source materials drawn from an extensive collection of manuscripts, photographs, as well as audio and video. The Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Records, accessible through the Online Archive of California, consists of surplus copies of U.S. War Relocation Authority agency documents, including publications, staff papers, reports, correspondences, press releases, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks and a few photographs. Included is the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study, University of California, Berkeley, 1942-1946, containing diaries, letters and staff correspondence, reports and studies. These records include 250.5 linear feet (335 boxes, 84 cartons, 41 oversize volumes (folios), 7 oversize folders, 2 oversize boxes; 380 microfilm reels; 5,660 digital objects) (BANC MSS 67/14 c). The related Finding Aid to the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Records 1930-1974 provides additional detail about the collection, including acquisition information, historic notes, scope, and contents. 

In addition, Calisphere hosts the Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive (JARDA), which contains thousands of primary sources documenting Japanese American incarceration, including: personal diaries, letters, photographs, and drawings; US War Relocation Authority materials, including newsletters, final reports, photographs, and other documents relating to the day-to-day administration; and personal histories documenting the lives of the people who were incarcerated in the camps, as well as of the administrators who created and worked there. Curated by the University of California, JARDA makes accessible materials from libraries, museums, archives, and oral history programs across California.

Part 2: Related Projects 

Rosie the Riveter World War II American Home Front Oral History Project 

The Rosie the Riveter World War II American Home Front Oral History Project comprises more than 200 interviews with women and men about the home front experience in the Bay Area. Many of the interviews in these projects include either brief references to or longer discussions about the World War II-era incarceration of Japanese Americans, and cover a broad range of experiences from a multiplicity of perspectives. Some interviews feature individuals who were incarcerated, while other interviews feature Japanese Americans in Hawaii and elsewhere who were not, but who recalled being affected by fear and prejudice. Other interviews include people who were friends, classmates, neighbors, and coworkers, who recalled the forced removal, and the emotions they experienced. Some of these acquaintances were troubled or appalled, whereas others were relieved and thought it justified. Some took care of farms and property until their neighbors returned; others benefited financially. Some go into great detail about race relations in farming and other communities throughout California. 

“We used to say, now, why did they make all the Japanese pilots look so ugly?”
—Gladys Okada, in reference to World War II American war films

Volumes about Earl Warren 

Two projects, Earl Warren in California and Law Clerks of Earl Warren, center around Earl Warren, who was California’s attorney general (1939–43) and governor (1943–53), before becoming chief justice of the Supreme Court (1953–69), and include an interview with Warren himself. The California project focuses on the years 1925–53, and documents the executive branch, the legislature, criminal justice, and political campaigns; Warren’s life; and changes in California during this period. The California project includes numerous multi-interview volumes that address different issues, including two volumes on labor, exploring Warren from the perspective of union members and labor leaders. The Law Clerks project comprises interviews of more than 40 of Warren’s law clerks; these narrators discuss watershed cases, the evolution of constitutional law, and other issues related to the court. Among other subjects, issues that arose in the interviews in these projects included the ways in which the narrators responded to the executive order; economic, military, and other motivations for the order; the process of identifying individuals and where they lived; reparations; economic consequences; and reflections on Warren’s actions and opinions. Earl Warren himself, in his interview, Conversations with Earl Warren on California Government, briefly addresses the incarceration and aftermath, including enforcement and other issues related to the Alien Land law, preparation of maps documenting where Japanese nationals and Japanese Americans lived, rationale for incarceration, reparations, and return from the camps. 

“‘We urge you to appoint immediately a trustee to hold in trust all the properties of the Japanese in this state… lest they be taken over by the wolves.’  They didn’t do anything. All the wolves came in and took over their property.”
—Richard Perrin Graves, executive of the League of California Cities and member of the Ninth Regional Civil Defense Board, on his telegram to the US attorney general

Related Papers

The Bancroft Library and greater UC Berkeley Library have extensive collections that address Japanese American incarceration during World War II and related matters. Here are a few. The complete files of the Fair Play Committee (Pacific Coast Committee on American Principles and Fair Play) are held in the library and include a comprehensive file of newspaper clippings from West Coast publications. The papers of Senator Hiram W. Johnson have information on land laws and Asian immigration. Senator James D. Phelan‘s records document anti-Japanese sentiment in the 1920s. The papers of Robert W. Kenny, who succeeded Earl Warren as attorney general in 1943, have information on law enforcement questions in the aftermath of forced relocation. 

Part 3: Individual interviews

“We can’t deny that the black people who lived in the Western Addition moved into places that were vacated because [of] the Japanese Americans who were put into internment camps. Our relationship with Japanese Americans is somehow affected by that history.”
—Carl Anthony, architect and environmental justice activist

Dozens of individual interviews scattered throughout the Oral History Center archive, with people from different backgrounds and walks of life, also detail many facets of this chapter in history. Although they were interviewed about other matters, the narrators in their oral histories in some way addressed Japanese American incarceration — sometimes only in passing, at other times more in depth. Some of the more well-known narrators include the following. Photographers Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange discuss the artistic process, the ownership of their photographs, and the conditions in the camps. Willie Brown, speaker of the California Assembly and mayor of San Francisco, and Carl Anthony, architect and environmental justice activist, address race relations and how some black communities may have benefited from the forced relocation of Japanese Americans. Thomas Chinn, a historian and publisher of the Chinese Digest, discusses the evolution of race relations between Chinese and Japanese Americans in the United States, and noted that after Pearl Harbor, some people in Chinese communities wanted to distinguish themselves in order to avoid the same fate. Japanese American artist Ruth Asawa details her father being taken away by the FBI, her family’s subsequent incarceration, and the role incarceration played in her development as an artist.  

