William Issel, "The San Francisco Bay Area," in The Scribner's Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History, Vol. II,  edited by Mary K. Cayton and Peter W. Williams, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001.

Mel  Scott, The San Francisco Bay Area: A Metropolis in  Perspective. 2nd edition, University of California, 1985.

Charles Wollenberg, Golden Gate Metropolis:  Perspectives on Bay Area History.  Institute of Governmental Studies,
University of California Berkeley, 1985.

Philip L. Fradkin, The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906:  How San Francisco Nearly Destroyed Itself.
University of California, 2006.

Harold Gilliam, The Natural World of San Francisco.  Doubleday, 1967.

Harold Gilliam, Weather of the San Francisco Bay Region.  Second Edition, University of California, 2002.

Gladys Hansen and Emmet Condon, Denial of Disaster: The Untold Story and Photographs of the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906.  Cameron and Company, 1989.

Amy Meyer, New Guardians for the Golden Gate:  How America Got a Great National Park.  University of California, 2006.

Hal K. Rothman, The New Urban Park: Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Civic Environmentalism.  University Press
of Kansas, 2003.

Doris Sloan, Geology of the San Francisco Bay Region.  University of California, 2006.

Richard A. Walker, The Country in the City:  The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area.  University of Washington, 2007.

PERIOD STUDIES

Richard Edward DeLeon, Left Coast City: Progressive Politics  in San  Francisco, 1975-1991. University of Kansas,  1992.

William  Issel  and  Robert  Cherny,  San  Francisco,  1865-1932: Politics, Power and Urban Development. Includes a postscript  on the period since 1932. University of California, 1986.

Roger Lotchin, San Francisco, 1846-1856: From Hamlet to City. Oxford, 1974, second edition, University of Illinois, 1997.

Roger Lotchin, The Bad City in the Good War: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oakland, and 
San Diego (World War II), Indiana University, 2003.


POLITICS AND ECONOMICS

John Baranski, "'Something to Help Themselves': Tenant Organizing in San Francisco's Public Housing, 1965-1975," in Journal of Urban History, 33, 3 (March 2007), 418-442.

Walton Bean, Boss Ruef's San Francisco: The Story of the Union Labor Party, Big Business, and the
Graft Prosecution.  University of California, 1952.

Gray Brechin, Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin. University of California, 1999.

James Brook, Chris Carlsson & Nancy J. Peters, editors, Reclaiming San Francisco: History,
Politics, Culture. City Lights, 1998.

Rufus  Browning,  Dale  Marshall, David  Tabb,   Protest  is  Not Enough:  The  Struggle of Blacks and Hispanics for  Equality  in Urban  Politics. University of California, 1984.  

William Bullough, The Blind Boss and His City: Christopher Augustine Buckley and Nineteenth Century San Francisco. University of California, 1979.

Robert W. Cherny, "City Commercial, City Beautiful, City Practical: The San Francisco Visions of William C. Ralston, James D. Phelan, and Michael M. O'Shaughnessy," California History, LXXIII, 4 (Winter 1994/95), 296-307.

Robert W. Cherny, "Patterns of Toleration and Discrimination in San Francisco: The Civil War to World War I," California History,LXXIII, 2 (Summer 1994), 130-141.

Robert W. Cherny, “Anticommunist Networks and Labor: The Pacific Coast in the 1930s,” in Labor’s Cold War: Local Politics in a Global Context, ed. Shelton Stromquist, 17–48. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008.

Richard  DeLeon and Sandra Powell, "Growth Control and  Electoral Politics:  The Triumph of Urban Populism in San  Francisco,"  in The Western Political Quarterly, 42 (June 1989), 307-331.

Richard DeLeon, "San Francisco and Domestic Partners: New Fields of Battle in the Culture War," in Culture Wars and Local Politics, edited by Elaine B. Sharp, Univ. of Kansas, 1999, 117-136.

Rich DeLeon, "Only in San Francisco: San Francisco's Political Culture in Comparative Perspective," San Francisco Planning and 
Urban Research Newsletter (December 2002) http://www.spur.org/documents/pdf/021101_article_01.pdf

Richard DeLeon and Katherine Naff, "Identity Politics and Local Political Culture," (San Francisco in Comparative Perspective) in Urban Affairs Review, 39 (July 2004), 689-719.

Philip J. Ethington, The Public City: The Political Construction of Urban Life in San Francisco, 1850-1900. Cambridge University Press, 1994.

