Counter-History

Counter-History refers to accounts that go against the standard narrative. See also Colonialism and main page Big History

My Dynamic map of counter-culture is rogue version of James Burke's Knowledge Web,(updates)

This day in history from The Zinn Project

General Examples

Big History Page, general big picture resources. TV series available in McHenry Media Center DVD10097.

Howard Zinn's (amazon) A People's History of the United States((video interview) 60 min. 3 hr with Q&A) ****. video on labor (begins with critique of history textbooks, his own education). Myths of the Good Wars (video). You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times. (video talk). How Can History Help Us in the Future?(good talk, though he answers the question obliquely, e.g., use of the Good War to justify later ones). Talks@Google video 2008; Funny and smart. 1981 talk (video).People's History Timeline by Zinn Project. Issues by theme. On American Empire short animated. Hidden History of The American Working Class Audio archive 8/18.

Today in People's History REAL democracy calendar.

Lies my teacher told me : everything your American history textbook got wrong Loewen, James W. New York : New Press, c1995 McH Stacks E175.85 .L64 1995 *** UCSC online. Can't vouch for these, but could be interesting to compare to other countries and time periods. Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong and Teaching What Really Happened, by James W. Loewen, a retired University of Vermont sociology professor. interview video 7/25/18.

A People's History of the World: From the Stone Age to the New Millenium by Chris Harman. pdf. intro and timelines.

Raj Patel ([personal site]) (10/17 audio alt link)A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet (excerpt intro) & 4 min video overview. see Food.

Myth of the Confederate Lost Cause; Two Museum Directors Say It’s Time to Tell the Unvarnished History of the U.S. (team mascots and monuments) 3/18.

A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki McH Stack (3 copies) E184.A1T335 1993 ***

Alexander Hamilton, the Musical: John Sedgwick War of Two: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Duel that Stunned the Nation, BookTV talk (video). Hamilton the Musical: New Yorker article, LA Times review. Author interview (video) CBS Sunday Morning 3/15 based on Ron Chernow's biography. White House origin. Jeremy McCarter, co-author of Hamilton: The Revolution, talked about the musical created by his co-author, Lin-Manuel Miranda.

What the Rest Think of the West Since 600 AD by Laura Nader (Editor) Focusing on four civilizations—Islamic, Japanese, Chinese, and South Asian—Laura Nader has collected observations made over centuries by scholars, diplomats, missionaries, travelers, merchants, and students reflecting upon their own “Wests.” The accounts variously express critique, adoration, admiration, and fear, and are sometimes humorous, occasionally disturbing, at times controversial..."

Parenti, Michael The Struggle for History (video talk); History as Mystery includes critique of high school history), (notes). Many resources. The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People’s History of Ancient Rome (video interview).

The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick (also a TV series). video interview on Henry Wallace, almost president, who would not have dropped Atomic Bomb. Episode 5 video).(Summary and links). Extensive video interview with transcript. Episode 1. Ep 6: Cold War (JFK, Missile Crisis)

Collapse (summary) by Jared Diamond (UCLA), (celebrated author of Guns, Germs and Steel sum UCSC Media Center DVD3487 , book HM856 .D52 2005 ) seeks to understand why so many civilizations have been unable to avoid destroying the environment they depended upon. In this selection he summaries the reasons, which may also be involved in your issue. TEDtalk video. ****

Late Victorian Holocausts By Mike Davis. Referenced by Raj Patel on East India Co export wheat from India which led to famines. US revolutionary Tea Party also vs EIC (Hartmann)(book)

The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future by Riane Eisler looks at how gender has structured culture of domination. Her new book rethinks the economy: The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics Link

Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City By Greg Grandin. (Includes excerpt and audio interview with author).(8 min interview) The book tells the story of Henry Ford, the richest man in the world in the 1920s, and his attempt to build a rubber plantation and a miniature Midwest factory town deep in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon.

Ned Ludd & Queen Mab: Machine-Breaking, Romanticism, and the Several Commons of 1811-12 Peter Linebaugh audio interview 2012. 1/27/14 audio interview. His more recent book,Stop, Thief! is on the appropriations of the commons also includes history, including a refugee from the Irish famine, captured by Iroquois and taken in by escaped slaves.

Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America by Richard White at Stanford video)

Changes in the Land by William Cronon was long the central text in the Core course, a pioneering work in eco-history, and it it still the best explanation of how we got where we are. These excerpts (requires course login) documents how Native Americans related to nature, and what happened when the market was introduced. Ch. 8 is the summary/conclusion. He was also wrote "Trouble with Wilderness," which set off a lively debate, which concludes here.

The Man Who Saved the Worldis about the tensest moments of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vasili Arkhipov and Soviet submarine B-59. *** PBS ;Atomic America by Todd Tucker. On January 3, 1961, nuclear reactor SL-1 exploded in rural Idaho, spreading radioactive contamination over thousands of acres and killing three men: John Byrnes, Richard McKinley, and Richard Legg. The Army blamed "human error" and a sordid love triangle. Though it has been overshadowed by the accident at Three Mile Island, SL-1 is the only fatal nuclear reactor incident in American history, and it holds serious lessons for a nation poised to embrace nuclear energy once again. See also Schlosser's Command and Control. Eric Schlosser, "Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety" author of Fastfood Nation. 11/13. See also Nuclear page.

The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations by Brian Fagan.

Jeffrey Parker's Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century (2013) *** also audio interview (starts 16 mins in)alt link. short text Q&A interview.

ReVisioning Am History Beacon Press, example QUEER HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES by Michael Bronski.

War

RadioLab is brilliant podcast is war inevitable? includes Stanford's Robert Sapolsky TEDtalk offers a fascinating and funny look at human behaviors which the rest of the animal kingdom would consider bizarre.

Zinn Myths of the Good Wars (video).

The Man Who Saved the Worldis about the tensest moments of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vasili Arkhipov and Soviet submarine B-59. *** PBS

War, What Is it Good For? audio interview (2nd half, starts at 23 min.) by Stanford's Ian Morris. See also Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future.

Diana Preston talked about her book A Higher Form of Killing: Six Weeks in World War I that Forever Changed the Nature of Warfare, in which she examines Germany’s violation of rules of war during World War I, from the dispersal of poison gas against French and Canadian soldiers at Ypres to the submarine attack on the passenger liner Lusitania, and the aerial bombardment of London. In her book, the author reports that these acts abolished prior agreements made at the Hague Conventions and were designed to sow terror amongst the Allied populations.

"The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words 1000 BC - 1492 AD" Historian Simon Schama presents a 3000-year history of the Jewish people. (video).

Chris Hedges talked about his book Wages of Rebellion, in which he looks at stories of rebels from around the world and throughout history to illuminate the causes of revolution and resistances. He also spoke about what it takes to be a rebel in modern times (video). 6/16.

MAJORITY JOIN MUSK AND HAWKING IN CALL TO BAN AUTONOMOUS WEAPONS

"The Mistakes of Our Past and the Discoveries That Will Impact Our Future" from The Torch: The Great Courses Podcast.

Counter-Culture

(see also Networks)

UCSC Cruzcat books

Dynamic visual online six degree map (uka uber1 sandbox) includes UCSC and Buckminster Fuller, Beat Poets who were into Zen Buddhism and other forms of altering consciousness.

