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Winter 2026: Volume 44, Number 1
- The Lost Fountains of North Berkeley / Darrell Owens
- The Kami House: The Near-Century Legacy of a Japanese American Family / David Ushijima and Judy Ziajka
- From Lemon Grove to Berkeley: Latinos in the Fight for Educational Justice / Clementina Durón
- Chester and Catherine Nimitz in Berkeley / Fred Etzel
- Thanks to Our 2025 Benefactors!
Fall 2025: Volume 43, Number 4
- Honoring Roots, Celebrating Resilience: Berkeley’s New Latino Community Exhibit / Juan G. Berumen
- Juan’s Place / Beatriz Leyva-Cutler
- Mexicans in Berkeley During the Great Depression (1929–1939) / Ana Fernandez
- Urban Care, Part 3: The Question of Memory / Mitch Fleischer
- Erich Thomsen Builds the Redwood Valley Railway in Tilden Regional Park / Fred Etzel
Summer 2025: Volume 43, Number 3
- Remembering Five Young West Berkeley Men / Judy Ziajka
- Never Back Down: Billy Martin and His West Berkeley Childhood / Rufus Silber
- New Exhibit Coming in September / Ana Fernandez
- Urban Care, Part 2: The Waterfront / Mitch Fleischer
- Ranger Tim Gordon and the Never-Ending Bridge Around Jewel Lake / Fred Etzel
- Local History Group Celebrates 25th Anniversary / Hal Reynolds for MSHHIG
- Roots, Removal, and Resistance: A Year in Reflection / Nancy Ukai
- Images from Roots, Removal, and Resistance: Japanese Americans
in Berkeley, October 13, 2024 – August 30, 2025
Spring 2025: Volume 43, Number 2
- Urban Care, Part I: A Different Approach to Berkeley Activism / Mitch Fleischer
- Sponsoring a Berkeley Historical Plaque / George O. Petty
- Margaret Matthew d’Ille Gleason: Berkeley Resident and Head of Community Welfare at Manzanar / Suzanne Norton LaFaver
- From Farmer Stanley to Farmer Sophie: History of Berkeley’s Little Farm in Tilden Park / Fred Etzel
- “Roots, Removal, and Resistance” and Japanese American Artists in Berkeley: Excerpts from Our New Videos
Winter 2025: Volume 43, Number 1
- The Evolution of Berkeley City Government / Judy Ziajka
- Inside the Free Speech Movement / Linda Rosen
- Berkeley: The First Seventy-Five Years Compiled by Workers of the Writers’ Program of the Work Projects Administration in Northern California / Fred Etzel
- “The Sunday Before” / Mary Ann Wight
- “In Topaz,” Reflections by Patrick Hayashi
Fall 2024: Volume 42, Number 4
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- Roots, Removal, and Resistance: Japanese Americans in Berkeley
- Excerpts from Citizen 13660 by Miné Okubo
- An Extraordinary Life of Service: The Story of Tad Hirota, by Patricia Hirota-Cohen (Excerpt)
- Stumbling into History
- The “Here Lived” Project: A Digital Testament to the Unjust Incarceration of Berkeley’s Japanese American Residents During World War II, by Michael Several
- Legacy Society Launch
- Dr. William Warren Ferrier: Berkeley Historian and Editor, by Fred Etzel
- A New Historical Plaque in Presentation Park
Summer 2024: Volume 42, Number 3
- George Meléndez Wright and the Idea of Wildness in Our National Parks, by Judy Ziajka
- Rose Schuster Taylor: Founding Librarian of the Yosemite Museum, by Judy Ziajka
- Brief History of the Mobilized Women of Berkeley (MWOB) 1917–1969, by Fred Etzel
- UC Berkeley and the Foundation of the National Parks
Spring 2024: Volume 42, Number 2
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- Berkeley and the Movies
- Berkeley and the Movies: One Personal Story
- The Elmwood Auto Club
- Professor Herbert E. Bolton
- Ursula Le Guin and Philip K. Dick
- Elmwood Theater Memories
Winter 2024: Volume 42, Number 1
- A History of North Berkeley’s Lovers Lane
- The Urns of Thousand Oaks
- The First History of Berkeley
Fall 2023: Volume 41, Number 4
- The 1923 Fire: Berkeley’s First Wildfire Disaster
- The Tak Ping Huen Family in Berkeley, 1952 to 1997
