The ARGONAUT
The San Francisco Historical Society publishes The Argonaut, an awarded Semiannual Publication.
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The Argonaut is the flagship publication of the San Francisco Historical Society. It began publication in 1990, with one issue per year. In 1994, The Argonaut expanded to two issues per year.
The publication has been enthusiastically praised by SFHS members for its design and for its well written articles covering a wide diversity of topics dealing with San Francisco history. That feeling was echoed by the American Association of Museums, who awarded The Argonaut an honorable mention for design in 2009.
Articles for The Argonaut are written both by amateur historians with expertise on a subject and by professional historians writing on areas that they have extensively researched.
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The Argonaut
2018, Winter, Vol. 29, No. 2
Content includes: The Presidio & Ferries Railroad; A New Eyewitness Account of the 1906 Earthquake; Letter by William Hindshaw; and Working as a Painter at the Golden Gate Bridge
The Argonaut
2019, Summer, Vol. 30, No. 1
Content Includes: Before the Midwinter Fair; The Winter of Our Dreams; A Look at the Midwinter Fair; A Rare Midwinter Exposition Artifact; and Art Activism
The Argonaut
2020, Summer, Vol. 21, No. 1
Content Includes: The Rise and Decline of the German-speaking Community; Sutro’s San Francisco; and World War I and the University of San Francisco
The Argonaut
2020, Winter, Vol. 30, No. 2
Content Includes: A Second Tunnel for the Sunset; The Last Bastion of San Francisco’s Californios; and A Tenderloin District History
The Argonaut
2021, Summer, Vol. 32, No. 1
Content Includes: Honoring the Life of Charles Fracchia; Putting San Francisco on the Map; Woodward’s Gardens; and The Junior Recreation Museum in Balboa Park
The Argonaut
2021, Winter Vol. 31, No. 2
Content Includes: Black Americans in San Francsico; Mary Ellen Pleasant’s Quest for Equality For All; We Are Brethren; Exodus; San Francisco Black Churches in the Early 1860s, and more
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