William Issel, "Citizens Outside the Government: Business and Urban Policy in San Francisco and Los Angeles, 1890-1932," in Pacific Historical Review, 57 (May 1988), 117-145.

William Issel, Business Power and Political Culture in San  Francisco,  1900-1940,"  in Journal of Urban  History,  16  (November 1989), 52-77.

William Issel, "Liberalism and Urban Policy: San Francisco  from the  1930s  to the 1960s," in Western  Historical  Quarterly,  22 (November 1991), 431-450.

William Issel, "New Deal and Wartime Origins of San Francisco’s Postwar Pro-growth Political Culture," in The Way We Really Were: The Golden State in the Second Great War, edited by Roger W. Lotchin, University of Illinois, 1999.

William Issel and James Collins, "The Catholic Church and Organized Labor in San Francisco, 1932-1958," in Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, Spring/Summer, 1999.

William Issel, " ‘Land Values, Human Values, and the Preservation of the City’s Treasured Appearance:’ Environmentalism, Politics, and the San Francisco Freeway Revolt," in Pacific Historical Review, November 1999.

William Issel, " 'Humanity is One Great Family': Jews and Catholics in the San Francisco Civil Rights Campaign, 1940-1960," in Ava Kahn and Marc Dollinger, California Jews, Brandeis/New England Universities Press, 2003.

William Issel, "'The Catholic Internationale': Joseph L. Alioto's Urban Liberalism and San Francisco Catholicism," in U.S. Catholic Historian, Spring 2004.

William Issel, "'A Stern Struggle': Catholic Activism and San Francisco Labor, 1932-1958," in American Labor and the Cold War: Grassroots Politics and American Political Culture, edited by Robert W. Cherny, William Issel, and Kieran Taylor, Rutgers University Press, Aug. 2004.

William Issel, "'Still Potentially Dangerous in Some Quarters': Sylvester Andriano, Catholic Action, and Un-American
Activities in California," in Pacific Historical Review, May 2006.

William Issel, " 'For Both Cross and Flag': Catholic Action in Northern California in the 1930s," in Transatlantica: revue d'etudes americaines/american studies journal  

William Issel, "'A Different Era': Julia Gorman Porter's San Francisco Liberalism," in San Francisco Political Culture 

William Issel and John Rosen, "Joseph L. Alioto's 1967 Mayoral Campaign:  Democratic Party Liberalism in Transition,"
in San Francisco Political Culture

John Jacobs, A Rage for Justice: Philip Burton... University of California Press, 1995.

Victoria Johnson, How Many Machine Guns Does it Take to Cook One Meal?  The Seattle and San Francisco General Strikes.  University of Washington, 2008.

Judd  Kahn, Imperial San Francisco: Politics and Planning in  an American City, 1897-1906. University of Nebraska, 1979.

Michael  Kazin,  Barons  of Labor: The  San  Francisco  Building Trades  and  Union Power in the Progressive Era.  University  of Illinois, 1987.

Michael Kazin,  “The July Days in San Francisco, 1877: Prelude to Kearneyism,” in The Great Strikes of 1877, ed. David O. Stowell, 136–63. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008.

Eric Gregory Klocko,“The Public-Private City: Automobile Parking and the Control of Urban Space in San Francisco, 1920–1959” (Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 2006). Order No. DA3253927.

Amanda H. Littauer, "The B-Girl Evil:  Bureaucracy, Sexuality, and the Menace of Barroom Vice in Postwar California," in Journal of the History of Sexuality, 12, 2 (April 2003), 171-204.

Terrence McDonald, The Parameters of Urban Fiscal Policy:  Socioeconomic  Change and Political Culture in San  Francisco,  1860-1906. University of California, 1986.

Stephen J. McGovern, The Politics of Downtown Development: Dynamic Political Cultures in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. University of Kentucky, 1998.

John H. Mollenkopf, The Contested City. Princeton, 1983. Comparative analysis of Boston and San Francisco since the 1930s.

Kevin J. Mullen, Let Justice Be Done: Crime and Politics in Early San Francisco, University of Nevada, 1989.

Kevin J. Mullen, Dangerous Strangers: Minority Newcomers and Criminal Violence in the Urban West, 
1850-2000, Palgrave, 2005.

Kevin J. Mullen, The Toughest Gang in Town: Police Stores from Old San Francisco, Noir Publications, 2005.

Joshua Paddison, "Summers of Worry, Summers of Defiance: San Franciscans for Academic Freedom and Education 
and the Bay Area Opposition to HUAC, 1959-1960," in California History, Fall 1999.