CounterCulture Wiki, example: Human Be-in

Hippies U Va website nice overview.

Hippies (video) 2007 History Channel. Connect to this online: via UCSC link alt permalink Quite a good overview, narrated by Peter Coyote, who would know the period, member of the Diggers. ****

Sixties PBS documentary.alt link. The Sixties - The Years That Shaped a Generation (video) 2005 PBS.

1968 History Channel documentary.

Hippie Books (not complete, but representative of books read by).Another good list of books about with links.

The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage by Todd Gitlin.

Earth Days (video) is a fantastic history of the American Environmental Movement. **** More green history.

R. U Sirius Counterculture Through the Ages: From Abraham to Acid House. (2004) **** highly recommended. Google book. UCSC McHenry HM647 .S57 2004.

Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet by Katie Hafner, Matthew Lyon.

How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival by David Kaiser.

UCSC history: There Is a Garden in the Mind: A Memoir of Al… by Paul A. Lee. Alan Chadwick starts a garden and organic gardening spreads across North America, leads to Alice Waters and CA cuisine. Natural history include our beloved mascot, see also Unnatural History of UCSC.

Paul Buhle has written and edited a number of graphic novel style history books, including Bohemians: A Graphic History, (images)video interview. See also Graphic Novels.

Thoreau's Walden (the game).

David Talbot, UCSC alum and founder of Salon, his book Season of the Witch, about the wild and bloody birth of "San Francisco values","an enthralling – and harrowing – account of how the 1967 Summer of Love gave way to 20 or so winters of discontent".

Music

Grateful Dead's Dead Central is part of UCSC Library's Special Collections (also some Beat materials.

Music—Overview from Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History Ed. William H. McNeill, Jerry H. Bentley, David Christian, Ralph C. Croizier, J. R. McNeill, Heidi Roupp,, et al. Vol. 4. 2nd ed. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing, 2010. p1766-1771. Gale.

"Music, Transgressive History" of in Gale Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media, Vol. 2. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Reference, 2007. p571-573 by Jeffrey Jensen Arnett link.

Zukas, Alexander M. "Music and Political Protest." Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History. Ed. William H. McNeill, et al. 2nd ed. Vol. 4. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing, 2010. 1772-1779. Gale.

Talkin' 'Bout a Revolution: Music and Social Change in America by Dick Weissman.

The Story of Music: From Babylon to the Beatles: How Music Has Shaped Civilization. How Music Works(video). audio interview (4/23/14).

How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin (video) tells the extraordinary and untold story of how the Beatles punctured the Iron Curtain, a secret revolution which contributed to the fall of communism. trailer.

Pete Seeger sadly just passed away, but this has triggered an appreciation of his huge influence (he played with Woody Guthrie, was blacklisted by HUAC, tried to stop Dylan from going electric with an ax, inspired Clearwater sloop that cleaned the Hudson River. He sang for the labor movement in the 1940s and 1950s, for civil rights marches and anti-Vietnam War rallies in the 1960s, and for environmental and antiwar causes in the 1970s and beyond. “We Shall Overcome,” which Mr. Seeger adapted from old spirituals, became a civil rights anthem. A-weem-bo-wat.

Technology

(see also Networks) as well as Future History below.

Rough Draft of six degrees map.

How We Got to Now : six innovations that made the modern world (PBS video six part series) by Steven Johnson (excerpt/ overview). UCSC library copy: S&E Stacks T14.5 .J64 2014. HIGHLY recommended *** Colbert Report. audio interview. TEDx talk. BookTV/C-span talk. ebook download (use at own risk). One hour video overview (glass). Previous excellent books: Where Good Ideas Come From, the Ghost Map (disease), and Invention of Air (on Priestly), video).

The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution 2014 by Walter Isaacson (also bios on Franklin and Jobs). He dispels lone genius myth, highly recommended *** S&E Stacks QA76.2.A2 I87 2014 NYT review, video interview, plus extended interview on all his books, role of women in computers. extended video interview with two pioneers of the Internet, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn.

Troublemakers: Leslie Berlin described the growth of the major technology industries, including personal computing, video games, and biotechnology.(video) Good on network relationships eg Markkula 12/17.

Social Networks

Jaron Lanier's Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now 2018 ***; NYT review.

Sad by Design: ON PLATFORM NIHILISM by GEERT LOVINK, audio interview with Doug Rushkoff on Team Human.

The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread 2018 by Cailin O'Connor (Author), James Owen Weatherall.

Antisocial Media Prof. Siva Vaidhyanathan argued that Facebook is undermining democracy. UVa 7/18.

Technology Designed for Addiction What are the dangers of digital feedback loops? Psych Today 1/18.

What Can Be Done About the Attention Economy's Dark Side? 1/18.

Why Social Media May Not Be So Good for Democracy:It's polarizing and distorting our sense of reality. 11/17

Google, democracy and the truth about internet search: Tech-savvy rightwingers have been able to ‘game’ the algorithms of internet giants and create a new reality where Hitler is a good guy, Jews are evil and… Donald Trump becomes president. 11/16.

Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years (UCSC library owns) by Tom Standage review/summary. The Victorian Internet on the Telegraph. See also Networks.

RadioLab's The Trust Engineers: Facebook has a created a laboratory of human behavior; Arturo Bejar and a team of researchers who are tweaking our online experience, bit by bit, to try to make the world a better place. And along the way we can’t help but wonder whether that’s possible, or even a good idea. (audio) 3/15.

Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus (video) .Talk@google Professor Douglas Rushkoff talks about how Americans can build upon the digital economy by altering the way they grow businesses to benefit both the employees and employers. Smart commentor on social effects of technology, e.g.,Life Inc.

Mary Aiken's book The Cyber Effect: A Pioneering Cyberpsychologist Explains How Human Behavior Changes Online, in which she examines how the prevalence of internet usage impacts human behavior. 2/17.

Cell Phone Smart Phone

Social Networks: one of the smartest and long-standing researchers on digital technology is Sherry Turkle at MIT, the US #1 technology school. Professor Turkle's most recent book is Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other (review); 2012 TEDtalk; (video interview); extensive talk @ Google. Emotional Fantasy: AI Can Pretend to Love Us, but Should We Love It Back? (video). Smart phone: Psychologist Jean Twenge on How the Smartphone Has Shaped a Generation audio 9/17.

We Need to Talk Journalist Celeste Headlee offered communication strategies to improve civil discourse. 2/18

Smartphone Detox: How To Power Down In A Wired World. 2/18.

History:

What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry (summary) by John Markoff Google book. *** see also Turner below

From Counterculture to Cyberculture : Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the rise of digital utopianism. *** Author: Fred Turner, University of Chicago Press, 2006. QA76.9.C66 T875 2006 Google book. See also Environmental History. UCSC talk 2015 Utopian Dreaming (video).

Ned Ludd & Queen Mab: Machine-Breaking, Romanticism, and the Several Commons of 1811-12 Peter Linebaugh audio interview 2012. ( Note that Lord Byron's only speech in Parliament was in defense of Luddites)1/27/14 audio interview.

Exploding the phone : the untold story of the teenagers and outlaws who hacked Ma Bell (includes Woz) / Phil Lapsley McH Stacks HD9697.T454 A44 2013.

Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - 25th Anniversary Edition by Steven Levy (includes The Woz). UCSC.

Ted Nelson wrote important manifesto Computer Liberation explained in Howard Rheingold chapter.

Doug Engelbart is my hero, because along with Buckminster Fuller, he asked himself "how can I use my life for maximum utility to the world?" His answer was to create a high performance computer system that would boost cooperation and our collective IQ to cope with wickedly complex problems like global warming. In 1968, he did what is still called in awe The Mother of All Demos. The computer mouse, grabbed by Steve Jobs, is a tiny almost accidental bit of his whole system. Tools for Thought chapter.

Jaron Lanier, pioneer of Virtual Reality, amazing musician, is the smartest person about the digital technology. A recent book is Who Owns the Future? Overview, Colbert silliness and Charlie Rose seriousness (video interviews). He literally invent the term "virtual reality" had a number of its basic patents (early gaming controller the Data Glove), helped design the interface Tom Cruise used in Minority Report. Cockroach DNA time capsule. Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality 2017; Jaron Lanier's Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now 2018; NYT review.

Howard Rheingold has written a number of important books on the history of digital technology, one on community, one on augmentation of human intelligence.The Virtual Community by digital pioneer Howard Rheingold. His Tools for Thought traces the development of technology to augment our minds (vs our bodies), including the first programmer Ada Lovelace, daughter of the poet Lord Byron, who worked with Charles Babbage. Also, Cybernetics (early systems theory), as well as Doug Engelbart. Ted Nelson wrote the Computer Liberation manifesto that inspired hackers, and envisioned a better WWWeb that was never built.

Counterculture Green : the Whole earth catalog and American environmentalism Author: Andrew G Kirk, University Press of Kansas, 2007. S&Engr Library GE197 .K58 2007.

The Steampunk Bible : an illustrated guide to the world of imaginary airships, corsets and goggles, mad scientists, and strange literature by Jeff VanderMeer; S J Chambers (ILL via UCB). wikipedia entry; Examples: Datamancer, list of websites. My Aero-velocipede with sidecar. A spinoff of Cyberpunk.

Virtual reality/video games see for example Jaron Lanier and Will Wright. UCSC library has collection and a program. Jane McGonigal “Gaming can make a better world” TEDtalk.

Pirates of Silicon Valley (Documentary) is probably derivative of

Triumph of the Nerds (video) (website with transcript and links). 1996 video. Triumph of the Nerds. sequel: Nerds 2.0.1: Networking the Nerds: brief history of the Internet.

Secret History of Silicon Valley Steve Blank presents how the roots of Silicon Valley sprang not from the later development of the silicon semiconductor but instead from the earlier technology duel over the skies of Germany and secret efforts around (and over) the Soviet Union. World War II, the Cold War and one Stanford professor set the stage for the creation and explosive growth of entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley.(video).

Surveillance Valley: Investigative reporter Yasha Levine looked at how the Pentagon’s interest in surveillance led to the creation of the internet. 2/18.

Where Wizards Stay Up Late: (author interview) An Enthralling Summary Podcast video for the post-literate ;)

The Imitation Game is a 2014 historical thriller film about British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and pioneering computer scientist Alan Turing who was a key figure in cracking Nazi Germany's naval Enigma code which helped the Allies win the Second World War, only to later be criminally prosecuted for his homosexuality. The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Turing,based on the biography Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges.

Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer who envisioned it could be more than a calculator is featured in the Innovators, How We Got to Now, as well as a graphic novel, (Amazon), by Sydney Padua which sort of accidentally grew out of her blog; (audio interview) 4/20/15. See 2/15 CHM.org video interview;(alt link) (PBS video). 3D model of Babbage Difference Engine.

Surprising Reason Why Nearsightedness Has More Than Doubled in 50 years

85 Most disruptive inventions

A Social History of American Technology by Cowan, Ruth & Schwartz. Similar titles: American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, 1870-1970 by Thomas P. Hughes, The Machine in America: A Social History of Technology by Carroll Pursell.

Also by Ruth Schwartz Cowan: More Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household Technology From the Open Hearth to the Microwave.

85 Most disruptive inventions. a deeper dive into disruption by John Seeley Brown at the Center for the Edge.

Justin Peters book, The Idealist: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet. The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz is a 2014 American biographical documentary film about Swartz trailer; Internet Archive.

Killswitch (trailer) Edward Snowden, also on Swartz.

The Seventh Sense Joshua Cooper Ramo video discussion (with Malcolm Gladwell) Endless terror. Refugee waves. An unfixable global economy. Surprising election results. New billion-dollar fortunes. Miracle medical advances. What if they were all connected? See Networks page 2016.

Life in Code by Software engineer Ellen Ullman video S&E Stacks QA76.2.U43 A3 2017 author of the seminal Close to the Machine S&E Stacks QA76.2.U43 A3 1997.

Labor/Economics

(see also Labor History).

Howard Zinn (see above) Hidden History of The American Working Class (video). Three strikes : miners, musicians, salesgirls, and the fighting spirit of labor's last century / Howard Zinn, Dana Frank, Robin D.G. Kelley. "Howard Zinn recounts the dramatic tale of the great coal mine strike in Colorado that culminated in the Ludlow Massacre. The story pits immigrant workers against the National Guard, Mother Jones against the Rockefellers, and corporate power against union organizing, a story that is all too familiar today." "With Dana Frank we join a sit-in strike in a Detroit Woolworth's during the Great Depression where young women slept on the floor, played games and sang songs together, and enjoyed the attention of an amused and curious public that vilified the "chain-store threat" long before Wal-Mart." "Robin D.G. Kelley's tale of a movie theater musician strike in New York gets at the heart of what defines a worker McH Stacks HD5324 .Z56 2001. (also e-book?) Google preview .

Raj Patel ([personal site]) (10/17 audio alt link)A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet (excerpt intro) & 4 min video overview. see Food.

Are jobs obsolete? By Douglas Rushkoff (see Future History below).

Hillbilly Elegy : J.D. Vance talked about his book Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, in which he recalls his childhood in a Rust Belt town in Ohio. video

Women strikers occupy chain store, win big : the 1937 Woolworth's sit-down / Dana Frank UCSC. Haymarket Books, 2012 McH Stacks HD5325.M392 1937 F73 2012.

History of unions in Uber1 sandbox; more modern info in Web of DCeit.

McHenry Library CruzCat search

Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States ****. video on labor.

"THEY TAKE OUR JOBS!" And 20 Other Myths about Immigration, Author: Aviva Chomsky.

Parenti overview (short video).

Golden Lands Working Hands video.

There is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America by Philip Dray. Highly recommended **** McH Stacks HD6508 .D73 2010

From Mission to Microchip: A History of the California Labor Movement, Fred Glass audio interview 8/16. May Day 2017 audio interview. More. Interlibrary loan from UCB HD8083.C2 .G53 2016 etc.

Good overview (audio), citing Rebel Voices anthology on IWW/Wobblies, which may well hold good lessons for Occupy.

The Battle of Blair Mountain by Chris Hedges. This an effort to halt companies from extracting coal by blasting apart the mountain, the site in the early 1920s of the largest armed insurrection in the United States since the Civil War.

