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California History articles from June 2001
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California History archives from June 2001
George Freeth: King of the surfers and California's forgotten hero.
June 22, 2001... Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Not far from the crowded shoreline of Waikiki Beach is the final resting place of a native Hawaiian who forever changed California and its image to the world. Beneath the...
Eternal light: Visions of Gottardo Piazzoni.
June 22, 2001... When asked, "And what is your religion?" artist Gottardo Fidele Ponziano Piazzoni (1872-1945) hesitated, then replied, "I think it is California." (1) Piazzoni's statement summarizes the essence of his landscape painting. Through his unique...
Revising the sesquicentennial Narrative: The importance of Josiah Royce's California for our time.
June 22, 2001... Two books appeared in the mid-1980s that were important in re-orienting public discourse about the past and the future of American life. Late; two groups of scholars evaluated these books, and the authors were given an opportunity for response....
The Literature of California: Writings from the Golden State.
June 22, 2001... Edited by Jack Hicks, James D. Houston, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Al Young. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000, xx, 633 pp., $24.95 paper, $60.00 cloth.)
In the early 1990s, a graduate student of California...
Chinese San Francisco 1850-1943: A Trans-Pacific Community.
June 22, 2001... By Yang Chen. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000.)
Academic approaches to China can be roughly divided into two camps: western-trained scholars who prefer theory and Chinese counterparts who prefer texts. Despite his American Ph.D.,...
The Initiative and Referendum in California, 1898-1998.
June 22, 2001... By John M. Allswang. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000, 352 pp., $24.95 paper, $61.00 cloth.)
There are myriad ways in which to view the history of California. John Allswang, professor of history at California State University, Los...
The California Idea and American Higher Education: 1850 to the 1960 Master Plan.
June 22, 2001... By John Aubrey Douglass. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000, xvi, 460 pp., $55.00 cloth.)
The heart of the story told by John Aubrey Douglass concerns the often messy and sometimes spontaneous politics of centralized planning in...
A Sole Survivor: Bits of Autobiography.
June 22, 2001... By Ambrose Bierce. Edited by S.T. Joshi and David E. Schulz. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1998, xxvi, 356 pp., $38.00 cloth.)
This volume of autobiographical selections from Ambrose Bierce's published and private writings...
Salt gets in your eyes. (Seeing California).(Brief Article)(Editorial)
June 22, 2001... Looking out from high on a bluff north of Fort Ross on the Sonoma County coast or from southbound Interstate 5 over the sand and beyond the Marine Corps training grounds at Camp Pendleton near Oceanside, we see the sea. We see nothing but the...