Category Archives: Bay Area
New Master of Arts in Urban Affairs in San Francisco
California Studies folks: There’s a great new MA program starting this fall at the University of San Francisco. Although the priority deadline has passed, USF is still recruiting for students to join the inaugural cohort; admissions will be rolling … Continue reading
Web resource on Berkeley historical landmarks and subjects
The Berkeley Historical Plaque Project has produced over 100 actual and virtual markers of this city’s rich culture. It’s a great example of using the Web to share history and geographical content. Subjects include a huge range - fitness guru … Continue reading
Wherever There’s a Fight!
San Francisco is rich in civil rights history – but you may have walked past certain street corners many times and not realized that battles were fought there for labor rights, lesbian and gay equality, freedom of expression, disability rights … Continue reading
Recent California books on community graphic art
These three titles each provide ample evidence that graphic artists of the American West, and especially the San Francisco Bay Area, have been passionate social antennae adept at revealing early on social issues that presage national and even international ones. … Continue reading
New book on California’s coast
Richmond author and environmental activist Dave Helvarg will release his newest title from St. Martin’s Press, The Golden Shore – California’s Love Affair with the Sea, February 19th. He’ll be doing book tours up and down the state, look for … Continue reading
Oakland photographer Cathy Cade – images of Occupy
An online photo display from Occupy Oakland 2011 and 2012. Cathy has been documenting peoples’ history for decades, and brings an experienced eye to a new movement. [LMC]
New Free Speech Movement photos
It’s hard to believe that history hasn’t been picked clean as years go by, but as an archivist I’m always amazed about new content that surfaces. Check out these color images taken during the confrontations at Sproul Hall in 1964, … Continue reading
Public talk – FBI, Mario Savio, Reagan, and Clark Kerr
Bay Area investigative journalist Seth Rosenfeld’s long-awaited and controversial book Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power is now out. Please come to a public presentation with the author and fellow traveller journalist Lowell Bergman … Continue reading
Civil Liberties in SF
For those of you in the SF Bay Area, this is an event you won’t want to miss! It’s FREE and open to the public! Civil Liberties in San Francisco with Stan Yogi and Elaine Elinson Wednesday, July 11, 2012, … Continue reading
San Francisco’s Own Rosa Parks
In honor of Martin Luther King Day, CSA Steering Committee member Elaine Elinson writes about Charlotte Brown, a young African American woman who challenged the color bar on San Francisco streetcars while the Civil War was still raging and news … Continue reading
Artwork honors California geographer
Michele Pred, daughter of the late UC Berkeley geography professor Allan Pred, has installed a memorial piece at an Oakland art gallery called “Radical Geographer: Portrait of my Father.” The collage explores the cross-generational love for politics, passion, and place. … Continue reading
Elaine Elinson Writes to Commemorate the Centennial of Women’s Suffrage in California
This month marks the centennial of women’s suffrage in California, a victory won almost a full decade before the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment granting women the right to vote nationally. In the San Francisco Chronicle edition of Oct. 9 … Continue reading
New exhibit at Calif. Historical Society: Oyster Farm, featuring the documentary photography of artist Evvy Eisen, opening Oct. 27
From October 27, 2011 to January 19, 2012, the California Historical Society will host the exhibit Oyster Farm, featuring the documentary photography of artist Evvy Eisen. Evvy Eisen’s photographs will be accompanied by pieces of ephemera and other materials from … Continue reading
Elaine Elinson reviews Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America, by Erika Lee and Judy Yung
Blog editor’s note: Elaine Elinson has forwarded the CSA blog the following review of a new book about immigration through Angel Island in the San Francisco Bay. The blog is open to submissions of reviews of other relevant books. … Continue reading
“Effect of Co-op on Berkeley’s Culture and Politics” – Discussion at the Berkeley History Center, Sept. 4
On Sunday, Sept. 4, 2011, at 3:00 p.m., the Berkeley Historical Society will be presenting a panel discussion as one of their “Co-Op Lectures” on the “Effect of Co-op on Berkeley’s Culture and Politics”. Speakers will be Bob Schildgen, former … Continue reading
Jeff Lustig to give book talk on “Remaking California” at Doug Adams Gallery, Berkeley, Feb. 10
Jeff Lustig will give a book talk on his new book, Remaking California: Reclaiming the Public Good, at the Doug Adams Gallery at the Bade Museum in Berkeley on Feb. 10. From the announcement: February 10, 6:00-7:30 p.m. Location: Doug … Continue reading