Ruler and Rebels: A People’s History of Early California, 1769 – 1901, by Larry Shoup, focuses on the dramatic but little known stories of early California history, written from the point of view of rank and file working people.

A Brief History of May Day and the Battle for the 8-Hour Work Day good labor overview with videos).

Economix graphic novel of history of economics bibliography audio interview. Up Front 5/7/14.

Steve McKay, associate professor of sociology and director of the UC Santa Cruz Center for Labor Studies and his students have research local farmworkers.

Chris Hedges on farmworkers, homeless in Salinas, just south of UCSC (Steinbeck country).

History through the eyes of the working man: EP Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class.

Videos:

Cesar Chavez movie centers on the Delano strike and grape boycaott; Audio interview with David Bacon, who spoke at College 8 plenary. Bacon was an organizer of the grape boycott, and he praises the movie, but thinks the importance of previous Leftist unions, and especially the Filipino contribution is not appreciated.

Matewan dramatizes the events of the Battle of Matewan, a coal miners' strike in 1920 in Matewan, a small town in the hills of West Virginia. (excerpt) UCSC McHenry DVD3923.

Past imperfect : history according to the movies / general editor, Mark C. Carnes ; edited by Ted Mico, John Miller-Monzon, and David Rubel McH Stacks PN1995.9.H5 P37 1995

Other labor movies include Silkwood and Grapes of Wrath.

Homestead strike from Carnegie episode of The Men Who Built America.

Audio

Stuff You Missed in History Class.

California

Resources (includes environment).

Dynamic graphic history of UCSC includes atomic bombs to dig canal, punk rockers, organic farming/Calif cuisine, radical environmentalists, re-wilding and dolphins. secret places on campus. Natural History.

McHenry Library Search

The Elusive Eden : a new history of California / Richard B. Rice, William A. Bullough, Richard J. Orsi. McH Stacks F861.R49 1988

Trees in Paradise: A California History By Jared Farmer review audio interview.

Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath by Rick Wartzman.

Assembling California by John McPhee "takes readers on an intensive geological tour of California... looks at the conjectural science of earthquake prediction and gives an account of a recent San Francisco quake. His leisurely excavation meanders from Mexican explorer Juan Bautista de Anza's settlement of San Francisco in 1776 to 1850s gold-mining camps to the summit of Mount Everest, made of marine limestone lifted from a shelf that once divided India and Tibet. With this volume McPhee concludes his Annals of the Former World series, which he began with Basin and Range (1980).

"Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century" is a story of the largest public works project in US history. audio interview.

Ruler and Rebels: A People’s History of Early California, 1769 – 1901, by Larry Shoup, focuses on the dramatic but little known stories of early California history, written from the point of view of rank and file working people.

From Mission to Microchip: A History of the California Labor Movement, Fred Glass audio interview 8/16.

Inside the California Food Revolution : Thirty Years That Changed Our Culinary Consciousness / Joyce Goldstein S&E Stacks TX715.2.C34 G65 2013 (see UCSC's Chadwick. excerpt.

Panel Discussion on California History: Steven Hackel, Junipero Serra: California’s Founding Father; Les Standiford, Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles; and Miriam Pawel, The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography, talked about California History. BookTV video.

Native Americans

(see also Native American page)

McHenry Library search.

Roxanne-Dunbar-Ortiz (bio) An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (McH Stacks E76.8 .D86 2014) excerpt. 2014 interview (video, alt link). 2014 talk video. Gilio-Whitaker's new book,All The Real Indians Died Off, which she co-wrote with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (link) , audio interview 2016.

David Treuer is Ojibwe The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present. audio interview 3/19.

First Peoples PBS five episodes for different continents *** 4/16

Encyclopedia of American Indian history Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2008 McH Ref E77 .E48 2008 v.1 LIB USE ONLY Contents.

The Encyclopedia Of Native American Biography: Six Hundred Life Stories of Important People, From Powhatan to Wilma Mankiller McH Ref E89 .J69 1997 LIB USE ONLY

BookTV search videos; examples Professor Vine Deloria, California Missions, Trail of Tears.

"The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend" Tom Clavin; Bob Drury (trailer)(video interview).

Charles Mann, author of 1491(book exploration on how Native Americans used the land) has also written about interactions between colonists and Native peoples.

Another account of megafauna extinctions.

The extraordinary book of Native American lists / Arlene Hirschfelder, Paulette F. Molin, 2012 McH Stacks E77 .H586 2012.

Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America by Richard White at Stanford video).

Changes in the Land by William Cronon was long the central text in the Core course, a pioneering work in eco-history, and it it still the best explanation of how we got where we are. These excerpts (requires course login) documents how Native Americans related to nature, and what happened when the market was introduced. Ch. 8 is the summary/conclusion. He was also wrote "Trouble with Wilderness," which set off a lively debate, which concludes here.

Murder State: California's Native American Genocide, 1846-1873 by Brendan C. Lindsay. excerpt.

Digger: The Tragic Fate of the California Indians from the Missions to the Gold Rush by Jerry Stanley available via InterLibrary loan from SJSU (highly recommended, though this particular history ain't pretty).summary notes.

Ecocide of Native America : environmental destruction of Indian lands and peoples by Grinde, Donald A., 1946- Sante Fe, N.M. : Clear Light, c1995 McH Stacks E98.L3 G74 1995.

Joe Starita talked about his book, "I Am a Man": Chief Standing Bear’s Journey for Justice, about Ponca leader Chief Standing Bear, who took on the federal government in the Supreme Court case Standing Bear v. Crook for the right to bury his son. In 1878, the chief and his tribe began the march from the traditional homelands in the Niobrara river valley to the Indian Territory in Oklahoma. As they made the journey, one third of the tribe died, including Chief Standing Bear’s only son, who asked his father to bury him in the sacred ground of their people. 

Doctrine of Christian Discovery Dakota filmmaker Sheldon Wolfchild's compelling documentary is premised on Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery, a book based on two decades of research by Shawnee, Lenape scholar Steven T.Newcomb. The film tells the story of how little known Vatican documents of the fifteenth century resulted in a tragic global momentum of domination and dehumanization. This led to law systems in the United States and Canada and elsewhere in the world, that are still being used against Original Nations and Peoples to this day. The film concludes with traditional teachings developed over thousands of years that provide a much needed alternative for humans and the ecological systems of Mother Earth at this time.

Peter Cozzens' book The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West, in which he looks at the Indian Wars that marked America’s westward expansion in the thirty years following the Civil War.

Susan La Flesche, the First Native American to Earn a Medical Degree

Influence on Founders

Native America and the Evolution of Democracy: A Supplementary Bibliography, Bruce E. Johansen McH Ref Z1210.I7 J65 1996 LIB USE ONLY

Bruce E. Johansen with Donald A. Grinde Jr. & Barbara Alice Mann, Debating Democracy: The Iroquois Legacy of Freedom (Santa Fe: Clear Light Publishing, 1997) ISBN 978-0-94066-679-5

Bruce E. Johansen with Donald A. Grinde, Jr., foreword by Vine Deloria, Jr., Exemplar of Liberty: Native America and the Evolution of Democracy (UCLA American Indian Studies Center, 1991). NRLF Storage E98.T77G75 1991 Request Item Via Melvyl

Forgotten Founders: How the American Indian Helped Shape Democracy (Harvard Common Press, 1982) ISBN 0-91678-290-5 McH Stacks E99.I7J63 1982 c.2 online free

American Indian Movement

In the Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiessen "A look at the events surrounding the incarceration of native American activist Leonard Peltier elucidates the traditional Indian concept of the sacred inviolability of the earth and presents new evidence supporting Peltier's claims of innocence, arguing for a new trial."

