- 1883 '', "including its geology, topography, soil and productions, together with a full and particular record of the Spanish Grants; the early history and settlement, compiled from the most authentic sources; the names of original Spanish and American pioneers; a full political history, comprising a tabular statement of officers of the County since its formation; separate histories of each of the townships, showing their advancement and progress. Also incidents of pioneer life, the raising of the Bear Flag and biographical sketches of early and prominent citizens and representative men, and of its cities, towns, churches, schools, secret societies, etc." (Oakland: M. W. Wood; facsimile edition issued 1969 by the Holmes Book Co., Oakland).
- 1897 '', George W. Calderwood (Oakland: G.T. Loofbourow).
- 1907 '', in 2 vols., J. M. Guinn (Los Angeles: Historic Record, Co., 1907). "Few states of the Union have a more varied, a more interesting or a more instructive history than California, and few have done so little to preserve their history." This huge set gives a general history of California and scores of biographies (with formal portraits) of prominent citizens of Oakland and environs of that day. A one-volume facsimile edition appeared in 1997.
- 1911 '', Oakland Chamber of Commerce (San Francisco: Sunset Magazine Homeseekers' Bureau of Information). Promotional booklet published when the Panama Canal, Oakland's City Hall, the Hotel Oakland, and the Claremont Hotel were all under construction, while the age of sail and horses had not yet given way to the age of steam and gas; before there were any bridges on the Bay and before either World War; and when it was considered worthwhile to boast that Oakland is situated "on a magnificent harbor in what promises to be the center of the highest development of Anglo-Saxon civilization…"
- 1932 '', Roy C.Beekman (Oakland: Landis & Kelsey).
- 1932 '', Edson F. Adams (Oakland). A cheery, brief account by a descendant of one of the city's founding fathers. Includes striking excerpts from Mayor Horace Carpentier's April 29, 1854 address to the City Council, in which he advocates: free schools, peaceful relations with neighboring towns, 100% preservation of the native oaks, and the relocating of the State Capital to Oakland.
- 1942 '', G. A. Cummings and E. S. Pladwell (Oakland: Grant D. Miller). Includes the beautiful 1936 National Park Service historical map of the East Bay along with nice line drawings of historic scenes and personages.
- 1961 '', Peter Thomas Conmy (Oakland: Oakland Public Library). "A.U.C." = ''ad urbe condita,'' "from the founding of the city," a quote from Livy. A very handy and heavily-documented account of the city's early history, especially the unfolding legal status of land claims from the Peraltas on. Includes a concise summary of famous Oakland personages.
- 1982 '', Beth Bagwell (Novato: Presidio Press cover ; reprinted Oakland: Oakland Heritage Alliance, 1994 cover ; updated ed. planned to appear 2006). Still the warmest and most poetic telling of the Oakland story. Bagwell was the first president of the OHA. She left the Bay Area in 1984, moving to Paris, France, where she lived and worked for several years as a translator, resuming the use of her maiden name, Elizabeth Loverde. She then moved to London, where she remained until her death on May 14th, 2006.
- 2005 '', Erika Mailman (Oakland: Mailman Press). A wide-ranging and personal collection of prose, poetry, and pictures from a large number of contributors.
- 2006 '' (GrassRoutes Travel Guide), Serena Bartlett (Morrisville, NC: LuLu).
''Corporate/Chamber of Commerce Productions (typically with profiles of sponsoring businesses printed as a final section):''
- 1893 ''," (San Francisco).
- 1911 '', Evarts Blake (Oakland: Pacific Publishing Co.). Fully 455 pages of description, ads, photos, and a nice foldout map.
- 1925 '', Florence B. Crocker (Oakland: Dalton). "And a great voice from the Heavens said: `God made Oakland and all that is glorious herein.' Oakland is the choicest gift God ever gave to man.'" Includes the 1924 Bekins fold-out street map of Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda, and Piedmont.
