This Date in UCSF History: The Politics of History

[Originally published on September 21, 1995.] Among the books that have influenced my thinking are A Handmaid’s Tale and 1984. They both model the future and warn us to be vigilant about how our world could evolve.

September 23, 2025

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Could Use a Little Magic Here

February 28, 2022

Victoria Turner

[Part 3 of a photo series on life after 2020.] There was one week in 2021 when even San Francisco...

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The Weights On Either Side

February 28, 2022

Ninad Bhat

Before twenty five I have Seen towers fall and dictators rise As if history is a lever that seeks equilibrium...

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Refuge

February 22, 2022

Nina Escueta

Down, down I follow the sounds Of waves and winds murmuring Against the rocks

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Nature and Nurture

February 20, 2022

Hannah Sans

My apartment fire escape overlooks a corner portion of the UCSF Parnassus campus. The cluster of hospital buildings stands at...

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2020 Hindsight

February 20, 2022

Victoria Turner

[Part 2 of a photo series on life after 2020.] Right before the pandemic began, a Ferris wheel was built...

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Fallen

February 6, 2022

Victoria Turner

[Part 1 of a photo series on life after 2020.] It seems that 2020 refuses to recede into the past.

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Bus Stop 4

February 5, 2022

Manuella Djomaleu

walking against the grain hyacinth coat hedged over the knee, two legs stumble forward fighting tension. perhaps it is your...

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Buddha's Sidewalk

January 28, 2022

Woodger Faugas

Kaleidoscopic luminosity, urban serenity, and vivid imagery –– these are the essential qualities exuded by this meta-illustrative, and regenerative, portrayal...

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