This account documents a young man’s travel along the trails from St. Louis to Salt Lake City, accompanying the U.S. Army’s Utah Expedition as a teamster, his captivity in Salt Lake City by the Nauvoo Leg…
Bad Blood meets Burn Book in this exposé about tech icon Bob Lee—and what his life and 2023 murder tell us about San Francisco in the Internet Age
FOR FANS OF GOING INFINITE AND SUPER PUMPED: Sex and dru…
One candy heiress, two bullets and three suspects.
The small Southern California island of Coronado rarely makes news for violent crime. But in the spring of 1975, World War II widow and retired libraria…
Celebrate a century of good times on the Santa Monica Pier, with the revised edition of Santa Monica Pier: America's Last Great Pleasure Pier! Vintage images and magnificent color photos capture this belo…
Sandra E. Bonura tells the overlooked yet genuine rags-to-riches story of Claus Spreckels and his pioneering role in developing the sugar industry in the United States and the kingdom of Hawai‘i.
"Radicalized by the starving poverty of industrial Glasgow during the "Hungry Forties," Irish-born John Steele embraced a teetotaler brotherhood, radical political reform and listened sympathetically to U…
John M. Glionna tells the story of eight-man football at McDermitt High School on the Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation located on the Nevada-Oregon border.
In August 1889, the five states that were once part of the Dakota 1861 Territory--North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho--drafted their state constitutions in preparation for inclusion in…
The Port of Los Angeles is all around us. Objects we use on a daily basis pass through it: furniture, apparel, electronics, automobiles, and much more. The busiest container port in the Western hemisphere…
Sigrid Anderson focuses on the Southern California magazine Land of Sunshine, a publication that featured authors such as Edith Eaton, Mary Austin, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, to explore how regional pe…
Mary Rippon was a pioneer woman educator in the male-dominated world of nineteenth-century academia. As the first female professor at the University of Colorado, she was likely the first woman in the U.S.…
Taking over a century’s worth of yearbooks from his alma mater, Salinas High School, as a historical archive, acclaimed sociologist Michael A. Messner discovers a not-so-distant time when all the cheerlea…
For over a century, business interests and political insiders controlled waters across the Hawaiian Islands to benefit a privileged few at the expense of stream ecology, taro farmers, and our islands' fut…
Now in paperback: This San Francisco Chronicle bestseller and California Book Award finalist drills down into Oakland's geological history and its impacts on the city's urban present.
"This book has turne…
"Those who come to California are awestruck and inspired by its vast, diverse, and dynamic wilderness. The power of nature is on full display in the immense beauty and bounty of our home, as well as the n…
"This book analyzes the ways collective memories of the US-Mexico War have shaped Mexican Americans' civil rights struggles over several generations. As the first Latinx people incorporated into the natio…
Contested Curriculum recounts the fight for LGBTQ-inclusive K-12 history education in the United States. Historian Don Romesburg makes a powerful case for why teaching about LGBTQ lives in schools can hel…
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