:: A Gateway to Historical Images
and Documents
:: Oral Histories and Interviews
:: Online Exhibits

The University of California was chartered in 1868 as the state’s only land-grant institution. What began as a single campus first in Oakland, then moving to Berkeley, emerged in the 20th Century as the nation’s first multi-campus university. Here you will gain access to historical documents, oral histories and interviews, and online exhibits.

To date, the largest full-text collections available at the UC History Digital Archives include:

In Memoriam (biographies of UC faculty and administrators, systemwide)

Academic Senate Record / Notice of Meeting, Northern Section (1954-1963)

Academic Senate Assembly Record / Notice of Meeting (1963-1987, preliminary)

Selections from the Daily Californian (UC Berkeley student newspaper), 1940, 1949-50 (related to the loyalty oath controversy)