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California History articles from September 2007
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California History archives from September 2007
Building on the past.(FROM THE EDITOR)
September 22, 2007... Not only connoisseurs of architecture and basketball are likely to be attracted to and engrossed by the subjects probed on the following pages. Who doesn't admire Bill Russell, one of basketball's all-time greats, newly inducted into the...
The fernery.(COLLECTIONS)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]
This albumen print, featured in CHS' recent exhibit, "Past Tents: The Way We Camped," documents the 1890 outing of the "Merry Tramps of Oakland"--a grassroots group of artistic, avant-garde campers from San...
The house that Russell built: Bill Russell, the University of San Francisco, and the winning streak that changed college basketball.
September 22, 2007... From 1954 to 1956, the University of San Francisco Dons captured two NCAA titles and fashioned a fifty-five-game winning streak.
During this period, they transformed from anonymous underachievers in a weak-sister conference into the titans...
In a climate like ours: the California campuses of Allison & Allison.
September 22, 2007... On the first of September 1909, James Edward Allison set out from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on his second reconnaissance trip to California. He had scouted the Golden State in 1903 but had returned home without committing to a move. This time,...
Chief Marin: Leader, Rebel, And Legend.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... CHIEF MARIN: LEADER, REBEL, AND LEGEND
By Betty Goerke (Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, 2007, 288 pp., illustrated, $21.95 trade paper)
A FOREMOST PUBLISHER of California Indian literature has issued this multi-disciplinary,...
Ambiguous Justice: Native Americans And The Law In Southern California, 1848-1890.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... AMBIGUOUS JUSTICE: NATIVE AMERICANS AND THE LAW IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, 1848-1890
By Vanessa Ann Gunther (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2006, 256 pp., $29.95 paper)
LYNCHING IN THE WEST, 1850-1935
By Ken...
The Anza Trail And The Settling Of California.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... THE ANZA TRAIL AND THE SETTLING OF CALIFORNIA
By Vladimir Guerrero (Santa Clara and Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, 2006, 240 pp., $16.95 trade paper)
IT IS, OF COURSE, a dramatic story: Under the leadership of Juan Bautista de Anza,...
Queen Calafia's Paradise: California And The Italian American Novel.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... QUEEN CALAFIA'S PARADISE: CALIFORNIA AND THE ITALIAN AMERICAN NOVEL
By Kenneth Scambray (Cranbury, NJ: Farleigh Dickenson University Press, 2006, 211 pp., $46.50 paper)
BROKERS OF CULTURE: ITALIAN JESUITS IN THE AMERICAN WEST,...
Yosemite's Tioga Country: A History And Appreciation.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... YOSEMITE'S TIOGA COUNTRY: A HISTORY AND APPRECIATION
By Gene Rose (Yosemite National Park, CA: Yosemite Association, 2006, 224 pp., $24.95 cloth)
YOSEMITE: ART OF AN AMERICAN ICON
Edited by Amy Scott (Los Angeles: Autry National...
Governor James Rolph And The Great Depression In California.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... GOVERNOR JAMES ROLPH AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION IN CALIFORNIA
By James Worthen (Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Co., 2006, 228 pp., illustrated, $35.00, trade paper)
IT IS ONE OF THE GREAT IRONIES of California history that its relentlessly...