Recently added articles from California History:
Coming of age.(FROM THE EDITOR)(Editorial)
Sep 01, 2008; ... In the annals of altruism, specifically in the book about disseminating learning and appreciating California history, James J. Rawls is inscribed as leader of the pack. This year marks his twenty-fifth anniversary as Reviews Editor of California History. Jim expertly winnows the list of ...
California presidential.(COLLECTIONS)(California Presidential: Candidates and Campaigns in the Golden State exhibit)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Paradoxes and possibilities are exposed in the collecting of political memorabilia. Embroidered or stamped ribbons, pins and badges, banners and bumper stickers can seem small and insignificant in their physical presence, yet they clearly identify places in our current and past timelines ...
A brothers' reunion: evolution's champion Alfred Russel Wallace and Forty-niner John Wallace.(Biography)
Sep 01, 2008; ... On May 23, 1887, two brothers who had not seen each other for nearly forty years reunited at a ferry dock in Oakland. (1) Since their last meeting in their native England, their lives had taken extraordinarily different paths. In 1848, Alfred Russel Wallace had sailed from London to the ...
A fragile machine: California senator John Conness.(Biography)
Sep 01, 2008; ... He was the consummate nineteenth-century California politician: bold, energetic, shrewd, partisan, sarcastic, and, as one account put it, "with sufficient pugnacious proclivities to back up his moral suasion by all his physical force." (1) He made plenty of friends during his career, but ...
The California hundred: a poem.(EXCERPT)(Poem)
Sep 01, 2008 ... J. Henry Rogers wrote his epic poem, The California Hundred, to "sing the Hundred's praise." The excerpts that follow describe the patriotic fervor that gripped J. Sewell Reed, the departure of the Hundred from "California's flowery land," and the battles endured by the "gallant volunteer ...
California civilization and European speculative thought: an evolving relationship.(Essay)
Sep 01, 2008; ... If, as the German speculative philosopher G. W. F. Hegel once asserted, any civilization worthy of the name must contain its speculative philosophical moment, does California civilization meet such a challenge? (1) In Hegel's terminology, speculative did not mean simply a general ...
Autobiography of a Los Angeles Newspaperman, 1874-1900.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2008; ... Autobiography of A Los Angeles, Newspaperman, 1874-1900 By William Andrew Spalding; edited by Robert V. Hine (San Marino, CA: Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, 2007, 156 pp., illus., $19.95 paper) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] To OVEN THIS REISSUED ...
The Culture Broker: Franklin D. Murphy and the Transformation of Los Angeles.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2008; ... THE CULTURE BROKER: FRANKLIN D. MURPHY AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF LOS ANGELES By Margaret Leslie Davis (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007, 495 PP., illus., $34.95 cloth) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IN HER PREFACE, Margaret Leslie Davis describes her ...
Making San Francisco American: Cultural Frontiers in the Urban West, 1846-1906.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2008; ... MAKING SAN FRANCISCO AMERICAN: CULTURAL FRONTIERS IN THE URBAN WEST, 1846-1906 By Barbara Berglund (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007, 304 pp., illus., $34.95 cloth) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IN THIS AMBITIOUS RE-EXAMINATION of the first sixty years ...
Levi Strauss & Co.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2008; ... LEVI STRAUSS & CO. By Lynn Downey (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2007, 128 pp., illus., $19.99 paper) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] LEVI STRAUSS & Co. is SO much a part of American folklore that previous accounts have mixed in too much fiction. To the ...
Donors.(List)
Sep 01, 2008 ... The California Historical Society is deeply grateful to the following individuals, corporations, foundations, and government and business organizations for their contributions. INDIVIDUALS $5,00 and above Mr. & Mrs. Reid W. Dennis, Woodside The ...
Spotlight.(Photograph)
Sep 01, 2008; ... When Bertolt Brecht arrived in Los Angeles in the late 1930s, the difference in climate and culture from his native Germany led him to describe the city as a "laissez-faire dystopia." Like many of his colleagues fleeing the oppression of the Nazi regime, Brecht was fascinated by the beauty ...
The initiative effect.(Editorial)
Mar 01, 2008; ... Here in California, an argument might be made that the word initiative offers more options than in other states. Election time just about any year means that ballots are likely to be crammed with measures proposed by citizens who have invoked the initiative to deal with matters that the ...
The James Rolph, Jr. Papers.(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The lames Rolph, Jr. Papers are the product of Rolph's unprecedented twenty-two-year term as San Francisco's mayor from 1911 to 1931. Their contents reveal the process of growth and change over two extremely eventful decades, during which Rolph oversaw an ...
Not of national significance: failed national park proposals in California.
Mar 01, 2008; ... The American national park system embodies the heritage of the United States and the values held by its citizens. Today the system consists of 391 places chosen over the last 136 years for their superlative natural, historical, archaeological, or recreational significance. (1) ...
Preserving "nature's artistry": Torrey Pines during its formative years as a city and state park.
Mar 01, 2008; ... The City of San Diego ... stands alone among the cities of a world in having within its confines a singularly outstanding example of Nature's artistry .... This is Torrey Pines Preserve. GUY FLEMING, Superintendent, Southern Division, California Division of Parks, 1942 (1) ...
Tumba of Torrey Pines.(Short story)(Excerpt)
Mar 01, 2008; ... Tumba the Younger gazed at Tumba the Elder, standing lonely and sighing in the wind, and pondered. To be of ancient lineage is not always a case for rejoicing. It places one apart and entails so many responsibilities .... Yet, again, it was a cause for joy and comfort and support. If others ...
Harriet Russell Strong: horticulturalist, conservationist, and feminist.
Mar 01, 2008; ... THE PINK AND WHITE, HELPLESS prettiness; the delicate, fainting, clinging doll is fast becoming a thing of the past," (1) Harriet Williams Russell Strong advised fellow members of the Ebell Club of Los Angeles in 1895. Although she herself was described as dainty and fragile, Harriet was ...
Essential Mary Austin: A selection of Mary Austin's Best Writings.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2008; ... ESSENTIAL MARY AUSTIN: A SELECTION OF MARY AUSTIN'S BEST WRITINGS Edited with an introduction by Kevin Hearle (Santa Clara, CA: Santa Clara University and Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2006, 208 pp., $11.95 trade paper) BRILLIANT, UNCONVENTIONAL, outspoken, Mary Austin ...
New Perspectives on The California Missions: A Unit of Study for 4th Grade.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2008; ... NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE CALIFORNIA MISSIONS: A UNIT OF STUDY FOR 4TH GRADE By Delores Hendricks, Elaine Jeche, Rosemarie McCabe, Nancy Ruiz, and Christina Williams (Los Angeles: National Center for History in the Schools, University of California, Los Angeles, 2006, 81 pp., ...