- 1981 '', David Weber (Tulsa: Continental Heritage Press). Exceptionally well done: extensive, detailed historical essays with a striking selection of historical photographs.
- 1988 '', Ruth Hendricks Willard (Northridge: Windsor Publications).
- 1996 '', Mary Ellen Butler (Montgomery: Community Communications).
- 2000 '', Abby Wasserman and Diane Curry (Carlsbad, CA: Heritage Media). Includes essays by a collection of local authors; ambitious in scope, especially in attention to individual neighborhoods.
- 2002 '', Pam Baker (Montgomery: Community Communications).
- 2005 '', (Oakland: Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce).
- 1885 '', Charles L. Miel (Oakland: Tribune Publishing Co.).
- 1906 '', Harris Bishop (Oakland: Oakland Relief Committee). A souvenir album from the 1906 earthquake and fire, when Oakland's 60,000 residents took in 200,000 refugees from San Francisco.
- 1931 '', Rosalind A. Keep (Oakland: Mills College). Keep was the daughter of Professor Josiah Keep, teacher of astronomy and geology and close friend of President Susan Tolman Mills.
- 1934 '', ed. DeWitt Jones, George Ebey, Herbert Shears, Raymond Barry, and Charles F. Burns (Oakland: Oakland Board of Park Commissioners).
- 1946 '', Louise Dowlen, Dorothy Thompson and Charles Haynes, (Oakland: Welfare and Recreation Department). A commemoration of the fourth anniversary of the Oak Knoll Naval Hospital.
- 1955 '', Reginald R. Stuart & Grace D. Stuart (Oakland: Fred Finch Children's Home).
- 1967 '', Murray Morgan (Oakland: Children's Hospital Medical Center).
- 1967 '', Baki Kasapligil (Oakland: Mills College). An exhaustive checklist with locator map.
- 1970 '', John Wesley Noble. The Story of the East Bay Municipal Water District.
- 1971 '', Pearl Randolph Fibel (Oakland: Peralta Hospital). Published to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Spanish land grant of Rancho San Antonio to Don Luis Maria Peralta, which included all of what became Oakland (and much of the rest of the East Bay).
- 1974 '', Otha Donner Wearin. "Built over a century ago {Link without Title} from the remains of an old whaling ship and first used as a bunk house for the men working the oyster beds off the east shore of San Francisco Bay and located at the foot of Webster Street on the waterfront of Oakland, California, stands a small one-story shack of a building, unique in construction and famous for memories." And there is still stands.
- 1975 '', Rod Mabe (Oakland: Oakland Post Office).
- 1977 '', (Interurban Specials 65), Robert Ford, (Glendale: Interurbans). "The SP never made a dime on its investment. But for three decades the red trains rolled and the ferries steamed, giving the customers one of the finest commutes anywhere."
- 1978 '', Paul Covel (Oakland: Western Interpretive Press). On the birds of Lake Merritt, by a leading naturalist.
- 1979 '', City of Oakland Office of Community Development (Oakland: City of Oakland). Pictures and quotes from the flatland Community Development neighborhoods.
- 1989 '', Bill Mandel (San Francisco: Woodford Publishing).
- 1990 '', William Huck (San Francisco: San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum). Sadly, there were not to be a second 25 years--the Ballet closed up shop for good in 2006.
- 1991 '', John G. Smillie (New York: McGraw-Hill).
- 1991 '', edited by Eric Newton and Roger Rapoport (Oakland: Oakland Tribune and Berkeley: Heyday Books).
- 1992 '', ed. Aileen Moffitt. A full history of the Pageant and the amazing 68-year tenure of Miss Louise Jorgensen, the "Spirit of Christmas."
- 1992 '', ed. Patricia Adler, (Berkeley). Remember the 25 lives, 3,354 homes, and 456 apartments we lost?
- 1992 '', George Peter Vasille (New York: Vantage Press). A private reminiscence of a Soviet ship's stay in Oakland during WW II.
- 1992 '', Evelyn Candland (Oakland: Oakland California Stake, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints).
