The Post Office building was moved to its present site to make way for urban development. Before it was set down on the site, an archaeological "dig" was performed . Herewith is the story found on the land that the old building now sits. It is literal . . .

Chapter 1: The Loma Prieta Earthquake and its aftermath; Chapter 2: A brief history of West Oakland; Chapter 3: Consumerism, living conditions, and material well-being; Chapter 4: Consuming aspirations: bric-a-brac and the politics of Victorian materi . . .

Gentility (a.k.a., “Victorian culture”) was the preeminent model of propriety in mid- and late-19th-century California. Thanks to industrial production and an efficient supply network, the genteel mores of Victoria’s England came to be expressed in a . . .

Jack London—popular author, avid traveler, and vocal socialist—left two legacies to the world: his writings and his Beauty Ranch. After the destruction of the Wolf House, the Beauty Ranch became Jack London's main interest.

By 1855 four of the five Chinese District Associations in California had offices and boarding houses in Sacramento on I Street between Fifth and Sixth. Agents of these Chinese Associations nurtured important reciprocal relationships with Sacramento bu . . .

As the inlet pipe was ceremoniously opened, filling the long awaited reservoir for the very first time, the Vasco Adobe disappeared beneath the waters of the Los Vaqueros Reservoir. Built in the 1850s by a group of rough Basque cattle ranchers, the ad . . .