A Good Day to Die is a documentary about American Indian Movement leader Dennis Banks. 2011

Aaron Huey's effort to photograph poverty in America led him to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where the struggle of the native Lakota people -- appalling, and largely ignored -- compelled him to refocus. TEDtalk video.

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown video excerpt.

Vine Deloria, Jr. wrote Custer Died For Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto.

Encyclopedia of the American Indian Movement Johansen, Bruce E. (Bruce Elliott), 1950- Santa Barbara : Greenwood, McH Stacks E98.T77 J63 2013 .

Asian

UCSC library searchand research guide.

The Song Dynasty in China: Between the 11th and 14th centuries, China was, by nearly all accounts, the most advanced civilization in the world. Topics: Population Boom, Commercialization, Paper Money, Iron and Steel, Textiles and Silk, and Ceramics. Other sections: Technology, Cities, Confucianism, and Outside World.

1421: The Year China Discovered America (hmmn) 2008 by Gavin Menzies.

Asian Americans : an interpretive history / Sucheng Chan. Boston : Twayne, c1991. McH Stacks (3 copies) E184.O6C47 1991.

A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki *** McH Stack (3 copies) E184.A1T335 1993.

Japanese Relocation - Government Film (1942). Role of the Press (video), lecture/slideshow. Jan Jarboe Russell talks about her book, The Train to Crystal City: FDR’s Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America’s Only Family Internment Camp During World War II (video),

Ancestors in the Americas [videorecording] / producer, director, writer, Loni Ding, 1996 Media Center VT5869 v.1 Pt. 1 tells the story of how Asians--Filipino, Chinese, Asian Indian--first arrived in the Americas. Film crosses centuries and oceans from the 16th century Manila-Acapulco trade, to the Opium War, to the 19th century plantation coolie labor in South America and the Caribbean. Pt. 2 relates the history of Chinese immigrants in California.

Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America by Richard White at Stanford video).

Crossing East NPR radio series, includes UCSC's Judy Yung who co-wrote Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America, "the Ellis Island of the West."

UCSC history professor Gail Hershatter, specialist in Modern Chinese social and cultural history, is best known for her pioneering field research and oral history among Chinese women, and for her major contributions to the history of women, labor, and sexuality.

Daughters of the Samurai: Janice Nimura recounts five women sent to the United States by the Japanese government in 1871 to learn and export Western culture.(video).

African-American

Library history research guide.

CruzCat search: African-American history, Latino/Hispanic history, LALS department.

UCSC library African-American research guide; historian David Anthony.

African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically-charged narrative describing the intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights. Ortiz challenges the notion of westward progress, and shows how placing African American, Latinx, and Indigenous voices unapologetically front and center transforms American history into the story of the working class organizing against imperialism. Paul Ortiz, beloved former UCSC professor, is now an associate professor and the director of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida. Audio interview. audio, Video talk ***

Revolutions, podcast exploring the great revolutions of history, including only successful slave revolt by Toussaint, in Haiti. Also by Mike Duncan, his sourcesHistory of Rome.

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (2010) is a highly-acclaimed historical study by Isabel Wilkerson, which received the National Book Award for Nonfiction. This work tells the story of the The Great Migration and the Second Great Migration, the movement of African Americans out of the Southern United States to the Midwest, Northeast and West from approximately 1915 to 1970. (reviews, table of contents). Videos.

Stuff You Missed in History Class (audio).

Frederick Douglass Graphic novel by comic book writer and filmmaker David F. Walker Audio interview.

A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki *** McH Stack (3 copies) E184.A1T335 1993.

Ta-Nehisi Coates is a national correspondent at The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues. He is the author of The Beautiful Struggle and Between the World and Me won awards, including the Genius grant. Created a stir with: The Case for Reparations pdf; here he reflects back on it: The Case for Reparations: An Intellectual Autopsy on which he has done several talks and interviews.

BookTV is C-SPAN's often in-depth video interviews of non-fiction writers. Examples: Gates, Henry Louis Colored People ; Joseph Peniele Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America. "The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World." audio interview. Working in the White House.

"Gateway to Freedom": Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Eric Foner examines the efforts of free blacks and white abolitionists to secure freedom for fugitive slaves during the mid-19th century. The author recounts the development of the New York Vigilance Committee in 1835 as protection against slave kidnappings that occurred in New York City. BookTV video.

"A Chosen Exile": Allyson Hobbs, assistant history professor at Stanford University, examines the lives of African Americans who chose to pass as white between the 18th and mid-20th centuries

Madame CJ Walker, cosmetics pioneer.

Draft of modern American institutions linked to slavery.

Late Victorian Holocausts By Mike Davis.

The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World (New Press People's History) by Vijay Prashad.

Sugar: A Bittersweet History by Elizabeth Abbott (more recent and popular) Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History, Sidney W. Mintz (more scholarly).

Black Panther party grew out of Oakland (audio interview), (new book), but UCSC had significant involvement. BLACK POWER MIXTAPE BY GORAN OLSSON (Book and video documentary). video panel discussion.

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution is the first feature-length documentary to shed light on the Black Panther Party — and all its reviled, adored, misunderstood, and mythologized history. *** PBS 2016.

Black writers. Great Minds of the Harlem Renaissance Jeffrey Stewart and MaryLouise Patterson talked about Harlem Renaissance writers Alain Locke and Langston Hughes (video).

"Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons:(video) Sylviane Diouf presents a history of people who escaped slavery and created self-sufficient communities in desolate regions of the South.

The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America] by Gerald Horne.

Sven Beckert Empire of Cotton: A Global History, about the origins of the global cotton trade and its impact on the international economy (video). 2/15. book link, Slate review. Magazine article.

Ella Baker, who mentored Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and helped shape the Civil Rights Movement.

Martin Luther King Tavis Smiley talked about his life and career, as well as his books, which include Death of a King: the Real Story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Final Year. extensive video interview. See also Dr Cornel West discusses his book, "The Radical King(book) (video)." Democracy Now 1/15/18 (audio); Clayborne Carson Stanford archives (audio interview, 2nd 1/2). 1/18 New Documentary on final 3 years: “King in the Wilderness,” video interview. on 50th anniverary of his assassination West warns against the Santy-Claus version. 3/18.

Portuguese Slave Traders Were No Match for Angolan Queen Nzinga Mbandi 6/16.

Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Raceby Margot L Shetterly 2016. See also Rocket Girls. extensive video interview.

Worth a Dozen Men Libra Hilde talked about the role played by Southern female nurses during the Civil War and how the Confederacy relied on their labor. In her book, Ms. Hilde shares how this created a new awareness of a woman’s place in public life and led to your high school text telling the the war was about state's rights, not slavery video talk.

