California History articles from March 2005

California History archives from March 2005

Living landscapes.(regional identity of cities)(Editorial)
March 22, 2005... A fashionable lament these days is over the demise of local and regional distinctiveness. Lost, people say, are the earmarks of town, city, and area. They are subsumed by the corporate landscape of big-box stores, fast-food eateries, and...

The peoples temple collection.(COLLECTIONS)
March 22, 2005... One of the top news stories of 1978 was the deaths of 918 people in Jonestown, Guyana, a small country in the jungles of South America. Members of the California-based Peoples Temple had developed an agricultural community in Guyana; California...

The thrill of rushing water.(CALIFORNIA JOURNEYS)
March 22, 2005... I have a rule that every vacation must contain a "big wow." My partner Leah and I had taken our 11-year-old niece, Ariana, and her twin brothers, Aidan and Jeremy (both 7) to Yosemite National Park, followed by a daylong rafting trip on the...

Garden and mine, paradise and purgatory: landscapes of leisure and labor in California.
March 22, 2005... A TALE OF TWO PLACES In his best-selling book, the ironically rifled Merrie England (1894), a prominent British socialist explained to northern England's working class how the "champions of the factory system" had manufactured a dual...

A Road as a route and place: the evolution and transformation of the Arroyo Seco Parkway.
March 22, 2005... Now I know how a package feels when it gets an unobstructed ride through a chute to the shipping department. I've just made a run out to Pasadena on the completed Arroyo Seco Parkway.... From the relatively narrow Figueroa tunnels you...

Pictured landscapes of the South San Joaquin Valley, California: lithographs of the 1880s and 1890s.
March 22, 2005... In 1891, Mr. Nes Hansen of Armona was approached by an agent with a proposition--to illustrate his land and possessions and include them in an ambitious county atlas alongside the other prominent landowners in the county. The offer was no doubt...

Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles.(The Next Los Angeles: The Struggle for a Livable City)(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... POPULAR CULTURE IN THE AGE OF WHITE FLIGHT: FEAR AND FANTASY IN SUBURBAN LOS ANGELES By Eric Avila (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004, 328 pp., $39.95 cloth) THE NEXT LOS ANGELES: THE STRUGGLE FOR A LIVABLE CITY By...

Fugitive Slave in the Gold Rush: Life and Adventures of James Williams.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... FUGITIVE SLAVE IN THE GOLD RUSH: LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF JAMES WILLIAMS By James Williams, edited by Malcolm J. Rohrbough. (University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2003, 119 pp., $16.95, paper.) James Williams, a slave at age thirteen,...

The Governor: The Life and Legacy of Leland Stanford.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... THE GOVERNOR: THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF LELAND STANFORD By Norman E. Tutorow (Spokane: Arthur H. Clark Company, 2004, 2 Vols., 1,146 pp., $125, cloth) Following his days as a young lawyer, Stanford's subsequent financial and political...

My Checkered Life: Luzena Stanley Wilson in Early California.(Unsettling the West: Eliza Farnham and Georgiana Bruce Kirby in Frontier California)(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... MY CHECKERED LIFE: LUZENA STANLEY WILSON IN EARLY CALIFORNIA By Fern Henry (Nevada City, CA: Carl Mautz Publishing, 2003, 240 PP., $35 cloth, $22.50 paper) UNSETTLING THE WEST: ELIZA FARNHAM AND GEORGIANA BRUCE KIRBY IN FRONTIER...

La Nueva California: Latinos in the Golden State.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... LA NUEVA CALIFORNIA: LATINOS IN THE GOLDEN STATE By David E. Hayes-Bautista (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004, 263 pp., $55 cloth, $21.95 paper) La Nueva California provides a window for observing Latino opinions,...

What's Going On: California and the Vietnam Era.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... WHAT'S GOING ON: CALIFORNIA AND THE VIETNAM ERA Edited by Marcia A. Eymann and Charles Wollenberg (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004, 209 PP., $49.95 cloth, $29.95 paper) Envisioned as a companion piece to an exhibition...

Selling the City: Gender, Class, and The California Growth Machine 1880-1940.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... SELLING THE CITY: GENDER, CLASS, AND THE CALIFORNIA GROWTH MACHINE 1880-1940 By Lee M.A. Simpson (Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2004, 215 pp., $49.50) So influential in the multidisciplinary field of urban studies was the 1978...

The Overland Journey from Utah to California: Wagon Travel from the City of Saints to the City of Angels.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... The Overland Journey from Utah to California: Wagon Travel from the City of Saints to the City of Angels By Edward Leo Lyman (Reno: University of Nevada, 2004, 288 pp., $39.95 cloth) Among western wagon trails and roads, the Southern...

Individuals.(donors, California Historical Society )
March 22, 2005... The California Historical Society is deeply grateful to the following individual donors for their contributions received between August 1, 2004 and August I, 2005: $15,000 TO $40,000 Mr. Robert A. Chlebowski, San Francisco Mr....

Corporate, foundation and government support.(DONORS)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2005... The California Historical Society is deeply grateful to the following organizations for their contributions received between August 1, 2004 and August 1, 2005: $10,000 TO $60,000 San Francisco Foundation, San Francisco Borel...

Flying fish.(gyotaku fish prints)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2005... The simplicity of this photograph evokes, perhaps unintentionally, traditional Japanese gyotaku fish prints, in which an imprint is taken on rice paper from a fish covered in ink. While this flying fish may have been photographed for its beauty...