“All this equipment my father had gathered — the books, everything that had to do with Japan — they just made a big bonfire and burned all of that. Everybody had panicked at that time. My sister cried and she said, ‘Oh, please don’t, don’t burn the books.’”
— Ruth Asawa, artist, on the fear her family experienced after her father was taken away

The best way to find individual OHC interviews that address any subject is to search by keyword from the search feature on our home page. Use as many keywords as you can think of (one at a time) that might relate to the topic. When you get to the results page, you will see a list of oral histories. Click on any one to get to detailed metadata about that oral history, plus access to the PDF of the oral history itself. As a first step, the abstract provides an overview of the major themes in the oral history. For a more comprehensive look, you can open the oral history directly from this page within digital collections; then use the search feature from within the oral history to find keywords. The oral history will also have a table of contents, and some also have an interview history and other front matter that will provide more information. 

Part 4: How to search our collection:

Browse and access all of the oral history projects mentioned in this collection guide from the Oral History Center’s projects page. The projects page will provide a description of the project, and a list of all the oral histories on that project in the UC Library’s digital collections. To search the OHC’s archive by name, keyword, and other criteria, go to the OHC search feature on our home page. The OHC’s guides to various subjects in our collection can be accessed from the collections guide page. If you’re interested in making a documentary, podcast, or in undertaking other creative endeavors, you can access the audio/video and any related photos or ephemera through The Bancroft Library. You will need to open an account to order and access materials in the Reading Room. And here is more information about Rights and Permissions.

Explore collections related to Japanese American incarceration during World War II at all UC campuses by going to the UC Library Search. To explore all holdings from The Bancroft Library, go to the Advanced Search option from the Library Search page, and check “UC Berkeley Special Collections and Archives,” then search by keyword and other criteria. 

Part 5: Selected articles that highlight and synthesize this work

The Oral History Center Presents the Japanese American Intergenerational Narratives Project, by Shanna Farrell

The Oral History Center Presents The Berkeley Remix Season 8: “‘From Generation to Generation’: The Legacy of Japanese American Incarceration” by Amanda Tewes

Graphic Narrative Art by Emily Ehlen from OHC’s Japanese American Intergenerational Narratives Oral History Project, by Roger Eardley-Pryor

Q&A with Artist Emily Ehlen on Illustrating the OHC’s Japanese American Intergenerational Narratives Oral History Project, by Roger Eardley-Pryor

New podcast series explores the legacy of Japanese American incarceration: Read a Q&A with the Oral History Center’s Shanna Farrell about the Project, by UC Berkeley News reporter Anne Brice   

‘I knew I had to draw it’: Illustrator brings to life testimonies of Japanese Americans incarcerated during WWII and their descendants in new Oral History Center project, by Dan Vaccaro, writer for UC Library Communications

Interconnections, by Roger Eardley-Pryor

Out of the Archives: Patrick Hayashi: From Mail Carrier to Associate President to Artist, by UC Berkeley undergraduate research apprentice Zachary Matsumoto

OHC URAP Student Zachary Matsumoto Reflects on Work with Japanese American Intergenerational Narratives Project, by UC Berkeley undergraduate research apprentice Zachary Matsumoto

‘Never again’: Library exhibit tells story of WWII Japanese American incarceration, sounds alarm on importance of remembering by Dan Vaccaro, writer for UC Library Communications

Oral history project highlights the little-known Japanese American redress program, by UC Berkeley News reporter Anne Brice

Redress: A film about the Office of Redress Administration by Edna Horiuchi in Discover Nikkei 

Janet Daijogo: Japanese Incarceration and Finding Her Place through Aikido and Teaching, by UC Berkeley undergraduate and Oral History Center research assistant Deborah Qu 

Bury the Phonograph: Oral Histories Preserve Records of Life in Hawaii During World War II, by UC Berkeley undergraduate and Oral History Center editorial assistant Shannon White

Part 6: Acknowledgements 

National Park Service, Department of Interior

The following projects were funded, in part, by a grant from the US Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing the opinions or policies of the US Government. Mention of trade names or commercial products does not constitute their endorsement by the US Government.

Japanese American Confinement Sites Oral History Project

Japanese American Intergenerational Narratives Oral History Project

Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Records

Office of Redress Administration Oral History Project

Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Foundation

The Office of Redress Administration Oral History Project received generous support from the Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Foundation. The foundation also provided generous support for a second phase of interviews for the Japanese American Intergenerational Narratives Oral History Project. 

