Online History Portal -
Version 4: Greenstone

"Towering Ideas" Talks Series
Wed nights at CounterPULSE

Bicycle Tours - Weekend tours
on ecology, transit and more

Reclaiming San Francisco
book available here

Talks from Spring 06 through the current series are now archived on-line here.

San Francisco History Links

History of Shaping San Francisco

Regrettably our CD-ROM is no longer supported by Windows or the original vendor. If you still have a Win95 or Win98 or Win2000 box, you can get one from us.

Help sustain our efforts to make San Francisco’s history a shared resource.

Shaping San Francisco is a living archive of the city providing people with access to its lost history. Hundreds of people have contributed stories, photos, video oral histories, and more. Through our unique approach to community history, we focus mainly on labor, ecology, transit, and dissent and how they have changed the landscape of San Francisco since the 1850s. Our projects attempt to show that history is much more than Richter scales and gold rushes.

Our long-term goal is to facilitate the discovery, presentation, preservation of, and access to local history, incorporating the past into a rapidly changing future. In 2008 Shaping SF invites you to BE HERE THEN... as we collectively investigate how the city’s ecological history interacts with our urban land use. Join us for one of our FREE "Towering Ideas" presentations the last Wednesday evening of the month for ecological themed talks. Pedal along with us on an award winning Ecological Bicycle History Tour. Been involved in ecological activism? Share your oral history with us!

We’re also developing two revamped versions of our online exploration of local history. A wiki version will be unveiled this year. If you work in wiki format, we can use your help! Contact us for more information. In addition we are developing a fully interactive, opensource web portal offering a narrative exhibition of stories and memories of San Francisco. Stay tuned in and read about our plans!