All They Will Call You: A Look at the Lost History of Deportation and a Tragic 1948 Flight

All They Will Call You (The University of Arizona Press, 2017) is Tim Z. Hernandez’s attempt at telling […]

Charles and Ray Eames: How Wartime L.A. Shaped the Mid-Century Modern Aesthetic

During the mid-1990s, while working evenings and weekends on her PhD dissertation on 18th-century Philadelphia, veteran Library of […]

From Villa to Pacquiao: Filipino Boxing in L.A. and the Power of a Transnational Punch

Nearly one year ago last may, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd “Money” Mayweather Jr. battled 12 rounds in what was […]

Black History Month Part III: Race, Taxes and Schools in Compton, CA

“To be educated in my Baltimore mostly meant always packing an extra number 2 pencil and working quietly,” […]

**Donald Trump’s (and America’s?) Latino Problem:** Oranges, Immigration, and Labor in Southern California

When Donald Trump bellowed his now-famous screed against immigration, accusing Mexican migrants of crime, disease, and more or […]

A Clear Blue Vision: L.A. Light Rail and Twenty Five Years of the Blue Line

In a 2012 interview with transit scholar Ethan Elkind, Richard Stanger, former Los Angeles County Transit Commission rail […]

The Somme at 99: WWI, Death, and the Trap of Technology

“The nearer to the Front one goes, naturally, the more blasted the countryside becomes. Beyond Roeselare, the land […]

Noiring L.A.: Double Indemnity, Black Dahlia, and the Fears of Postwar America

Last night marked the second season debut of HBO’s True Detective. If last year’s Woody Harrelson and Matthew […]

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