About the Oral History Center 

UC Berkeley’s Oral History Center, or the OHC, is one of the oldest oral history programs in the world. We produce carefully researched, recorded, and transcribed oral histories and interpretive materials for the widest possible use. Since 1953 we have been preserving voices of people from all walks of life, with varying perspectives, experiences, pursuits, and backgrounds. We are committed to open access and our oral histories and interpretive materials are available online at no cost to scholars and the public. You can find our oral histories from the search feature on our home page. Search by name, keyword, and several other criteria. Sign up for our monthly newsletter  featuring think pieces, new releases, podcasts, Q&As, and everything oral history. Access the most recent articles from our home page or go straight to our blog home.

Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to the Oral History Center if you would like to see more work like this conducted and made freely available online. The Oral History Center is a predominantly self-funded research unit of The Bancroft Library. As such, we must raise the funds to cover the cost of all the work we do, including each oral history. You can give online, or contact us at ohc@berkeley.edu for more information about our funding needs for present and future projects.


A Californiana Returns to the Bay Area: Ana María de la Guerra de Robinson

Women’s history month is the perfect time to announce an exciting addition to Bancroft Library’s collection of daguerreotype portraits. At the end of 2023 the library was able to acquire a beautiful 1850s portrait of a Californiana: doña Ana María de la Guerra de Robinson, also known as Anita.

Bust portrait of a young woman, about age 30, in semi-profile, wearing a dark lace mantilla over her head and shoulders
Daguerreotype portrait of Ana Maria de la Guerra de Robinson (BANC PIC 2024.043)

In this large (half plate format) daguerreotype of about 1850-1855, Anita wears a lace mantilla, in the Spanish fashion. A beautiful large daguerreotype like this was an extravagance at the time, and the portrait is all the more evocative because Anita, tragically, died within a few years of its creation.

Fortunately, quite a bit is known about her life. Anita was born into the prominent de la Guerra family of Santa Barbara in 1821 -– the same year the Spanish colonial period ended and control by an independent Mexico began. She was married at age 14, to an American trader and businessman named Alfred Robinson, 14 years her senior. This wedding is described in Richard Henry Dana’s Two Years Before the Mast, so we have an unusually detailed account of what was a grand occasion.

She and her husband snuck away from her family in 1838, leaving their baby daughter behind with her grandparents. Anita, age 15, wrote ”We have left the house like criminals and left here those who have possession of our hearts.” Various writers have interpreted these circumstances differently but, whatever the reason for this strange departure, Anita spent the next 15 years in Boston and the East Coast, seemingly eager to return home, but continually disappointed in the hope. It is hard to imagine that her life was entirely happy, in spite of the steady growth of her family and the prosperity and social prominence the Robinsons and de la Guerras enjoyed.

Having borne seven children, and having witnessed from afar (and apparently mourned) the transition of her homeland from Mexican territory to American statehood, Anita finally returned to California in the summer of 1852. It is likely she had her daguerreotype portrait taken at this time, in San Francisco, although it could have been taken back east. Sadly, she lived just three more years in California, dying in Los Angeles in November 1855, a few weeks after giving birth to a son. She is buried at Mission Santa Barbara.

A study of Anita’s life was published by Michele Brewster in the Southern California Quarterly in 2020 (v.102 no. 2, pg. 101-42) . Read more of her story!

With such a fascinating and relatively well-documented life, we’re thrilled to have Anita’s beautiful portrait here at Bancroft. It joins other de la Guerra family portraits, as well as numerous papers related to the family, including “Documentos para la historia de California” (BANC MSS C-B 59-65) by her father, José de la Guerra y Noriega.

Two of Anita’s sisters had “testimonias” recorded by H.H. Bancroft and his staff; one from Doña Teresa de la Guerra de Hartnell (BANC MSS C-E 67) and another from Angustias de la Guerra de Ord (BANC MSS C-D 134).

Anita’s daguerreotype itself presents an interesting conundrum and history. The photographer is unknown, as is common with daguerreotypes. The portrait has been known over the years because later copies exist in several historical collections, including the California Historical Society, the Massachusetts Historical Society, and Bancroft Library’s own Portrait File. 

The daguerreotype acquired last Fall was owned for some decades by a collector. When he acquired it, it was unidentified. Later he encountered a reproduction of it in a historical publication, and thus had the identification of the sitter. Each of the known copies is somewhat different from the others. In her article, Brewster reproduces the copy from the Massachusetts Historical Society. It is a paper print on a carte de visite mount bearing the imprint of San Francisco photographer William Shew, at 115 Kearny Street. 

Bust portrait of young woman, identical to the daguerreotype portrait of Ana Maria de la Guerra wearing a lace mantilla, but portrait is a paper print on a card mount.
Portrait of Ana Maria de la Guerra Robinson, copied by William Shew circa 1875. (Massachusetts Historical Society)

Based on this information, Brewster attributed the portrait to Shew; however, Shew is merely the copy photographer. A daguerreotype, largely out of use by the 1860s, is a unique original, not printed from a negative, so only one exists unless it is copied by camera. The carte de visite format was not in widespread use until the 1860s, and Shew was not at the Kearny address until the 1872-1879 period. So the photographer remains unidentified.

