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Reviewers Ray and Wranovics call this book "a welcome contribution, and hopefully an opening towards further study of this significant and neglected part of California history."

Anchor Brewing is more than just a beloved institution in this city. It’s the very myth of San Francisco in a bottle. It’s a relic of the Gold Rush, a harbinger of the it-happened-here-first innovation that our region hopes to be known for.

HBO’s new miniseries centers Vietnamese voices — and reframes the consequences of war.

For California poet Joe Zaccardi our holiday of memory brings back wartime scenes of flying and hope of rescue.

A collection of essays by Raphael Samuel, the late historian who was one of the intellectual founders of the New Left in the United Kingdom.

To prepare for upcoming years-long voyages, NASA has a new game plan for getting fresh food to the moon and beyond.

Bridgerton’s third season is gauzier than ever. Should we still be holding it accountable?

The grief of today’s wars, North Carolina poet Joanne Durham reminds us, falls heaviest on the children of the victims.

One of the recurring themes of the collection: the ways in which the scars caused by slavery and other forms of racial violence in America linger, influencing and echoing future events within a chronology of traumas.

Legacy Russell’s Black Meme argues that owning, replicating, and remediating Black material is a theft rooted in historical frameworks of subordination.