Recently added articles from California History:

The initiative effect.(Editorial)

Mar 01, 2008; Fireman, Janet ... 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; Dilsaver, Lary M. ... 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; Walsh, Victor A. ... 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; Culp, William Maurice ... 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; Apostol, Jane ... 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; Herr, Pamela ... 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; Senkewicz, Robert M. ... 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., ...

Woman of Ill Fame.(Book review)

Mar 01, 2008; Lothrop, Gloria R. ... WOMAN OF ILL FAME By Erika Mailman (Berkeley: Heyday Press, 2006, 256 pp., $13.95 trade paper) ERIKA MAILMAN PRESENTS a riveting tale involving prostitution, virtue, violence, crime, and, finally, vindication amid the ragtag realism of Gold Rush San Francisco. This ...

Colonial Rosary: The Spanish and Indian Missions of California.(Book review)

Mar 01, 2008; Beebe, Rose Marie ... COLONIAL ROSARY: THE SPANISH AND INDIAN MISSIONS OF CALIFORNIA By Alison Lake (Athens: Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 2006, 328 pp., illus., $39.95 cloth, $19.95 paper) Colonial Rosary: The Spanish and Indian Missions of California is a good book for an audience ...

Picturing Los Angeles.(Brief article)(Book review)

Mar 01, 2008; Rolle, Andrew ... PICTURING LOS ANGELES By Jon and Nancy Wilkman (Layton, UT: Gibbs Smith, 2006, 336 pp., illus., $39.95 cloth) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] EACH YEAR THE PARADE OF BOOKS about Los Angeles continues to grow, obscuring the days when L.A. was a sleepy provincial ...

Donors.(List)

Mar 01, 2008 ... The California Historical Society is deeply grateful to the following individuals, corporations, founda- tions, and government and business organizations for their contributions. INDIVIDUALS $10,000 and above Mr. & Mrs. Reid Dennis, Woodside ...

Spotlight.(Robert Dawson's work )(Brief article)

Mar 01, 2008; Dawson, Michael ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The tension between public and private ownership of open space in California and the West is a central theme in Robert Dawson's work. His mastery of the photographic medium is dearly evident in this depiction of Lake Tahoe from the late 1980s. Dawson's ...