Horacio N. Roque Ramirez, "'That's My Place!': Negotiating Racial, Sexual, and Gender Politics in San Francisco's Gay Latino Alliance, 1975-1983," in Journal of the History of Sexuality, 12, 2 (April 2003), 224-258.

Jerry Roberts, Diane Feinstein: Never Let Them See You Cry. Harper Collins West, 1994.

Robert M. Senkewicz, Vigilantes in Gold Rush San Francisco.  Stanford, 1985.

David F. Selvin, A Terrible Anger: The 1934 Waterfront and General Strikes in San Francisco.
Wayne State University Press, 1996.

Jules Tygiel, Workingmen in San Francisco, 1880-1901.  Garland, 1992.

Mike  Weiss, Double Play: The San Francisco City Hall  Killings. Addison Wesley, 1984.

Frederick  M.  Wirt, Power in the City: Decision Making  in  San Francisco. University of California, 1974.

SOCIETY AND CULTURE

Christopher Agee.  "Gayola:  Police Professionalization and the Politics of San Francisco's Gay Bars, 1950-1968," in Journal of the History of Sexuality, 15, 3 (September 2006), 462-489.

Christopher Agee.  "The Streets of San Francisco:  Blacks, Beats, Homosexuals, and the San Francisco Police Department, 1950-1968,"  Ph.D. diss., University of California, Berkeley, 2005.

Elizabeth Armstrong, Forging Gay Identities: Organizing Sexuality in San Francisco, 1950-1994, University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Robert Barde, "Plague in San Francisco: An Essay Review," in Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences,
Vol. 59, 3 (2004): 463-470.

Robert Barde, "Prelude to the Plague: Public Health and Politics at America's Pacific Gateway, 1899," in Journal of
the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Vol. 58 (2003): 153-186.

Robert Barde, Immigration at the Golden Gate: Passenger Ships, Exclusion, and Angel Island. Westport: Praeger, 2008.

Barbara Berglund, Making San Francisco American:  Cultural Frontiers in the Urban West, 1846 -- 1906.  University Press
of Kansas, Fall 2007.

Nan Almilla Boyd, Wide Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965, University of California Press, 2002.

Albert Broussard, Black San Francisco: The Struggle for Racial Equality in the West, 1900-1954. University of Kansas, 1993.

R. A. Burchell. The San Francisco Irish, 1848-1880.  University of California, 1980.

Manuel Castells, "Urban Poverty, Ethnic Minorities and  Community Organization:  The Experience of Neighborhood  Mobilization  in San  Francisco's  Mission District," in The City and  the  Grass roots:  A Cross-Cultural Theory of Urban Social Movements.  University of California, 1983.

Manuel Castells, "Cultural Identity, Sexual Liberation and  Urban Structure: The Gay Community in San Francisco," in Ibid.

Brian J. Godfrey, Neighborhoods in Transition: The Making of San Francisco's Ethnic and Nonconformist Communities. University  of California, 1988.

Richard Gribble, CSC, An Archbishop for the People:  The Life of Edward J. Hanna.  Paulist Press, 2006.

Richard Gribble, CSC, "Advocate for Ethnic and Religious Diversity: The Ecumenical Spirit of Archbishop Edward Hanna<"
American Catholic Studies, 117, 2 (Summer 2006).

Richard Gribble, CSC, "A 'Consecrated Thunderbolt' of Catholic Education:  The Contribution of Peter C. Yorke,"
U.S. Catholic Historian, 24, 2 (Spring 2006).

Arthur Hippler, Hunters Point: A Black Ghetto.  Basic Books, 1974.

Madeline Hsu, Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home (Chinese immigrants to San Francisco), Stanford University Press, 2000.

Lynn Hudson, The Making of "Mammy Pleasant":  A Black Entrepreneur in Nineteenth Century San Francisco, University of Illinois Press, 2003.

Yuji Ichioka, The Issei: the World of the First Generation Japanese Immigrants (1885-1924). Free Press, 1988.

Wendy Rouse Jorae, The Children of Chinatown: Growing Up Chinese American in San Francisco, 1850–1920 ( PhD dissertation, University of California, Davis, 200, Order No. DA3280598).

Donald Jordan and Timothy O'Keefe, The Irish in the San Francisco Bay Area: Essays on Good Fortune.  Irish Literary and
Historical Society, 2005.

Anthony W. Lee, Painting on the Left: Diego Rivera, Radical Politics, and San Francisco's Public Murals.
University of California, 1999.