Latinos

Latin American & Latino Studies

African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically-charged narrative describing the intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights. Ortiz challenges the notion of westward progress, and shows how placing African American, Latinx, and Indigenous voices unapologetically front and center transforms American history into the story of the working class organizing against imperialism. Paul Ortiz, beloved former UCSC professor, is now an associate professor and the director of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida. Audio interview, audio, Video talk. ***

Gabby Rivera spoke at UCSC 2/18 is currently writing the plot for America Chavez — the first Latinx and queer Marvel superhero.

'Latino Americans,' a Six-Hour PBS Documentary, includes labor leader and 2012 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Dolores Huerta, who in the 1960s co-founded with César Chávez the National Farm Workers Association, which later became United Farm Workers of America (she has spoken at UCSC); - NYTimes review.

"THEY TAKE OUR JOBS!" And 20 Other Myths about Immigration, Author: Aviva Chomsky.

Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (in Spanish: Las Venas Abiertas de América Latina) is a book written by Uruguayan journalist, writer and poet Eduardo Galeano, and published in 1971. video interview. See Latin America [ Dynamic map.

Ilan Stavans talked about his book A Most Imperfect Union: A Contrarian History of the United States. BookTV video.

Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America (Book) McH E184.S75 G655 2000 . By Juan Gonzalez. 2011. 416 pages. DVD DVD9539 in McHenry Media Ctr (bottom floor). review also video interview.

THE CRUSADES OF CESAR CHAVEZ BY MIRIAM PAWEL (author video).Miriam Pawel, The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography, BookTV video.

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States (video interview). Order via ILL.

NAFTA effect on worker safety in Mexico. Overall effect (video) 12/13 20th anniversary report (which could have lessons for current TPP). NAFTA sparked Zapatista uprising in Mexico.

Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City By Greg Grandin. (Includes excerpt and audio interview with author).

Nao Bustamante on 'Soldaderas' - The Women Soldiers of the Mexican Revolution - video Excerpt. Uprising radio 05/11/2015.

Laura Garciacano Sobrino, 'Mariachi Queen' a Porter College graduate became the first woman to play in some of the nation's most prestigious mariachi groups.

Frida Kahlo’s Illustrious Life, Illustrated tempestuous but gnerative relationship with muralist Diego Rivera.

Women

(see also Green contemporary women) UCSC Women's Studies dept.

Suffrage in rogue/sandbox. New movie features Emily Davison suicide).

Making the Modern World list.

UCSC Library Research Guide Cruzcat book search, women in history, Women biography US, Political activity also by century.

National Women's History Museum ***

The National Women's Hall of Fame is an American institution created in 1969 by a group of people in Seneca Falls, New York, the location of the 1848 Women's Rights Convention.

National Women's History Project.

America's Jewish Women Pamela Nadell, director of Jewish Studies at American University, profiled Jewish women in social and political movements throughout American history. 4/19 video.

Podcasts:

Stuff You Missed in History Class (podcasts) ***

The History Chicks.

She Caused a Riot: (book) Hannah Jewell profiles 100 women throughout history who she reports have not been properly acknowledged for their accomplishments. video), excerpt 4/18.

Rejected Princesses: Each week, former DreamWorks animator Jason Porath adds a new illustration and write-up about a woman who is, as the blog says, "too awesome, awful or offbeat for kids' movies." (article).

American Women extensive blog.

Ladies Last: 8 Inventions by Women That Dudes Got Credit For From computer programming to nuclear fission to the paper bag machine, it's time to stop erasing these women from their great works.

Emma Watson’s alter ego Hermione Granger would doubtless approve of her HeForShe campaign.

Stuff Mom Never Told You (fun audio). See Audio on main page, including The History Chicks and Stuff You Missed in History Class.

Women strikers occupy chain store, win big : the 1937 Woolworth's sit-down / Dana Frank UCSC. Haymarket Books, 2012 McH Stacks HD5325.M392 1937 F73 2012.

BookTV is C-SPAN's often in-depth video interviews of non-fiction writers. Examples: Faludi, Susan Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women. Collins, Gail America’s Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates and Heroines. Helen Keller, Carrie Nation (Prohibition). Reading Lolita in Tehran. Lynn Sherr, "Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space". Mrs Sherlock Holmes; Gail Collins When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present.

Science and Technology (uber1 sandbox): Nathalia Holt: Rise of the Rocket Girls chronicles an elite group of women’s contributions to rocket design, space exploration, and the first American satellite. Dava Sobel's book, The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars, about women who worked for the Harvard College Observatory, studying glass photographs of the stars. They developed a system to classify and measure stars that is still in use today. Ms. Sobel is the author of many other books, including The Planets and Galileo’s Daughter. See also Hidden Figures, now a fine movie.

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy. (video interview)

Ten Historic Female Scientists You Should Know gallery 3/18.

Women in War (video panel): The Hello Girls: America’s First Women Soldiers, Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II and The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women. 3/18.

Mothers of Invention ucsc: NRLF Storage T36.V36 1988 c.2 Request Item Via Melvyl (index) Mothers of Invention: From the Bra to the Bomb : Forgotten Women and Their Unforgettable Ideas 1989 by Ethlie Ann Vare & Greg Ptacek 30 pp excerpt.

Patently Female: From AZT to TV Dinners, Stories of Women Inventors and Their Breakthrough Ideas Ethlie Ann Vare.Internet Archive.

Life in Code by Software engineer Ellen Ullman video author of the seminal Close to the Machine.

Rachel Ignotofsky celebrates in Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World (public library) 7/16.

Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt (see related books on women in sci and technology).

All-Around Feminist Badass Nellie Bly.

Notorious RBG.

Herstory : women who changed the world Author: Ruth Ashby; Deborah Gore Ohrn. New York : Viking, 1995. (order via ILL).

The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution 2014 by Walter Isaacson (also bios on Franklin and Jobs). He dispels lone genius myth, highly recommended *** NYT review, video interview, plus extended interview on all his books, role of women in computers, especially Ada Lovelace (See also How We Got to Now).

Rad American Women A-Z, asks “American history is filled with stories of brave and powerful men, but have you ever wondered where the women are?” So begins a new book by UCSC humanities alumna Kate Schatz, the first children’s book in legendary Beat haven the City Lights’ 60-year history. It includes many bold, visionary women whose names and achievements will be recognized by many, including tennis star Billie Jean King, farmworker activist Dolores Huerta, comedian Carol Burnett, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, rock singer/poet Patti Smith, and author Ursula LeGuin, but also Ella Baker, who mentored Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and helped shape the Civil Rights Movement. (full list).Rad Women Worldwide--the follow-up to UC Santa Cruz alumna Kate Schatz’s New York Times bestselling book Rad American Women A-Z—is a showcase of extraordinary women from 31 countries around the world.Rad Girls Can 7/18.

Portuguese Slave Traders Were No Match for Angolan Queen Nzinga Mbandi See also India 6/16.

I Shall Be Near To You is a novel by Erin Lindsay McCabe about the 200 women who fought in the US Civil War disguised as men, based on her research paper at UCSC.

Herstory : a record of the American woman's past. Author June Sochen (ILL, online?).

Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts (written for young people, but good for ideas for topics?) McHenry E176 .R63 2004 video talks. Followup Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868, funny video talk.