- When Automobile Ferries Sailed Between Berkeley and San Francisco, 1927-1937
- New Video Interviews on Our Website
Summer 2023: Volume 41, Number 3
- From Guangdong to Berkeley: The Kwock Family
- The Beginnings as a College Town: Berkeley in 1873
- Key Route Terrace: Walter H. Leimert Builds a “Perfect Planned Community” for Survivors of the San Francisco 1906 Earthquake
- Eugene Tssui and the “Fish House”
Spring 2023: Volume 41, Number 2
- Touching Ground, Putting Down Roots: Chinese in Berkeley
- Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Performs in Berkeley
- Mameloshn Mamas, a Yiddish Conversation Group
- Reminiscences of “Maybeck Country” (part 4)
Winter 2023: Volume 41, Number 1
- 20th Century Women Who Shaped Berkeley’s Environment
- Drawing Outside the Lines: A New Julia Morgan Novel by Susan Austin
- OLLA PODRIDA: A Brief History of the Berkeley High School Yearbook
Fall 2022: Volume 40, Number 4
- Eco-Berkeley
- Reminiscences of “Maybeck Country” (part 3)
- Treasured Videos of Jacomena Maybeck and Florence Jury
- Coming Soon: Updated History of the Berkeley Fire Department
- Florita Cook: Philip K. Dick’s First Editor
Summer 2022: Volume 40, Number 3
- African Americans in Berkeley
- Edythe Boone, Berkeley Artist & Activist
- The South Berkeley Mural
- New Videos of Berkeley’s Yiddish-Speaking Mameloshn Mamas
- Second Printing of Ying Lee’s Oral History Available
- Julia Morgan: An Intimate Biography book review
- Catherine Bauer: Public Housing Advocate, Co-founder and Associate Dean, UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design
Spring 2022: Volume 40, Number 2
- African Americans in Berkeley: Art, Entertainment, Literature, Sports
- New Exhibit-Related Interviews Available
- Dr. Carol Aronovici: City Planning Educator and Affordable Housing Advocate
- Reminiscences of “Maybeck Country” (part 2)
- Taylor’s Leather Goods
Winter 2022: Volume 40, Number 1
- The Mundstock Collection
- The Berkeley Daily Gazette and Its Publishers and Carrier Boys
- New Historical Plaque at Becky Temko Tot Park
- J.F. Altermatt, Berkeley Builder, Part 2
Archives
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| 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1978 |
Subject Index of Articles
| Topic | Article / Author | Issue |
| A | ||
| Activism | Recollections of the Free Speech Movement / Linda Rosen | Fall 2014 |
| Recollections of the Free Speech Movement / Ed Herny | Fall 2014 | |
| “Ready, Aim, Sing!” –Songs of Protest / Ed Herny | Winter 2018 | |
| 20th Century Women Who Shaped Berkeley’s Environment / Anna Rabkin | Winter 2023 | |
| Brief History of the Mobilized Women of Berkeley (MWOB) 1917–1969 / Fred Etzel | Summer 2024 | |
| Urban Care, Part I: A Different Approach to Berkeley Activism / Mitch Fleischer | Spring 2025 | |
| Inside the Free Speech Movement | Winter 2025 | |
| Urban Care, Part 2: The Waterfront / Mitch Fleischer | Fall 2025 | |
| Urban Care, Part 3: The Question of Memory / Mitch Fleischer | Summer 2025 | |
| Architects | John Hudson Thomas and the Hume Cloister / Ken Cardwell | Winter 1999 |
| J.F. Altermatt / George Petty | Fall 2021, Winter 2022 | |
| Julia Morgan: An Intimate Biography (book revew) / Lloyd Linford | Summer 2022 | |
| Catherine Bauer: Public Housing Advocate, Co-founder and Associate Dean, UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design / Fred Etzel | Summer 2022 | |
| Architecture | Key Route Terrace / Fred Etzel and Ann Harlow | Summer 2023 |
| Eugene Tssui and the “Fish House” / Eugene Tssui | Summer 2023 | |
| Artists | Jane FitzGibbon Recalls Berkeley’s Bay Area Figurative Painters / Burl Willes | Fall 2018 |
| John Bernhardt, Berkeley “Window Trimmer” / Bill Roberts | Fall 2019 | |
| Sculptor Douglas Tilden was California’s Finest / Ken Stein | Winter 1998 | |
