Category Archive: 1990s

Building Subways in the Post World War II World: Los Angeles and Washington D.C.

In a September 2014 issue of the Beverly Hills Courier, a front page story declared that the construction […]

What a Hagan Victory Would Mean for North Carolina

North Carolina has long seemed to be on the verge of breaking from its reactionary past. Time and time […]

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 […]

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, […]

Sloping toward the Future?: Generation X and Malaise in Richard Fulco’s There Is No End to This Slope

  “Hurt people hurt people,” the damaged Roger Greenberg tells a pre-Frances Ha Greta Gerwig in Noah Baumbach’s […]