- 1993 '', Marilynn S. Johnson (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press). A social and political history of Oakland and the East Bay as it was transformed by wartime industry and the influx of domestic migrants.
- 1993 '', Christopher M. Richard, ed. (Oakland: The Oakland Museum). Creek hydrology & geology; guided tours of selected creeks; conservation issues, and a fabulous map of past and present waterways; plus a good summary of the discovery and ongoing controversy over the naming of the Rainbow Trout, ''Oncorhynchus mykiss'' also known as ''Salmo iridia'', first identified in a creek in the Oakland hills. Try this online watershed locator .
- 1994 '', James R Moore (Sausalito: Windgate Press). Illustrated history of the Oakland-based shipyard.
- 1994 '', Gregory N. Zompolis (Exeter, NH: J. N. Townsend).
- 1997 '', Carol Chetkovich (New Brunswick: Rutgers). Reflections and analysis of the Oakland Fire Department class of 1-91; from the author's dissertation.
- 1998 '', Andy Southard and Dain Gingerelli (Osceola WI: MBI). The granddaddy of roadster shows.
- 1999 '', Carmen Bredeson (Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers).
- 2000 '', Woodruff Minor (Oakland: Port of Oakland). Excellent photos, maps, and documentation of Oakland's Port and Airport. Produced as an impact-mitigation measure for the demolition of the Grove Street Pier transit shed.
- 2000 '', Albert Vetere Lannon (University Press of America). The title is a quote from C. L. Dellums, Oakland's vice president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
- 2000 '', Peter Thomas Conmy (Saint Francis Historical Society).
- 2001 '', Jeffrey M. Burns and Mary Carmen Batiza (Strasbourg, France: Éditions du Signe). A history of the Roman Catholic Community of Oakland and surrounds.
- 2003 '', J. Parry Wagener (Donning Co. Pub.).
- 2003 '', Roger W. Lotchin (Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press).
- 2004 '', Zac Unger (New York: Penguin).
- 2004 '', Terrence Green (Philadelphia: Xlibris). Life and work at the Oakland Police Department in the 1960's and '70s.
- 2006 '', Jeff Norman (Oakland: Shared Ground).
- 1973 '', J. Alfred Smith (Oakland: Color Art Press).
- 1976 '', Fred Rosenbaum (Berkeley: The Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum).
- 1977 '', Willard T. Chow (San Francisco: R & E Research Associates). A revision of the author's 1974 U.C. Berkeley thesis.
- 1978 '', Malcom Margolin, illus. by Michael Harney (Berkeley: Heyday Books; 25th Anniversary Ed. with a new Afterword, 2002). Quite regional in scope, but too important in subject matter and in the recent history of Native American studies to not include here.
- 1983 '', G. Willis Bennett (Nashville: Broadman Press).
- 1992 '', Dona L. Irvin (Columbia, MO: Univ. Of Missouri Press). Portraits of 40 members of Downs Memorial United Methodist Church quietly making a difference in their community.
- 2000 '', L. Eva Armentrout Ma (New York: Garland Publishing). A greatly expanded version of '''''The Chinese of Oakland: Unsung Builders''''' by Eve Armentrout Ma and Jeong Huei Ma, ed. Forrest Gok and the Oakland Chinese History Research Committee, 1982.
- 2002 '', Community History Project, Intertribal Friendship House, Oakland, Susan Lobo ed. (Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press).
- 2003 '' Tobie Gene Levingston, with Keith and Kent Zimmerman (St. Paul, MN: Motorbikes International Publishing). The history of the Oakland-based African-American Motorcycle Club.
''There are also very many books on the Black Panthers , here are a few (see also the "Personages" group below):''
- 1993 '', Gilbert Moore, (New York: Carroll & Graf). An account of the 1968 murder trial of Huey P. Newton.
- 1997 '', Bobby Seale (Baltimore: Black Classic Press).
- 1998 '', Charles E. Jones (Baltimore: Black Classic Press).
