California History articles from December 2001

California History archives from December 2001

Winston S. Churchill in California.
December 22, 2001... British statesman Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965), the World War II leader who inspired his land's "finest hour," spent about three weeks in California during September 1929. Although he had visited North America before, and would do so again,...

Your town: behold the view.
December 22, 2001... From the southern ridge of the Marin headlands staring across the glowing red arches of the Golden Gate to the rolling, caterpillar avenues of San Francisco's Richmond district, or from a window seat in a 747 gliding into LAX over the miles and...

The city on the hill: temperance, race, and class in turn-of-the-century Pasadena.
December 22, 2001... It was clear and cold the morning of December 9, 1886, as Amy Bridges, a young, precocious college girl from a wealthy New England family, rushed to the station to catch the westbound train to Chicago. Nearly two dozen sorority sisters came to...

Teaching--and learning from--Carey McWilliams.
December 22, 2001... It's easy to arrive at the subject of Carey McWilliams and enter into a pure love-fest, ending with a blanket endorsement. (1) Though his legacy, especially to historians of the American West, is well established, many non-Westerners and many...

A Land Between: Owens Valley, California. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... By Rebecca Fish Ewan. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000, xix, 221 pp., $55 cloth, $22.50 paper.) Where is Owens Valley? So far east of coastal California, near the Nevada border and northwest of renowned Death Valley,...

William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... By Catherine Mulholland. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000, 432 pp., $35.00 cloth, $22.95 paper.) Catherine Mulholland has no more patience for critics than did her grandfather, the subject of her book. Several years ago, she...

Forty-Niners 'Round the Horn. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... By Charles R. Schultz. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1999, xiv, 352 pp., $45.00 cloth.) In recent years, the Gold Rush's southern route to California has begun to catch up with the main Overland Trail in terms of interest...

Gold Rush Politics: California's First Legislature. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... By Mary Jo Ignoffo. (Sacramento: California State Senate, 1999, viii, 145 pp., $15.50 cloth, $5.50 paper.) This small volume traces the creation of California's state government, with special attention to the legislative session that...

Encyclopedia of California's Catholic Heritage: 1769-1999. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... By Msgr. Francis J. Weber. (Mission Hills, Calif. & Spokane, Wash.: Saint Francis Historical Society and The Arthur H. Clark Co., 2001, 1148 pp., $90.00.) In this work of magnificent breadth and depth, Msgr. Francis Weber assumes sole...

From Savages to Subjects: Missions in the History of the American Southwest. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... By Robert H. Jackson. (Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2000, xvii, 151 pp., $48.95 cloth, $21.95 paper.) In recent years Robert H. Jackson has emerged as one of the most prolific interpreters of the missions of the Spanish Borderlands....

New Weimar on the Pacific: The Pazifische Presse and German Exile Publishing 1942-48. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... By Roland Jaeger. Translated from the German by Marion Philadelphia and edited by Victoria Dailey. (Los Angeles: Victoria Dailey Publisher, 2000, 87 pp., $45.00.) At least up to the present, the brief history, 1933 to 1950, of the...

News of the Plains and Rockies 1803-1865, volume 6: Gold Seekers, California, 1849-1856, Railroad Forerunners, 1850-1865. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... David A. White, ed. (Spokane: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1999, 464 pp., $75.00 cloth.) This is the sixth of a projected eight volumes of documents that in the editor's view "represent the types of published information that shaped the...