Humanities Institutions
California
Council for the Humanities
The California Council for the Humanities is the only
organization that creates, sponsors, and promotes humanities programs for the general
public in every region of the state. For 25 years, CCH has sponsored and created projects
and programs that enable Californians to hear, see, feel, and think through the realities
of other people, times, and places.
California Humanities Network
The California Humanities Network is comprised of
individuals, organizations, and associations who provide public programs that bring
Californians together to engage the history, literature, and issues that shape our lives,
our communities, and our state. The members of the Network include museums, libraries,
public radio, public television, academic institutions, humanities scholars and culture
bearers, community based organizations, and independent producers of film and radio
programs.
Research Organizations
California
Historical Society
The California Historical Society, the State's official
historical society, is a non-profit educational institution committed to serving the
public at large. Knowledge of the past enables people to understand the present and to
make informed decisions that will affect the future. The mission of the Society is to
ensure that the history of California and the west is kept alive and made accessible for
the enlightenment of everyone. To fulfill this mission, the organization is a resource for
people who seek to know about California's past: the Society preserves, collects,
interprets, publishes and exhibits materials about the history of California and the west.
California Studies Association
The California Studies Association (CSA) is an independent
organization, dedicated to the exchange of ideas about California, the promotion of an
integrated understanding of California as a region, and to creating a public discourse on
the future of this richly textured state.
Museums & Research Centers
California Studies Center at UC Berkeley
The California Studies Center has been established at the
University of California, Berkeley, in order to advance scholarly research on the past and
present of the State of California.
Oakland
Museum of California
The Oakland Museum of California provides unique
collections, exhibitions and educational opportunities designed to generate a broader and
deeper understanding of and interest in California's environment, history, art and people.
Libraries
California
State Library
The State Library is California's public research library
that helps a diverse people, their governments, and their libraries meet their knowledge
and information needs. The Library carries out this mission by helping people directly, by
helping the libraries that serve them and by advocating a public policy that encourages
access to information and library materials.
California
Digital Library
The California Digital Library provides access to many
information resources for locating or gaining direct access to scholarly materials in both
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