| Edythe Boone, Berkeley Artist & Activist / Tina Jones Williams | Summer 2022 | |
| “Roots, Removal and Resistance” and Japanese American Artists in Berkeley: Excerpts from Our New Videos | Spring 2025 | |
| Authors | Local Boy’s Work Returns to Berkeley, “Our Town” Benefit at Berkeley Rep | Fall 2005 |
| Do Androids Dream in Berkeley? Philip K. Dick’s Life in Our City / Maureen Foster | Summer/Fall 2008, Winter 2009 | |
| Literary Lights of the Berkeley Hills / Aleta George | Spring 2016 | |
| Baldy of Nome and Berkeley / Leonard Schwab | Summer 2019 | |
| Florita Cook: Philip K. Dick’s First Editor / Fred Etzel | Fall 2022 | |
| Ursula K. Le Guin and Philip K. Dick in Berkeley / Fred Etzel and Judy Ziajka | Spring 2024 | |
| Dr. William Warren Ferrier: Berkeley Historian and Editor / Fred Etzel | Fall 2024 | |
| Aviation | The Hall-Scott Car Company, When Berkeley Built Aviation Engines / Ric Dias and Francis Bradford | Spring 2006 |
| When Berkeley Takes Off! Little-Known Aviation History / Linda Rosen | Spring 2006, Summer 2006 | |
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| BART | Undergrounding BART / Steven Finacom | Fall 1999 |
| Berkeley Historical Society | Berkeley Historical Society – 20 years / Gloria Cooper | Fall 1998 |
| Forty Years of Collecting Berkeley History / Bill Roberts | Winter 2018 | |
| The Beginnings of the Berkeley Historical Society in 1978 / Stephanie Manning and Ken Stein | Winter 2021 | |
| Creation of the Berkeley History Center with a Museum, Archive, and Library / Linda Rosen with Burl Willes and Brenda Luckin | Winter 2021 | |
| Buildings | The Berkeley Library: The Beginnings of a Literary Place / James Cara and Ken Cardwell | Fall 1998 |
| Remembering the Original Thousand Oaks School / Evelyn Whitehead McCool | Fall 2001 | |
| Before the Claremont Hotel, There Was the Palache Family / Judith Markel | Summer 2002 | |
| Mansions on Marin / Baird Whaley | Winter 2003 | |
| Tuohy’s Second Addition / Nicholas Rosenlicht | Spring 2004 | |
| Remembrance of a Life at the United Artists Theater / Suzie Workman | Spring 2013 | |
| Topping out of the Sather Campanile / Steven Finacom | Winter 2014 | |
| Happy 100th Birthday to Our Campanile / John Aronovici | Spring 2015 | |
| A Startling Fact about Julia Morgan’s Berkeley City Club / Dr. Sarah Gill | Fall 2015 | |
| Berkeley’s First State Institution Came Here 151 Years Ago, Before the University / Steven Finacom | Fall 2018 | |
| Veterans Memorial Building: Plaques, Monuments, and Displays / Fred Etzel | Spring 2020 | |
| Sponsoring a Berkeley Historical Plaque | Spring 2025 | |
| Businesses | Historic Spenger’s will reopen in late summer as Spenger’s Fresh Fish Grotto / Lee Houskeeper | Summer 1999 |
| Some Fascinating Fish Tales From Paul Spenger / Paul Spenger | Summer 2002 | |
| Recollections of Paul Spenger, Part II | Fall 2002 | |
| Fermenting Berkeley / Daphne Tooke and Susan Austin | Winter 2005 | |
| Cutter Laboratories / Jack Cutter | Winter 2005 | |
| The Old Order Passes: The Last Days at Spenger’s / Paul Soltow, Jr. | Winter 2011 | |
| The Giant Powder Company / Philip L. Gale | Winter 2012 | |
| The Layout of Berkeley / Larry Layne | Winter 2016 | |
| Singing and Dancing and Beer – “Oh My!” The Battle Against Berkeley’s Anti-Cabaret Ordinance / Shelley Rideout | Fall 2017 | |
| Where the Action Was: Berkeley’s Music City Records / Alec Palao | Fall 2017 | |
| The Rise and Fall of the Co-op (book review) / Charles Wollenberg | Fall 2020 | |
| Taylor’s Leather Goods / Ann Harlow | Spring 2022 | |
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| Chinese Americans | Touching Ground, Putting Down Roots: Chinese in Berkeley / Charles Wollenberg | Spring 2023 |
| From Guangdong to Berkeley: The Kwock Family / Marilyn Kwock | Summer 2023 | |
