In the summer of 1973, DJ Kool Herc tried something new on the turntables: by extending the beat, […]
Category Archive: California
We all have that one piece of clothing, be it a fresh new hat or a favorite pair […]
In 1979, Soul Train host Don Cornelius introduced the nation to five dancers who called themselves the Electric […]
For the past semester, I’ve taught California Studies, a course primarily designed for non-history majors and future K-6 […]
During the mid-1990s, while working evenings and weekends on her PhD dissertation on 18th-century Philadelphia, veteran Library of […]
On October 27, 1964, Ronald Reagan, in an attempt to right a flagging Barry Goldwater campaign, stepped up […]
In her review of 2015’s The Last Love Song, Tracy Daugherty’s biography of famed writer Joan Didion, Meghan […]
Carey McWilliams once called Louis Adamic Los Angeles’ greatest “prophet, sociologist and historian” of the 1920s. Adamic loved […]