Peter Richardson

This morning I came upon an adroit piece in the Los Angeles Times on Carey McWilliams's Southern California: An Island on the Land . T...

I just read a review of A Bomb in Every Issue published in The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture . The reviewer, a gradu...

Rose Aguilar and I will appear at The Booksmith on Tuesday, Feb. 1, at 7:30 p.m. The topic is citizen journalism--or rather, lame journali...

A while back I was asked to help behind the scenes (way behind the scenes!) with an upcoming museum exhibition on the year 1968. The Oaklan...

This week I had the pleasure of hearing from Baron Wolman, who contributed many key photographs to Ramparts . He took the Oakland 7 photo I ...

I attended a Berkeley Arts & Letters event last week featuring Robert Scheer, whose new book is The Great American Stickup: How Reagan ...

Peter Seidman's piece on the Green New Deal for the North Bay got picked up by CommonDreams (and other sites) this week. The piece ori...

I should have read this a long time ago, but I finally got to Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston. (Turn...

PoliPointPress is launching a new series called P3 Classics. The idea is to revive fantastic books on politics that, for one reason or anoth...

Many Bay Area residents of a certain age will remember Michael Rossman, a student activist at Berkeley who died of leukemia in 2008. Others...