Sunday, March 19, 2:00 pm, Monthly Program via Zoom.
“Designed for Large Explosions” – The Port Chicago explosion and the Manhattan Project
A Presentation by Daisy Brown Herndon
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A community of scholars based in
the San Francisco Bay Area
Sunday, March 19, 2:00 pm, Monthly Program via Zoom.
“Designed for Large Explosions” – The Port Chicago explosion and the Manhattan Project
A Presentation by Daisy Brown Herndon
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Fall 2020: Revealing San Francisco’s Hidden 19th-Century Black History: A Tour of California Historical Society Artifacts, lecture by Susan D. Anderson, SF History Days (video here)
Summer 2020: Harlem of the West: The Fillmore Jazz Era and Redevelopment, online lecture by Elizabeth Pepin Silva
Fall 2019: An event-filled two-day excursion to Sacramento
Fall 2019: 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
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