| Churches | Northbrae Community Church Celebrates Centennial / Barbara Hill | Winter 2014 |
| Civil War | Berkeley’s Civil War Legacy / Fred Etzel | Spring 2021 |
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| Dance | Early Days of Dance in the East Bay / Tonya Staros & Jeanine Castello-Lin | Spring 2012, Summer 2012 |
| Disasters | History Repeats Itself / V. S. Aronovici | Winter 1998 |
| Who Was Seneca Gale? (post-1906 earthquake account) / Phil Gale | Winter 1999 | |
| Berkeley’s Old Fashioned Earthquake / Ken Pettit | Summer 2000 | |
| Paul Spenger Recalls the Earthquake of 1906 | Spring 2003 | |
| One Family’s Experience in the 1923 Fire / Phil Gale | Fall 2003 | |
| Flooding in Berkeley at Hearst and Euclid / Janet Reid Sherwin | Spring 2004 | |
| Berkeley Fire of 1923, September 21, 1923 letter by Clara Setchell | Fall 2004 | |
| E | ||
| Events | First European Tourists Take Bay Cruise / Carl Wilson | Fall 1998 |
| Football Days at Cal, 1938: Arriving by Ferry, Steam Train, Street Car and/or Bus | Spring 2013 | |
| Celebrating the Opening of the East Bay Bridge, 1936 / Steve Finacom | Fall 2013 | |
| The McGee-Spaulding District Goes Radical / Hal Reynolds | Fall 2013 | |
| Looking Back: The Free Speech Movement at Fifty | Fall 2014 | |
| Berkeley Goes to the Fair / Steven Finacom | Spring 2015 | |
| Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Performs in Berkeley / Fred Etzel | Spring 2023 | |
| F | ||
| Fire Department | Histories and Historians of the Berkeley Fire Department / Fred Etzel | Winter 2021 |
| Berkeley Fire Department Adopts New Logo | Summer 2021 | |
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Food |
Berkeley’s Fascination with Food / Ann Harlow | Spring 2020 |
| Counterculture and Food in Berkeley / Ann Harlow | Summer 2020 | |
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| Garbage—see Solid Waste | ||
| Gardens | Over 100 Years of Community Gardening in Berkeley “A Garden for Every Child. Every Child a Garden” | Summer 2013 |
| Berkeley’s Columbus School Garden 1920-1930+ / Phyllis M. Housel Gale | Summer 2013 | |
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Edible City: Grow the Revolution, Sustainable Agriculture in the Bay Area, Film and Panel, September 22 / Jeanine Castello-Lin |
Fall 2013 | |
| Government | The Evolution of Berkeley City Government | Winter 2025 |
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| Histories of Berkeley | Historians and Histories of Berkeley / Fred Etzel | Fall 2019 |
| Discovering the Swingle Collection of Berkeley History / Fred Etzel | Summer 2019 | |
| A Brief Survey of Histories and Historians of the Berkeley Public Library / Fred Etzel | Summer 2020 | |
| Histories and Historians of the Berkeley Fire Department / Fred Etzel | Winter 2021 | |
| The First History of Berkeley / Fred Etzel | Winter 2024 | |
| Sponsoring a Berkeley Historical Plaque / George O. Petty | Spring 2025 | |
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Berkeley: The First Seventy-Five Years Compiled by Workers of the Writers’ Program of the Work Projects Administration in Northern California / Fred Etzel |
Winter 2025 | |
| Houses | Researching Berkeley Houses / Fred Etzel | Fall 2018, Winter 2019 |
| Researching Berkeley Houses: Alameda County Records / George O. Petty | Winter 2020 | |
| J.F. Altermatt, Berkeley Builder / George O. Petty | Fall 2021 | |
| J | ||
| Japanese Americans | Roots, Removal, and Resistance: Japanese Americans in Berkeley / Nancy Ukai | Fall 2024 |
| An Extraordinary Life of Service: The Story of Tad Hirota (Excerpt) / Patricia Hirota-Cohen | Fall 2024 | |
| Stumbling into History / David Ushijima | Fall 2024 | |
| The “Here Lived” Project: A Digital Testament to the Unjust Incarceration of Berkeley’s Japanese American Residents During World War II / Michael Several | Fall 2024 | |