Facebook’s former employee, Katherine Losse The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network, reveals how Facebook as a company was highly sexist. vs Geek Girl Rising Co-authors Heather Cabot and Sam Walravens talked about their book, Geek Girl Rising: Inside the Sisterhood Shaking Up Tech, about the women who are changing the technology industry.5/17. Brotopia: Emily Chang described the culture in Silicon Valley for women 2/18.

Professor Najwa Raouda's book, The Feminine Voice of Islam: Muslim Women in America.

Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer who envisioned it could be more than a calculator is featured in the Innovators, How We Got to Now, as well as a graphic novel, (Amazon), by Sydney Padua which sort of accidentally grew out of her blog; (audio interview) 4/20/15. See 2/15 CHM.org interview (PBS video). Google author talk (video).

Sheila Rowbotham, Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century Verso, 2010audio interview.

A Social History of American Technology by Ruth Schwartz Cowan (also More Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household Technology From the Open Hearth to the Microwave).

Worth a Dozen Men Libra Hilde talked about the role played by Southern female nurses during the Civil War and how the Confederacy relied on their labor. In her book, Ms. Hilde shares how this created a new awareness of a woman’s place in public life and led to your high school text telling the the war was about state's rights, not slavery video talk.

The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future by Riane Eisler looks at how gender has structured culture of domination. Her new book rethinks the economy: The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics Link.

Wright Sister

Religion

Jewish

UCSC Library resources

Library of Congress e.g., American Colony in Jerusalem

Raoul Wallenberg

"The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words 1000 BC - 1492 AD" Historian Simon Schama presents a 3000-year history of the Jewish people. (video).

The Long Quest to Find Ashkenaz, the Birthplace of Yiddish Its location has long been debated, now thought to be on Silk Road.

America's Jewish Women Pamela Nadell, director of Jewish Studies at American University, profiled Jewish women in social and political movements throughout American history. 4/19 video. Includes Emma Lazarus.

Islam

Audio overview Fascinating Facets of History; The Torch: The Great Courses Podcast

Persepolis is an autobiographical graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi depicting her childhood up to her early adult years in Iran during and after the Islamic revolution. Persepolis has been adapted into an animated film.

Professor Najwa Raouda's book, The Feminine Voice of Islam: Muslim Women in America. BookTV.

Reading Lolita in Tehran.

Hassan Hassan, "ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror" BookTV.

Time Mag 2001.

European

The Immortal Irishman Timothy Egan talked about his book The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero, in which he recalls the life of Irish-born Thomas Francis Meagher, who led two revolts against Britain and served as a general in the American Civil War. His other historical books video iinterview.

TransAtlantic is McCann’s stunning sixth novel is a brilliant tribute to his loamy, lyrical and complicated Irish homeland, and an ode to the ties that, across time and space, bind Ireland and America. The book begins with three transatlantic crossings, each a novella within a novel: Frederick Douglas’s 1845 visit to Ireland; the 1919 flight of British aviators Alcock and Brown; and former US senator George Mitchell’s 1998 attempt to mediate peace in Northern Ireland. McCann then loops back to 1863 to launch the saga of the women.

How the Irish Became White Noel Ignatiev review

Counterfactual

Definition, Wikipedia

Almost History also video talk.

Virtual History: Alternatives And Counterfactuals Niall Ferguson McH Stacks D210 .V57 1999 (mult. copies?).

The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick (also a TV series). video interview on Henry Wallace, almost president, who would not have dropped Atomic Bomb. summary and links. Extensive video interview with transcript. Spanish Civil War (video) prelude to WWII.

Literary Alternative History:

Steampunk: The Difference Engine; not terribly serious The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer is a steampunk graphic novel written and drawn by Sydney Padua. It features Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage in an alternate universe where they have successfully built an analytical engine and use it to "fight crime".

Man in the High Castle sci-fi Nazi America. It Can't Happen Here is a semi-satirical 1935 political novel by American author Sinclair Lewis. Published during the rise of fascism in Europe, the novel describes the rise of Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, a populist United States Senator who is elected to the Presidency after promising drastic economic and social reforms while promoting a return to patriotism and traditional values.

Possible topics:

What if Allende survived (killed by Pinochet, got the Internet first?

Right-wing coup in America

Upton Sinclair Socialist governor of California during the Great Depression? "Upton Sinclair: California Socialist, Celebrity Intellectual" video interview with author Lauren Coodley (see also "Land of Orange Groves and Jails: Upton Sinclair's California"). Radical Innocent: Upton Sinclair by Anthony Arthur.

Future History

See also Technology, above

LongNow Imagining the Future LongNow Foundation, is building a 10K year clock and bringing back extinct species (with UCSC folk). Adrian Hon, A History of the Future in 100 Objects. LongNow Seminars (Google Play) sample Mann on Green Revolution, Silk Roads, Time Travel by James Gleick.

The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth” by the theoretical physicist Michio Kaku looks at the next steps for humans towards a number of scientific frontiers. He considers new ideas in astrophysics, AI, and other tech and proposes how exactly human can finally move away from Earth and develop a sustainable civilization among the stars.

2016: A LOOK INTO THE FUTURE – INFOGRAPHIC.

video talk 7/16. We’re at just the beginning of the beginning of the digital world for humanity, says Kevin Kelly. But some deep trends have already emerged that can reliably be conjured with and braced for. Kelly calls them inevitable. The internet was inevitable, he says, but Wikipedia was not. Smart phones were inevitable, the iPhone not. The twelve deepest trends he lables: Becoming; Cognifying; Flowing; Screening; Accessing; Sharing; Filtering; Remixing; Interacting; Tracking; Questioning; and Beginning. Kevin Kelly is the author of Out of Control, New Rules for the New Economy, Cool Tools, What Technology Wants, and now, The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future. He is one of the founding board members of The Long Now Foundation.

BigThink videos on technology, including genomics.

WSJ’s Future of Everything includes podcast 5/18.

Global Warming is already having effects and will no doubt have bigger effects in the future, for example food supply. Dynamic visual map of players and issues.

The Genetic Revolution will make the Industrial and even Digital look lame: CRISPR is a method for genetic manipulation that is rewriting the way we change DNA. Scientists say they’ll someday be able to use CRISPR to fight cancer and maybe even bring animals back from the dead. (RadioLab rocks)*** UC Berkeley Professor Jennifer Doudna, one of the first pioneers of CRISPR Time 100. RadioLab 2/16 So-Called life includes Craig Venter.

Steven Johnson (“How We Got To Now”) hosts American Innovations which uses immersive scenes to tell the stories of the scientists, engineers, and ordinary people behind the greatest discoveries of the past century. 5/18. DNA

UCSC is on the bleeding edge (all hail Jim Kent) Dynamic map of GMO players Neo, take the red pill and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember: all I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more. GMO's.

Virtual reality/video games see for example Jaron Lanier and Will Wright. UCSC library has collection and a program.

Paul Saffo formerly of the Institute for the Future, The Creator Economy.

TEDtalks.

Big Data / Privacy

Dynamic maps: online privacy and Big Data.

Shoshana Zuboff, author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, talked about the growing business of collecting and selling consumer datavideo interview 2/19.

Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe Roger Mcnamee, The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age Tim Wu Video panel discussion 2/19 also Artificial Unintelligence Broussard.

Here’s What Google and Facebook Know About You—And What You Can Do About It: Both companies keep treasure troves of deeply personal data on users. 3/18.

