Recently added articles from California History:
Eye of the beholder.(FROM THE EDITOR)(Editorial)
Mar 22, 2009; ... How do we perceive the past? Some might say that what's gone on before our time is a story learned from elders, going to school, and reading books. Some might say that there's little need to push for definitions of what's dead and gone and that living for today and tomorrow is what counts ....
WPA art at the Golden Gate International exhibition.(COLLECTIONS)
Mar 22, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Northern California's Pomo Indians--masters of the craft of fine art baskets--were one of the diverse tribes represented in Louis Siegriest's WPA posters for the Indian Court exhibit at San Francisco's Golden Gate International Exposition (1939-40). ...
War and the making of history: the case of Mexican California, 1821-1846.
Mar 22, 2009; ... At times, the historian of Mexican California, as would the scholar of any other historical subject, must play the philosopher and contemplate the riddles that comprise humanity's existence. What seems accurate often is not, the historian discovers; and what is not accurate sometimes is ....
Playing with politics: crisis in the San Francisco Federal Music Project.
Mar 22, 2009; ... On May 27, 1937, Alexander Fried, music critic for the San Francisco Examiner, reported on contention within the Federal Music Project (FMP), a small but highly visible part of the WPA's massive public works program of the 1930s. "Discord has ripped asunder the concord of sweet ...
Forgotten feminist: women's page editor Maggie Savoy and the growth of women's liberation awareness in Los Angeles.
Mar 22, 2009; ... The year was 1963, and the publisher of The Arizonian, a weekly newspaper in Scottsdale, wrote a column about his friend Maggie Savoy, the women's page editor for the neighboring Arizona Republic in Phoenix. The publisher, Dickson Hartwell, was taking up Savoy's cause after listening to a ...
The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... THE SHIFTING GROUNDS OF RACE: BLACK AND JAPANESE AMERICANS IN THE MAKING OF MULTIETHNIC LOS ANGELES By Scott Kurashige (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007, 362 pp., $35.00 cloth) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] SCOTT KURASHIGE'S FINE STUDY advances the ...
Ella Young, Irish Mystic and Rebel: from Literary Dublin to the American West.(Images of America: Irish San Francisco)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... ELLA YOUNG, IRISH MYSTIC AND REBEL: FROM LITERARY DUBLIN TO THE AMERICAN WEST By Rose Murphy (Dublin, Ireland: The Liffey Press, 2008, 165 pp., $26.95 paper) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IMAGES OF AMERICA: IRISH SAN FRANCISCO By John Garvey and Karen ...
The Radical Jack London: Writings on War and Revolution.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... THE RADICAL JACK LONDON: WRITINGS ON WAR AND REVOLUTION Edited and with an introduction by Jonah Raskin (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008, 285 pp., 560.00 cloth, 524.95 paper) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] RASKIN'S ANTHOLOGY intends to recover "the ...
Donors.(List)
Mar 22, 2009 ... The California Historical Society is deeply grateful to the following individuals, corporations, foundations, and government and business organizations for their contributions. INDIVIDUALS $50,000 and above Anonymous $10,000 and above ...
Spotlight.(Photograph)
Mar 22, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] By most historical accounts, Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal programs relating to the nation's infrastructure, social welfare, and artistic production were vital components of the American economy during the Depression-plagued 1930s. In 1933, photographer ...
Sightlines.(FROM THE EDITOR)(Editorial)
Dec 22, 2008; ... We learn more about the world from images than we used to. In teaching and learning, selling and buying, working and playing, thinking and imagining, people of all ages draw on and depend on the sight of actual or created pictures, symbols, and signs. Visual literacy--a term coined only ...
Commercial catalogues.(COLLECTIONS)
Dec 22, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] "There is nothing that gives that restful and cool environment to your garden and makes it so complete, as a little pool of water," claimed the proprietors of Allen's Water Gardens in their catalogue of pools for "water lilies and aquatic plants." ...
The good doctor, the social engineer, and the golfing gems of California.(Alister MacKenzie, Robert Hunter)(Essay)
Dec 22, 2008; ... I have to shake myself, as in a dream, when I think that Robert Hunter and I have the high privilege of landscaping with golf courses part of this precious area." (1) Thus spoke the legendary British golf course architect Dr. Alister MacKenzie, as he contemplated the design and ...
The mark of Zorro: silent film's impact on 1920s architecture in Los Angeles.(Los Angeles, California)(Essay)
Dec 22, 2008; ... In these fictional presentations [films] the educative influence has been ... insidious. The audience opened its mind to the plot and the background made its certain impression--unsought, but effective. The motion picture should be taken seriously. ROBERT HAAS, Architect for ...
Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... DRIVEN OUT: THE FORGOTTEN WAR AGAINST CHINESE AMERICANS Jean Pfaelzer (New York: Random House, 2007, 432 pp., illus., $27.95 cloth) Driven Out is a highly detailed account of the waves of anti-Chinese violence that swept the United States in the second half of the ...
Wallace Stegner and the American West.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... WALLACE STEGNER AND THE AMERICAN WEST By Philip L. Fradkin (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008, 384 pp., $27.50 cloth) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] PHILIP FRADKIN has written a well-researched, jam-packed biography of Wallace Stegner, prize-winning novelist, widely ...
The Mysterious Montague: a True Tale of Hollywood, Golf, and Armed Robbery.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... THE MYSTERIOUS MONTAGUE: A TRUE TALE OF HOLLYWOOD, GOLF, AND ARMED ROBBERY By Leigh Montville (New York: Random House, 2008, 320 pp., $26.00 cloth) TODAY, GOLF CAN BE a lucrative profession. Men and women compete for immense purses on a variety of professional golf ...
Big Daddy: Jesse Unruh and The Art of Power Politics.
Dec 22, 2008; ... BIG DADDY: JESSE UNRUH AND THE ART OF POWER POLITICS By Bill Boyarsky (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007, 278 pp., illus., $29.95 cloth) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] MOST POLITICIANS ARE highly complex personalities. Bill Boyarsky's biography of ...
A Seed Of Modernism: the Los Angeles Art Students League, 1906-1953.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... A SEED OF MODERNISM: THE LOS ANGELES ART STUDENTS LEAGUE, 1906-1953 By Will South, Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick, and Julia Armstrong-Totten, foreword by Wesley Jessup (Berkeley Pasadena Museum of California Art/Heyday Books, 2008, 160 pp., illus., $24.95 paper) THE LOS ...
Immigration at the Golden Gate: Passenger Ships, Exclusion, and Angel Island.('Paper Families: Identity, Immigration Administration, and Chinese Exclusion', 'The Opium Debate And Chinese Exclusion laws In The Nineteenth-Century American West')(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... IMMIGRATION AT THE GOLDEN GATE: PASSENGER SHIPS, EXCLUSION, AND ANGEL ISLAND By Robert Eric Barde (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2008, 304 pp., illus., $49.95 cloth) PAPER FAMILIES: IDENTITY, IMMIGRATION ADMINISTRATION, AND CHINESE EXCLUSION By Estelle T. Lau ...