Aug 19, 2026
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Event
Los Altos History Museum
51 So. San Antonio Road
Los Altos, CA 94022
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Event Details
In 1776, as the American Revolution turned the world upside down, events transpiring on the West Coast would prove equally consequential. In this talk, Santa Clara University professors Robert Senkewicz and Rose Marie Beebe examine the lasting impact of Spanish colonization in California.
About the Program
Robert Senkewicz, Professor of History at Santa Clara University, and Rose Marie Beebe, Professor of Spanish Literature, are the translators, editors, and annotators of Testimonios: Early California through the Eyes of Women: 1815-1848 (2006). They are co-editors of Lands of Promise and Despair: Chronicles of Early California, 1535-1846 (2001) as well as translators, editors, and annotators of The History of Alta California by Antonio María Osio (1996), which received the Norman Neuerburg Award from the Historical Society of Southern California. They jointly edited Guide to the Manuscripts Concerning Baja California in the Collections of The Bancroft Library (2002). Their latest volume is Junípero Serra: California, Indians, and the Transformation of a Missionary (University of Oklahoma Press, 2015). Both professors have received numerous teaching and scholarship awards at Santa Clara University, and awards from The Bancroft Library, the Historical Society of Southern California, the California Mission Studies Association, and the California Council for the Promotion of History.
The in-person event is full. To attend via Zoom, register below.
This program ties to the exhibition, “The Spirit of ’76: Reflecting on Americas’s 250th“, on display June 18 – Nov 8 in the main gallery.