- 2002 '', Pirkle Jones and Ruth Marion Baruch (Los Angeles: Greybull Press). Limited edition boxed set of photographs.
- 2002 '', ed. Philip S. Foner (Da Capo Press, reprint of 2nd ed.). A collection of original material from the mid-1960s movement in Oakland.
- 2006 '', Curtis J. Austin (U. of Arkansas Press). A study of the rise and fall of the Panthers, focusing on its internal debates over strategy.
- 1917 '', Juanita Miller (Oakland: Chas. P. MacLafferty).
- 1931 '', John L. Davie (Oakland: Post-Enquirer Publishing). Autobiography of the long-serving former mayor; revised by Jack Herzberg and reissued 1988 as '''''His Honor, The Buckaroo''''' (Reno: Publisher Jack Herzberg).
- 1937 '', Gertrude Stein (New York: Random House). There, in a passage in ch. 4, she laments returning to her childhood home in Oakland and finding it gone. That's all that's there.
- 1938 '', Henning Koford (Oakland).
- 1953 '', Elias Olan James (Stanford: Stanford University Press). The founders of Mills College.
- 1967 '', Harold C. Holmes (Oakland: Holmes Book Co.).
- 1972 '', Leonard, H. Verbarg, (n.p.: Alameda County Historical Society). A compilation of newspaper columns profiling Oakland and East Bay personalities.
- 1964 '', James Audain (Victoria, B.C.: Sunnyland Publishing). The dilemma: love vs. an inherited coal fortune. Love won but then death came knocking. Audain is the great-nephew of Dunsmuir.
- 1973 '', Josephine DeWitt Rhodehamel and Raymund Francis Wood, (Provo: BYU Press). How a niece of Joseph Smith's became Oakland's first librarian and California's first Poet Laureate.
- 1982 '', George Herbert Hildebrand (San Diego: Howell-North Books). The story of "Borax" Smith, of Oakland's Realty Syndicate, Key Route, and Arbor Villa (his expansive mansion) fame.
- 1990 '', Jean Mackellar, ed. (Berkeley: Glen Press).
- 1990 '', Joan London (Berkeley: Heyday Books).
- 1994 '', Rina Evelyn Wolfe (Berkeley: Muse Wood Press).
- 1998 '', Gayle B. Montgomery and James W. Johnson (Berkeley: Univ. of Calif.). All about our former Senate Majority Leader, newspaper publisher, failed gubernatorial and presidential aspirant, and--in the end--dismal suicide.
- 1999 '', Alex Kershaw (New York: St. Martin's Griffin).
- 1999 '', Mary Ellen Butler (Ashburn, VA: The National Recreation and Park Association). The story of Oakland's former parks superintendent who went on to manage the East Bay Regional Park District, direct the California Parks and Recreation Department, and eventually direct the National Park Service.
- 2000 '', Ronald Dellums and H. Lee Halterman (Boston: Beacon Press). The story of Dellums' 27 years as Congressman for California's 9th District, before entering the halls of power back on the streets of Oakland.
- 2000 '', Frederic M. Loomis, compiled by Lee Sims (Walnut Creek: Hardscratch Press). Loomis was Sims' grandfather.
- 2001 '', William Wong (Philadelphia: Temple).
- 2003 '', Greglon Lee and Sid Campbell (Berkeley: Frog, Ltd.). Did you know that Bruce Lee lived in Oakland and developed much of his early technique in houses in the Grand Lake and Maxwell Park neighborhoods? '''''Vol. 2''''' appeared in 2005, and then '''''Remembering the Master: Bruce Lee, James Yimm Lee and the Creation of Jeet Kune Do''''' in 2006.
- 2004 '', J. Alfred Smith Sr. with Harry Louis Williams II (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press). Smith's life and work, especially his long and fruitful tenure at the Allen Temple Baptist Church (1971 - 2007).
