San Francisco’s paper-and-pen-based system, in which plans are manually moved from person to person to person in a time-consumingly sequential and linear manner, is a setup that traces back to the ...

In this context, Binh Danh’s daguerreotypes of contemporary San Francisco, on view in This, Then, is San Francisco at Haines Gallery, are inseparable from the city’s history. Photographs like City ...

A controversial 19th century statue in San Francisco's Civic Center has been removed. The statue showed a Native American man at the feet of a conquering Spanish cowboy and a Catholic missionary.

SAN FRANCISCO — A San Francisco board has voted unanimously to remove a 19th century statue that activists say is racist and demeaning to indigenous people. The unanimous decision Wednesday ...

The San Francisco of the 19th Century exerts a romantic tug on the present day, a sepia-toned metropolis that sprang up out of nothing to attract robber barons, writers, and eccentrics only to be ...

As part of the installation, visitors will learn about Yick Wo. v. Hopkins, an 1886 Supreme Court case that specified that ...

San Francisco's Chinatown, the oldest Chinese enclave in America, has a rich history. It's a site where concerns over larger issues of immigration and racial discrimination played out. After the ...

"These incredible artifacts give us a glimpse of daily life for the passengers and crew in the 1850s… They are a time capsule ...

Her crime offers a lens on 19th-century San Francisco. ‘I did it and I don’t deny it,’ said Laura Fair of killing a California politician. Her crime offers a lens on 19th-century San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO - A landmark company ... officials announced early Wednesday that it will cease operations and liquidate the business — established in the 19th century — citing economic ...