Writing themselves into history 1/19/23
Channel: Mechanics' Institute
Date: 2023-04-05

Cosponsored by Heyday and California Institute for Community, Art & Nature

Writing Themselves into History offers a rich immersion in nineteenth-century California, detailing Emily and Matilda Bancroft's experiences with public life, motherhood, and business against the backdrop of San Francisco’s high society and the state’s growth amidst the tumult of the American Civil War.