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6 Exceedingly Strange Bay Area Walking Tours

A New Graphic Novel Explores the Life and Strange Times of Eadweard Muybridge

Book covers of The Fate of the Day, Ginseng Roots, Girl on Girl, Questions Without Answers, The Sea Gives Up the Dead, The Secret Life of a Cemetery.

There’s Some Revolutionary Reading Coming Your Way This Week

Two men stand staring at a wall featuring the word LIQUOR, plus American and South Vietnamese flags. There is graffiti on the wall depicting the shooting of Nguyen Van Lem.

12 Television Shows Influenced by the Vietnam War

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10 Fiction and Nonfiction Books Inspired by the Vietnam War

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10 Movies That Defined the Vietnam War on the Big Screen

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A Very Strange Alcatraz Painting From a 1973 KQED Auction Is Back Up for Sale

After 100 Episodes, ‘History of the Bay’ Expands Its Horizons

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Bay Area Groups Reel From Trump’s Cuts to the National Endowment of the Humanities

Mark Synnott Heads ‘Into the Ice’ to Chase the Mystery of Sir John Franklin

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Revisiting the 1968 SFSU Student Strike While Trump Targets Campus Protesters

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Honoring the Girls Incarcerated in San Francisco’s Magdalen Asylum

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