This thesis explores how feminist activism at California State University, Sacramento (CSUS), in the Seventies, transformed the university. My research utilizes archival sources, newspapers, and oral histories from women who participated in the moveme . . .

In the 1950s, real estate agents and builders steered Sacramento residents of color to the West End, an area that used to occupy much of downtown Sacramento. However, as federal dollars became available for urban renewal programs, Sacramento officials . . .

Carlos Bulosan, Filipino writer and labor organizer, fabricated or embellished details of his life in his autobiography and elsewhere. Bulosan's autobiography, America Is in the Heart, will be heavily scrutinized for accuracy. It will be cross-referen . . .

Dr. Max Merten, a German military official during the Nazi occupation of Greece, methodically participated in the destruction of Salonika’s Jewish community. His actions during the Second World War aided the Nazi regime in extorting, deporting, and ul . . .

Eleonora de Fonseca Pimentel was no ordinary woman. Eighteenth-century Neapolitan intellectuals recognized her passion for learning and her poetic talent and welcomed her into their salons and academies at a very early age. Even the Bourbon monarchs o . . .

The New Woman of the early twentieth century is primarily presented in cultural memory as two stereotypes: the flapper and the suffragist. These images are problematic largely because they are typically exclusive to the white middle-class woman of the . . .

For many years a two story, red brick building, popularly called the brewery, stood on Sutterville Road in Sacramento. Shortly before its destruction in 1955, the building was boarded up to prevent continued destruction by those who were coming in inc . . .

This thesis traces the history of the Upper American River Project (UARP) from its original conception through construction. Owned and operated by the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD), the UARP is a publicly owned hydroelectric project loc . . .

Part of a retrospective digitization project.

An examination of rap music's impact on African American youth from 1987-1993, referred to as hip hop's golden era.