A community of scholars based in
the San Francisco Bay Area
Institute members converged from the East Bay, South Bay, and San Francisco at the History Museum of Los Gatos on March 27th. Dawn Maxson gave us a leisurely tour, beginning with the story of the handsome stone building, part of a flour mill from the 1850s that hosted rock concerts in the early 1970s.
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The California and the West study group invites you to tour the exhibition at the History Museum of Los Gatos, American Bohemia: The Cats Estate in Los Gatos. The exhibition explores the storied lives of Charles Erskine Scott Wood and Sara Bard Field,
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Summer 2020: Harlem of the West: The Fillmore Jazz Era and Redevelopment, an online lecture by Elizabeth Pepin Silva, a documentary filmmaker, photographer, writer, and former day manager of the historic Fillmore Auditorium, August 16.
Fall 2019: An event-filled two-day excursion to Sacramento, a tour of Marin Civic Center, and presentation by member Bonnie Portnoy on The Man Beneath the Paint: Tilden Daken.
Summer 2019: Reading of Judith Offer's play, Scenes from the Life of Julia Morgan
Fall 2018: Public Program, "South Asians in the South Bay: The Privileged Immigrants"
Spring 2018: Excursion to Niles area of Fremont with historic train ride and silent film museum
Spring 2018: The California and the West study group initiated the two public programs on "The Future of the Past in the Digital Age" and Benjamin Madley's talk on An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846–1873.
Fall 2017: Martinez Adobe Fandango; Public Program: “Siberia and California: Connections During the Russian Revolution and Civil War”
Fall 2016: Amador County
Summer 2016: San Francisco Presidio
Winter 2016: Berkeley History Center
Spring 2015: Sonoma Plaza
Winter 2015: San Francisco Public Library
Summer 2014: Red Oak Victory and World War II Homefront National Historic Park, Richmond
Spring 2014: Los Gatos History Museum, "American Bohemia: The Cats Estate in Los Gatos”
Winter 2014: Tour of California Historical Society exhibition on Juana Briones, January 25
Summer 2013: Green Gulch Farm Zen Center visit, August 15
Spring 2013: Visits to Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum and the McCune Collection at the Vallejo Public Library, April 13
Sunday, September 13, 1:30 pm, via Zoom. Katya Miller and Rose Marie Cleese will present.
The Institute for Historical Study is a community of researchers, writers, and artists. Our common bond is a devotion to history in its many forms. Through wide-ranging programs, we share research, ideas, and practical advice and provide a public forum for the discussion of history.
Welcome to our newest members David Goldberg and Stephen Barton. Learn about them under Member Profiles. Welcome back to Paula Gillett, a founding member and first president of our board of directors. She is now professor emerita in the Humanities Department of the College of Humanities and the Arts at San Jose State.
Members' Recent Activities:
Laudatory reviews of Karen Offen’s latest volumes on The Woman Question in France have appeared in the Journal of Modern History (Vol. 92, No. 1, March 2020) and in the American Historical Review (Vol. 125, No.2, April 2020).
Tim Welsh has kept busy with updates to his website sfinfilm.com, detailing life in San Francisco during the shutdown as compared to earlier or “vintage” years.
Jody Offer's Pullman porters play (“Compared to What”) is contracted for an August 2021 run at the Masquers Theatre in Point Richmond. She continues her series of poems about “Drumpf and his cohort.” Her interview by Nina Serrano, a regular reviewer of poetry books, was broadcast on KPFA on April 14th. Under discussion was Jody’s collection of poems, The Grating of America.
Katya Miller was the featured speaker at the Cal Alumni Club in Sonoma County in February. She presented her work on the Statue of Freedom, erected on the Capital dome in 1863 in middle of the Civil War.
Joe Miller gave his talk, “Wild Women Suffragists and Their Reputation as Sex Radicals” to the Sonoma Valley Historical Society in February. “The audience laughed in the right places, and the feedback from them was encouraging.”
Maria Sakovich contributed another vignette to the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation cache of stories at the Immigrant Voices website, “The Contrasting Cases of Two Russian Choral Directors”
Congratulations to Our 2019 Mini-Grant Recipients:
Joe Miller, for his article on “Wild Women Suffragists”
Members: Please submit news of your history-related publications, lectures, awards, research finds, etc. to webmaster@instituteforhistoricalstudy.org.
We welcome all men and women who have a commitment to historical study, which may be demonstrated in one or more of the following ways...
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