To Iris Engstrand, a neglected hillside plot above San Diego’s Mission Valley is the Jamestown of the Pacific.Presidio Park is dominated by the Serra Museum, dedicated to missionary Junípero Serra.

With expertise on Old World Spain and its influence on the New World, University of San Diego history professor Iris Engstrand has made her mark explaining San Diego to San Diegans. As editor of ...

Iris Engstrand: Actually until the 1915 plans were being made and a committee with George Marston on it decided that it needed a more glamorous name so they named it after Balboa not only was a ...

IRIS ENGSTRAND: The Presidio soldiers and they moved down from the Presidio which was on Presidio hill and the Serra museums, was built in 199 although some people confuse it with the mission.

The story of the San Diego Yacht Club, as Iris Engstrand’s illustrated history shows, also tells the story of San Diego. Along with the Dennis Conners, commodores of the club include Jessops ...

Engstrand last week proclaimed himself "100%, absolutely ready" for his new gig, which has swallowed up his predecessors. He's their 10th offensive coordinator and the 11th playcaller in the past ...

Cabrillo College took a survey, which roundly rejected the idea of changing its name. They launched an information outreach to the public and invited Professor Emerita Dr. Iris Engstrand, an expert… ...

According to Iris Engstrand, a retired history professor from University of San Diego hired by Old Spanish Days, there’s no record in historical documents “of the soldados standing guard at the ...

Statement: “Up to 7,000 cars a day compete with people for space” at the Plaza de Panama in Balboa Park, wrote Michael Hager, president of the Balboa Park Cultural Partnership, and Iris Engstrand, a ...

It's one of the most recognizable names on any garage shelf, under kitchen sinks and tucked into most tool belts. And for years, its hand-written secret formula has lived in a San Diego bank.

I was amazed that the president of Cabrillo completely rejected the presentation given by Dr. Iris Engstrand, University of San Diego history emeritus professor, on the history of Spanish explorer ...

Those memories date back generations to the early 1950s and the then-Rocket Chemical Company, historian and longtime UC San Diego professor Iris Engstrand wrote in “WD-40: San Diego’s ...