Another puzzle is posed by the early 20th century reproductions in the Bancroft Portrait File and the California Historical Society, which appear identical. These copies present a less closely cropped pose than the original daguerreotype, which is perplexing! Anita’s lap and hands are visible in the copies, but not in the daguerreotype. Although the bottom of the daguerreotype plate is obscured by its brass mat, there is not enough room at the lower edge to include these details.  

Bust portrait of young woman, identical to the daguerreotype portrait of Ana Maria de la Guerra wearing a lace mantilla, but portrait is a paper print and her hand is visible near bottom corner.
Portrait of Ana Maria de la Guerra de Robinson, printed early 20th Century (California Historical Society, CHS-11437)

How could a copy contain more image area than the original?  Upon reflection, two possibilities come to mind: 

1) the daguerreotype was copied in the 19th century and photographically enlarged, then re-touched or painted over to yield a larger portrait that included her lap and hand, added by an artist. This reproduction was later photographed to produce the copies in the Portrait File and CHS.

or, 

2) the original daguerreotype included her lap and hand, and it was re-daguerreotyped for family members in the 1850s, perhaps near the time of Anita’s 1855 death. When the copy daguerreotypes were made, they were composed more tightly in on the sitter, omitting the lap and hands. The newly acquired Bancroft daguerreotype could be a copy of a still earlier plate – and this earlier plate could be the source of the later paper copy in the Portrait file. 

This will likely remain a mystery until other variants of this portrait surface. Are there other versions of this portrait of Anita de la Guerra de Robinson to be revealed?

 

Reference

Brewster, Michele M. “A Californiana in Two Worlds: Anita de La Guerra Robinson, 1821–1855.” Southern California Quarterly 102, no. 2 (2020): 101–42. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27085996.


Trial of Cine Cubano ending on March 29 2024

Trial of Cine Cubano
The library has started a thirty-day trial for Cine Cubano that some faculty members and students in Spanish and Portuguese may find of research interest.
Here is the link that one can use to access the trial.
More about Cine Cubano database:
Cine Cubano is a journal that provides valuable insights into Cuban revolutionary cinema and Latin American cinema. It has over 200 issues from 1960 to 2019, covering six decades of film theory, techniques, and reviews. The journal has now been digitized and made available online for the first time, providing unprecedented access to film scholars and students. All 205 print issues have been scanned and included in this new online collection. The scanning was done at the ICAIC Film Institute in Havana, Cuba, where the journal originated. Overall, this is an important new digital resource for studying the history of Cuban and Latin American cinema. The online availability makes decades of film knowledge more accessible.
The trial will end on 29 March 2024.
Cine Cubano is a journal that provides valuable insights into Cuban revolutionary cinema and Latin American cinema. It has over 200 issues from 1960 to 2019, covering six decades of film theory, techniques, and reviews. The journal has now been digitized and made available online for the first time, providing unprecedented access to film scholars and students. All 205 print issues have been scanned and included in this new online collection. The scanning was done at the ICAIC Film Institute in Havana, Cuba, where the journal originated
Cine Cubano, Issue 2, 1960
The landing page of a 2019 issue number 205 of the Cuban movie journal Cine Cubano.
Cine Cubano, 2019, issue 205

Sign up for the Oral History Center’s Advanced Institute (August 5–9)

The UC Berkeley Oral History Center is pleased to announce that applications are open for the 2024 Advanced Institute!

The OHC is offering online versions of our educational programs again this year.

Advanced Institute: M–F, August 5–9, 8:30 a.m.–2 p.m., via Zoom

We are now accepting applications for our 2024 Advanced Institute on a rolling basis. Please apply early, as spots fill quickly.

Close-up of a recording device in someone's hand, with a partial view of someone else looking on
Advanced Institute students inspect equipment. (UC Berkeley Library)

The Oral History Center is offering a virtual version of our one-week Advanced Institute on the methodology, theory, and practice of oral history. This will take place Aug. 5-9, 2024. 

The institute is designed for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, university faculty, independent scholars, and museum and community-based historians who are engaged in oral history work. The goal of the institute is to strengthen the ability of its participants to conduct research-focused interviews and to consider special characteristics of interviews as historical evidence in a rigorous academic environment.

We ask that applicants have a project in mind that they would like to workshop during the week. All participants are required to attend small daily breakout groups in which they will workshop projects. 

In the sessions, we will devote particular attention to how oral history interviews can broaden and deepen historical interpretation situated within contemporary discussions of history, subjectivity, memory, and memoir.

Apply for the Advanced Institute.

Overview of the week

The institute is structured around the life cycle of an interview. Each day will focus on a component of the interview, including foundational aspects of oral history, project conceptualization, the interview itself, analytic and interpretive strategies, and research presentation and dissemination.

Instruction will take place online tentatively from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Pacific time, with breaks woven in. There will be three sessions a day: two seminar sessions and a workshop. Seminars will cover oral history theory, legal and ethical issues, project planning, oral history and the audience, anatomy of an interview, editing, fundraising, and analysis and presentation. During workshops, participants will work throughout the week in small groups, led by faculty, to develop and refine their projects.

Participants will be provided with a resource packet that includes a reader, contact information, and supplemental resources. These resources will be made available electronically prior to the institute, along with the schedule.

