California History articles from September 2004

California History archives from September 2004

From the editor.(Editorial)
September 22, 2004... As a historian, I am not comfortable with predictions for the future. You see, the past overflows with variety, and there are too many variables now to imagine certainties to come. But I'm willing to stick my neck out about disasters: We have...

Fine printing in California.(Collections: Taylor & Taylor)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2004... Taylor & Taylor, founded at the turn of the 19th century, was one of San Francisco's premier printing houses. The firm's archive offers an almost-complete look into the workings of the business, which closed in the 1960s. Records such as work...

Santa Barbara noir.(California Journeys)
September 22, 2004... It was summer and my spouse and I were staying at the Four Season Biltmore Santa Barbara. We were traveling with our dog and therefore had to walk her late at night across the exotic palm-lined grounds, through Spanish tiled arcades, and...

"Unique in American history".(Teaching California)
September 22, 2004... Most Americans are proud of the states they live in, but there's no question about it: California really is exceptional. It even says so in the state Department of Education's history and social science framework, which makes the case...

William Mulholland and the St. Francis Dam disaster.(Privilege And Responsibility)
September 22, 2004... A few minutes before midnight on March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam gave way under the hydrostatic pressure of a full reservoir. During the early morning hours of March 13, some 38,000 acre-feet of water surged down from an elevation of 1,834...

Los Angeles's jazz roots: the Willis H. Young family.
September 22, 2004... The historical and etymological origins of jazz are rather murky, although the average fan associates the history with New Orleans and the Deep South and often with African Americans. As it happens, the word "jazz" first appeared in print in a...

Zinfandel: a History of a Grape and Its Wine.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... ZINFANDEL: A HISTORY OF A GRAPE AND ITS WINE By Charles L. Sullivan (University of California, Berkeley, 2003, 224 pp., $24.95 cloth $15.95 paper) California Studies in Food and Culture 10. Henry L. Mencken's memoir of his newspaper...

Print the Legend: Photography and the American West.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... PRINT THE LEGEND: PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE AMERICAN WEST By Martha A. Sandweiss (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2002, xiii, 402 pp., $39.95 cloth). Print the Legend, Martha A. Sandweiss's exceptional account of photography and...

L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... L.A. CITY LIMITS: AFRICAN AMERICAN LOS ANGELES FROM THE GREAT DEPRESSION TO THE PRESENT By Josh Sides (University of California Press, Berkeley, 2004, 302 pp., $39.95 cloth). This book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on...

Japanese American Celebration and Conflict: a History of Ethnic Identity and Festival in Los Angeles, 1934-1990.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... JAPANESE AMERICAN CELEBRATION AND CONFLICT: A HISTORY OF ETHNIC IDENTITY AND FESTIVAL IN LOS ANGELES, 1934-1990 By Lon Kurashige (University of California Press, Berkeley, 2002, 296 pp., $45 cloth, $18.95 paper). Cultural history has...

Chinese Immigrants, African Americans, and Racial Anxiety in the United States, 1848-82.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... CHINESE IMMIGRANTS, AFRICAN AMERICANS, AND RACIAL ANXIETY IN THE UNITED STATES, 1848-82 By Najia Aarim-Heriot (University of Illinois Press, Champaign, 2003, 291 pp., $39.95 cloth). What factors led to the passage of the 1882 Chinese...

Viola Martinez: California Paiute.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... VIOLA MARTINEZ: CALIFORNIA PAIUTE By Diana Meyers Bahr (University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2003, 202 pp., $29.95 cloth). "Marginal people" by definition live in two antagonistic cultures. This well-written narrative shows how Viola...

Silicon Valley, Women, and the California Dream: Gender, Class, and Opportunity in the Twentieth Century.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... SILICON VALLEY, WOMEN, AND THE CALIFORNIA DREAM: GENDER, CLASS, AND OPPORTUNITY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY By Glenna Matthews (Stanford University Press, 2003, 313 pp., $22.95, cloth). Glenna Matthews joins a growing number of scholars...

Gifts from the Celestial Kingdom: a Shipwrecked Cargo for Gold Rush California.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... GIFTS FROM THE CELESTIAL KINGDOM: A SHIPWRECKED CARGO FOR GOLD RUSH CALIFORNIA By Thomas N. Layton (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. 269 pp., $21.95 cloth). Gifts for the Celestial Kingdom provides a well-crafted and...

Checklist.
September 22, 2004... The Checklist provides notice of publications that portray the diverse and exceptional nature of California. Readers and publishers who wish to call attention to recent works, including reprints, are requested to send the following...

Donors.
September 22, 2004... INDIVIDUALS The California Historical Society is deeply grateful to the following individual donors for their contributions received between January, 1, 004 and September 30, 2004: $10,000 TO $24,999 Mr. Robert A. Chlebowski, San...

The pharaoh's lost city.(Spotlight)
September 22, 2004... In 1923 Cecil B. DeMille produced The Ten Commandments, a spectacular retelling of the story of Exodus interwoven with a tale of decadent Jazz Age San Francisco. DeMille built an elaborate recreation of the Pharaoh's city on the sands of the...