By Eric Porter, author of A People’s History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport For many people, airports may seem like alienating “nonplaces”—as anthropologist Marc Augé put …
Read More >By Mitchell Schwarzer, author of Hella Town: Oakland’s History of Development and Disruption It was the spring of 1964 and the sea air caressed my face as my father drove us along …
Read More >Jail is simply no place for individuals suffering from serious mental illness, even if the jail has a mental health tag. Terry Allen Kupers In his op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, …
Read More >Support Bay Area booksellers and local literary programming by attending a Bay Area author event (or two) this Fall. Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America …
Read More >This guest post is published as part of our blog series related to the Western History Association conference from October 17-20 in San Antonio. #WHA2018 By Alex Schafran, author of The Road …
Read More >by Gregory L. Simon, author of Flame and Fortune in the American West: Urban Development, Environmental Change, and the Great Oakland Hills Fire Another day, another menacing wildfire. This appears to be the …
Read More >by Laura Alice Watt, author of The Paradox of Preservation: Wilderness and Working Landscapes at Point Reyes National Seashore Today is the 54th anniversary of the establishment of the Point Reyes National Seashore, a …
Read More >For centuries, humans have been compelled to write about their explorations. From Marco Polo to Ian Frazier, adventure stories inspire us to explore and learn new things about the world around us, …
Read More >On KQED’s Forum this week, Fred Rosenbaum spoke to Michael Krasny about his book Cosmopolitans: A Social & Cultural History of the Jews of the San Francisco Bay Area, in which he …
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