Date Change: Next California Studies dinner Feb. 22, not 15: Keally McBride speaks on “California Squealing: Prisons and the End of the Neoliberal Exception”
DATE CHANGE. The next California Studies dinner has been moved to Feb. 22 from Feb. 15, 2011; the program remains the same: the speaker will be Keally McBride, Department of Politics, University of San Francisco, and the title of the … Continue reading
Next California Studies Dinner Jan. 20: Waldo Martin speaks on writing a political history of the Black Panther Party
The next California Studies dinner will take place Jan. 20, 2011 in Berkeley; the speaker will be Waldo Martin, Professor of History, UC Berkeley, and the title of his talk will be “Up Against the Wall MŠFŠ: Notes on co-writing … Continue reading
Next Calif. Studies Dinner Nov. 17; Mark Brilliant on how racial diversity shaped civil rights reform
The next California Studies dinner will take place Nov. 17, 2010 in Berkeley; the speaker will be Mark Brilliant, Assistant Professor, Department of History and Program in American Studies, UC-Berkeley, who will speak on the topic of his new book, … Continue reading
Civil Rights and Race During World War 2: Book event Oct. 24 in El Cerrito
Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi, authors of Wherever There’s a Fight: How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California, will discuss and sign copies of their book as part of “Civil Rights and Race During … Continue reading
Patricia McBroom reports on how locals maintain crucial levees in the Sacramento Delta
CSA Steering Committee member Patricia McBroom has a eye-opening piece on her “California Spigot” blog today about how locals in the Sacramento Delta take responsibility for maintaining levees that are crucial not only for their own survival but also for … Continue reading
Oakland Museum of California obtains historic poster collection
As reported by the Oakland Tribune on Oct. 9, 2010, the Oakland Museum of California has obtained a collection of more than 23,000 posters collected by Michael Rossman, who was one of the leaders of the Free Speech Movement at … Continue reading
Book Party: Remaking California: Reclaiming the Public Good, Thur Aug 12
Remaking California: Reclaiming the Public Good – Heyday. Heyday and the California Historical Society invite you to Is California a Failed State? The Political Crisis in Historical Perspective A book party for Heyday’s Remaking California: Reclaiming the Public Good Edited … Continue reading
LaborFest 2010: Events Throughout July
LaborFest. Welcome to LaborFest 2010 LaborFest 2010 takes place in the midst of devastating economic conditions for working people in the San Francisco Bay Area nationally and internationally. We now have the highest unemployment since the 1930’s. Since last LaborFest, … Continue reading
Richard Register of Ecocity Builders: Drawings at SPUR in San Francisco
From: Richard Register My dear friends! I just finished hanging a show of my drawings over the last 35 years you might be interested in. Come on by and see a rather unusual, and in the ³old days,² a rather … Continue reading
California Labor History course starts August 17 at the Mission campus of San Francisco City College
Fred Glass, Communications Director of the California Federation of Teachers, AFT/AFL-CIO, will be teaching a course on California Labor History at the Mission Campus of San Francisco City College (1125 Valencia Street), starting August 17. Classes will be Tuesday evenings, … Continue reading
“Worth a Thousand Words: Images of Jewish Reinvention on America’s Pacific Edge” — Next California Studies Dinner, May 19
The next California Studies dinner will take place Wednesday, May 19, 2010; the speakers and topic are: Ava F. Kahn, Independent Scholar & Author and Ellen Eisenberg, Author & Professor of History at Willamette University “Worth a Thousand Words: Images … Continue reading
Next Calif. Studies Dinner is April 21; Bob Blauner will speak on the California Loyalty Oath
The next California Studies dinner will take place Wednesday, April 21, 2010. The speaker will be Bob Blauner, Professor Emeritus, Sociology Department, UC-Berkeley. Professor Blauner will speak on his new book Resisting McCarthy: To Sign or not to Sign California’s … Continue reading
BAM/PFA – What’s It All Mean: William T. Wiley in Retrospect March 17, 2010 – July 18, 2010
BAM/PFA – What’s It All Mean: William T. Wiley in Retrospect March 17, 2010 – July 18, 2010. What’s It All Mean: William T. Wiley in Retrospect (March 17, 2010 – July 18, 2010) BAM/PFA is the Only West Coast … Continue reading
Frank Gruber Speaks on Local Politics at the next Calif. Studies Dinner, Mar. 17
The next California Studies Dinner, in Berkeley on March 17, will feature Frank Gruber, CSA Board Member, Writer, Columnist, and Author of Urban Worrier: Making Politics Personal. His topic will be: “The Left in Power: Thirty-five years of Politics in … Continue reading
