Featured History Books about San Francisco and California
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Truth and LoveBlackman, Carol
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TroublemakersBerlin, Leslie
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Gold Rush StoriesNoy, Gary
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Lost Worlds of the San Francisco Bay AreaLinsteadt, Sylvia
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Harlem of the WestPepin, Elizabeth
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San Francisco NoirLyon, Fred
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An American GenocideMadley, Benjamin
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Growing up in San FranciscoDunnigan, Frank
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Dirty DeedsTaniguchi, Nancy J.
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Cool Gray City of LoveKamiya, Gary
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Season of the WitchTalbot, David
The General Collections and Humanities Center on the 3rd floor of the Main library maintains a well-rounded circulating print history collection and library-use-only print reference collection encompassing histories of the United States and the world, with an emphasis on local (California and Bay Area) history.
The print collections are supplemented by the following databases...
For more in depth information on the history of San Francisco, including accessing the official archives for the City and County of San Francisco, visit or contact the San Francisco History Center on the 6th floor of the Main library.
Women of World War II
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One Hundred SaturdaysFrank, Michael
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Women Heroes of World War IIAtwood, Kathryn J.
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Women Heroes of World War IIAtwood, Kathryn J.
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A Game of Birds and WolvesParkin, Simon
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Our Mothers' WarYellin, Emily
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The Girls Who Stepped Out of LineEder, Mari K.
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Grandmothers, Our GrandmothersHan, Seong-Won
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Displaced PersonHilton, Ella E. Schneider
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GI BridesBarrett, Duncan
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Valiant WomenAndrews, Lena S.
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The Matryoshka MemoirsColby, Sasha
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Fiet's Vase and Other Stories of Survival, Europe 1939-1945Gold, Alison Leslie
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Queer Lives Across the WallRottmann, Andrea
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And If I PerishMonahan, Evelyn M.
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GirlFrankel, Alona
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Women in the ResistanceRossiter, Margaret L.