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Distant Explorer: Alexander von Humboldt and California

November 17, 2021

The Prussian explorer Alexander von Humboldt is prominently featured across the California landscape: Humboldt Bay, Humboldt County, Humboldt Redwoods State Park, and elsewhere. Yet despite his desire to do so, Humboldt never visited California or the region now known as the American West.

Nonetheless, California attracted Humboldt's attention as the northern edge of the Spanish Empire and as the western border of the nascent American empire in the nineteenth century. His fascination with the region and his scientific significance help to explain all these cartographic references.

In this discussion with historian William Deverell, Dr. Sandra Rebok will offer scholarly perspective on Humboldt's abiding and long-term interest in California, as well as California's interest in Humboldt.

Sandra Rebok's research focuses on exploration voyages, intellectual networks and transnational collaborations during the 19th century. She has over 20 years of experience in Humboldtian scholarship, she is the author of several books on Humboldt and the editor of three of his works in Spanish. One of her recent books examines his intellectual exchange with Thomas Jefferson (Jefferson and Humboldt, 2014), while her forthcoming monograph,Humboldt's Empire of Knowledge, analyzes Humboldt's position between the Spanish Empire in decline and the expanding United States.

William Deverell is Director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West.

Gender, Landscape, and the West: Sarah Keyes on Regendering Western Dead

October 27, 2021

Sarah Keyes and ICW Social Media Manager Jessica Kim discuss researching and writing about gender and landscape on the Overland Trail.

Keyes contemplates the role of cholera, death, and burial practices along the Overland Trail in reworking the landscapes of the American West. The discussion will include the crisis of care during the cholera epidemics of 1849 to 1854 and will delve into Keyes' forthcoming book,American Burial Ground: A New History of the Overland Trail.

Dr. Sarah Keyesis an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Reno. She specializes in the 19th century U.S. and the history of the U.S. West with a focus on the environment, gender, and intercultural interactions between Indigenous peoples and Euro-Americans. Her current work explores these topics along the overland trails to Oregon and California in the mid-19th century.

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Image credit: "Death Scene on the Plains," "For the Christmas and New Years Holiday, 1855-56," Pictorial Union, Center for Sacramento History, Sacramento, California.

Gender, Landscape, and the West: Henry Knight Lozano on California and Hawai'i Bound: U.S. Settler Colonialism and the Pacific West, 1848-1959

October 20, 2021

Henry Knight Lozano and ICW Director William Deverell discuss Knight Lozano's bookCalifornia and Hawai'i Bound: U.S. Settler Colonialism and the Pacific West, 1848-1959.

Knight Lozano articulates how the settler colonial discourses of Americanization that connected California and Hawai'i evolved and refracted alongside socioeconomic developments and Native resistance. The discussion will draw on his framing of these events within broad contexts of U.S. territorial expansion, transoceanic settlement and tourism, and capitalist investment that reconstructed both the American West and the eastern Pacific.

Henry Knight Lozano is a Senior Lecturer of American History at The University of Exeter. His work explores questions of U.S. expansion, place promotion, and race, climate, and environment, with a particular focus on the United States' tropical and semi-tropical frontiers - California, Florida, and Hawai'i.

The Chinese Massacre of 1871: Uncovering L.A.'s Anti-Asian History, and What We Can Do Today

October 14, 2021

Join Los Angeles civic and community leaders, activists, and historians as they discuss the long, dark history of anti-Asian thought and hate crimes in Los Angeles history. What is being done to address this history, how can we move forward productively, and what efforts are underway to properly memorialize the tragedies of our shared past?

Gender, Landscape, and the West: Molly Rozum on Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Plains

October 13, 2021

Molly Rozum and ICW Director William Deverell discuss Rozum's book Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Plains.

Rozum explores the two related concepts of regional identity and sense of place by examining a single North American ecological region over generations. The discussion will include her thoughts on gendered landscapes and the critical role of environmental awareness in both regional identity formation and a sense of place.

Molly P. Rozum is an Associate Professor and Ronald R. Nelson Chair of Great Plains and South Dakota History at The University of South Dakota. Rozum earned a B.A. in American Studies from The University of Notre Dame. She earned a M.A. in American Folklore and Ph.D.in U.S. History from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

California's Formerly-Incarcerated Firefighters: A Conversation with Assembly Majority Leader Eloise Reyes and Community Stakeholders

October 8, 2021

During the fire season of 2020 the prospects, hopes, and futures of California's nearly 4,000 formerly-incarcerated firefighters were lifted with the passage of Assembly Bill 2147. Created during the Second World War, the California Conservation Camp Program has been a critical fixture of the state's fire management apparatus. Despite their training and experience as part of California's emergency management system, these firefighters have traditionally faced challenging career prospects with fire management agencies.

