California History articles from March 2007

California History archives from March 2007

From the editor.(Editorial)
March 22, 2007... We need only poke below the... surface to discover an obstinately rich loam of memory. --Simon Schama, Landscape and Memory Most of the earth is ocean, but most of our world is land. We are terrestrial animals, and the ties that...

Philopolis: "Love of the City".(COLLECTIONS)(Brief article)
March 22, 2007... Fine examples of graphic design and illustration can be found in many nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century West Coast periodicals with imaginative titles such as The Lark, The Land of Sunshine, and Sunset. One of the best was Philopolis, a...

Salmon people: crisis and continuity at the mouth of the Klamath.(Yuroks, Klamath River)
March 22, 2007... The mouth of the Klamath River has been a source of stories for a long time. The town of Requa on the north bank above the estuary may be the only indigenous village site in California continuously inhabited by members of the same tribe for...

I Still Eat All of My Meals With a Mussel Shell.(Poem)
March 22, 2007... Creation stories thespiritbeings have long been disputed emergedfrom by theories of theground evolution and at Kenek strait crossings. Because our rivers halfbreedshave were once filled...

Managing a national crisis: the 1924 foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in California.(Disease/Disorder overview)
March 22, 2007... The storms were late in coming to northern California in 1924. In the towns along the east side of San Francisco Bay, businessmen who depended on processing and shipping agricultural products from the state's interior grew concerned. People in...

Missiles of peace: Benny Bufano's message to the world.
March 22, 2007... In 1958, during the height of the cold war, San Francisco's quixotic sculptor and modernist, Beniamino "Benny" Bufano, visited the Soviet Union as part of a delegation of artists. (1) He carried with him a four-foot-tall model of a statue that...

Allies of the Earth: Railroads and the Soul of Preservation.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... ALLIES OF THE EARTH: RAILROADS AND THE SOUL OF PRESERVATION By Alfred Runte (Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2006, 216 pp., $29.95 cloth) A theme underlying much of Dr. Alfred Runte's writing over the last thirty years...

City of Promise: Race and Historical Change in Los Angeles.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... CITY OF PROMISE: RACE AND HISTORICAL CHANGE IN LOS ANGELES Edited by Martin Schiesl and Mark M. Dodge (Claremont, CA: Regina Books, 2006, 288 pp., $18.95 paper) City of Promise joins a stream of books published in the past two decades...

Adventures of a Hollywood Secretary: Her Private Letters from Inside the Studios of the 1920s.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... ADVENTURES OF A HOLLYWOOD SECRETARY: HER PRIVATE LETTERS FROM INSIDE THE STUDIOS OF THE 1920s Edited and annotated by Cari Beauchamp (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006, 240 pp., $50.00 cloth, $19.95 paper) This collection...

Jess: The Political Career of Jesse Marvin Unruh.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... JESS: THE POLITICAL CAREER OF JESSE MARVIN UNRUH By Jackson K. Putnam (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005, 462 pp., $81.95 cloth, $51.95 paper) No list of California's most important--or most colorful--politicians could...

Legacy: Portraits of 50 Bay Area Environmental Elders.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... LEGACY: PORTRAITS OF 50 BAY AREA ENVIRONMENTAL ELDERS Photographs by Nancy Kittle and text by John Hart (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 2006, 160 pp., $29.95 cloth) We forget in today's world of the nonprofit and advocacy as norms...

Making a Better World: Public Housing, the Red Scare, and the Direction of Modern Los Angeles.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... MAKING A BETTER WORLD: PUBLIC HOUSING, THE RED SCARE, AND THE DIRECTION OF MODERN LOS ANGELES By Don Parson, forward by Kevin Starr (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005, 312 pp., $70.50 cloth, $23.50 paper) Tens of...

New Guardians for the Golden Gate: How America Got a Great National Park.
March 22, 2007... NEW GUARDIANS FOR THE GOLDEN GATE: How AMERICA GOT A GREAT NATIONAL PARK By Amy Meyer with Randolph Delehanty (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006, 390 pp., $29.95 cloth) Many years ago I walked through the Presidio of San...

Uncle Sam's Camels: the Journal of May Humphreys Stacey, Supplemented by the Report of Edward Fitzgerald Beale (1857-1858).(Book review)
March 22, 2007... UNCLE SAM'S CAMELS: THE JOURNAL OF MAY HUMPHREYS STACEY, SUPPLEMENTED BY THE REPORT OF EDWARD FITZGERALD BEALE (1857-1858) Edited by Lewis Burt Lesley, foreword by Paul Andrew Hutton (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1929; reprint,...

Biotech: The Countercultural Origins of an Industry.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... BIOTECH: THE COUNTERCULTURAL ORIGINS OF AN INDUSTRY By Eric J. Vettel (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006, 296 PP., $39.95 cloth) In her provocative 2003 meditation Where I Was From, Joan Didion wrote, "this extreme...

Visit of Cyrille Pierre-Theodore Laplace to Fort Ross and Bodega Bay in August 1839.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... VISIT OF CYRILLE PIERRE-THEODORE LAPLACE TO FORT ROSS AND BODEGA BAY IN AUGUST 1839 Translated and annotated by Glenn Farris (Jenner, CA: Fort Ross Interpretive Association, 2006, 64 pp., $10.50 paper) In April 1839 Captain Cyrille...

From Lead Mines to Gold Fields: Memories of an Incredibly Long Life.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... FROM LEAD MINES TO GOLD FIELDS: MEMORIES OF AN INCREDIBLY LONG LIFE By Henry Taylor, edited and with an introduction by Donald L. Parman (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006, 230 pp., $24.95 paper) SONORA PASS PIONEERS:...

Individuals.(Donors)(List)
March 22, 2007... The California Historical Society is deeply grateful to the following individual donors for their contributions received between December 1, 2006 and March 1, 2007. $10,000 AND ABOVE Mr. Darius Anderson, San Francisco Mr. Louis H....

Corporate foundation & government support.(DONORS)(Brief article)(List)
March 22, 2007... The California Historical Society is deeply grateful to the following organizations for their contributions received between December 1, 2006 and March 1, 2007. $10,000 AND ABOVE Barkley Fund, Corona Del Mar Davies Foundation, San...

Snow in San Francisco!(SPOTLIGHT)(Brief article)(Photograph)
March 22, 2007... On December 31, 1882, as the city prepared to usher in a new year, a rare snowfall blanketed San Francisco. Three and a half inches fell over a five-hour period, enough time for a photographer--probably one who maintained a downtown studio on...