California’s Diverse Food and Farming Movements
How 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 […]
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Deep Time in the Mono Lake Basin: Nature and History over the Last 10,000 Years
Book Club of CaliforniaIn this sweeping environmental history of the Mono Lake Basin, Robert B. Marks reveals a larger story of how human actions and natural forces shape the environment. He begins with […]