Online History Adventures
FEATURED PRESENTATION:
California’s War of Extermination Against American Indians
Recorded Thursday, December 1 at the SFHS Museum
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PRESENTATIONS ARCHIVE:
In celebration of Women’s History Month
In celebration of Black History Month
Author and SFHS Board President John Briscoe discusses his new book
A Child’s Christmas in San Francisco with former Mechanics’ Institute
Executive Director Ralph Lewin.
We are pleased to announce that the 2020 Fracchia Prize winners have been selected.
And the winners are…
Premiered May 1, 2020
SFHS Movie Night – Premiered April 3, 2020
About SFHS Online Presentations
COVID-19 altered the rhythm of life in San Francisco in unprecedented ways. Events were cancelled, people were sequestered in their homes, and social distancing was “the new normal.” The San Francisco Historical Society helped connect and engage not only the history community, but all members of our community by launching our Online History Adventures series to support our community with diverse programming.
Beginning the week of March 23, 2020, we began making our upcoming presentations available in digital format on our website. The first presentation, “A Romp Into Gold Rush History” presented by Thom Jackson, launched on March 26. On April 3, we presented our first SFHS Movie Night. On April 10, we introduced Golden Gate Park – Photographs by Ron Henggeler. On April 14th we have posted the latest Tuesday Night Program presentation, Sutro’s Glass Palace, with John Martini. On April 23rd we published the 2019 Fracchia Prize Winners Essays as an online magazine (PDF, 23 MB download). On May 1st we premiered another SFHS Movie Night and on may 8th we added Bohemians, Beats and the Barbary Coast – an iOS and Android app. On May 12th, we introduced fifth-generation San Franciscan Peter Devine’s monthly Program presentation The History of Saint Ignatius Church.
On May 22, we introduced San Francisco at Play! – a special edition of ARGONAUT. On June 5th, we added a short film about the Englander House. On June 9th SFHS Board Member Chris O’Sullivan presented Bret Harte’s Gold Rush, our latest monthly Program. On June 19 we introduced another iOS and Android app: Secrets of Chinatown. On July 8th, we added San Francisco Pride – Photographs by Ron Henggeler. Our July monthly Program is “San Francisco’s Lost Department Stores” by local author Anne Evers Hitz.
We recently launched our first podcast: History of San Francisco Restaurants and Cuisine, with SFHS Board President John Briscoe. For our latest Adventure, join Dr. Mike Robinson for his presentation on the 5-Plate Panorama of San Francisco taken by Sterling C. McIntyre in 1851.
San Francisco historian Gloria Lenhart discusses the work of Arnold Genthe, early SF photographer. Composer and music educator Don Robertson recounts San Francisco Music and Culture (1965-1969). Author Jim Schein discusses his book Gold Mountain, Big City, and Lorri Ungaretti presents Bernard Zakheim’s UCSF Toland Hall Murals
Jim Schein returns with a presentation on the Topography of Early San Francisco. For the November SFHS Monthly Program, Gloria Lenhart presents Woodward’s Gardens; the December program with Lorri Ungaretti discusses the Crystal Palace. Author and SFHS Board President John Briscoe discusses his new book A Child’s Christmas in San Francisco with former Mechanics’ Institute Executive Director Ralph Lewin. Mike Weedall presents The City by the Bay and the Trial of Tokyo Rose for our January 2021 monthly program.
In celebration of Black History Month, our first offering is Revealing San Francisco’s 19th-Century Black History presented by Susan D. Anderson. Author and educator Crawford Killian discusses Black Pioneers in Early San Francisco. Fred Jordan reminisces about The Harlem of the West: Supper Clubs of the Fillmore, Jesse Warr and Len Holmes host a Zoom meeting discussing African American History in the First Century of California and Darrell Rogers talks about Integrating San Francisco’s Grocery Stores and Chain Stores, 1962-1964.
In celebration of Women’s History Month, Evelyn Rose, Director of the Glen Park Neighborhoods History Project presents America’s First Suffrage March and the San Francisco Women Who Led It. Chris Carlsson discusses SF Women Workers and the right to vote, Donaldina Cameron House pays tribute to its founder, and Jill Klein shares the remarkable contributions of Clara Shortridge Foltz.