Panel Discussion on Big Data Panelists included Cathy O’Neil, author of Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, and Tim Wu, author of The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads. 9/17. BookTV video (see also We are Data.

The CIA Document Dump Isn't Exactly Snowden 2.0. Here's Why hijacking devices to spy 3/17.

Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier, Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. (video). (review).

Tim Wu talked about his book The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads, in which he examines the history of advertising and how marketers are vying for attention over a variety of mediums from billboards to social media.(video). see Public Relations.

"Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance" by Julia Angwin(video talk).

United States of Secrets (Part One): The Program .Part Two: Privacy Lost see also Top Secret America includes UC alum Dana Priest. PBS Frontline video documentary 5/14.

Artificial Intelligence AI / Robotics

Sex robots are here, but laws aren’t keeping up with the ethical and privacy issues they raise 2/19.

Are jobs obsolete? By Douglas Rushkoff.

In the era of A.I. and automation, what job skills do you need most? bu Michio Kaku, Theoretical Physicist, Author, and Science Educator 7/18. (video 5 min).

Future Presence Peter Rubin of Wired Magazine reported on virtual reality and the impact it will have on entertainment, work, and even human emotions and interaction. 5/18. BookTV video.

Designing Reality Neil Gershenfeld, Alan Gershenfeld, and Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld discussed what they call the “third digital revolution,” an increase of digital fabrication. (Booktv video) 1/18.

BigThink technology has much on AI e.g., Dawkins 9/17.

This Visionary Sci-Fi Author Sees the Destruction of Human Civilization: Predatory Capitalism; Ted Chiang examines how Silicon Valley has become its own worst nightmare. 12/17. see Sci-Fi.

Robot Proof Northeastern University president Joseph Aoun talked about his book Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, in which he argues for the need for better and continuous education to keep up with changing technology.9/17 video talk, (text Interview). UCSC owns. pm somewhat cryptic summary notes)

Robot-Proof: As co-authors Morton Schapiro and Gary Saul Morson argue in their new book, "Cents and Sensibility," an education in humanities may provide the greatest form of job security in an increasingly automated world. excerpts, 3/18

Life 3.0 Professor Max Tegmark talked about his book Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, in which he examines the concept of intelligence and what questions should be asked in light of the advancement of artificial intelligence. 9/17.

AI Won't Takeover the World, and What Our Fears of the Robopocalypse Reveal Pinker 8/16.

JOHN MARKOFF is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who covers science and technology for The New York Times. His most recent book is the forthcoming Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots. (audio interview).

Morgan Spurlock Inside Man: Big Data excerpt. Morgan Spurlock enters the brave new world of extreme life extension, embarking on a life-prolonging regimen and trying everything from genome hacking, to creating an avatar and uploading his consciousness in preparation for the "Technological Singularity." Spurlock's quest to live forever includes visits with radical futurist Ray Kurzweil, Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab, and Cambrian Genomics in San Francisco.

TEDtalk Andrew McAfee: Are droids taking our jobs? 6/12.update.

Erik Brynjolfsson & Andrew McAfee: The Second Machine Age video talk).

Geek Heresy Kentaro Toyama, co-founder of Microsoft Research India, argues that while it is widely accepted that we can find technological solutions to the world’s most troubling social and economic problems, technology is never the main driver of progress. BookTV video 1/16.

"Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era" James Barrat is a more pessimistic version.video talk.

Raw Deal (video). Steven Hill on his book Raw Deal: How the “Uber Economy” and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers, in which he examines the shift in the U.S. workforce with the rise of companies such as Uber and Airbnb and the impact of automation, robots and artificial intelligence on the labor market. 

PEOPLE GET READY: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy by Robert W. McChesney, John Nichols 30 min video (4/16); (90 min 3/16); 90 min New School; 4/16 audio interview ***. BookTV.

The End of Work Economist John Tamny offered his thoughts on America’s future job market. 7/18 nor reviewed, BookTV.

Robert B. Reich: Technological Change and the Inevitability of Unconditional Basic Income 2016. The Robert Reich – Jacob Kornbluth film Inequality for All won a U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award. see Economics.

Ramesh Srinivasan, a UCLA Information Studies professor, has a new book Whose Global Village? Rethinking How Technology Shapes Our World.audio interviewalt link, critiques Ggl and FB, includes indigenous ppl, (tho I for one welcome our new corporate overlords). New book: After the Internet, video interview 11/17.

Talking to Machines This hour of Radiolab, Jad and Robert meet humans and robots who are trying to connect, and blur the line.(audio)

Jaron Lanier *** Who Owns the Future?video interview). full length video talk. See also Flash Boys(on how traders are gaming the stock market). Older Lanier TEDtalk: You Are Not A Gadget. Smithsonian Mag 2013. The Internet destroyed the middle class 2013. “Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters With Reality and Virtual Reality 2017 review, video interview pt 1 of 2. Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now (video) 2018 book, NYT review.

Nanotechnology video overview(2007); Nano-technology scales up Nano-technology(book and author video interview).

Social Networks: one of the smartest and long-standing researchers on digital technology is Sherry Turkle at MIT, the US #1 technology school. Professor Turkle's most recent book is Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other (review); 2012 TEDtalk; (video interview); extensive talk @ Google. Emotional Fantasy: AI Can Pretend to Love Us, but Should We Love It Back? (video). Smart phone: Psychologist Jean Twenge on How the Smartphone Has Shaped a Generation audio 9/17.

Generation Like includes greatMerchants of Cool correspondent Douglas Rushkoff. PBS Frontline video documentary.

Adrian Hon, CEO and founder at Six to Start, co-creators of the most successful smartphone fitness game in the world, Zombies, Run! He's won plenty of awards for our game-like stories and storylike games, and our work’s been displayed at the MOMA and Design Museum. A History of the Future in 100 Objects LongNow talk.

Moral Robots for the Pentagon?. MAJORITY JOIN MUSK AND HAWKING IN CALL TO BAN AUTONOMOUS WEAPONS 1/16.

So You Want to Change the World? Better Read This First alt link uses systemic thinking about the future.

Prof. George Michael talked about his book Preparing for Contact, in which he investigates the possibility of extraterrestrial life existing in the universe (video).

Scientists Are Trying to Grow Human Organs Inside of Pigs 6/16.

The Professor and the Madman,is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary -- and literary history. By Simon Winchester who has written many popular works on history, including The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology – the work of geologist William Smith and Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers.

The Seventh Sense Joshua Cooper Ramo video discussion (with Malcolm Gladwell) Endless terror. Refugee waves. An unfixable global economy. Surprising election results. New billion-dollar fortunes. Miracle medical advances. What if they were all connected? See Networks page 2016.

Cyborg / implants / Brains

Why Thousands of Swedes are Inserting Microchips into Themselves: The factors behind why roughly 3,500 Swedes have had microchips implanted in them are more complex than you might expect. 7/18.

It’s On! The Race to Wire the Brain: Bryan Johnson is convinced that human intelligence needs an upgrade. So he’s putting up $100 million to make it happen. 4/17

ELON MUSK JUST LAUNCHED A COMPANY TO MERGE YOUR BRAIN WITH A COMPUTER 3/17.

Sex robots are here, but laws aren’t keeping up with the ethical and privacy issues they raise 2/19.