- 2004 '', ed. Erik Bucy (Berkeley: Berkeley Hills Books). Includes speeches, essays, interviews, and media profiles up through his residence and mayoral tenure in Oakland.
- 2005 '', Oral Lee Brown, with Caille Millner (New York: Doubleday).
- 2006 '', Jessica Mitford, ed. Peter Y. Sussman (New York: Knopf). Our naturalized muckraking journalist, best known for her exposé of the funeral industry, ''The American Way of Death'', lived in Oakland up to her own death in 1996.
''There are many books by and about people associated with the Black Panthers (for example, Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Angela Davis, etc.), such as:''
- 1976 '', (New York: Bantam).
- 1978 '', Bobby Seale (New York: Times Books).
- 1995 '', Hugh Pearson (Perseus Publishing).
- 1998 '', ed. Joy James (Blackwell Pub.).
''And books by and about the Hell's Angels motorcycle club (founded in 1948 in San Bernadino and brought to Oakland in 1957 by Ralph "Sonny" Barger) such as:''
- 1967 '', Hunter S. Thompson (New York: Random House).
- 1978 '', George Wethern and Vincent Colnett (New York: Richard Marek Publishers).
- 2001 '', Keith Zimmerman, Kent Zimmerman, and Ralph "Sonny" Barger (San Francisco: Harper Perennial).
- 1974 '', Glen H. Elder (Chicago: U. of Chicago Press; 25th Anniversary Edition with an additional chapter, 1998, Boulder: Westview Press). A longitudinal study of 167 individuals born in Oakland in 1920-21.
- 1979 '', John Krich, with photographs by Dorothea Lange (Berkeley: City Miner Books).
- 1981 '', Elliott A. Medrich (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press).
- 1989 '', Joan Roemer as told to Barbara Austin (Grand Rapids: Harper Perennial). Seventy-two vignettes of life in a home-based Oakland day care.
- 1995 '', Gary Rivlin (New York: Henry Holt). A reporter's-eye account of the people, events, and setting that led up to one mid-`90s drive-by gang shooting.
- 1997 '', Aggie Max (San Francisco: Chronicle Books).
- 2001 '', Maureen Rosamond Waller (Public Policy Institute of California).
- 2003 '', Robert O. Self, Susan Erik Lape, and Gary Gerstle (Princeton: Princeton University Press).
- 2003 '', Marie "Keta" Miranda (Univ. of Texas Press). An ethnographic study of Chicana gang members in the Fruitvale community of Oakland, contrasting public and private perceptions.
- 2001 '', William Wong (Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press). A collection of essays by the former ''Oakland Tribune'' columnist.
- 2004 '', Ishmael Reed (New York: Crown).
- 2004 '', Chris Rhomberg and Roger Nichols (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press).
- 1968 '', Amory Bradford (New York: McKay). Mr. Bradford came from Washington in 1965 to keep Oakland from burning as Watts had. Does his big jobs program get the credit (see ''Implementation'', below)?
- 1971 '', Marcus Foster (Philadelphia: Westerminster Press).
- 1998 '', Sarah S. Elkind (Univ. of Kansas Press). A comparison of 19th-century waterfront development on two different coasts.
- 1999 '', R. S. Olson, R. A. Olson, and V. T. Gawronski (JAI Press). Examines Oakland's public policy responses to buildings damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.
- 2002 '', Jonathan Schorr (New York: Ballantine).
- 2006 '', Moses Durst (Bloomington, IN: Authorhouse).
''Books from the Oakland Project at U.C. Berkeley, directed by Aaron Wildavsky (all are Berkeley: University of California Press unless otherwise noted):''
- 1971 '', Arnold J. Meltsner. A very detailed analysis of pre-Proposition 13 Oakland finances.
- 1972 '', Edward C. Hayes (New York: McGraw-Hill). " {Link without Title} he city's medium and large businessmen have reaped the major and continuing benefits of local policy, while the nonrich have reaped a harvest of more crowded housing, forced removal, relatively higher taxes, and minimum public services....This study has shown the extent to which a very small set of persons and interests can find real expression in the current political organs of a city."
