California History articles from September 2005

California History archives from September 2005

Autry National Center collaboration brings California Historical Society collections to Los Angeles.(COLLECTIONS)
September 22, 2005... In an effort to bring the vibrant history of California to a wider audience, the California Historical Society and the Autry National Center have joined forces to display in Los Angeles significant works of art and costumes by some of America's...

Midnight in the Mojave.(CALIFORNIA JOURNEYS)
September 22, 2005... By the time you read this, my husband John will probably have forgiven me for last year's Valentine's weekend in the Mojave desert. He's not the kind of guy who holds a grudge, but sitting in a smoky tent cabin bundled in a sleeping bag and...

Everyone had cameras: photographers, photography and the farmworker experience in California--a photographic essay.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2005... "Cesar Chavez really knew the value of photography.... He was very visually aware. I don't think he did anything during the first year of the strike without considering how it would look on film. To an extent that few realized, much of what...

On a case-by-case basis: ethnicity and Los Angeles Courts, 1850-1875.
September 22, 2005... In his important study A History of American Law, Lawrence Friedman commented that by 1850, in addition to American emigrants, "what traveled west, more important than form, was the general legal culture, the general ways of thinking about law...

A cult of beauty: the public life and civic work of Laura Lyon White.(Biography)
September 22, 2005... "A GREAT CITIZEN, A GREAT WOMAN--A RARE SOUL--A FRIEND OF HER KIND." Reverend Caleb S. Dutton, Eulogy In the North Beach section of San Francisco, at the intersection of Lombard and Mason, sits an old, somewhat overused city park...

The San Francisco Wasp: An Illustrated History.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... THE SAN FRANCISCO WASP: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY By Richard Samuel West (Easthampton, MA: Periodyssey Press, 2004, 327 PP., 575) Surely the most familiar clich6 with which to begin or end a review in these pages runs something like this:...

The Land of Orange Groves and Jails: Upton Sinclair's California.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... THE LAND OF ORANGE GROVES AND JAILS: UPTON SINCLAIR'S CALIFORNIA Edited by Lauren Coodley (Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2004, 215pp., $16.95 paper) Upton Sinclair had a passion for writing. He admitted that "I am seldom really interested...

Altadena: Between Wilderness and City.(Garden of the Sun: A History of the San Joaquin Valley: 1772-1939)(Images of America: Santa Rosa)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... ALTADENA: BETWEEN WILDERNESS AND CITY By Michele Zack (Altadena: Altadena Historical Society, 2004, 231 pp., $34) GARDEN OF THE SUN: A HISTORY OF THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY: 1772-1939 By Wallace Smith, edited and revised by William...

Culture of Empire: American Writers, Mexico, and Mexican Immigrants, 1880-1930.(Becoming Neighbors in a Mexican American Community: Power, Conflict, and Solidarity)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... CULTURE OF EMPIRE: AMERICAN WRITERS, MEXICO, AND MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS, 1880-1930 By Gilbert G. Gonzalez (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004, 245 pp., $50 cloth, $22.95 paper) BECOMING NEIGHBORS IN A MEXICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY:...

The Island Chumash: Behavioral Ecology of a Maritime Society.
September 22, 2005... THE ISLAND CHUMASH: BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY OF A MARITIME SOCIETY By Douglas J. Kennett (Berkeley: University of California, 2005, 298 PP., $35 cloth) THE CHUMASH AND THE PRESIDIO OF SANTA BARBARA: EVOLUTION OF A RELATIONSHIP, 1782-1823 ...

The Oatman Massacre: A Tale of Desert Captivity and Survival.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... THE OATMAN MASSACRE: A TALE OF DESERT CAPTIVITY AND SURVIVAL By Brian McGinty (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005, 288 pp., $27.95 cloth) On February 18, 1851, a band of Yavapai warriors attacked Roys Oatman and his family as...

Prize pile-up.(SPOTLIGHT)
September 22, 2005... PHOTOGRAPHER Russell Reed for the Oakland Tribune LOCATION Oakland Speedway, Oakland, California This photograph of a stock car pileup at the Oakland Speedway won the sports photograph of the year award from Life magazine in 1952....