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California History articles from March 2001
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California History archives from March 2001
The Compatibility of Light and Land.(Brief Article)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2001... Many Californians know that in southern California there is an almost unbearable lightness of being. Some explain it as flakiness or superficiality; they say that in southern California--especially in Los Angeles--there is no substance, there...
"HERE THE SOCIETY IS UNITED".(intercultural marriage in early 1800s)
March 22, 2001... "Respectable" Anglos and Intercultural Marriage in Pre-Gold Rush California
In the dramatic swings of early California history. from the fantasy heritage of Spanish Arcadia to the fantasy heritage of Aztlan in the American Southwest,...
Larger than Texas.(1849 proposal for uniting Mormon Deseret and California to form one state)
March 22, 2001... Proposals to Combine California and Mormon Deseret as One State
Many who are familiar with the history of the far western United States know of the seemingly grandiose attempt of Brigham Young and his Mormon associates in the...
"To Have and To Hold".(annexation and suffrage issues concerning San Pedro and Los Angeles, California, in early 1900s)
March 22, 2001... THE SAN PEDRO WOMAN'S CLUB AND THE UNION OF Two CITIEs, 1906-1909
"The people of San Pedro, by annexing to Los Angeles, would abandon all hope of ever building a city here," intoned Fanny Hogaboom of the San Pedro Woman's Club in 1906....
"Inspired and Possessed".(women newspaper publishers in San Francisco, California)
March 22, 2001... SAN FRANCISCO WOMEN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS
San Francisco was an entrepreneur's dream in the decades after the Gold Rush. [1] Many migrants discovered that if they could not make a fortune panning gold in the Sierra Nevada foothills they might...
Growing Up Nisei: Race, Generation, and Culture Among Japanese Americans of California, 1924-1949.(Review)
March 22, 2001... By David K. Yoo. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000, xiii, 264 pp., $42.50 cloth, $17.95 paper.)
Reviewed by Lane R. Hirabayashi, professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder, and author of The Politics...
Maritime Solidarity: Pacific Coast Unionism, 1929-1938.(Review)
March 22, 2001... By Ottilie Markholt. (Tacoma, Washington: Pacific Coast Maritime History Committee, 1998, 461 pp., $19.95 paper.)
Maritime Solidarity was published by a Tacoma, Washington, labor studies group, the Pacific Coast Maritime History Committee....
Landscapes of Desire: Anglo Mythologies of Los Angeles.(Review)
March 22, 2001... William Alexander McClung. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000, xvii, 277 pp., $35.00 cloth.)
Douglas Monroy, professor of history at The Colorado College and author of Thrown among Strangers: The Making of Mexican Culture in...
A Year of Mud and Gold: San Francisco in Letters and Diaries, 1849-1850.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Edited by William Benemann. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999, xxiv, 241 pp., $29.95 cloth.)
Land of Golden Dreams: California in the Gold Rush Decade, 1848-1858.
By Peter J. Blodgett. (San Marino: Huntington Library Press,...
Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthy Ruin.(Review)
March 22, 2001... By Gray Brechin. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999, xxvi, 402 pp., $29.95 cloth, $17.95 paper.)
Reviewed by William Issel, professor of history at San Francisco State University, author of Social Change in the United States,...