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Results for keyword: California history

  • California chronicles: A review of New California Writing: 2011

    California chronicles: A review of New California Writing: 2011

    Editor Gayle Wattawa has assembled an anthology of essays in New California Writing: 2011 that should intrigue even people outside the Golden State.

  • The endless atlas: A review of Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas

    Rebecca Solnit assembles historical, legendary, and artistic tidbits and tales along with glorious maps in her new book.

  • Viva la Archives!

    Viva la Archives!

    Budget cuts have endangered California's Water Resources Center Archives, which serves as the state's institutional water memory.

  • The saga of Mineral King

    The saga of Mineral King

    California’s beautiful Mineral King Valley was deeply wounded by hardrock mining, but now it is on its way to wilderness protection.

  • A whole lot of shaking

    In his book A Crack in the Edge of the World, Simon Winchester takes a comprehensive look at the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and warns of the geological perils still facing the region

  • Ode to a very hot spot

    Live! From Death Valley is John Soennichsen’s "love letter to an ill-tempered mistress," California’s Death Valley

 

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