Assembly Bill 2147, authored by Assembly Majority Leader Eloise Reyes, allows California's nearly 4,000 formerly-incarcerated firefighters to achieve a career the fire-fighting profession. Majority Leader Reyes joined Esteban Núñez, Director of Advocacy and Community Organizing, Anti-Recidivism Coalition and Edward Lopez, a firefighter at the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to discuss this important legislation and their work with Bill Deverell.

Gender, Landscapes, and the West: Theresa Salazar on Curating Conservationists

October 6, 2021

Theresa Salazar and ICW Associate Director Elizabeth Logan discuss Theresa's work cataloging the collections of conservationists Mardy & Olaus Murie and Adolph Murie & Louise Murie MacLeod for Teton Science Schools. With support from the Natural Resources Defense Council, Theresa lived and worked at the Murie Ranch in Grand Teton National Park in the summer of 2021. The discussion ranges from her observations of the Ranch to her thoughts on the contributions and legacies of Mardy and Louise - including the Wilderness Act.

Theresa Salazar has been the Curator of The Bancroft Collection, Western Americana since July of 1999. In 2004, she took on the responsibility for the Latin Americana collections of The Bancroft Library and oversaw that collection for twelve years. She is responsible for acquisitions related to Western Americana, from the colonial period to the present. She regularly teaches students about conducting research in The Bancroft Library.

The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History

May 26, 2021

On the evening of May 31, 1921, and in the early morning hours of June 1, several thousand white citizens and authorities violently attacked the African American Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma. In the course of some twelve hours of mob violence, white Tulsans reduced one of the nation's most prosperous black communities to rubble and killed an estimated 300 people, mostly African Americans.

Karlos K. Hill, Associate Professor and Chair of the Clara Luper Department of African and African American Studies at the University of Oklahoma, presents a range of photographs taken before, during, and after the massacre, mostly by white photographers. Comparing these photographs to those taken elsewhere in the United States of lynchings, Hill makes a powerful case for terming the 1921 outbreak not a riot but a massacre. White civilians, in many cases assisted or condoned by local and state law enforcement, perpetuated a systematic and coordinated attack on Black Tulsans and their property.

Boyle Heights: How a Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American DemocracyBoyle Heights: How a Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American Democracy

May 19, 2021

Boyle Heights is an in-depth history of the Los Angeles neighborhood, showcasing the potent experiences of its residents, from early contact between Spanish colonizers and native Californians to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, the hunt for hidden Communists among the Jewish population, negotiating citizenship and belonging among Latino migrants and Mexican American residents, and beyond. Through each period and every struggle, the residents of Boyle Heights have maintained remarkable solidarity across racial and ethnic lines, acting as a unified polyglot community even as their tribulations have become more explicitly racial in nature. Boyle Heights is immigrant America embodied, and it can serve as the true beacon on a hill toward which the country can strive in a time when racial solidarity and civic resistance have never been in greater need.

Join us as George J. Sánchez, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at USC, discusses his book with four USC doctoral students:

• Julia Brown-Bernstein, doctoral student, History
• Rachel Klein, doctoral student, American Studies & Ethnicity
• Cassandra Flores-Montano, doctoral student, American Studies & Ethnicity
• Kathy Pulupa, doctoral student, American Studies & Ethnicity

Labor and Laborers at The Huntington: A Work in Progress Discussion with Professor Natalia Molina

May 12, 2021

Natalia Molina, Distinguished Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at USC, joins Institute director William Deverell for a discussion of her current research into the labor history of The Huntington.  Focusing especially upon the Mexican workforce that has labored in the Huntington's sprawling gardens for a century, Professor Molina delves deeply into the social and family history of multiple generations of Latino laborers.  Join us as this talented historian talks about the questions she brings to this project.  Who were these workers?  Where did they come from?  Where did they live?  How can the institution honor their fundamental contributions to building, tending, and caring for The Huntington's famed garden landscapes?