Applications and cost

The cost of the institute is $600. We are offering a limited number of participants a discounted tuition of $300 for students, independent scholars, or those experiencing financial hardship. If you would like to apply for discounted tuition, please indicate this on your application form and we will send you more information.

Please note that the OHC is a soft-money research office of the university, and as such receives precious little state funding. Therefore, it is necessary that this educational initiative be a self-funding program. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide financial assistance to participants other than our limited number of scholarships. We encourage you to check in with your home institutions about financial assistance; in the past we have found that many programs have budgets to help underwrite some of the costs associated with attendance. We will provide receipts and certificates of completion as required for reimbursement.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. We encourage you to apply early, as spots fill up quickly. 

Questions

Please contact Shanna Farrell (sfarrell@library.berkeley.edu) with any questions.

About the Oral History Center

UC Berkeley’s Oral History Center, or the OHC, is one of the oldest oral history programs in the world. We produce carefully researched, recorded, and transcribed oral histories and interpretive materials for the widest possible use. Since 1953 we have been preserving voices of people from all walks of life, with varying perspectives, experiences, pursuits, and backgrounds. We are committed to open access and our oral histories and interpretive materials are available online at no cost to scholars and the public.

Sign up for our monthly newsletter featuring think pieces, new releases, podcasts, Q&As, and everything oral history. Access the most recent articles from our home page or go straight to our blog home.

 


Women’s History Month 2024

2024 Women's History Month

Empowerment, inspiration, and a dash of magic: Celebrating Women’s History Month with a collection that bridges worlds, both real and imagined, penned by fierce women who redefine history, one page at a time! Check out UCB Overdrive for more great finds.



Local and Independent Ukrainian Newspapers on Global Press Archive Electronically Available

The 1990s and early 2000s marked a turbulent period in Ukraine’s history due to the fall of the Soviet Union and the emergence of an independent Ukraine. Despite gaining free speech and property rights, citizens faced economic hardships. Corruption scandals and the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze in 2000 sparked nationwide protests against the political elite. The Local and Independent Ukrainian Newspapers collection covers this era up to the Orange Revolution (2004–2005), offering insights from over 900 newspapers across 340 cities, reflecting regional and ethnic dynamics. The collection includes publications in Ukrainian, Russian, and other languages like Armenian, German, Polish, etc., providing a detailed view of historical events. Access to this database is supported by the Center for Research Libraries and its members.

One can access this collection here.

Here is the landing page of the The 1990s and early 2000s were a tumultuous time in Ukraine’s history. The fall of the Soviet Union and the establishment of independent Ukraine radically altered its political system. Citizens were guaranteed free speech and property rights; however, they suffered under a prolonged economic depression. In 2000, corruption scandals and the murder of investigative journalist Georgiy Gongadze triggered nationwide protests against Ukraine’s political elites.

 


Celebrating Black History Month in the Romance Languages

Contemporary Black, African, and African diaspora writers across the world are redefining literature and criticism in French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. Here are some noteworthy books in their original languages recently acquired by the UC Berkeley Library. Translations into English may also be available for some of the better known.

 

Please also see the related English literatures post for Black History Month 2024 and the Black History at Cal library research guide.


PhiloBiblon 2024 n. 2 (Fevereiro): Os anais portugueses (séculos XIV-XVI) e a BITAGAP

Filipe Alves Moreira
IF/Universidade do Porto e Universidade Aberta

Como já foi destacado em diversas ocasiões (p. ex., Sharrer 2022), o trabalho da equipa da BITAGAP em bibliotecas e arquivos portugueses e de outros países tem descoberto, (re)localizado e identificado uma grande quantidade de textos e manuscritos de que não havia conhecimento, permitindo assim alargar consideravelmente a base empírica de estudo da cultura galega e portuguesa da Idade Média. Por vezes, essas descobertas dizem respeito não apenas a um texto ou autor em específico, mas a um género textual. É o que sucede com os anais escritos, em língua portuguesa, entre finais do século XIV e inícios do século XVI.

Contrariamente aos anais portugueses escritos em latim durante o século XII e início do XIII, que contam já com diferentes edições e uma sólida investigação que lhes tem sido dedicada (p. ex.: David 1947, Bautista 2009, Furtado 2021), os anais portugueses escritos a partir do século XIV, e especialmente os que foram escritos em português (que são quase todos) estão inéditos ou muito insuficientemente estudados e editados. Existe, até, a ideia de que o género analístico é algo especificamente medieval. Nada mais falso, porém: pelo menos em Portugal, não só continuou a escrever-se anais ao longo dos séculos XVI-XVII, como, até, dir-se-ia que foram mais comuns nessa época, do que anteriormente.

É, todavia, compreensível que os anais em português dos séculos XIV, XV e inícios do XVI estejam ainda inéditos ou insuficientemente editados e não tenham sido estudados: é que a maior parte deles eram completamente desconhecidos, antes das sucessivas atualizações de BITAGAP, ao longo dos últimos dez anos. Foi a BITAGAP que, pela primeira vez, apresentou um corpus de anais escritos em português, muitos deles descobertos e identificados devido às investigações da equipa. Este corpus está facilmente acessível através de uma busca em Obra por “Anais medievais” em “Assunto”.