| Margaret Matthew d’Ille Gleason: Berkeley Resident and Head of Community Welfare at Manzanar / Suzanne Norton LaFaver | Spring 2025 | |
| “Roots, Removal and Resistance” and Japanese American Artists in Berkeley: Excerpts from Our New Videos | Spring 2025 | |
| “The Sunday Before” / Mary Ann Wight | Winter 2025 | |
| “In Topaz,” Reflections by Patrick Hayashi | Winter 2025 | |
| Roots, Removal, and Resistance: A Year in Reflection / Nancy Ukai | Summer 2025 | |
| The Kami House: The Near-Century Legacy of a Japanese American Family / David Ushijima and Judy Ziajka | Winter 2026 | |
| L | ||
| Latino/Chicano/Latinx | Honoring Roots, Celebrating Resilience: Berkeley’s New Latino Community Exhibit / Juan G. Berumen | |
| Juan’s Place / Beatriz Leyva-Cutler | ||
| Mexicans in Berkeley During the Great Depression (1929–1939) / Ana Fernandez | ||
| Never Back Down: Billy Martin and His West Berkeley Childhood / Rufus Silber | ||
| Remembering Five Young West Berkeley Men / Judy Ziajka | Summer 2025 | |
| From Lemon Grove to Berkeley: Latinos in the Fight for Educational Justice / Clementina Durón | Winter 2026 | |
| Laws | Early Laws impacting Local Life in Berkeley / Rajeev Sachdev | Winter 2013 |
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| Milk | The Days of Home Milk Delivery / Gary Sabatte | Winter 2001 |
| Movies & Movie Theaters | Berkeley and the Movies / Harvey Smith | Spring 2024 |
| Elmwood Theater Memories / Ken Duffy | Spring 2024 | |
| Museums | The Evolution of Berkeley’s University Art Museum / Ann Harlow | Fall 2015 |
| The Downtown Berkeley Art Museum of the 1920s / Ann Harlow | Winter 2016 | |
| A Visual Postscript to the Art Museum Exhibit / Steve Finacom | Spring 2016 | |
| Fifty Years of Berkeley’s “The Magnes” / Burl Willes | Summer 2016 | |
| N | ||
| National Parks | UC Berkeley and the Foundation of the National Parks | Winter 2025 |
| George Meléndez Wright and the Idea of Wildness in Our National Parks / Judy Ziajka Rose Schuster Taylor: Founding Librarian of the Yosemite Museum / Judy Ziajka |
Summer 2024 | |
| Summer 2024 | ||
| Neighborhoods | Childhood Memories of Nut Hill / Deborah Whitney | Summer 1999 |
| Berkeley’s Finnish Community / Margot Lind, Harri Siitonen, Auni Hendrickson, Helen Harlow and Linda Rosen | Fall 2000 | |
| Swedish Life in Lorin, 1905-1925 / Merle Dean | Summer 2005, Fall 2005 | |
| Businesses in Lorin in 1925 | Summer 2005, Fall 2005 | |
| Why is it Called Lorin? / John Ginno Aronovici | Winter 2009 | |
| The Heart of Berkeley: The Historic McGee-Spaulding District | Summer 2013 | |
| The Fountain and Walk of Northbrae: The Challenge of Maintaining a Berkeley Treasure / Michael Gray | Summer 2013 | |
| The Heart of Berkeley: The Historic McGee-Spaulding District | Fall 2013 | |
| Reminiscences of “Maybeck Country” / Lloyd Linford | Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023 | |
| The South Berkeley Mural | Summer 2022 | |
| The Urns of Thousand Oaks | Winter 2024 | |
| Local History Group Celebrates 25th Anniversary / Hal Reynolds for MSHHIG | Summer 2025 | |
| The Lost Fountains of North Berkeley / Darrell Owens | Winter 2026 | |
| New Deal | Traces of the New Deal In Berkeley, 1933-42 / Tanya March | Summer 2001, Fall 2001 |
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| Oral Histories | Mameloshn Mamas, a Yiddish Conversation Group / Tonya Staros and Jeanine Castello-Lin | Spring 2023 |
| Organizations | The Elmwood Auto Club: A Remembrance | Spring 2024 |
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| Parks and Pathways | Taking a Walk Through History of City’s Pathways / Paul Grunland | Spring 2001 |
| The Rose Walk Story Step by Step / John Underhill | Fall 2003 | |
