JULES TYGIEL
San Francisco State University
History Department
1600 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94127
(415) 338-1119
tygiel@sfsu.edu

Brief Biography:
Jules Tygiel is a Professor of History at San Francisco State University specializing in California History and the History of the United States in the Twentieth Century. He has written four books and numerous articles, many dealing with California history.

Public Lecture Topics:

• "The Julian Petroleum Scandal," Valley Pioneer Lecture, California State University, Northridge, Nov. 12, 1995
• "Upton Sinclair and Oil!" Sonoma State University

Publications:

• Past Time: Baseball as History, (forthcoming: Oxford University Press)
• Introduction to Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s, William Deverell and Thomas Sitton (eds.)
• The Great Los Angeles Swindle: Oil, Stocks and Scandal in the Twenties, Oxford University Press, 1994 (paperback edition, University of California Press, 1996)
• Workingmen in San Francisco, 1880-1901, Garland Press, 1992
• Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy, Oxford University Press, 1983 (paperback edition, Vintage Books, 1984; second paperback edition, Oxford University Press, 1993; third paperback edition with new afterward, Oxford University Press, 1997)

Jules Tygiel has been listed in the Directory of California Thinkers since 22-Nov-1999.