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Lincoln "considers" Emancipation
One key to the fight ahead is looking back to see how we ever made social and moral progress in the first place. Studying Abraham Lincoln’s surprisingly…
Jan 29
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California, forever
Taking heart from California history: The 1906 earthquake and devastating fires that followed leveled San Francisco. The city miraculously rebuilt…
Jan 14
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California, forever
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November 2024
Thanksgiving, 1863 - San Francisco
California has always seen this dubious holiday from a distance.
Nov 29, 2024
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October 2024
The Election of 1868
“History doesn’t repeat itself. But it often rhymes.” - Mark Twain -- It hardly seems that this election could be more existentially tense or…
Oct 31, 2024
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The Election of 1868
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August 2024
George Hearst & Mark Twain in the Comstock
George Hearst's lifelong friendship with the young Mark Twain was forged in that great melting pot known as the Comstock. Technically located in Nevada…
Aug 20, 2024
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George Hearst & Mark Twain in the Comstock
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Chinese medicine: Dr. Yee saves Jane Stanford's life
After the Gold Rush, Chapter 50
Aug 12, 2024
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July 2024
What, to the Slave, is the Fourth of July? & The Picnic at Bull Run
There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour. —Frederick…
Jul 4, 2024
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What, to the Slave, is the Fourth of July? & The Picnic at Bull Run
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March 2024
Ambrose Bierce and Asbury Harpending at the Battle of Shiloh
California History After the Gold Rush
Mar 16, 2024
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Ambrose Bierce and Asbury Harpending at the Battle of Shiloh
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The Stanfords and the Chinese Question
Jane and Leland Stanford were deeply problematic people. Jane is not by any means any kind of heroine to me. But I find her fascinating. As with all…
Mar 11, 2024
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December 2023
San Francisco's Black newspapers, Civil War era
Mary Ellen Pleasant & the Executive Committee. San Francisco’s “Executive Committee” was a group of educated Black elite: ministers, teachers, business…
Dec 11, 2023
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San Francisco's Black newspapers, Civil War era
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November 2023
After the Gold Rush - California in 1861
In this month’s chapters, California commits to the Union after a Secessionist coup attempt in San Francisco led by Southern transplant Asbury…
Nov 21, 2023
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After the Gold Rush - California in 1861
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Black entrepreneur Mary Ellen Pleasant in Civil War San Francisco
One of the most fascinating and contradictory figures of San Francisco’s riveting history is Mary Ellen Pleasant. By current standards she was one of…
Nov 3, 2023
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Black entrepreneur Mary Ellen Pleasant in Civil War San Francisco
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