Jeremy Beer is Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of AmPhil. This interview is based on his new book, Beyond the Devil’s Road: Francisco Garcés and the Spanish Encounter with the American Southwest (University of Oklahoma Press, 2024). JF: What led you […]
California history
The Author’s Corner with Oliver A. Rosales
Oliver A. Rosales is Professor of History at Bakersfield College. This interview is based on his new book, Civil Rights in Bakersfield: Segregation and Multiracial Activism in the Central Valley (University of Texas Press, 2024). JF: What led you to […]
The Author’s Corner with James Tejani
James Tejani is Associate Professor of History at California Polytechnic State University. This interview is based on his new book, A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles and America (W. W. Norton […]
California Senator Dianne Feinstein has passed away
Until an official obituary appears, learn about this trailbazing United States Senator here. She was mayor of San Francisco from 1978 to 1988 and was elected to five U.S. Senate terms. In 1984 she was on Walter Mondale’s vice-presidential short […]
The Author’s Corner with Benjamin Jenkins
Benjamin Jenkins is Associate Professor of History and University Archivist at the University of La Verne. This interview is based on his new book, Octopus’s Garden: How Railroads and Citrus Transformed Southern California (University Press of Kansas, 2023). JF: What […]
“Christianity in overalls”
Over at Jacobin, Stephen Barton introduces many of us to J. Stitt Wilson, the socialist major of Berkeley, California from 1911 to 1913. Here is a taste: On Easter Sunday, 1911, San Francisco’s Central Theater was packed with more than […]
The Author’s Corner with Lloyd Barba
Lloyd Barba is Assistant Professor of Religion at Amherst College. This interview is based on his new book, Sowing the Sacred: Mexican Pentecostal Farmworkers in California (Oxford University Press, 2022). JF: What led you to write Sowing the Sacred? LB: Having […]
The Author’s Corner with Andrea McDowell
Andrea McDowell is Professor of Law at Seton Hall University School of Law. This interview is based on her new book, We the Miners: Self-Government in the California Gold Rush (Harvard University Press, 2022). JF: What led you to write […]
What the six California Super Bowl stadiums tell us about The Golden State
The Super Bowl has been (or will be) held in: SoFi Stadium (2022) Levi’s Stadium (2016) Stanford Stadium (1985) The Rose Bowl (1977, 1980, 1983, 1987, 1993) Jack Murphy Stadium (1988, 1998, 2003) Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (1967, 1973) Here […]
Episode 17: “The City by the Bay Starts Marrying Same-Sex Couples”
San Francisco beats Massachusetts to the punch and starts issuing marriage licenses. The Christian Right responds. Episode 17: “The City by the Bay Starts Marrying Same-Sex Couples” dropped last night. Subscribers to Current at the Longshore level and above receive this narrative history […]