| The Evolution of Berkeley’s Downtown Park: Washington Square-Constitution Park-Provo Park-Civic Center Park-Martin Luther King Junior Park / John G. Aronovici | Spring 2012 | |
| The True Story of the Rose Walk: Step by Step Rose Walk Centennial: 1913-2013 / John R. Underhill | Spring 2013 | |
| How Barbara Luce-Richey Added a “Pocket Park” to John Spring’s Solano Avenue Terrace Tract / Fred Etzel | Summer 2017 | |
| Berkeley’s First “People’s Park”: The Becky Temko Tot Park / Hal Reynolds | Spring 2019 | |
| From Farmer Stanley to Farmer Sophie: History of Berkeley’s Little Farm in Tilden Park / Fred Etzel | Spring 2025 | |
| Ranger Tim Gordon and the Never-Ending Bridge Around Jewel Lake / Fred Etzel | Summer 2025 | |
| Erich Thomsen Builds the Redwood Valley Railway in Tilden Regional Park / Fred Etzel | Fall 2025 | |
| People—see Residents and Women (pioneering) | ||
| Plans | Berkeley’s First City Plan in 1915 / Steven Finacom | Summer 2015 |
| The Layout of Berkeley / Larry Layne | Winter 2016 | |
| Poets and Poems | Two Early Poems About Berkeley / Steven Finacom | Fall 2018 |
| And a Little More Poetry…” On Permanence” / Linda Rosen | Fall 2018 | |
| Police/Public Safety | Captain Vollmer’s New Patrol Program: 25 Bicycles Sold to Berkeley Police Department | Summer/Fall 2008 |
| Uncle Gus (Chief Vollmer) and Mrs. Miller / Steve Taylor | Fall 2009 | |
| Fingerprint Everyone in Berkeley? / John G. Aronovici | Winter 2011 | |
| August Vollmer: The Father of American Policing / Will Oliver | Fall 2016 | |
| Young Gus Vollmer, Berkeley Hero / Willard M. Oliver | Spring 2017 | |
| Was Berkeley Police Chief August Vollmer a Nazi Sympathizer? / Willard M. Oliver | Summer 2017 | |
| A Tale of Two Badges / Will Oliver | Fall 2017 | |
| A Short History of Vollmer’s Revolver / Will Oliver | Winter 2017 | |
| Captain Vollmer’s New Patrol Program: 25 Bicycles Sold to Berkeley Police Department | Summer/Fall 2018 | |
| August Vollmer and the Japanese Internment / Will Oliver | Winter 2018 | |
| Yes, Berkeley Once Had a Vigilante Riot: The Shocking Incident of Joshua Sykes in April 1918 / Steven Finacom | Spring 2018 | |
| Politics | Who Is Myrna? / Bill Roberts | Summer 2019 |
| She Is Yearning to Vote / Phyllis M. Housel Gale | Summer 2019 | |
| Presidents | Early US Presidents Visit Berkeley’s School Children | Winter 2007 |
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| Racism | Some Racist Traces From Berkeley’s Past / Ken Stein | Spring 2000, Summer 2000 |
| Radio | History of KRE: Berkeley’s Radio Station / John F. Schneider | Spring 2007, Summer 2007 |
| Residents (alphabetical order) | Dr. Carol Aronovici: City Planning Educator and Affordable Housing Advocate / Fred Etzel | Spring 2022 |
| I was a Depression Bride in Berkeley: Reminiscences of 1933-1934 / Eleanor Bliss | Summer 2004 | |
| Professor Herbert Eugene Bolton / Fred Etzel | Spring 2024 | |
| A Paper Boy in Berkeley / Buzz Cardoza | Spring 2011 | |
| Mme. Chiang Kai-shek and Claremont Court / Burl Willes | Winter 2016 | |
| Berkeley As I Knew It In Early Days / Wilhelmine F. Bolsted Cianciarulo | Fall 2010 | |
| Do Androids Dream in Berkeley? Philip K. Dick’s Life in Our City / Maureen Foster | Summer/Fall 2008, Winter 2009 | |
| Ursula K. Le Guin and Philip K. Dick in Berkeley / Fred Etzel and Judy Ziajka | Spring 2024 | |
| Marjory Farquhar, Peak Woman / Burl Willes | Summer 2020 | |
| Who Was Seneca Gale? / Phil Gale | Winter 1999 | |
| Leonore Hermann Ginno, DDS, Berkeley’s First Woman Dentist / John Ginno Aronovici | Summer 1999 | |
| Margaret Matthew d’Ille Gleason: Berkeley Resident and Head of Community Welfare at Manzanar | Spring 2025 | |
| “Living Link” Weston Havens / Burl Willes | Winter 2001 | |
| Mable Howard and BART / Mildred Howard and Stephanie Anne Johnson | Spring 2020 | |
| Serendipity: Used Book on Berkeley History Was Once Owned by City’s First Woman Mayor (Carrie L. Hoyt) / Fred Etzel | Spring 2017 | |
