Spitting Hot Fire: Malibu Wildfires and the Santa Anas

“To live with the Santa Ana, is to accept consciously or unconsciously, a deeply mechanistic view of human […]

“Taking Compton National”: Schools, Race, and Modern Suburbia in 20th and 21st Century California

“Our nation is moving toward two societies, One Black, One White – separate and unequal,” announced the […]

The American Military: Nineteen Histories about War, Society, and the U.S. Military’s Influence on the Nation

Even today, the category of military history still elicits a bit of head scratching. Our own John Southard […]

“Capital within a Capital”: Covert Action, the Vietnam War, and Creating a “Little Saigon” in the Heart of Northern Virginia

“That flag is the symbol of the spirit of the refugee,” Springfield resident and Vietnamese American talk show […]

A Dive into the Deep End: The Importance of the Swimming Pool in Southern California

[Let Summer begin! This week we focus on the role of pools and beaches in American, specifically, SoCal […]

White Racial Innocence Goes to War: Forrest Gump at 20

1994—it wasn’t that long ago. Or was it? It was a time before iPhones, YouTube, Monica Lewinsky, WMDs, […]

Shifting Lanes: The Demise of the Southern California Autotopia

To understand the City of Angels, Joan Didion once wrote, one needed to immerse oneself in the freeway […]

Memorial Day Reveille

We here at ToM hope that your Memorial Day weekend has gone swimmingly. Over the years, our writers […]

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