The ‘Santa Barbara Independent’ Rings In 40 Years of Covers with Faulkner Gallery Exhibition
The exhibition featuring decades of cover stories will be on display in the downtown library through May 31, 2026.
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Walking a Complicated History: Santa Barbara County Trails Council to Lead Living Heritage Hike Along the Coast
Sunday’s five-mile hike from Rincon Beach County Park to Santa Claus Lane marks the 250th anniversary of the Juan Bautista de Anza expedition’s stop in Carpinteria.
Jimmy’s Oriental Gardens Nominated for National Register of Historic Places
The historical building, including the Chung family home, was advanced for approval to the National Register.
Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, Home to History’s Holy Grails for Last 40 Years, Is Up for Sale
The nondescript Anapamu Street building holds documents and artifacts tied to moments, people, and decisions that bent history’s arc — and even a dinosaur egg.
Douglass Day at UCSB Invites the Public to Transcribe Black History
Held annually on Frederick Douglass’s birthday, the decade-old collaborative initiative takes up the Colored Conventions and the theme “All Rights for All” at its new institutional home at UC Santa Barbara.
$750,000 Schmidt Sciences Grant Uses AI to Transform Black Press Archives
Led by UC Santa Barbara’s Jim Casey, a national coalition is working to make early African American newspapers freely accessible.
From ‘Airwaves to Archives’ Event Celebrates KEYT Television Archive
The archive, hosted at UC Santa Barbara’s Special Research Collections, is available to the public.
Santa Barbara’s Black History in Brief
The “Santa Barbara African American and Black Historic Context Statement” provides an extensive thumbnail sketch of Santa Barbara over the centuries.
UC Santa Barbara Library Preserves Local History Using Family Films
Families are invited to drop off home movies in exchange for free digitization.
Santa Barbara Natural History Museum Transfers Chumash Remains to Santa Ynez Band
Human remains and funerary artifacts date as far back as 13,000 years.