Image: "Mexican worker near cereus specimen, February 1938," courtesy The Huntington Library

West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire

May 5, 2021

A discussion webinar with Kevin Waite in conversation with Alice Baumgartner and Andrés Reséndez

Beginning in the 1840s, Southern slaveholders launched a series of campaigns to extend their political power across the American West. They passed slave codes in New Mexico and Utah, sponsored separatist movements in Southern California and Arizona, orchestrated a territorial purchase from Mexico, monopolized patronage networks to empower proslavery allies, and killed antislavery rivals. California, despite its constitutional prohibition on slavery, was the linchpin of their western program. Until the eve of the Civil War, white Southerners controlled the political fortunes of California, with a powerful base of support in Los Angeles. During the war years, large parts of the Far Southwest remained in the thrall of slaveholders. Even after the collapse of slavery, California continued to mimic many of the white supremacist strategies of the South. Kevin Waite brings to light what contemporaries recognized but historians have described only in part: The struggle over slavery played out on a transcontinental stage.

Co-sponsored by The Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West and the Research Department, Huntington Library.

Panelists

• Kevin Waite, assistant professor of history at Durham University, is the author of West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire. He's currently writing a history of the life and times of Biddy Mason, a Georgia slave turned California real estate entrepreneur. Funded by a four-year Collaborative Research Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Waite and Sarah Barringer Gordon's  (UPenn) project website is www.biddymasoncollaborative.com.

• Alice Baumgartner is an assistant professor of history at the University of Southern California. Her first book, South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to Civil War, was named a 2020 New York Times Editors' Choice, and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize.

• Andrés Reséndez is a professor of history at the University of California, Davis. His forthcoming book, Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery, focuses on the "Columbian moment" in the Pacific, beginning with the first expedition that went from America to Asia and back (1564-1565), thus transforming the Pacific into a vital space of contact and exchange.

Revitalizing Cultural Fire Across California: A discussion with Indigenous leaders

Panel Discussion:

April 9, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

virtual event

Panelists:

Elizabeth Azzuz (Cultural Fire Management Council, Yurok)
Ron Goode (North Fork Mono)
Teresa Romero (Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation)
Don Hankins (Plains Miwok, Professor CSU Chico)
Chook-Chook Hillman (Karuk)

Moderator:

Tony Marks-Block, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Geography & Environmental Studies, Cal State East Bay.

Sponsored by Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, Cal State East Bay A2E2, and C. E. Smith Museum of Anthropology, Cal State East Bay.

Indigenous Californians have used cultural burns to mitigate wildfire spread, improve species abundance, and enhance resource quality since time immemorial. However, colonial fire exclusion policies and native land dispossession has hindered the application of cultural fire. As a result, California is experiencing wildfires of abnormal size and severity, and Indigenous communities are struggling to access fire-dependent foods, materials, and medicines critical to their livelihood and spiritual practice.

Please join our panel of Indigenous leaders from across the state to learn about their crucial efforts and the persistent constraints to expanding cultural fire.

Kathy Fiscus: A Tragedy that Transfixed the Nation

Wednesday, March 10, 2021

6:00PM PT via Crowdcast

At dusk on a spring evening in 1949, a three-year-old girl fell down an abandoned well shaft near her family home in the quiet community of San Marino. Across more than two full days of a fevered rescue attempt, the fate of Kathy Fiscus remained unknown.

The region, the nation, and the world watched, read, and listened to every moment of the forty-eight hour rescue attempt by way of radio, newsreel footage, and wire service reporting. Because of the well's proximity to the transmission towers on nearby Mount Wilson, the rescue attempt became the first breaking-news event ever to be broadcast live on television. The Kathy Fiscus tragedy singlehandedly proved the utility of live television news, proving that real-time television news broadcasting could work and could transfix the public. Media across the globe has never been the same.

In Kathy Fiscus: A Tragedy that Transfixed the Nation , USC historian William Deverelltells the story of the first live, breaking-news TV spectacle in American history.

Join Angel City Press and the Huntington-USC Institute on California & the West as we celebrate the book's release on Wednesday, March 10, 2021! During the evening, Deverell will sit down for a virtual conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Patt Morrison, before taking questions from the audience.

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• William Deverellis professor of history and director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West at the University of Southern California. He is the author of numerous studies of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century American West, including Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past and Woody Guthrie L.A.: 1937 to 1941.
• Patt Morrison is a longtime Los Angeles Times writer, columnist and podcaster who has a share of two Pulitzer Prizes. Her broadcasting work has won six Emmys and twelve Golden Mike awards. Both of her nonfiction books have been bestsellers: Rio LA, her book about the Los Angeles River, and Don't Stop the Presses! Truth, Justice and the American Newspaper. She the first woman in nearly twenty-five years to be honored with the L.A. Press Club's lifetime achievement award. Pink's, the legendary Hollywood hot dog stand, named its veggie dog after her.

