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 […]

Structured Unrest: The Rumford Act, Proposition 14, and the Systematic Inequality that Created the Watts Riots

If “you keep telling people that they are unfairly treated and teach them disrespect for the law,” Chief […]

“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 […]

Diving into Integration: Sammy Lee, Historical Memory, and the Complexity of Housing Segregation in Cold War California

Even with the clearest of minds, personal and historical memory ebb and flow. Recollections of our own past […]

Not Bowling Alone: How the Holiday Bowl in Crenshaw Became an Integrated Leisure Space

In May 2000, the New York Times reported the upcoming demolition of the Crenshaw District’s Holiday Bowl. Built […]

The Shifting Cultures of Multiracial Boyle Heights

In a critical scene from the 1997 neo-noir “L.A. Confidential,” the ambitious and overzealous Detective Ed Exley (Guy […]

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