The Bay Area played an essential role in developing the American West, so it’s no surprise that there’s an abundance of terrific history museums in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Fast Forward In ‘Mapping Jewish San Francisco,’ a treasure trove of Bay Area Jewish history goes on display Much of the historical material is being seen publicly for the first time ...

Fort Point in San Francisco, now a U.S. National Historic Site, was a cutting-edge fort during the Civil War made from millions of hand-cut bricks. It can look rather humble in the Golden Gate ...

'A walking billboard': The history of San Francisco's most recognizable bag Amoeba Music's yellow and red bag has become ubiquitous on Bay Area streets By Dan Gentile , Senior Culture Editor March ...

I was interested in that as well. So I decided to take this in that direction, connecting to the history of San Francisco and its history of the Bay Area, but specifically from a perspective of ...

Inside Recology’s garbage collection hub for San Francisco, located in nearby Brisbane, is a somewhat secret museum devoted to the history of the city’s trash.

Out of the 14 earthquakes recorded and measured near San Francisco, only three others in recent geological history struck at or over magnitude 7: A magnitude 7 in 1838, a magnitude 7 in 1868 and a ...