California History articles

Recent articles from California History

Political animals.(FROM THE EDITOR)(Editorial)
June 22, 2009... Aristotle, whose interest in biology rivaled his expertise in statecraft, famously wrote that "Man is by nature a political animal." We are all political animals--and so are many of our quadruped, flippered, and fluke-tailed relations. Wolves, dolphins, elephants, baboons, and other...

Collections.(Cry California )(Brief article)
June 22, 2009... Preserving the state's wilderness areas was one of many topics explored in Cry California, the magazine of the nonprofit educational group California Tomorrow. From 1965 to 1982, Cry California presented the findings of conservationists, planners, regulators, and residents involved in the...

Politically desperate housewives: women and conservatism in postwar Los Angeles.
June 22, 2009... As Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev and President Dwight Eisenhower made efforts to liberalize relations between the Soviet Union and the United States, progressive Californians gestured warmly toward Soviet Deputy Prime Minister Anastas Mikoyan during his unofficial visit to the United...

The perilous fight: the rise of Ramparts magazine, 1965-1966.(Essay)
June 22, 2009... AT ITS PEAK, Ramparts magazine was America's premier leftist publication. Founded by Edward Keating in 1962, it began as a Catholic literary quarterly based in Menlo Park, California. But when a young Warren Hinckle became editor in 1964, he turned Ramparts into a monthly, hired Dugald...

Two radicals and their Los Angeles: Harrison Gray Otis and Job Harriman.(Los Angeles, California)(Essay)
June 22, 2009... Harrison Gray Otis and Job Harriman were part of the flood of Midwesterners who came to Los Angeles for health and wealth in the late nineteenth century. The two men rose to prominence in their adopted city, each pursuing very different visions of what kind of city it should be. Both men were...