Digital Collections

The War Within: Dissent During Crisis in America  (online exhibit)

The War Within: Dissent During Crisis in America examined issues of war, peace, dissent and dialogue during critical periods in the 20th century when free speech and civil liberties were threatened. The exhibit explored the Japanese internment during World War II; conscientious objectors, also during World War II; student protests during the Vietnam War; and McCarthyism during the Cold War.

The exhibit was curated by Steve MacLeod, Public Services Coordinator for the Libraries' Special Collections and Archives. The opening event was held on May 31, 2006, and was co-sponsored by the UCI Difficult Dialogues Project.

SEAAdoc: Documenting the Southeast Asian American Experience

SEAAdoc is an educational resource of the Southeast Asian Archive at the UC Irvine Libraries focusing on post-1975 refugees and immigrants from Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam and the communities they have developed in the United States. It contains 1,500 visual images and 4,000 pages of searchable text selected from the Archive to represent a cross section of our holdings. SEAAdoc documents the exodus of Southeast Asian refugees and immigrants from their homelands, their experiences in Asian refugee camps, and subsequent resettlement in the United States. Other materials reveal cultural, economic, educational, political, and social aspects of the new Southeast Asian American communities that have developed, and continue to grow, in the United States.

Anteater Chronicles: A UC Irvine Story

This website is a service of the University Archives in the UCI Libraries presenting topics in UCI history, as well as databases of campus buildings, founding faculty, significant events, Olympic athletes, and more.

The Quest for Peace Interviews, 1983-1989

The Quest for Peace Interviews 1983-1989" are collections of half-hour interviews with a wide range of world-renowned experts such as Condoleezza Rice, Norman Cousins, John Kenneth Galbraith and Julian Bond on the pursuit of lasting world peace in a nuclear age. These interviews were conducted between 1983-1989 by UCI Prof. John M. Whiteley and were broadcast throughout the country on cable and public access stations.