Category:Book Excerpts


Hastings College of Law Built on Genocide?

Excerpted with permission from An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 (Yale University Press: New Haven & London 2016)

A Negotiated Landscape

Chinatown Vice

The Golden Dragon Restaurant Massacre

The Six Companies

By Kevin J. Mullen, excerpted with permission from "Chinatown Squad"

Local Protest, Global Movements

San Francisco Housing Authority 1937-1965: The Early Decades

Excerpted from More than Shelter: Activism and Community in San Francisco Public Housing by Amy L. Howard. Used by permission of the University of Minnesota Press. © Copyright 2014 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved.

Second Freeway Revolt

Conservative Fight to Save Central Freeway

Dueling Ballots: The Central Freeway’s Fate

These articles are excerpted, with permission, from Henderson's book "Street Fight: The Politics of Mobility in San Francisco"', 2013


Yankee Women

Excerpted from Roxana's Children: The Biography of a Nineteenth-Century Vermont Family by Lynn A. Bonfield and Mary C. Morrison (Amherst: 1995, University of Massachusetts Press).

Pages in category "Book Excerpts"

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