Bohemians West: Free Love, Family, and Radicals in Twentieth-Century America

Thursday, January 28, 2021

Zoom

Writer and historian Sherry L. Smith discusses her new book "Bohemians West" with ICW Director William Deverell, offering a deeply personal look at a dynamic period in American history.

The opening years of the twentieth century saw a grand cast of radicals and reformers fighting for a new America, seeking change not only in labor picket lines and at women's suffrage rallies but also in homes and bedrooms. In the thick of this heady milieu were Sara Bard Field and Charles Erskine Scott Wood, two aspiring poets and political activists whose love story uncovers a potent emotional world underneath this transformative time.

Self-declared pioneers in free love, Sara and Erskine exchanged hundreds of letters that chartered a new kind of romantic relationship, and their personal affair frequently intersected with their deeply engaged political lives. As Sara's star rose in the suffrage movement (including an automobile trip she took across the country in 1915 carrying a petition with thousands of signatures demanding Congress pass the Nineteenth Amendment), she began to ask questions about her own power in her relationship with Erskine.

South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

November 16, 2020

12:00-1:00PM PST

Online

Please join us for a webinar discussing South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War (Basic Books, 2020) by USC History Professor Alice L. Baumgartner. Professor Baumgartner discuss her book with distinguished historian Albert Broussard of Texas A & M University and Director William Deverell of the Institute on California and the West.

Los Angeles Underwater: Our Collective Future in Southern California

Thursday, November 5, 2020

3:00pm - 6:00pm PST

Online

The Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West is pleased to present a webinar exploring the theme of "Los Angeles Underwater." One panel session will examine the Pacific Ocean in an era of climate change and sea-level rise, and the other will explore themes of terrestrial flooding and debris flow events in and around the Los Angeles Basin. The event will also feature an interview conversation about the ways in which the Port of Los Angeles is preparing for, and responding to, climate change challenges at the coast and in the Pacific.

This webinar is free and open to the public, and our hope is to host an in-person, all-day conference devoted to these themes in 2021. Registration for the webinar is required.

Schedule:

3:00 Introduction

3:10 LA Underwater: The Basin and Q&A

• Jill Sohm, Chair, Environmental Studies, USC, Moderator
• Austin Hendy, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
  Art Castro, Manager Watershed Management, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
  Josh West, Earth Sciences, USC

4:10 Break

4:15 Sustainability, Climate Change, and the Port of Los Angeles and Q&A

• Joe Árvai, Director, USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies
• Christopher Cannon, Director of Environmental Management, Port of Los Angeles

4:55 Break

5:00 LA Underwater: The Pacific and Q&A

• William Deverell, Director, Institute on California and the West, Moderator
• Linda Chilton, USC Sea Grant
• Desiree Martinez, President, Cogstone Resource Management
• Alyssa Mann, The Nature Conservancy

The West Burns: The Past, Present and Future of Fire in the American West

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

12:00-1:00pm

Wildfires are scorching the western United States with increasing severity. With more fires likely in the offing, understanding of the history of fire in the West, including Indigenous fire practices and fire's many environmental legacies, is crucial to determining a more sustainable path forward.

Join historian Bill Deverell, director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West and head of the institute's The West on Fire project, in conversation with Josh West, Zinsmeyer Early Career Chair in marine studies and associate professor of Earth sciences and environmental studies at USC Dornsife; Jared Dahl Aldern, a historical ecologist and lead investigator for The West on Fire project; and Theresa Gregor, a descendant of the Iipay Nation of San Ysabel (Kumeyaay) and Yoeme (Yaqui), assistant professor of American Indian studies at California State University, Long Beach and USC Dornsife alumna.

Archiving Olive View: 100 Years of Public Health in Los Angeles

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
12:00 NOON PDT
ONLINE

An online celebration organized by the USC Libraries Collections Convergence Initiative and the
Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West

The Olive View Tuberculosis Sanitarium was the biggest such facility west of the Mississippi River. Located in the northern San Fernando Valley, Olive View played a key role in treating tuberculosis patients from across LA County in the first half of the 20th century. A year ago, a team from the USC Libraries and the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West brought the intact historical archive of this remarkable public health institution to USC's Special Collections.

Join us for a celebration and exploration of the collection in an online event with USC Libraries Southern California Studies Specialist Suzanne Noruschat and ICW Director William Deverell that will include highlights of the Olive View archive and a timely discussion between Drs. Selma Calmes and Emily Abel about how this archive is critical to understanding disease, community, and public health in Southern California.

