Highway 99: A Literary Journey
Highway 99: A Literary Journey, a collaboration between the council and independent Bay Area publisher, Heyday Books, was the first literary anthology of writing from and about California’s great interior..Read More
Shades of LA
Project Director: Carolyn Kozo Cole; Project Historian: Kathy Kobayashi Shades of LA was a visual history project conducted by the Los Angeles Public Library in response to the devastating fire..Read More
Motheread
In 1992, California Humanities responded to the civil unrest sparked by the acquittals of the policemen involved in the Rodney King beating by bringing an award-winning intergenerational family literacy program..Read More
Columbus & After: Rethinking the Legacy
Columbus & After: Rethinking the Legacy was a National Endowment for the Humanities-led initiative to commemorate—rather than celebrate—the Columbus Quincentenary in 1992. In California, the 500th anniversary of Columbus’ arrival..Read More
Common Threads
The inaugural unfolding of the AIDS Memorial Quilt on the National Mall in 1987 was the event that inspired filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman to make their 1990 Academy-Award..Read More
Lemon Grove Incident
Paul Espinosa, an Emmy Award-winning Independent Filmmaker and Professor Emeritus of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University, explains that he was “looking for a nontraditional way of combining anthropology and..Read More
Day After Trinity
Quotes from Rob Epstein: In making the Times of Harvey Milk studying what john did I learned about craft that I applied in making Times of Harvey Milk. QUALITY OF..Read More
Kitchen Sisters
The Kitchen Sisters, Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson, are legends in the world of radio. The Peabody Award-winning sisters are also legends here at California Humanities. When they received their..Read More
Humanists in the Schools
Humanists in the Schools (HIS), one of California Humanities’ longest-term projects, began as an experimental program to embed humanities scholars in three-year “residencies” in public schools in order to enhance..Read More
We The People
“We the People: Eyewitness News Year 2000” was one of the new organization’s first public programs. Produced by California Humanities (then known as “California Council for the Humanities in Public..Read More