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BOOKS

Wickenberg: Images of America
Arcadia Publishing, 2012

501: The Evolution of the Jean
Brussels: Levi Strauss & Co., 2008

The Archive: Levi's Vintage Clothing
Tokyo: Levi Strauss Japan K.K., 2007.
Photographs by Ichigo Sugawara.

Levi Strauss & Co.
Published by Arcadia Publishing, 2007

California Tile: The Golden Era,
1910-1940, vol. II.
Santa Monica: California Heritage Museum, 2004 (Contributor)

Fired By Ideals: Arequipa Pottery
and the Arts and Crafts Movement.
Rohnert Park, CA: Pomegranate Press, 2000 (Co-author)

This Is A Pair Of Levi’s Jeans.
San Francisco: Levi Strauss & Co., 1995 (Co-author, editor, photo editor)

Catalina Tile of the Magic Isle.
Sausalito, CA: Windgate Press, 1992 (Editor and co-author)

California Tile, The Californians

Wickenberg cover

501: The evolution of the jean Levi Strauss


JOURNAL ARTICLES

Everyone Wears His Name: How Levi Strauss transformed the worlds of work and play.

Convergence, Fall 2008

True Blue: Why the youthful spirit of Levi's jeans has never faded.
Arts & Living California, Fall 2008

Bus Stop 101.
BrooWaha, San Francisco edition, February 12, 2008.
sf.broowaha.com

Telling Dead Men’s Tales.
BrooWaha, San Francisco edition, April 3, 2007.
sf.broowaha.com

Saved By The Blonde.
BrooWaha, San Francisco edition, March 1, 2007.
sf.broowaha.com

Copper Rivets in the Silver State: The Little-Known
Story of How Levi's Jeans were Born in Nevada.

Nevada Magazine, December 2006.

The All-Night Museum.
Etude: New Voices in Literary Nonfiction, Spring 2004.
(etude.uoregon.edu/spring2004).

The Famous Name Behind Another California
Sesquicentennial: Levi Strauss.

California Historian, Spring 2004.

Imagine - paying $46,532 for pants full of holes!
California Historian, Spring 2002.

Everlasting Love.
Sportswear International, November 2001.

Black Telephones and Blue Denim: Business Archives
in California.

California History, Spring 1996 (Co-author)

convergence magazine

Arts and Living 2008

Life In A Lung Resort.
Mediphors, Spring/Summer 1995

This Novel Employment of Untrained Hands.
California History, Fall 1994

For A Better World, Teach Better History.
San Francisco Chronicle, September 30, 1993

Albert Solon: Ceramist with a Sense of Humor,
Parts 1-4. Flash Point, the quarterly journal of the Tile Heritage
Foundation, October 1990-December 1991

High Living: Recipes From Southern Climes,
Parts I-II. The Californians, January-August 1991.

The Legacy of Henry Krier: A Contractor in Contrasts.
Flash Point, July-September, 1989

Fred H. Wilde: His Life and Work,
Parts1-4. Flash Point, January 1988--March, 1989

Duncan McDuffie: Businessman and Conservationist.
Biographical article published in a variety of Bay Area newspapers, May 1987

Philip King Brown and the Arequipa Sanatorium.
Pacific Historian, Spring 1985


The Arequipa Pottery.
Ceramics Monthly, March 1987

 

BOOK REVIEWS

Ava F. Kahn and Marc Dollinger, eds., California Jews.
Reviewed on H-Net, Humanities and Social Sciences Online
(http://h-net.msu.edu), July 29, 2004

Katharine A. Rodger, ed. Renaissance Man of Cannery Row:
The Life and Letters of Edward F. Ricketts.

Reviewed on H-Net, Humanities and Social Sciences Online (h-net.msu.edu), January 9, 2004

Yong Chen, Chinese San Francisco.
Reviewed in California Historian, Winter 2003

Kevin Starr and Richard J. Orsi, Editors, Rooted in Barbarous Soil:
People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California.

Reviewed in California Historian, Summer 2002

Malcolm E. Barker, Three Fearful Days.
Reviewed in California Historian, Spring 2002

Arthur Quinn, The Rivals: William Gwin, David Broderick and the Birth of California.
Reviewed in California Historian, Spring 1999

Arnita A. Jones and Philip L. Canteleon, Editors, Corporate Archives and History:
Making the Past Work.

Reviewed in The Public Historian, Winter 1995


ANTHOLOGIES

American National Biography. Cary, NC: Oxford University Press, 1999. Wrote and edited entries for Adelaide Crapsey, Laura deForce Gordon, Mary Ellen Pleasant and Sally Stanford.