World-renowned writer and Bay Area literary icon Amy Tan is now a part of the Bancroft Library archive. A Bay Area native and critically acclaimed writer, Tan is best known for capturing the ...

Kim Bancroft's "roots" journey took her back four generations, back to an ancestor whose career was intimately tied to the early history of California. Bancroft's great-great-grandfather was Hubert ...

As students reenter UC Berkeley’s hallowed libraries, controversial legacies remain; regardless of the push to rename Bancroft Library over two years ago, campus will retain the name despite ...

UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library is a place where papyrus from ancient Egypt, pamphlets from the 1964 Free Speech Movement and photographs of the Gold Rush can all be found under one roof. Now it's also ...