WEBINAR: Collecting the History of The West, The Pacific Rim, and California at The Huntington: A Centennial Reflection

Wednesday, September 2, 2020

4:00pm PDT

Drawing upon their half-century of collective experience, the Huntington Library's curators responsible for its Western, Pacific Rim, and California holdings will discuss the history of their collecting areas. The talks will examine such critical moments in this history as the early acquisition of Californiana, the development of The Huntington's holdings in Western American history at the mid-twentieth century, and the evolution of recent collecting trends in Pacific Rim history. In light of The Huntington's ongoing centennial, this panel offers a timely opportunity to consider how The Huntington has developed its world-class resources in the history of California,  the North American West and the Pacific Rim, thus establishing it as a premier resource for scholarly inquiry in all these fields.

Panelists:

• Peter Blodgett, H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator Of Western American History
• Clay Stalls, Curator of California and Hispanic Collections
• Li Wei Yang, Curator of Pacific Rim Collections

Images: 1) Charlotte Ah Tye, Hong Yen Chang papers and addenda; 2) "California Desert Protection Act," c.1989, Frank Wheat Papers, Box 77 (2); and 3) Lindley Bynum unloading Californiana, photCL 107, Henry E. Huntington Estate Photograph Collection. All from The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens.

WEBINAR: How Can Humans Coexist With Monster Wildfires?

Thursday, July 16, 2020

6:30PM PDT

Join Zócalo Public Square and ICW for an online panel to discuss, "How Can Humans Coexist With Monster Wildfires?"

From Australia to the Amazon to the American West, megafires have grown so frequent, large, and deadly that they've forced a reevaluation of how human societies coexist with fire. In a warming world, governments are confronting whether we must retreat from certain places to survive. Have fires become too big for people and the planet? How are fire management techniques—both old (such as "cool" or prescribed burns used by some Indigenous people) and new (digital technology that maps fire hot spots)—being employed against megafires? And how can citizens and their communities learn to live, build, and plan for a future of firestorms?

NPR National Desk Correspondent Nathan Rott, Historical ecologistJared Dahl Aldern, CSU Long Beach American Indian Studies professor Theresa Gregor, and Fernanda Santos, The Fire Line author and Professor of Practice at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication,visit Zócalo to examine how and whether human beings can coexist with megafires.

Register to receive the streaming link: https://zps.la/2Xeut14

Event page link: https://www.facebook.com/events/449941492535541/

WEBINAR: Every Day is Earth Day: on ecological crisis and possibility in a pandemic

The ONE Archives presents an Earth Day reading with poets Raquel Gutiérrez and Saretta Morgan

Wednesday, April 22, 2020
5:00-6:00pm PST
Register here to join the digital reading

Is the earth healing? Fighting back? Amidst false reports of wild animals returning home and other fantasies of human agency and earth's sovereignty, we are confronting ongoing and intensified dismantling of environmental regulations, colonial profit and extraction of indigenous land, incarceration and detention of human life, and the disposability of the sick, elderly, and people with disabilities. What exactly is the virus, after all?

Raquel Gutiérrez  was born and raised in Los Angeles and currently lives in Tucson, Arizona where they just completed two MFAs in Poetry and Non-Fiction from the University of Arizona. Raquel is a 2017 recipient of the Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. Raquel also runs the tiny press, Econo Textual Objects (est. 2014), which publishes intimate works by QTPOC poets. Their poetry and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The New Inquiry, FENCE, Huizache, The Georgia Review, and The Texas Review. Raquel's first book of prose, Brown Neon, will be published by Coffee House Press in the Spring of 2021.

Saretta Morgan is a writer and artist. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona where she teaches Creative Writing at Arizona State University and contributes to the humanitarian aid efforts of No More Deaths Phoenix. She is the author of the chapbooks room for a counter interior and Feeling Upon Arrival. Currently her work addresses Black migration to the United States Southwest and its relationship to contemporary migration and border politics. Saretta holds degrees in writing from Columbia University and Pratt Institute. Most recently she has received grants and fellowships from Arizona Commission on the Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics. She is at work on Alt-Nature, her first full-length collection.

Organized by Jeanne Vaccaro for the ONE Archives at USC Libraries.