Victor  Low,  The Unimpressible Race: A Century  of  Educational Struggle by the Chinese in San Francisco. East/West, 1982.

Glenna Matthews, "Forging a Cosmopolitan Civic Culture: The Regional Identity of San Francisco and Northern California," in Many Wests: Place, Culture, and Regional Identity, ed. by Michael Steiner.  University Press of Kansas, 1997.

David Meltzer, editor, San Francisco Beat: Talking with the Poets.  City Lights, 2001.

Martin Meeker, Contacts Desired:  Gay and Lesbian Communications and Community, 1940s -- 1970s.  University of Chicago, 2006.

Irena  Narrell,  Our City: The Jews of San  Francisco.  Howell-North, 1981.

Clay O'Dell, "The Politics of Housing:  Catholic Activism and Dissent under Archbishop Joseph McGucken of San Francisco,"
American Catholic Studies, 117 3 (Fall 2006).

Clay O'Dell, "On Stony Ground:  The Catholic Interracial Council of San Francisco,"  Ph.D. dissertation, University of Virginia, 2005.

Suzie Kobuchi Okazaki, Nihonmachi: A Story of San Francisco's Japantown. SKO Studios, 1985.

Horacio N.Roque Ramírez, “Memory and Mourning: Living Oral History with Queer Latinos and Latinas in San Francisco,” in Oral History and Public Memories, ed. Paula Hamilton and Linda Shopes, 165–86. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008).

Fred Rosenbaum, Architects of Reform:  Congregational and Community Leadership, Emanu-El of San Francisco, 1849-1980. Judah L. Magnes Museum, 1980.

Fred Rosenbaum, Visions of Reform:  Congregation Emau-El and the Jews of San Francisco, 1849-1999.  Judah L. Magnes 
Museum, 2000.

Gayle Rubin, "Sites, Settlements, and Urban Sex: Archaeology And The Study of Gay Leathermen in San Francisco 1955-1995," in Robert Schmidt and Barbara Voss, eds., Archaeologies of Sexuality, London, Routledge, 2000.

Gayle Rubin, "The Miracle Mile: South of Market and Gay Male Leather in San Francisco 1962- 1996," in James Brook, Chris Carlsson, and Nancy Peters, eds., Reclaiming San Francisco: History, Politics, Culture, San Francisco, City Lights Books, 1998.

Gayle Rubin, "Elegy for the Valley of the Kings: AIDS and the Leather Community in San Francisco, 1981-1996," in Martin P. Levine, Peter M.Nardi, and John H. Gagnon, eds., In Changing Times: Gay Men and Lesbians Encounter HIV/AIDS, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Mary Ryan, Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City during the Nineteenth Century.  University of California Press, 1997.

Nayan Shah, Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown, University of California, 2001.

Randy Shilts, The Mayor of Castro Street: the Life and Times  of Harvey Milk, St. Martins, 1982.

Josh Sides, "Excavating the Postwar Sex District in San Francisco," in Journal of Urban History, 32, 3 (March 2006), 355-379.

Richard Candida Smith, Utopia and Dissent: Art, Poetry and Politics. University of California Press, 1995.

Benson Tong, Unsubmissive Women: Chinese Prostitutes in San Francisco. University of Oklahoma, 1994.

Allison Varzally, Making a Non-White America: Californians Coloring Outside Ethnic Lines, 1925-1955.  University of California Press, 2008.

Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Doctor Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime Celebrity.
University of California, 2005.

James  P. Walsh, ed. The San Francisco Irish,  1850-1976.  Irish Literary and Historical Society, 1978.

James P. Walsh and Timothy O'Keefe, Legacy of a Native Son:  James Duval Phelan and Villa Montalvo.
Forbes Mill Press, 1993.

Terence Young, Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850-1930.  Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.

July Yung, Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco. University of California, 1995

SAN FRANCISCO GUIDEBOOKS AND REFERENCE SOURCES

Gladys Hansen, The San Francisco Almanac. Revised Edition, Chronicle Books, 1995.

Randolph Delehanty. San Francisco: The Ultimate Guide. Chronicle Books, 1989.

Judith Waldhorn and Sally Woodbridge, Victoria's Legacy:  Tours of San Francisco Bay Architecture. Ortho, 1978.

T. H. Watkins and Roger Olmsted, Mirror of the Dream: An  Illustrated History of San Francisco. Scrimshaw, 1976.

SPECIALIZED RESEARCH CAN BE CONDUCTED AT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS