On March 6 over 300 people filled the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for the third annual HERstory event, celebrating changemaker women of Santa Cruz County. This event, hosted by the MAH, the ...

SANTA CRUZ — Whether it is historical biopics or high-octane blockbusters, movies have been trending toward the longer side recently. Nevertheless, short films persist to demonstrate that length is ...

"For Women's History Month, I'm presenting a story based on research by Dana Bagshaw," writes columnist Ross Eric Gibson.

This spring quarter, UC Santa Cruz Humanities students immersed themselves in the story of three Hawaiian princes who introduced surfing to the United States in the late 19th century, using Santa Cruz ...

SANTA CRUZ — From chronicling the history of Santa Cruz’s Indigenous inhabitants to the arrival of the Spanish and later the Chinese and Italian immigrants who played an integral part in shaping the ...

What did many early Hollywood luminaries all have in common? Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Will Rogers, Cecil B. DeMille, William S. Hart and Alfred Hitchcock, among others, all found Santa Cruz ...

This year’s Humanities EXPLORE Program fellows are adventurous and ambitious, transcribing 300-year–old texts, helping to revitalize forgotten languages, exploring archives, and learning from faculty ...

Santa Cruz Public Libraries received a $20,000 award from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The Carnegie Corporation was established in 1911 to promote the diffusion of knowledge. The award is ...

With her late husband, Rowland Rebele, who died in late 2023, Pat Rebele donated tens of millions of dollars to local charities, nonprofits, arts groups and scholarship funds in Santa Cruz County and ...

UC Santa Cruz humanities students graduate with a toolkit of transferable skills in high demand across fields ranging from academia to the entertainment industry and high-tech startups.