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California History articles from December 22 2000
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California History archives from December 22 2000
JANET R. FIREMAN.(named editor of 'California History')(Brief Article)
December 22, 2000... In the previous issue of California History, we said good-bye and paid tribute to the magazine's long-time editor, Dr. Richard Orsi. Dick saw the publication through a somewhat rocky period in the history of the organization and managed to...
Splendide Californie!: Selections by French Artists in California History, 1786-1900.
December 22, 2000... Nineteenth-century California was not a destination for the faint of heart, given the uncertainties of sea travel and the difficulties of a land crossing through the enormous American wilderness. Yet many visitors from France made their way to...
COME BACK, TOM JOAD.(California literature and music)
December 22, 2000... Thoughts on a California Dreamer
Steinbeck's Tom Joad lives."
David Wyatt, from Five Fires [1]
California fiction has its characteristic themes: redemption, hope, reinvention. In California letters, perpetual conscience bears...
Taming The Wilderness Within.(founding the city of Sacramento, California)
December 22, 2000... Order and Opportunity in Gold Rush Sacramento, 1849-1850
Early in May 1848, Edward Kemble, editor of the San Francisco California Star, journeyed to the foothills of the Sierra Nevada to investigate the stories of gold discoveries at...
CADWALADER RINGGOLD, U. S. NAVY.(sailor, explorer and surveyor)
December 22, 2000... Gold Rush Surveyor of San Francisco Bay and Waters to Sacramento, 1849-1850
By early summer of 1849, hundreds of ships were anchored in the harbor of San Francisco. Forty-niners were scrambling for available means of transportation to the...
Picturing California's Other Landscape: The Great Central Valley.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Edited by Heath Schenker. (Berkeley: Heyday Books and The Haggin Museum, 2000, 200 pp., 114 fullcolor and duotone illustrations, $35.00 paper).
Reviewed by Gerald Haslam, professor emeritus of English at Sonoma State University and author...
The Way We Really Were: The Golden State in the Second Great War.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Edited by Roger W. Lotchin. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000, viii, 245 pp., $44.95 cloth, $16.95 paper.)
Reviewed by Gerald D. Nash, Distinguished Professor of History at the University of New Mexico and author of The Federal...
To Place Our Deeds: The African American community in Richmond, California, 1910--1963.(Review)
December 22, 2000... By Shirley Ann Wilson Moore (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000, xiii, 232 Pp., $40.00.)
Reviewed by Charles Wollenberg, Vista College and author of Photographing the Second Gold Rush: Dorothea Lange and the Bay Area at War,...
Scoundrel's Tale: The Samuel Brannan Papers, Kingdom of the West Series, Vol. 3.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Edited by Will Bagley. (Spokane, Wash.:The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1999, preface, 476 pp., $39.50 cloth.)
Reviewed by M. Guy Bishop, adjunct instructor of history at Salt Lake Community College, Salt Lake City, Utah, and author of Henry...
Mission Memoirs: A Collection of Photographs, Illustrations, and Twentieth-century Reflections on California's Past.(Review)
December 22, 2000... By Terry Ruscin (San Diego: Sunbelt Publications, 1999, xi, 203 pp.). xi, 203 pp.).
Reviewed by James A. Sandos. Farquhar Professor of the Southwest at the University of Redlands and author of "Between Crucifix and Lance: Indian-White...
Le reve californien, Migrants francais sur la cote Pacifique (XVIIIe-XXe siecles).(Review)
December 22, 2000... By Annick Foucrier. (Paris: Editions Belin, 1999, 428 Pp., 150 fr. paper.)
Reviewed by Claudine Chalmers, Historian and author of Splendide Californie! Impressions of the golden state by French Artists, 1786-1900.
Encapsulating two...
Days of Gold! Songs of the California Gold Rush.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Compiled by Karen W. Arlen, Margaret Batt, Mary Ann Benson, Nancie N. Kester. (Oakland: Calicanto Associates, 1999, vii, 102 p $20.00 paper.)
They Came Singing: Songs from California's History.
Compiled, edited and arranged by Karen W....