Arab Routes: Pathways to Syrian California

ICWCalifornia & the World Series: Sarah Gualtieri

Wednesday, February 19, 2020

12:00 - 1:00pm

USC Doheny Memorial Library (DML) 241

Los Angeles is home to the largest population of people of Middle Eastern origin and descent in the United States. Since the late nineteenth century, Syrian and Lebanese migration, in particular, to Southern California has been intimately connected to and through Latin America. Arab Routesuncovers the stories of this Syrian American community, one both Arabized and Latinized, to reveal important cross-border and multiethnic solidarities in Syrian California.

Sarah M. A. Gualtieri reconstructs the early Syrian connections through California, Texas, Mexico, and Lebanon. She reveals the Syrian interests in the defense of the Mexican American teens charged in the 1942 Sleepy Lagoon murder, in actor Danny Thomas's rise to prominence in LA's Syrian cultural festivals, and in more recent activities of the grandchildren of immigrants to reclaim a sense of Arabness. Gualtieri reinscribes Syrians into Southern California history through her examination of powerful images and texts, augmented with interviews with descendants of immigrants. Telling the story of how Syrians helped forge a global Los Angeles, Arab Routescounters a long-held stereotype of Arabs as outsiders and underscores their longstanding place in American culture and in interethnic coalitions, past and present.

Sarah M. A. Gualtieri is Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, History, and Middle East Studies at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Between Arab and White: Race and Ethnicity in the Early Syrian American Diaspora (2009).

"Collisions at the Crossroads": In Conversation with Genevieve Carpio

Thursday, January 16, 2020

4:00 - 5:00pm

Ahmanson Classroom, Botanical Center, The Huntington

ICW Borderlands Series: In Conversation with Genevieve Carpio

Collisions at the Crossroads: How Place and Mobility Make Race

There are few places where mobility has shaped identity as widely as the American West. InCollisions at the Crossroads, Genevieve Carpio argues that mobility, both permission to move freely and prohibitions on movement, helped shape racial formation in the eastern suburbs of Los Angeles and the Inland Empire throughout the twentieth century. By examining policies and forces as different as historical societies, Indian boarding schools, bicycle ordinances, immigration policy, incarceration, traffic checkpoints, and Route 66 heritage, she shows how local authorities constructed a racial hierarchy by allowing some people to move freely while placing limits on the mobility of others.

Genevieve Carpio is Assistant Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she teaches courses in US history, suburban studies, and spatial theory.

"Porous Borders:" In Conversation with Julian Lim

Monday December 2, 2019

4:00 – 5:00pm

Ahmanson Classroom, Botanical Center, The Huntington

ICW Borderlands Series

In Conversation with Julian Lim,assistant professor of history at Arizona State University

Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

With the railroad's arrival in the late nineteenth century, immigrants of all colors rushed to the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, transforming the region into a booming international hub of economic and human activity. Following the stream of Mexican, Chinese, and African American migration, Julian Lim presents a fresh study of the multiracial intersections of the borderlands, where diverse peoples crossed multiple boundaries in search of new economic opportunities and social relations. However, as these migrants came together in ways that blurred and confounded elite expectations of racial order, both the United States and Mexico resorted to increasingly exclusionary immigration policies in order to make the multiracial populations of the borderlands less visible within the body politic, and to remove them from the boundaries of national identity altogether.

Using a variety of English- and Spanish-language primary sources from both sides of the border, Lim reveals how a borderlands region that has traditionally been defined by Mexican-Anglo relations was in fact shaped by a diverse population that came together dynamically through work and play, in the streets and in homes, through war and marriage, and in the very act of crossing the border.

L.A. City Councilmembers in Conversation

LA History & Metro Studies Group

November 22, 2019

panel discussion

10:30am, Haaga Hall

The Huntington

RSVP only

L.A. City Councilmembers in Conversation

Wendy Greuel, LA city council member, 2^nddistrict, 2002-2009; LA City Controller, 2009-2013

Mike Hernandez, LA city council member 1^stdistrict, 1991-2001

Tom LaBonge, LA city council member 4^thdistrict, 2001-2015

Mike Woo, LA city council member, 13^thdistrict, 1985-1993

Zev Yaroslavsky, LA city council member, 5^thdistrict, 1975-1994; LA County Board of Supervisors, District 3, 1994-2014

"Imperial Metropolis": In Conversation with Jessica M. Kim

Thursday, November 21, 2109

4:00 - 5:00pm

Ahmanson Classroom , Botanical Center, The Huntington

ICW Borderlands Series

In Conversation with Jessica M. Kim, associate professor of history at California State University, Northridge

Imperial Metropolis: Los Angeles, Mexico, and the Borderlands of American Empire, 1865–1941

In this compelling narrative of capitalist development and revolutionary response, Jessica M. Kim reexamines the rise of Los Angeles from a small town to a global city against the backdrop of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, Gilded Age economics, and American empire. It is a far-reaching transnational history, chronicling how Los Angeles boosters transformed the borderlands through urban and imperial capitalism at the end of the nineteenth century and how the Mexican Revolution redefined those same capitalist networks into the twentieth.

