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Projects and Events

This page features our faculty, student, and alumni public history events and projects throughout the Sacramento region. Undergraduate and graduate students as well as faculty and field professionals engage in community and university events, projects, publications, media, and programs. Check out what we are up to!

Graduate students and faculty meet to discuss the upcoming semester.

Thesis Projects

Laurie Frazier
California State Archives, Diseños Collection

Graduate student Laurie Frazier worked with the California State Archives to digitize 493 hand-drawn sketch maps that were originally created from 1827-1846. The hand-drawn sketch maps, or diseños, were used by the Spanish, Mexican, and U.S. governments to demonstrate land grant boundaries for individuals. This is the first time that the State Archives’ collection has been digitized and available online in full color. Browse the digitized Diseños Collection.

“While California entered the Union in 1850, our history begins much earlier... By digitizing this collection, the State Archives is preserving some of our oldest records. Creating a browsable, searchable digital collection will allow greater access to these maps and sketches—illustrating California’s transition from the Spanish, Mexican, and United States governments.” — Secretary of State Alex Padilla

Group photo, Pond Farm

Ongoing Projects

Pond Farm

In Fall 2018, graduate students in HIST 203 wrote a National Historic Landmark Nomination. Several students are currently still working with Dr. Lindsay, National Parks Service, and the Department of the Interior to get Pond Farm, an artists' property in Sonoma County, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Out of the Dust podcast cover

Course Projects

Out of the Dust

Check out our graduate student podcast, Out of the Dust, Season 2 streaming now!

Publications

Student Publications

Moriah Ulinksas, The Terezita Romo Papers: Capturing the Spirit of Collective Action in Archives, KULA: knowledge creation, dissemination, and preservation studies.

Faculty Publications

Dr. Anne Lindsay, Reconsidering Interpretation of Heritage Sites: America in the Eighteenth Century

Upcoming Projects and Events

COVID-19 Archive with SCUA

Our public history program is working with the Special Collections and University Archives to create an archive of COVID-19. More information coming soon!