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California Council for the Humanities Imperial Valley: America only more? Check out William Vollman's new book on an often overlooked corner of our state.

Source: www.latimes.com
William T Vollmann, who has just published "Imperial," his latest book, near his home in Sacramento, California. (Robert Durell / For The Times)
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California Council for the Humanities recommends watching "The Botany of Desire" on PBS tonight at 8pm. Based on California thinker Michael Pollan's book. Bet you will remember this film longer than you remember who wins tonight's World Series game...

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California Council for the Humanities Time Magazine declares the California Dream alive and well.

Source: www.time.com
The Golden State has fought the status quo since its birth 160 years ago. But even amid a particularly rough chapter in the state's history, the nation's future is being written in California. A special report
Tom Merle
Tom Merle
Thanks for posting this. Much to chew on.
October 26 at 6:10pm
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California Council for the Humanities congratulates Kevin Nelson and Heyday Books on helping us understand the facination with cars.

Source: www.heydaybooks.com
California is often seen as the land of freeways and bumper-to-bumper traffic, but the story of the state's long, enthusiastic involvement with the car has not been told. In Wheels of Change, historian ...
Tom Merle
Tom Merle
Have organized a gathering for my culture group to attend the SF program http://www.meetup.com/Culture-Places/calendar/11710814/. This facebook page is becoming an excellent resource for humanities related events in the Bay Area, as well as for pertinent publications and articles.
October 26 at 6:18pm
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California Council for the Humanities asks if you could talk with anyone in the world about Abraham Lincoln and his relevance today, who would that be?

October 21 at 10:34am
Ellen Martin
Ellen Martin
i would talk to the youth in our migrant farming community who are enrolled in the FNM art classes! I am from Spfld Ill- land of Lincoln and he is my favorite historical figure of all time
October 21 at 12:07pm
Charlene
Charlene
I would like to know what President Obama thinks about Lincoln's relevance and his influence on his political thinking.
October 21 at 7:34pm
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California Council for the Humanities asks who would you like to hear speak about innovation? The Council has been asked for names of speakers for an upcoming conference.

October 20 at 1:30pm
Charlene
Charlene
Some of the Council's grantees have been wonderfully innovative and would make great speakers.
October 21 at 7:36pm
Rene Yung
Rene Yung
There's a lot of innovation in the "commercial" industrial design world that the arts and humanities helped nourish and it would be a great cross-pollination (or is that in-breeding?) to come full circle. The folks at IDEO market Innovation with a capital "I" to an enormous range of corporate America (yes there is range there) in fascinating ways--CEO Tim Brown is a dynamic speaker, co-founders Bill Moggeridge and Dave Kelly have keen insights.
October 24 at 11:22pm
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California Council for the Humanities congratulates Rebecca Solnit, advisor to many Council supported projects, on her new book "A Paradise Built in Hell"

Source: www.sfgate.com
Through the incessantly open eye of television and the Internet, we all have zoom-lens viewpoints for spectacles of human suffering and devastation. In the still-new 21st century, the horrors of 9/11, ...
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California Council for the Humanities Council supported film gets national PBS broadcast on Friday, Oct 16th. "Going on 13" is a documentary about what it means to be a girl and 13. Go to the link below for info on when in screens in your area. Pass it on.

Source: www.goingon13.com
To view all the features of this site, please update your Flash player. the film the girls director's statement outreach team credits partners screenings four rooms press blog
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California Council for the Humanities received 155 applications, the most in its history, for the California Documentary Project awards for film, radio and web projects. Wouldn't it be great if we had more money to support these worthy projects?

October 13 at 11:27am
Ralph Lewin
Ralph Lewin
Each project is deeply informed by the humanities. Humanities scholars from all the disciplines you name and those you do not, representing the best of scholarship, are integral to each of the documentary projects the Council supports.
October 14 at 10:08am
Tom Merle
Tom Merle
Yes, I read the boilerplate on the forms. We'll have lunch, Ralph, and you can convince me there is a reality and not just window dressing behind the words. It's hard for me to believe that a disinterested humanist would look at your recent funding decisions and not just see ideological muckraking and feel good sentimentality.
October 14 at 2:08pm
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California Council for the Humanities urges you to ask your local library or school to apply for this free set of books and media - including Ken Burns' Civil War series. Thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities for this program. Did we mention it's free?
Please share! http://publicprograms.ala.org/bookshelf/