| Samuel James Hume and Portia Bell Hume / Ken Cardwell | Winter 1999 | |
| Coming to Berkeley by Florence Jury and Jacomena Maybeck | Spring 2010 | |
| Treasured Videos of Jacomena Maybeck and Florence Jury / Pam Valois | Fall 2022 | |
| Transformation on Spaulding Avenue: The Story of Jack LaLanne in Berkeley / Hal Reynolds | Winter 2009 | |
| Ursula K. Le Guin and Philip K. Dick in Berkeley / Fred Etzel and Judy Ziajka | Spring 2024 | |
| How Barbara Luce-Richey Added a “Pocket Park” to John Spring’s Solano Avenue Terrace Tract / Fred Etzel | Summer 2017 | |
| The Marstons in Berkeley: The Captain and His Wife / Phil Gale | Winter 2005 | |
| The Marstons in Berkeley: The Children / Phil Gale | Spring 2011 | |
| Coming to Berkeley by Florence Jury and Jacomena Maybeck | Spring 2010 | |
| Treasured Videos of Jacomena Maybeck and Florence Jury / Pam Valois | Fall 2022 | |
| Joseph H. McCourt and Bruno L. Putzker: Berkeleyans Who Fought in the Philippine Insurrection of 1899-1902 / Fred Etzel | Fall 2020 | |
| Pioneer Farmer and Benefactor: James McGee / Members of the McGee-Spalding-Hardy Historic Interest Group | Winter 2007 | |
| Chester and Catherine Nimitz in Berkeley / Fred Etzel | Winter 2026 | |
| Memories of David Park / Burl Willes | Summer 2011 | |
| New Monument to a Berkeley Resident (William Byron Rumford) / Ann Harlow | Summer 2016 | |
| Paul Salz: Kindertransport Refugee and Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley Lab / Tonya Staros | Summer 2017 | |
| Lydia Sturtevant: Berkeley’s Opera Singer / Willard M. Oliver | Winter 2019 | |
| Rose Schuster Taylor: Founding Librarian of the Yosemite Museum by Judy Ziajka | Summer 2024 | |
| Captain Richard Park Thomas, Nut Hill Pioneer / Carl Wilson | Spring 2000, Summer 2000 | |
| James Tippett’s Memories | Summer 2006 | |
| Uncle Gus (Chief Vollmer) and Mrs. Miller / Steve Taylor | Fall 2009 | |
| Samuel Hopkins Willey, Pioneer Berkeley Resident / Fred Etzel | Fall 2021 | |
| J. Stitt Wilson, Berkeley’s Socialist Mayor / Stephen Barton | Summer 2011 | |
| Berkeley Mayor J. Stitt Wilson and the 1911 Women’s Suffrage Campaign / Stephen Barton | Fall 2020 | |
| Leon Wofsy, 1921-2019: Pioneering Immunologist, Lifelong Champion of Social Justice / Jeanine Castello-Lin and Tonya Staros | Winter 2020 | |
| Bertha Wright and Mabel Weed: Berkeley’s Early Nurse and Social Worker / John Ginno Aronovici | Fall 2007 | |
| George Meléndez Wright and the Idea of Wildness in Our National Parks by Judy Ziajka Rose Schuster Taylor: Founding Librarian of the Yosemite Museum / Judy Ziajka |
Summer 2024 | |
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| Schools | Remembering the Original Thousand Oaks School / Evelyn Whitehead McCool | Fall 2001 |
| Berkeley’s Columbus School Garden 1920-1930+ / Phyllis M. Housel Gale | Summer 2013 | |
| Was Willard the First Junior High? / Phyllis Gale and Jennifer Dix | Summer 2016 | |
| Berkeley’s First State Institution Came Here 151 Years Ago, Before the University / Steven Finacom | Fall 2018 | |
| Shellmound | The West Berkeley Shellmound in 1907 / Chris Walker | Summer 2018 |
| Ships | Down to the Seas in Berkeley’s Ships, Margot Lind / John Aronovici and Phil Gale. | Spring 2009 |
| The Great White Fleet’s Visit to Berkeley in 1908 / Steven Finacom | Fall 2009 | |
| Social Worker | Bertha Wright and Mabel Weed: Berkeley’s Early Nurse and Social Worker / John Ginno Aronovici | Fall 2007 |
| Solid Waste (garbage) | Garbage In… Not Always Garbage Out / Susan Schwartz | Spring 1999 |
| Streets | Telegraph Avenue, Revisited | Dec. 2006 |
| Life on Edwards Street, Judy Kennedy Interview | Spring 2008 | |
| The Marquis of Russell Street / Burl Willes | Summer 2012 | |
| Wild Streetcars on Spruce Street | Winter 2013 | |
