About the Author

Miriam Real, Ph.D.

Author

 

Miriam Real earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. in American history from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where she was an E.B. Fred Fellow. She earned her B.A. from Swarthmore College, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. After working for ten years as an interviewer and editor for the Regional Oral History Office of The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, she founded her own firm, Oral History Associates, which prepared histories - both written and oral - for corporations and individuals. She is the author of six books and numerous articles, and has been featured in the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Oakland Tribune, and the San Francisco Business Journal.


Dr. Real has taught U.S. history, European history, and oral history at the college and high school levels.


Dr. Real grew up in Brooklyn, New York and has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1967. She has a grown son, and lives with her husband in Mill Valley, CA.

 


 

Robert Lawrence Alper III

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Mr. Alper earned his BA and MA in United States History from San Francisco State University, where he graduated with honors from the Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society. He was a Graduate Student Assistant for four upper division lecture courses in California History. Preceding his work on The Jewish Revolution in San Francisco, Mr. Alper worked as an Archives Technician for the National Archives at San Francisco. He grew up in eastern Pennsylvania, but has called San Francisco home since 2000.

 

 

 


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