California History articles from March 2009

California History archives from March 2009

Eye of the beholder.(FROM THE EDITOR)(Editorial)
March 22, 2009... How do we perceive the past? Some might say that what's gone on before our time is a story learned from elders, going to school, and reading books. Some might say that there's little need to push for definitions of what's dead and gone and that...

WPA art at the Golden Gate International exhibition.(COLLECTIONS)
March 22, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Northern California's Pomo Indians--masters of the craft of fine art baskets--were one of the diverse tribes represented in Louis Siegriest's WPA posters for the Indian Court exhibit at San Francisco's Golden Gate...

War and the making of history: the case of Mexican California, 1821-1846.
March 22, 2009... At times, the historian of Mexican California, as would the scholar of any other historical subject, must play the philosopher and contemplate the riddles that comprise humanity's existence. What seems accurate often is not, the historian...

Playing with politics: crisis in the San Francisco Federal Music Project.
March 22, 2009... On May 27, 1937, Alexander Fried, music critic for the San Francisco Examiner, reported on contention within the Federal Music Project (FMP), a small but highly visible part of the WPA's massive public works program of the 1930s. "Discord has...

Forgotten feminist: women's page editor Maggie Savoy and the growth of women's liberation awareness in Los Angeles.
March 22, 2009... The year was 1963, and the publisher of The Arizonian, a weekly newspaper in Scottsdale, wrote a column about his friend Maggie Savoy, the women's page editor for the neighboring Arizona Republic in Phoenix. The publisher, Dickson Hartwell, was...

The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... THE SHIFTING GROUNDS OF RACE: BLACK AND JAPANESE AMERICANS IN THE MAKING OF MULTIETHNIC LOS ANGELES By Scott Kurashige (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007, 362 pp., $35.00 cloth) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] SCOTT...

Ella Young, Irish Mystic and Rebel: from Literary Dublin to the American West.(Images of America: Irish San Francisco)(Book review)
March 22, 2009... ELLA YOUNG, IRISH MYSTIC AND REBEL: FROM LITERARY DUBLIN TO THE AMERICAN WEST By Rose Murphy (Dublin, Ireland: The Liffey Press, 2008, 165 pp., $26.95 paper) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IMAGES OF AMERICA: IRISH SAN FRANCISCO By...

The Radical Jack London: Writings on War and Revolution.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... THE RADICAL JACK LONDON: WRITINGS ON WAR AND REVOLUTION Edited and with an introduction by Jonah Raskin (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008, 285 pp., 560.00 cloth, 524.95 paper) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] RASKIN'S...

Donors.(List)
March 22, 2009... The California Historical Society is deeply grateful to the following individuals, corporations, foundations, and government and business organizations for their contributions. INDIVIDUALS $50,000 and above Anonymous $10,000...

Spotlight.(Photograph)
March 22, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] By most historical accounts, Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal programs relating to the nation's infrastructure, social welfare, and artistic production were vital components of the American economy during the...