Works Based on Records at the National Archives at San Francisco
This is a selection of the countless books, films, investigative articles, and other works by researchers at the National Archives at San Francisco and the National Archives at Chicago.
Books
Barde, Robert Eric. Immigration at the Golden Gate: Passenger Ships, Exclusion, and Angel Island. Bloomsbury Academic, 2008.
Flores, Alfred Peredo. Tip of the Spear: Land, Labor, and US Settler Militarism in Guåhan, 1944–1962. Cornell University Press, 2023.
Gardner, Martha. The Qualities of a Citizen: Women, Immigration, and Citizenship, 1870-1965. Princeton University Press, 2009.
Johnson, Troy R. The Occupation of Alcatraz Island: Indian Self-determination and the Rise of Indian Activism. University of Illinois Press, 1996.
Lee, Erika. At America’s Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943. University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Street, Richard Steven. Everyone Had Cameras: Photography and Farmworkers in California, 1850-2000. University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
Tsu, Cecilia. Garden of the World: Asian Immigrants and the Making of Agriculture in California's Santa Clara Valley. Oxford University Press, 2013.
Wu, Judy Tzu-Chun. Doctor Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime Celebrity. University of California Press, 2005.
Investigative Articles
Roberts, Chris. “Exposed: The Human Radiation Experiments at Hunters Point”, San Francisco Public Press. November 25, 2024. (See Part 5, “Destroyed Records, Dying Witnesses Consign San Francisco Radiation Lab to Obscurity”)
Research Articles
Schneider, Khal. 2010. “Making Indian Land in the Allotment Era: Northern California’s Indian Rancherias.” Western Historical Quarterly 41 (4): 429–50. https://doi.org/10.2307/westhistquar.41.4.429