A mais recente atualização de BITAGAP contém um elenco de 21 destes anais. Como sempre acontece com este tipo de textos, não é fácil estabelecer-se uma cronologia para cada um deles. A maior parte subsiste, aparentemente, em cópias únicas, maioritariamente datáveis do século XVI, mas os acontecimentos históricos mais recentes neles mencionados variam entre finais do século XIV e inícios do século XVI. Quase todos concentram-se na história portuguesa, começando habitualmente, ou com a batalha do Salado (1340), ou com a guerra de Aljubarrota e a ascensão de D. João I ao trono (1385), eventos que assim adquirem estatuto fundacional. São especialmente numerosas as entradas relativas a acontecimentos dos reinados de D. Duarte, D. Afonso V, D. João II e D. Manuel I. Embora a maior parte dos acontecimentos mencionados por estes anais sejam também conhecidos através de outras fontes históricas, alguns transmitem diversos acontecimentos não mencionados noutros locais, sendo, por isso, especialmente relevantes. Um exemplo interessante é a cerimónia de investidura do infante D. Fernando, irmão de D. Afonso V e pai de D. Manuel, ocorrida em Lisboa a 10 de agosto de 1456, a qual é descrita, com certo detalhe, em alguns destes anais (segundo já foi comentado por Aguiar 2018). Também não é fácil perceber-se a génese destes textos. Alguns parecem resultar da compilação e/ou continuação de textos analísticos prévios (várias entradas repetem-se, ipsis verbis ou quase); outros, terão sido redigidos e acrescentados à medida que os acontecimentos históricos dignos de registo se iam sucedendo. É também notória a relação destes textos com o género historiográfico por excelência desta época, as crónicas. Com efeito, dos 21 textos atualmente elencados em BITAGAP, 6 estão copiados em manuscritos (ou, no caso do BITAGAP texid 11379, num impresso) que contêm, também, cópias ou sumários de crónicas, especialmente as de Rui de Pina e de Duarte Galvão. Esta circunstância já indicia uma proximidade entre ambos estes géneros, mas uma observação mais atenta poderá estreitá-la ainda mais. Com efeito, existem manuscritos do século XVI que contêm textos formalmente analísticos mas que, segundo explicitam, resultam da abreviação do conteúdo de crónicas (especialmente as de Fernão Lopes, Rui de Pina e Duarte Galvão), constituindo, assim, o que poderá ser apelidado de “sumários analísticos” (um exemplo, já editado, é Costa 1996). Este facto, junto com a evidente proximidade destes textos com as crónicas, seja do ponto de vista material, seja do conteúdo, leva a pensar que alguns dos textos do corpus analístico estabelecido pela BITAGAP podem resultar, também, deste processo, ainda que o não digam. Mas pode também acontecer o contrário, isto é, que alguns destes anais tenham sido fonte das crónicas. Só um estudo aprofundado, que tenha em conta quer a tradição manuscrita dos anais, quer a das crónicas, permitirá afirmar uma destas (ou ambas estas) hipóteses. Estes anais em língua portuguesa serão editados, com notas, introduções e comentários que os contextualizem, numa coleção de textos antigos dedicados à figura de D. Afonso Henriques, em fase de preparação, e serão também tidos em conta pelo projeto Aranhis, que procura integrar os anais portugueses (em português e em latim) com os anais ibéricos.

Vejamos, entretanto, alguns dos anais descobertos pela BITAGAP, e algumas das suas caraterísticas.

Um dos textos mais interessantes, e digno de ponderado estudo (que está a fazer-se) é o BITAGAP texid 18130, convencionalmente apelidado (quase todos os títulos deste corpus são convencionais) de “Descrição do mundo e notícias analísticas”. Trata-se de uma extensa compilação analística, das mais extensas do corpus (só comparável em extensão ao conhecido Livro da NoaBITAGAP texid 1057–e à chamada Iª Crónica Breve de Santa Cruz de CoimbraBITAGAP texid 1240). Ocupa 24 fólios na única cópia conhecida, o manuscrito 51-X-22 da Biblioteca da Ajuda (BITAGAP manid 3984), das primeiras décadas do século XVI. É um dos exemplos de associação dos anais às crónicas, pois esse manuscrito inclui, entre outros textos, uma cópia da Crónica de D. João II de Rui de Pina, com notáveis variantes (incluindo o prólogo, que não é de Rui de Pina, mas, possivelmente, do compilador deste manuscrito). Esta compilação analística tem a introduzi-la, e a contextualizá-la, uma descrição do mundo limitada à Europa, Ásia e África (o que estará indicando a sua possível antiguidade) e uma contagem das famosas sete idades do mundo (fólios 111-112, segundo a numeração moderna, que se sobrepôs a uma anterior e não coincidente). A compilação analística propriamente dita segue, grosso modo, uma ordem cronológica, começando pelo nascimento de Alexandre Magno e prosseguindo com diversos acontecimentos da história universal e, sobretudo, peninsular, antes de entrar a tratar do reinado de D. Afonso Henriques, momento a partir do qual as entradas se ocupam de acontecimentos dos sucessivos reinados portugueses, até ao ano de 1525.