Kim draws on archives in the United States and Mexico to argue that financial networks emerging from Los Angeles drove economic transformations in the borderlands, reshaped social relations across wide swaths of territory, and deployed racial hierarchies to advance investment projects across the border. However, the Mexican Revolution, with its implicit critique of imperialism, disrupted the networks of investment and exploitation that had structured the borderlands for sixty years, and reconfigured transnational systems of infrastructure and trade. Kim provides the first history to connect Los Angeles's urban expansionism with more continental and global currents, and what results is a rich account of real and imagined geographies of city, race, and empire.

Night in the City: L.A. After Dark

The Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County and the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West are delighted to present a three-part series considering Los Angeles after dark. Topics will include the noir landscapes of films and novels, nocturnal adaptations, the science of our evening L.A. skies, and more. What is it about Los Angeles that has so captivated writers and filmmakers, and what can we learn when we throw shade on our famed sunshine to investigate the city in darkness? L.A. doesn't sleep at night, so join us for two evenings and a full-day symposium as we unmask our city after sunset.

This series is supported by the Collections Convergence Initiative and the Harman Academy for Polymathic Study of USC Libraries.

10/15: Shining Light on the Night Shift

10/29: L.A. on the Grid: The Benefits and Costs of Lighting up the Night

11/16: Symposium

Visit the Symposium page here: https://dornsife.usc.edu/icw/la-after-dark/

The Founder and the Future: Becoming Henry Huntington

October 23, 2019

William Deverell, director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, presents The John Randolph Haynes Foundation Lecture in the History and Culture of Los Angeles. He explores the life of Henry E. Huntington (1850-1927) against the backdrop of American history.

"Frontiers in the Gilded Age": In Conversation with Andrew Offenburger

Monday, October 21, 2019

4:00 - 5:00pm

Ahmanson Classroom, Botanical Center, The Huntington

ICW Borderlands Series

In Conversation with Andrew Offenburger, assistant professor of history at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio

Frontiers in the Gilded Age: Adventure, Capitalism, and Dispossession from Southern Africa to the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, 1880-1917

This book begins in an era when romantic notions of American frontiering overlapped with Gilded Age extractive capitalism. In the late nineteenth century, the U.S.-Mexican borderlands constituted one stop of many where Americans chased capitalist dreams beyond the United States. Crisscrossing the American West, southern Africa, and northern Mexico, Andrew Offenburger examines how these frontier spaces could glitter with grandiose visions, expose the flawed and immoral strategies of profiteers, and yet reveal the capacity for resistance and resilience that indigenous people summoned when threatened. Linking together a series of stories about Boer exiles who settled in Mexico, a global network of protestant missionaries, and adventurers involved in the parallel displacements of indigenous peoples in Rhodesia and the Yaqui Indians in Mexico, Offenburger situates the borderlands of the Mexican North and the American Southwest within a global system, bound by common actors who interpreted their lives through a shared frontier ideology.

"Virginia 1619: A California Conversation" (EMSI Annual Conference)

Friday, September 20, 2019
Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Rd, San Marino, CA
Huntington Library Botanical Center
Ahmanson Classroom
9am – 6pm

Speakers:

Emily Berquist Soule, CSU Long Beach
Alex Borucki, UC Irvine
Alejandra Dubcovsky, UC Riverside
Jack P. Greene, Johns Hopkins University
Steven W. Hackel, UC Riverside
Mark G. Hanna, UC San Diego
Alexander Haskell, UC Riverside
Michael J. Jarvis, University of Rochester
Peter C. Mancall, USC
Katie Moore, UC Santa Barbara
Melissa N. Morris, U of Wyoming
Paul P. Musselwhite, Dartmouth College
Lindsay O'Neill, USC
Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, USC
Carla Pestana, UCLA
James Rice, Tufts University
Robert C. Ritchie, Huntington Library
Carole Shammas, USC
Brenda Stevenson, UCLA
Dana Velasco Murillo, UC San Diego

Please complete the rsvp form to attend. Guests who plan on attending will receive a copy ofVirginia 1619: Slavery and Freedom in the Making of English America, eds. Paul P. Musselwhite, Peter C. Mancall, and James Horn (UNC Press, 2019) prior to the conference.

