Lost Sacramentos

It is time we take seriously the prospect of fundamentally false history being broadly accepted as true. On this fifth anniversary of Trump’s 2021 coup attempt, we should recall a previous episode of comparable seriousness that was on its way to amnesia soon after the young state’s most traumatic incidents. Obscure linkages connect the San…

Tuesday, January 27: Railroads of a Missing Metropolis: The Sacramento Historical Society welcomes local historian Andrew McLeod to discuss a lost transportation network that would have supported a different web of communities and fostered a very different set of connections between Sacramento and its hinterlands, less lopsided and prone to flooding. Sacramento’s industrial transformation began…

The war against history continues to escalate, while dissent is discouraged using a variety of threats. We run the risk of repeating something like Sacramento’s darkest days of forgetting, but on a national scale. All citizens should be wary of the rising amnesia. Luckily, we are offering a couple of opportunities to learn about these…