Celebrating People’s History
The Celebrate People’s History poster series has organized and curated by Josh MacPhee since 1998. The over 200 posters in the ongoing series are rooted in the do-it-yourself tradition of […]
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Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford
Troublemaker tells the wild and unlikely story of Jessica Mitford, fifth of the six famous Mitford Girls, a British aristocrat-turned-American Communist, famous for exposés like The American Way of Death; this […]
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Eugene O’Neill and Long Day’s Journey Into Night at Tao House—a California Story
Book Club of CaliforniaFew people realize that Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night, which won the 1956 Pulitzer Prize, was written in California in 1939-41. After winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936, […]
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California Eden: Heritage Landscapes of the Golden State
Book Club of CaliforniaFor many people, the concept of landscape is associated with gardens, especially estate gardens. California Eden reaches far beyond the elite circle of private estates; this book highlights a wide range of […]
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Out of the Gutters: How California Comix Saved Comics
Book Club of CaliforniaOut of the Gutters: Obscenity, Censorship, and Transgression, edited by Jorge J. Santos and Patrick S. Lawrence, explores US comics that have been challenged for their boundary-breaking content. Covering well-known […]
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Exhibition Opening: Visually Impressive: Exploring American Book Art Color Printing Technologies, 1890-1990
Book Club of CaliforniaFrom 1890 to 1990, American book art color reproduction printing went through a series of revolutionary technological changes, not only in how books looked, but who could afford them. Visually Impressive […]
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Write Long and Beautiful Letters: The Vallejos’ Californio Correspondence, 1846–1888
Book Club of CaliforniaThe experiences of Mexicans who were living in California when it was annexed by the United States is a crucial element of the history of the American Southwest. These Californios, […]
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Behind the Scenes with Transit Books: A California Publisher with Global Reach
Book Club of CaliforniaWhat does it take to bring a remarkable book into the world? Join the co-publishers of Transit Books for a behind-the-scenes conversation about the role of award-winning, nonprofit publishing—from discovering […]
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California’s Diverse Food and Farming Movements
Book Club of CaliforniaHow we grow, harvest, distribute, and consume food is bound up with how we use (and abuse) environmental resources, and how we achieve (or undermine) collective well-being. In North Stars of […]
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How Sierra Gold Made California and Remade America
Book Club of CaliforniaAmerican California was defined by the Gold Rush. That event landed at a very special time, the interregnum between Mexican and American rule. That timing led to profound changes in […]
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Assailing Mists of Tradition: The Deseret Alphabet Experience
Book Club of CaliforniaFollowing the 1847 establishment of a community in the Salt Lake Valley by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church leaders established the University of Deseret. Its Board […]
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Spelunking Rob Roy Kelly’s collection; or, Adventures in typographic realia
Book Club of CaliforniaRob Roy Kelly’s published research — including American Wood Type 1828–1900 (1969) — helped fuel a revival of interest in nineteenth-century American printing types. His work continues to be an […]