Moments in History: 1918 Influenza – From Europe to the Bay Area
By PAHA Historian Steve Staiger and PAHA Board member Leslie Mills Photo: Mrs. Armour and her students at Castilleja School celebrate the end of the war while wearing flu masks, 1919 courtesy of Castilleja School It is likely that more Americans have heard of the...
Moments in History: Joan Baez
Folksinger Joan Baez is an iconic symbol of the 1960s protest movement. In her opposition to the war in Vietnam she was jailed twice, once for blocking the entrance to the Armed Forces Induction Center in Oakland. In 1965 she founded the Institute for the Study of...