Source: publicprograms.ala.org
The We the People Bookshelf, a collection of classic books for young readers, is a project of the National Endowment for the Humanities’ (NEH) We the People program, conducted in cooperation with the American Library Association (ALA) Public Programs Office.
J Michael Walker
October 8 at 7:43am
Michele Schlemmer
Michele Schlemmer
This is great!
October 8 at 8:00am
Tom Merle
Tom Merle
The books don't seem to join the issue of diversity within unity. The war between the states is remote both in time and content, though a good dialogue could occur on the role of a national government vs. states' rights vs. individual liberty, making sure that the merits of the various perspectives are presented. The humanities should teach the capacity to understand politically incorrect viewpoints.
October 8 at 10:20am
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California Council for the Humanities recommends you become a fan of the Humanities at Stanford.

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California Council for the Humanities suggests checking out the L.A. Archives Bazaar on October 17th at USC. A great way to celebrate Arts and Humanities month.

Source: www.latimes.com
Protesters gather outside the Black Cat bar, in Silver Lake, on Feb. 11, 1967, following a January police raid that targeted the bar's gay patrons. (ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives)
Tom Merle
Tom Merle
These sort of historical collections of data have very little to do with the humanities, but they sure are easy to assemble. Because times were different they fail to shed light on issues of today, unless we seek patterns with contemporary implications which are few and usually overdrawn. They are strictly archival. An event becomes humanistic when it is crafted into an artistic expression relating to our issues.

So, for example, there are the Salem witch trials and then there is Arthur Miller's The Crucible wherein we see dramatically portrayed connections to the overreaching of government during the McCarthy years.

It's easy to assemble the ingredients to make a souffle, but something else to bring it off. ... Read More

The term humanities is not a synonym for historical informatoin and it certainly doesn't just encompass heritage. You could of course change your name to the Council for California's Heritage.
October 6 at 8:49am
Jill
Jill
Wow. A treatise on what gives the humanities their import. It's not that I don't agree with the basic premise, but the rub is that the public humanities provide a bridge from the academic to the "public." Sometimes the ingredients of the souffle are a worthy start to building that bridge.
October 6 at 9:02am
Tom Merle
Tom Merle
Yes, let's build bridges so the public can cross over into insight and meaning. But such bridges have to offer destinations on the other side that the public wants to visit in these challenging times.
October 6 at 10:36am
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California Council for the Humanities The California Council for the Humanities welcomes Jim Leach, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, to California.

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Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you take with a cameraphone.
David Crosson
David Crosson
Sorry I didn't know about this in advance. Jim was a good friend when he was in Congress & I directed the State Historical Society of Iowa. His wife, Deba, actually was the second employee of the Iowa State Historic Preservation Office in the 1960s.
October 6 at 3:05pm
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California Council for the Humanities President Barack Obama honors the Arts and Humanities.

Source: www.whitehouse.gov
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Tom Merle
Tom Merle
Thanks for posting this proclamation. Though it contains many uplifting sentiments, it tends to limit its emphasis to creativity--to the arts side of the duo. One of the core functions of the humanities is criticism/critical thinking, being able to sort out meaning from data and from expression.

Is the Council observing the month with any special activity or activities?
October 5 at 11:00am
California Council for the Humanities
California Council for the Humanities
There are many activities that we're involved with during the month and we will be posting them on FB.
October 6 at 8:14am
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California Council for the Humanities The filmmaker told us that the Chandlers are the California version of the Kennedys and fundamentally shaped Los Angeles. Check out this fascinating story Monday night, Oct. 5th at 9pm on PBS nationally. The California Council for the Humanities is a proud supporter. Please tell your friends!

Source: www.pbs.org
“Inventing LA” chronicles the epic saga of the most powerful family in Los Angeles history: the Chandlers. For four generations, they wielded unique influence through their newspaper, the Los Angeles Times. ...
Tom Merle
Tom Merle
It will be interesting to see if he brings a journalist's or historian's assessment to bear or an ideologue's hatchet.
October 2 at 12:46pm