James A. Garfield and the Civil War His oratorical powers made him a master recruiter. His willingness to learn earned him important field commands. His talents for organization won him praise,...
Commemoration of massacre of Black residents "that occurred on Election Day 1920. Until that episode, historians say, black people comprised about half of the city’s population. Trouble boiled...
Plaque describing statue of Le Petit Prince: Le Petit Prince Written in New York in 1943 by French Author, Aviator, and WWII Hero Antoine de Saint Exupéry Jean-Marc de Pas, Sculptor Bronze,...
Prof. John Winthrop The greatest American mathematician and philosopher of his time. A fellow of the Royal Society lived here from 1746 - 1779 1714-1779 added by Curiouser
ON THE NIGHT OF OCTOBER 16,1859, HEYWARD SHEPHERD,AN INDUSTRIOUS AND RESPECTED COLORED FREEMAN, WAS MORTALLY WOUNDED BY JOHN BROWN'S RAIDERS. IN PURSUANCE OF HIS DUTIES AS AN EMPLOYEE OF THE...
Tulanian Rugs Hutchison & Mills, Architects Leslie R. Wilson, Developer & Builder, 1923 In 1922, Armenian genocide survivor Hachadoor Tulanian (1894–1965) arrived in Berkeley and opened...
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