California History articles from September 2008

California History archives from September 2008

Coming of age.(FROM THE EDITOR)(Editorial)
September 1, 2008... In the annals of altruism, specifically in the book about disseminating learning and appreciating California history, James J. Rawls is inscribed as leader of the pack. This year marks his twenty-fifth anniversary as Reviews Editor of...

California presidential.(COLLECTIONS)(California Presidential: Candidates and Campaigns in the Golden State exhibit)
September 1, 2008... Paradoxes and possibilities are exposed in the collecting of political memorabilia. Embroidered or stamped ribbons, pins and badges, banners and bumper stickers can seem small and insignificant in their physical presence, yet they clearly...

A brothers' reunion: evolution's champion Alfred Russel Wallace and Forty-niner John Wallace.(Biography)
September 1, 2008... On May 23, 1887, two brothers who had not seen each other for nearly forty years reunited at a ferry dock in Oakland. (1) Since their last meeting in their native England, their lives had taken extraordinarily different paths. In 1848, Alfred...

A fragile machine: California senator John Conness.(Biography)
September 1, 2008... He was the consummate nineteenth-century California politician: bold, energetic, shrewd, partisan, sarcastic, and, as one account put it, "with sufficient pugnacious proclivities to back up his moral suasion by all his physical force." (1) He...

The California hundred: a poem.(EXCERPT)(Poem)
September 1, 2008... J. Henry Rogers wrote his epic poem, The California Hundred, to "sing the Hundred's praise." The excerpts that follow describe the patriotic fervor that gripped J. Sewell Reed, the departure of the Hundred from "California's flowery land," and...

California civilization and European speculative thought: an evolving relationship.(Essay)
September 1, 2008... If, as the German speculative philosopher G. W. F. Hegel once asserted, any civilization worthy of the name must contain its speculative philosophical moment, does California civilization meet such a challenge? (1) In Hegel's terminology,...

Autobiography of a Los Angeles Newspaperman, 1874-1900.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Autobiography of A Los Angeles, Newspaperman, 1874-1900 By William Andrew Spalding; edited by Robert V. Hine (San Marino, CA: Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, 2007, 156 pp., illus., $19.95 paper) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...

The Culture Broker: Franklin D. Murphy and the Transformation of Los Angeles.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... THE CULTURE BROKER: FRANKLIN D. MURPHY AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF LOS ANGELES By Margaret Leslie Davis (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007, 495 PP., illus., $34.95 cloth) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IN HER PREFACE, Margaret...

Making San Francisco American: Cultural Frontiers in the Urban West, 1846-1906.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... MAKING SAN FRANCISCO AMERICAN: CULTURAL FRONTIERS IN THE URBAN WEST, 1846-1906 By Barbara Berglund (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007, 304 pp., illus., $34.95 cloth) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IN THIS AMBITIOUS RE-EXAMINATION...

Levi Strauss & Co.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... LEVI STRAUSS & CO. By Lynn Downey (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2007, 128 pp., illus., $19.99 paper) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] LEVI STRAUSS & Co. is SO much a part of American folklore that previous accounts have mixed in too...

Donors.(List)
September 1, 2008... The California Historical Society is deeply grateful to the following individuals, corporations, foundations, and government and business organizations for their contributions. INDIVIDUALS $5,00 and above Mr. & Mrs. Reid W....

Spotlight.(Photograph)
September 1, 2008... When Bertolt Brecht arrived in Los Angeles in the late 1930s, the difference in climate and culture from his native Germany led him to describe the city as a "laissez-faire dystopia." Like many of his colleagues fleeing the oppression of the...