Ms. 51-X-22 da Biblioteca do Palácio da Ajuda, fl. 111r. Início da “Descrição do Mundo”
Ms. 51-X-22 da Biblioteca do Palácio da Ajuda, f. 111r. Início da “Descrição do Mundo”

A parte inicial desta compilação analística tem evidentes pontos de contacto e mesmo entradas em comum com a chamada Iª Crónica Breve de Santa Cruz de Coimbra e com anais castelhanos, o que revela tratar-se de uma compilação pelo menos parcialmente baseada em textos bem mais antigos. A maior parte (a partir do fólio 115r) desta compilação é, porém, ocupada com acontecimentos do reinado de D. João I e seguintes (e especialmente dos reinados de D. Afonso V, D. João II e D. Manuel), com algumas entradas referentes a acontecimentos não conhecidos de outras fontes narrativas.

Ms. 51-X-22 da Biblioteca do Palácio da Ajuda, fl. 117r. Exemplo de acontecimentos do reinado de D. Afonso V.
Ms. 51-X-22 da Biblioteca do Palácio da Ajuda, f. 117r. Exemplo de acontecimentos do reinado de D. Afonso V.

Outro exemplo de associação às crónicas e de uma compilação analística extensa é o conjunto de anais (BITAGAP texid 34129) copiado no ms. Casa Fronteira e Alorna, número 5, da Torre do Tombo (BITAGAP manid 1398). Trata-se de um manuscrito também da primeira metade do século XVI que contém um conjunto de cópias das crónicas de Duarte Galvão e de Rui de Pina (até à de Afonso IV), curiosas porque, frequentemente, copiam apenas o início e o final dos capítulos, originando, as mais das vezes, texto sem sentido. Após a Crónica de D. Afonso IV, surge esta compilação analística, que ocupa os fólios 271v-278v, a qual começa com a batalha do Salado (1340) e termina com a morte da rainha D. Maria, em 1517. Várias entradas são comuns a outros anais e muitas são especialmente dedicadas ao reinado de D. João II, também aqui com acontecimentos nem sempre conhecidos por outras fontes narrativas.

ANTT, Ms. Casa Fronteira e Alorna, número 5. Exemplo de entrada do reinado de D. João II
ANTT, Ms. Casa Fronteira e Alorna, n. 5. Exemplo de entrada do reinado de D. João II: chegada de Colombo, “jenoes”, a Lisboa, após a viagem à América, fólio 277v.

Um terceiro caso interessante é o do texto intitulado “Memoriall dallgũas cousas” (BITAGAP texid 18624), na cópia mais antiga conhecida (COD. 13182 da BNP, BITAGAP manid 1346), uma cópia muito cuidada, com epígrafes a vermelho separando cada uma das entradas. Mais uma vez, estamos perante um conjunto analístico que faz parte de uma miscelânea manuscrita que contém a cópia de uma crónica, neste caso a Crónica de D. Afonso Henriques de Duarte Galvão, entre outros textos (entre os quais uma versão [BITAGAP texid 10498] da célebre Lenda de Gaia já editada e estudada por Ramos 2004). Este conjunto começa com a batalha de Aljubarrota (1385) e termina com o surto de peste de 1520, sendo a maior parte das entradas (algumas extensas e nem todas seguindo a ordem cronológica) dos reinados de D. Afonso V, D. João II e D. Manuel. Uma particularidade interessante deste manuscrito é a sua proveniência, pois, segundo apurou Ramos 2004, a sua origem está, muito provavelmente, numa comunidade religiosa feminina de Guimarães–o que mostra a circulação alargada deste tipo de miscelâneas, incluindo os textos analísticos nelas copiadas. Desta vez, conhece-se uma outra cópia deste texto, mais tardia (século XVII), com variantes e intitulada “Lembranças antiguas”, no manuscrito 2436 da BNE (BITAGAP manid 5253), fólios 228r a 237r.  A entrada mais recente desta cópia é, porém, do ano de 1508, o que, em conjunto com as variantes, levanta o problema de tratar-se, ou não, de uma cópia modificada do manuscrito quinhentista de Guimarães.

COD. 13182 da BNP, fólio 3r. Início da compilação analística.
COD. 13182 da BNP, f. 3r. Início da compilação analística.

Um último caso pode ser relevado, porque, contrariamente aos anteriores, não faz parte de compilações historiográficas, mas sim de uma cópia de documentos. Trata-se de um breve conjunto analístico copiado no fólio 180v do Livro 517 da Alfândega de Vila do Conde, Torre do Tombo (BITAGAP manid 6896), por isso designados como “Anais de Vila do Conde” (BITAGAP texid 25247). Começa, uma vez mais, com a batalha do Salado, e termina com a vinda do duque de Lencastre à Península Ibérica, no contexto das lutas pela sucessão dos tronos de Portugal e de Castela, no final do século XIV. Antecede estes anais uma lista dos cavaleiros portugueses que estiveram presentes na conquista de Ceuta (1415), mas, de facto, a maior parte deste manuscrito é de documentos relacionados com a atividade da alfândega de Vila do Conde, nos séculos XV e XVI. É interessante, por isso (e relevante), a presença de anais num manuscrito deste tipo.

