Peter Richardson

My colleagues and I at the California Studies Association were shocked and saddened to hear that Jonathan Rowe passed away suddenly last wee...

Thanks to the efforts of Nicholas Meriwether, Grateful Dead archivist at UC Santa Cruz, I'm scheduled to deliver a paper on the Dead nex...

I attended the California Studies dinner last night in Berkeley and was treated to the perfect blend of expertise and conviviality that I as...

I just returned from a book event in Oakland for William Bennett Turner's Figures of Speech: First Amendment Heroes and Villains . Supe...

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 ...