| New Light on 101 Oxford Street / Susan Austin, Ph.D | Summer 2015 | |
| A Brief History of the 500 Block of Neilson Street / Fred Etzel | Winter 2017 | |
| A History of North Berkeley’s Lovers Lane / Judy Ziajka | Winter 2024 | |
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| Transportation | Getting on Track During World War II / Philip Gale | Spring 1999 |
| Ferries from Berkeley to SF: 1874-1937 / Phil Gale | Winter 2000 | |
| Hall-Scott’s Railcars / Phil Gale | Dec. 2006 | |
| The Pullman Sleeping Car Berkeley / Phil Gale | Spring 2009 | |
| Wild Streetcars on Spruce Street | Winter 2013 | |
| Trees | Under the Shade of the Araucaria / Oscar N. Abeliuk, MD | Spring 2009 |
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| University | Student Housing Berkeley Style / Ken Cardwell | Fall 1999 |
| University Students’ Cooperative, Association Origins / Madeline Loh | Summer 2012 | |
| Mystery Solved: What Happened to the Class of 1881 / Inga Vanek | Summer 2013 | |
| Edward Chace Tolman: The Cognitive Map and the Loyalty Oath / Fred Etzel | Winter 2018 | |
| Beginnings as a College Town / Steven Finacom | Summer 2023 | |
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| Veterans | Commemorating War Veterans on the Home Front / Phyllis Gale | Winter 2017 |
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| Weather | The Biggest Snowstorm in Berkeley’s History, Snow? In Berkeley? / John Aronovici | Fall 2005 |
| Ski Berkeley! / Mark McLaughlin | Fall 2005 | |
| Berkeley Snow Scorecard | Fall 2005 | |
| Women (pioneering) | Minnie Russell Churchill / Martha E. Simmons | Spring 1999 |
| Early Berkeley Women 1878-1953 / Phyllis Gale | Spring 2003 | |
| Millicent W. Shinn (1858-1940) / Phyllis Gale | Fall 2003 | |
| Bertha Wright and Mabel Weed: Berkeley’s Early Nurse and Social Worker / John Ginno Aronovici | Fall 2007 | |
| 90th Anniversary of America’s First Woman Law Professor: Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong / Zita Ballinger Fletcher | Spring 2018 | |
| Carrie F. Young: Temperance Advocate, Suffragist and Physician / Fred Etzel | Summer 2018 | |
| First Woman Elected to the California State Legislature 100 Years Ago / Phyllis Gale | Fall 2018 | |
| Myra Simmons, Black Suffragist 1881–1965 / Phyllis Gale | Winter 2019 | |
| Marion Johnson and Leela Craig Create Chaparral House on Strawberry Creek / Fred Etzel | Spring 2019 | |
| 1914 – Berkeley Women Prepare for a School Bond Vote / Phyllis Gale | Spring 2019 | |
| Black Women’s Sororities at UC Berkeley and Their Distinguished Leaders / Linda P. Rosen | Fall 2019 | |
| Suffragist Margaret Angela Haley, November 15, 1861 – January 5, 1939 / Phyllis Gale | Fall 2019 | |
| Carrie Hendrickson Gibbs: Suffragist, School Board Member, President of the Berkeley Federation of Mothers’ Clubs / Phyllis Gale | Winter 2020 | |
| Berkeley Suffragists March Down Broadway, 1908 / Phyllis Gale | Spring 2020 | |
| Dr. Mary Coolidge: Suffragist, President of Both Berkeley and California Civic Leagues / Phyllis Gale | Summer 2020 | |
| Soroptimist International Leader Violet Richardson Ward, Early Proponent of Physical Fitness / Carol Dippel | Summer 2021 | |
| Brief History of the Mobilized Women of Berkeley (MWOB) 1917–1969 / Fred Etzel | Summer 2024 | |
| World War II | Getting on Track During World War II / Philip Gale | Spring 1999 |
| Recollections of Berkeley in the ’30s and the Impact of World War II / George M. O’Connor | Winter 2002 | |
| Camp Ashby, Berkeley | Dec. 2006 | |
| On the Homefront in Tilden Park / Richard Lang | Winter 2017 | |
| Oral History: World War II and the Abraham Family / Frank Abraham | Winter 2017 | |
| Was Your Mother a Rosie the Riveter? / Phyllis Gale | Winter 2017 | |
| My Memories of the Home Front / John Ginno Aronovici | Winter 2017 |