Overview :The iconic leader of one of America's most powerful unions, Harry Bridges put an indelible stamp on the twentieth century labor movement. Ro... Read More
Overview :Founded in 1919, the Communist Party (CP) in San Francisco survived an ineffectual early period to become a force in the trade union heyday ... Read More
Overview : Three times the Democratic Party's nominee for president (1896, 1900, and 1908) and secretary of state under Woodrow Wilson, William Jennin... Read More
Overview :Often Gilded-Age politics has been described as devoid of content or accomplishment, a mere spectacle to divert voters from thinking about t... Read More
Overview :Founded in 1919, the Communist Party (CP) in San Francisco survived an ineffectual early period to become a force in the trade union heyday ... Read More
Overview : Created in 1934, the Coit Tower murals were sponsored by the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), the first of the New Deal art programs. Tw... Read More
Overview :In 1911 as progressivism moved toward its zenith, the state of California granted women the right to vote. However, women's political involv... Read More
Overview :In 1911 as progressivism moved toward its zenith, the state of California granted women the right to vote. However, women's political involv... Read More
Overview :When British explorer George Vancouver arrived at the San Francisco presidio in 1792, he described it as resembling a "compound for cattle"-... Read More
Overview :Victor Arnautoff reigned as San Francisco's leading mural painter during the New Deal era. Yet that was only part of an astonishing life jou... Read More