- 1973 '', Aaron. B. Wildavsky and Jeffrey L. Pressman, (expanded 2nd ed., 1979; 3rd ed., 1984). Examines how Mr. Bradford's Federal Economic Development Administration efforts actually fared.
- 1975 '', Frank S. Levy, Arnold Meltsner, and Aaron Wildavsky.
- 1975 '', Jeffrey L. Pressman.
- 1978 '', Frank J. Thompson.
- 1978 '', Jesse J. McCorry.
- 1986 '', Jay D. Starling (Beverly Hills: Sage). A study of municipal decision-making.
- 1924 '', Daisy Williamson De Veer (Oakland: Claremont Press). De Veer was the Curator of Education at the Oakland Museum.
- 1930 '', Regina Kennt, et al. (Oakland: Oakland Board of Education).
- 1959 '', James Harlow (Oakland: Board of Education). "A study of the history and government of Oakland and Alameda County, prepared for use in the Oakland Public Schools as a partial fulfillment of the California state law requiring the teaching of state and local government."
- 1968 '', Oakland Public Schools. Not as detailed as ''Land of the Oaks,'' but very nicely designed and illustrated.
- 1969 '', Hoover Jr. Hi. School (Oakland: Junior League of Oakland). Oakland's past and then-present, depicted in student drawing and poems.
- 1972 '', Bob & Lynne Fitch, ed. Paul J. Deegan (Mankato, Minnesota: Amecus St.). Black family life in North Oakland, through the eyes of a schoolboy.
- 1974 '', Dorothy Hallum (Hayward: Alameda County School Dept.).
- 1983 '', June Naboisek, illustrations by Nancy Gorrell (Berkeley: Pandora Press).
- 1934(?) '', ed. DeWitt Jones, George Ebey, Herbert Shears, Raymond Barry, and Charles F. Burns (Oakland: Oakland Parks and Recreation Department)
- 1964 '', Salt Lake City: Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints. Magazine-format depiction of the Oakland Temple and an article by Harold W. Burton, its chief architect.
- 1970 '', Elinor Richey (Berkeley: Howell-North Books).
- 1971 '', David Bohn (Junior League of Oakland and Scrimshaw Press).
- 1979 '', Robert Bernhardi, (Oakland: Forest Hill Press).
- 1979 '', Mark A. Wilson (San Francisco: A California Living Book). A full guide to East Bay architectural history from 1800 to 1950, with narrated walking tours (eight of Oakland).
- 1978 '', Helaine Kaplan Prentice and Blair Prentice (Oakland: City of Oakland Planning Department). Three editions were published by City of Oakland, followed by this 1987 revision, ''Rehab Right: How to Realize the Full Value of Your Old House'' (Berkeley: Ten Speed Press).
- 1981 '', Susannah Harris Stone (Oakland: Oakland Paramount Theatre; reprinted 2002). Before & behind the scenes looks at an art deco gem, opened in 1931 and reopened in 1973.
- 1987 '', Robert Dobruskin (Berkeley: University-Oakland Metropolitan Forum).
- 1989 '', Warren Radford, Kevin Roche, Dan Kiley, Geraldine Knight Scott and Allan Temko (Oakland: Oakland Museum Association).
- 1996 '', Helaine Kaplan Prentice, Andrew Brubaker and Betty Marvin, (Oakland: Oakland Redevelopment Agency). As lovingly researched and beautifully designed, as Preservation Park itself.
- 2001 '', J. N. Bowman (Oakland: Alameda County Historical Society). A reprint of a 1951 article in the California Historical Society ''Quarterly''. Includes nicely done line drawings and placement maps.
- 1972 '', Lois Rather (Oakland: The Rather Press). Limited edition art book.
- 1976 '', Roger Urban. Oakland's climate--the mildest in the nation, and shared with only central Chile, southwestern Australia, the South African Cape, and the Mediterranean basin itself--shapes its natural and man-made setting in beautiful ways. If only the Gondolas had been plying Lake Merritt at the time.