Referências

Aguiar, Miguel (2018). Cavaleiros e Cavalaria. Ideologia, práticas e rituais aristocráticos em Portugal nos Séculos XIV e XV. Porto: Teodolito.

Bautista, Francisco (2009). “Breve historiografía: listas regias y Anales en la Peninsula Iberica (Siglos VII-XII)”. Talia Dixit. Núm. 4, pp. 113-90: https://publicaciones.unex.es/index.php/TD/article/view/213

Costa, José Pereira da, ed. (1996). Crónicas dos Reis de Portugal e Sumários das suas vidas: D. Pedro I, D. Fernando, D. João I, D. Duarte, D. Afonso V, D. João II / Gaspar Correia. Lisboa: Academia das Ciências.

David, Pierre (1947). Études Historiques sur la Galice et le Portugal du VI au XII siécle. Paris: Institut Français au Portugal.

Furtado, Rodrigo (2021). “Writing history in Portugal before 1200”. Journal of Medieval History. Vol. 47, Issue 2, pp. 145-73: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03044181.2021.1902375

Ramos, Maria Ana (2004). “Hestorja dell Rej dom Ramjro de lleom”…. Nova versão de “A Lenda de Gaia”. Critica del Testo. Romània romana. Giornata di studi in onore di Giuseppe Tavani. Vol. 7 n. 2, pp. 791-843.

Sharrer, Harvey L. (2022). “BITAGAP (Bibliografia de Textos Antigos Galegos e Portugueses): um armazém da memória histórica” in R. Pichel (ed.), Tenh’eu que mi fez el i mui gran ben. Estudos sobre cultura escrita medieval dedicados a Harvey L. Sharrer. Madrid: Sílex, pp. 39-67.


UC Berkeley Library’s Online Exhibition: Capturing Struggle: Ukraine Through American and Ukrainian Lenses

Introducing Capturing Struggle: Ukraine Through American and Ukrainian Lenses,” an exhibition dedicated to documenting the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. This online exhibition features powerful images captured by American and Ukrainian photojournalists, marking the third year of the war against Ukraine, which began on February 24, 2022.


The exhibition not only commemorates the unprovoked Russian aggression but also sheds light on the ongoing struggle of Ukrainians amidst civilian deaths, assaults on infrastructure, and human rights violations. It offers a glimpse into the daily lives of Ukrainians through compelling photographs. We are grateful to Brendan Hoffman (USA), Serhii Korovayny, Oksana Parfeniuk, and Serhiy Mykhalchuk (Ukraine) for generously allowing us to showcase their impactful work. Also, We want to thank Svidok and AI for Good Foundation for helping us with additional photos.

Special thanks to Professors Anastassia FedykYuriy Gorodnichenko, and Nataliia Goshylyk of the University of California Berkeley, and Professor Monica Eppinger of St. Louis University’s School of Law for their unwavering support in organizing this online exhibition and related events. These events aim to highlight the resilience of Ukrainian archivists, librarians, human rights lawyers, and publishers. We also have featured recommended readings from UC Berkeley Library’s collections based on the faculty input (In English, In Ukrainian).

The idea for bringing this exhibition to the library originated at Fulbright Ukraine and Institute of International Education Kyiv, of which the Director of both these institutions, Dr. Jessica Zychowicz, is a UC Berkeley Alumna (English, ’04). Deputy Director Inna Barysh, Communications Officer Marian Luniv, and Program Officer Mariia Kravchenko envisioned the first exhibit which took place in Vynnitsia, Ukraine, and continue to co-curate all iterations. The photographs provided by Serhii Korovayny and Serihy M. were not part of the original Fullbright exhibition and were a later curatorial addition. Fulbright Ukraine has held exhibitions at several U.S. and European universities and museums, including in locations in Berlin, Czech Republic, and Bulgaria attended by U.S. Ambassadors.

Explore the exhibition here: Capturing Struggle: Ukraine Through American and Ukrainian Lenses.

Capturing Struggle: Ukraine Through American and Ukrainian Lenses is an exhibition featuring images captured by American and Ukrainian photojournalists who are documenting the invasion of their country by Russia. The Russian military invasion of Ukraine began on 24th February 2022. This year, on February 24th, the war against Ukraine will enter its third year. This exhibition is dedicated to marking not only the milestone of unprovoked all-out Russian aggression against Ukraine but also the ongoing struggle of Ukrainians in light of civilian deaths, constant assaults on the civilian infrastructure, and human rights violations. It is also dedicated to the daily lives of Ukrainians, as documented through photographs. The curator remains highly grateful to Brendan Hoffman (USA), Serhii Korovayny (Ukraine), Oksana Parfeniuk (Ukraine), and Serhiy Mykhalchuk (Ukraine), who kindly agreed to provide us with permission to re-use the photos that they have taken throughout the Russian-Ukrainian war. Also, a special note of thanks goes to Professors Anastassia Fedyk, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, and Nataliia Goshylyk of the University of California Berkeley and Professor Monica Eppinger of St. Louis University's School of Law for steadfastly supporting a series of library-based events as well as the idea of this online exhibition we organized and their help with this virtual exhibition. These events were organized to highlight the difficult work of Ukrainian archivists, librarians, human rights lawyers, and publishers.