May 2024
Presidio Walking Tour
This walking tour focuses on the Presidio de San Diego, buried underground below the Serra Museum. Learn about the historical significance of this site going back to deep time, how the unique river and marine environment attracted people to the site since time immemorial.
Find out more »Lunch and Learn: Uncovering Hidden History
Join us for an enlightening lunchtime with Professor Susie Lan Cassel as we dive into the previously untold story of the Chinese Mission schools in early San Diego.
Find out more »June 2024
Lunch and Learn: Empire Builder
Dr. Sandra E. Bonura is a historian and award winning author of multiple nonfiction books. Her popular book, “Empire Builder: John D. Spreckels and the Making of San Diego” chronicles the life of a forgotten pioneer who almost single-handedly built San Diego after creating empires in sugar, shipping, transportation, and building development up and down the coast of California and across the Pacific.
Find out more »Member Research Day
Have a research question or topic that you would like to explore in the History Center's Research Archives?
Find out more »Lunch and Learn: The Sugar King of California
Dr. Sandra E. Bonura is a historian and award winning author of multiple nonfiction books. Her newest book, The Sugar King of California tells the rags-to-riches story of Claus Spreckels who came to America with only 75 cents in his pocket and became one of the richest Americans in history.
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