- 1991 '', Paula Blasier, photographs by Terrence McCarthy (n.p.: Bramalea Pacific). The saga of creating Richard Deutsch's massive garden sculpture at 1111 Broadway out of two 16-ton ship propellers.
- 1993 '', Lee Hildebrand and Michelle Vignes (San Francisco: Pomegranate Artbooks). From Eli Mile High to Cozy Den, from Bob Geddins to Sonny Rhodes to Beverly Stovall (on the cover), this book lovingly documents the Oakland Blues scene in the early `80s.
- 1995 '', Richard Nagler and Ishmael Reed (Berkeley: North Atlantic Books). Bits of the Oakland's past and present in striking juxtapositions of people and settings.
- 1996 '', Kathan Brown (San Francisco: Chronicle Books). Fine art printing from the Oakland's premier art press, including work by William Brice, Chuck Close, Richard Diebenkorn, Eric Fischl, Alex Katz, Sol LeWitt, Brice Marden, Ed Ruscha, and Wayne Thiebaud.
- 1997 '', Douglas Keister (New York: Facts on File). Surveys American cemeteries generally but features very many examples from Oakland's Mountain View Cemetery (including the pictures on the front cover and the title page).
- 1999 '', Lewis Watts (n.p.: Light Work Visual Studios). More juxtapositions, this time of images of the deep South and of West Oakland.
- 2001 '', Marianne Thomas, (Oakland: Harbor House). A shining portrait of our young neighbors from 34 different racial/ethnic groups. On the cover: quadlingual Bakary Milon, from Gambia. Harbor House is an evangelical Christian ministry in Oakland.
- 2001 '', Garry Knox Bennett, Ursula Ilse-Neuman, and Arthur Coleman Danto (American Craft Museum).
- 2003 '', Bill Caldwell (Oakland: Momentum Publications). A loving, extensive, and worthy photographic sesquicentennial tribute to Oakland. Features many old and new views of Oakland in juxtaposition. More at www.oaklandphotojourney.com.
- 2004 '', Dennis Evanosky and Eric J. Kos (San Diego: Thunder Bay Press).
- {Link without Title} '', Sonia BasSheva Mañjon, photography by TaSin Sabir (Oakland: Oakland Museum of California). Documentation and exhibit catalog of this 2005-2007 arts & social change project, exploring how the experience of learning and creating art together can strengthen families and communities.
''Volumes in the "Images of America" series by Arcadia Publishing (Mount Pleasant, South Carolina):''
- 2004 '', Erika Mailman. Good coverage of not only the Hills but the "Slopes" as well.
- 2005 '', Geoffrey Hunter.
- 2005 '' (Postcard History Series), Annalee Allen.
- 2005 '', Paul C. Trimble and John C. Alioto Jr.
- 2006 '', Jack Tillmany and Jennifer Dowling.
- 2007 '', Paul C. Trimble and William Knorp.
- 2007 '', Jerry Thompson and Duane Deterville. A history and celebration of African American music, dance, visual arts, and literature in Oakland.
- 2007 '', Walter Rice and Emiliano Echeverria.
- 2007 '', Thomas Tramble and Wilma Tramble.
- '', Trout Pomeroy (about Oakland County, Michigan).
- '', Eve Bacon (about Oakland, Florida).
- '', John A. Grant (about Oakland, Maryland).
- '', Walter C. Kidney (about Oakland, Pennsylvania).
- There are also manuals, brochures, and catalogs for the "Oakland" automobile manufactured 1907 - 1909 by the Oakland Motor Car Company in Michigan; and then 1909 - 1931 by the Oakland Motors Division of General Motors.
- Oakland Heritage Alliance , dedicated to preserving Oakland's architectural history and heritage; its website has a large collection of images of antique postcards of Oakland
- The Oakland Museum of California's online exhibit of 7,000 objects from Oakland's history
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