Category Archive: 1970s

What’s Old is New: How Orange County’s Conservative Past Created its Demographics Today

[Editor’s Note: Happy Asian Pacific American Heritage Month! ToM will be bringing forth several articles on Asian American […]

Filing the Lane, Here and Abroad: Filipino American Identity and Basketball

[Editor’s Note: Happy Asian Pacific American Heritage Month! ToM will be bringing forth several articles on Asian American […]

The Pirates of Los Angeles: Music, Technology, and Counterculture in Southern California

[Editor’s note: this article originally appeared in the Intersections column on the KCET Departures website, June 27, 2013.] […]

Radical Politics, Disgruntled Veterans, Internment, and the Fear of Dependency: The Military and Social Welfare Reform: Best of AHA 2014, Part 3

Over the past couple of decades, categorizations like “military history” have undergone numerous permutations. Georgia State’s John Southard […]

Transnational Protest, Media Bias, and Monopolized Airwaves: Best of AHA 2014, Part 2

In part II of ToM’s AHA 2014 coverage our correspondents begin with papers on the efforts of Latin […]

Filtering Music through a ToM Lens

“Starting with the affirmation of man/ I work myself backwards using cynicism,” Mike Watt sings on the Minutemen’s […]

Swimming in Dysfunction?: McCarren and the Long Perspective on Municipal Pools

This is the third installment of our Summer 2013 pool series: Part I – A Dive into the […]

Waters of Community, Waters of Hostility: The Messy History of Urban America and the Municipal Pool

[Editor’s Note: Just in time for summer heat waves, this is the first in a series of posts […]