Category Archive: World War II

California Triangulation: Science, Religion, Industry, and the Birth of the Research Park

Last April HBO launched one of its newest series, the Mike Judge-produced “Silicon Valley,” documenting the “wacky” experiences of […]

Pioneering the Pacific Rim: Baseball, California, and the Creation of Transpacific Trade

On September 1, 1964, Masanori Murakami threw a scoreless eighth inning for the San Francisco Giants. Amid a […]