‘Welcome to Isla Vista’ Episode 2: Student Stories, 1954-2016
The rise and fall of I.V.’s building boom, memories of live music, and cockroaches.
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‘Welcome to Isla Vista’ Episode 1: Welcome to Del Playa Drive
Welcome to Isla Vista, a hodge-podge of lecture notes and red solo cups and home to thousands of UC Santa Barbara and Santa Barbara City College students.
$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.
Living History at Pearl Harbor
A seven-year-old “admiral” encounters war and peace.
Speaking With a Santa Barbara Resident Who Witnessed the Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Shyama Osborne was just five years old when she watched the December 1941 attack that launched the country into WWII.
Past Times at Santa Barbara High
Celebrating 150 years of educational excellence, with centuries more to come.
Vast Collection of Historic American Music Released via UCSB Library Partnership with Dust-to-Digital Foundation
The project has preserved thousands of songs representing some of the rarest and most uniquely American music borne from the Jazz Age and the Great Depression that would have likely been lost to landfills and faded from memory.
Searching for Ghosts on the Central Coast
Santa Barbara’s spooky local legends reveal the region’s haunted history.
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.
A Vaquero Who Taught Max Schott About Horses and Life
The portrait of a hero in a novel about memory and adolescence.
