California Legacy Project


The California Legacy Project began in 2000 as a project at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, CA and later partnered with Heyday Books in Berkeley, CA. The project uses a research team of SCU interns to create radio scripts for the radio anthology "Your California Legacy" on KAZU 90.3 FM, Pacific Grove. This anthology broadcasts nearly ranging from Gold Rush narratives to Beat poetry. Project interns also develop reader guides to accompany books released by the . These supplemental guides include timelines, discussion questions, and additional reading suggestions.
CLS, a component of CLP, focuses on the literature of California’s past, publishing reprints, new anthologies, and single-author readers. Notable authors in the series include Mary Austin, Ambrose Bierce, Toshio Mori, John Muir, and Wallace Stegner. In addition to publishing, CLP also organizes a variety of presentations, panel discussions, and public readings throughout the state, highlighting the culture, heritage, and history of California.

Mission

The general objective of The California Legacy Project is "to raise public awareness and appreciation for our state's cultural legacy and to encourage faculty and students in their creative and scholarly interest in Californian culture."

California Legacy Series

Mary Austin
Ambrose Bierce
Sally Carrighar
Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
William Leon Dawson
William Everson
Eliza Farnham
Helen Hunt Jackson
Georgiana Bruce Kirby
Harriet Lane Levy
Jack London
William Lewis Manly
Frank Marryat
Carey McWilliams
Toshio Mori
John Muir
Walter Nordhoff
Josiah Royce
William Saroyan
Charles Melville Scammon
Upton Sinclair
Lincoln Steffens
Wallace Stegner
George R. Stewart
Bayard Taylor
Mark Twain
Judy Van der Veer
Harry Leon Wilson
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