This conference is co-sponsored by the EMSI American Origins Seminar Series and the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West.

"In the Country of Women": A Conversation between Susan Straight and Lisa See

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Monday, September 16, 2019

7:30pm, Rothenberg Hall, The Huntington

Free, reservations required: huntington.org/susan-straight

A reception and booksigning follow the program.

Join us for a discussion with authors Susan Straight and Lisa See as they discuss Straight's recent memoir,In the Country of Women.

In the Country of Women is a valuable social history and a personal narrative that reads like a love song to America and indomitable women. In inland Southern California, near the desert and the Mexican border, Susan Straight, a self-proclaimed book nerd, and Dwayne Sims, an African American basketball player, started dating in high school. After college, they married and drove to Amherst, Massachusetts, where Straight met her teacher and mentor, James Baldwin, who encouraged her to write. Once back in Riverside, at driveway barbecues and fish fries with the large, close-knit Sims family, Straight—and eventually her three daughters—heard for decades the stories of Dwayne's female ancestors. Some women escaped violence in post-slavery Tennessee, some escaped murder in Jim Crow Mississippi, and some fled abusive men. Straight's mother-in-law, Alberta Sims, is the descendant at the heart of this memoir while other women from Straight's family reflect the hardship and resilience of women pushing onward—from Switzerland, Canada, and the Colorado Rockies to California.

SUSAN STRAIGHT has published eight novels, including Highwire Moon, Between Heaven and Here, and A Million Nightingales. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award, theLos Angeles TimesBook Prize, and the National Magazine Award. She is the recipient of the Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement from theLos Angeles TimesBook Prize, the Edgar Award for Best Short Story, the O. Henry Prize, the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her stories and essays have been published inThe New Yorker,The New York Times, theLos Angeles Times,The Guardian,Granta,McSweeney's,Black Clock,Harper's, and other journals. She is Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside. She was born in Riverside, where she lives with her family.

LISA SEEisThe New York Timesbestselling author ofThe Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane,Snow Flower and the Secret Fan,Peony in Love,Shanghai Girls,China Dolls, andDreams of Joy, which debuted at #1. She is also the author ofOn Gold Mountain, which tells the story of her Chinese American family's settlement in Los Angeles. See has also written a mystery series that takes place in China. Her books have been published in 39 languages. See was the recipient of the Golden Spike Award from the Chinese Historical Association of Southern California and the History Maker's Award from the Chinese American Museum. She was also named National Woman of the Year by the Organization of Chinese American Women.

Western Histories in the Making: Graduate Student Presentations

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Thursday, August 22, 2019

3:00pm - 5:00pm

USC Doheny Memorial Library 240

Please join ICW and CCI at the thirdWestern Histories in the Making. Three graduate students will present their work and their research paths to continue fostering a connection between ICW and Doheny Library. All are welcome.

Julia Brown-Bernstein

"At the Corner of Glenoaks and Arroyo: Collectivism and Cultural Hybridity at the San Fernando Swap Meet "

By the mid 1980s, the swap meet industry reached its height as a cornerstone of Southern California's LatinX immigrant and working class communities. Swap meets became a viable source of income for newcomers and helped them build social networks. Less than a decade later, swap meets faced racist attacks. Cities permanently closed locations. The mainstream media emphasized crime rates and counterfeit goods. Yet swap meets have persisted. Their resemblance to the pre-Hispanictianguis market, affordable prices, and familial atmosphere continue to attract millions of vendors and shoppers each year. In this case study of the San Fernando Swap Meet, Brown-Bernstein demonstrates that swap meets are an enduring space of class solidarity and cultural hybridity.

Laura Dominguez

"Courtyard Sisters: Interpreting Progressivism at the International Institute of Los Angeles"

On a January afternoon in 1932, a multiracial assembly of Los Angeles residents gathered in Boyle Heights to dedicate a new building as a tribute to the city's international character and progressive spirit. For nearly two decades, social workers at the International Institute of Los Angeles had served thousands of immigrant women from their perch on the city's eastside. The organization's new Spanish Colonial Revival structure reaffirmed its vow to fashion worthy citizens and to model inter-group cooperation. Laura Dominguez's work explores how this understudied group of reformers policed the borders of Anglo settler imaginations in Progressive-Era Los Angeles and contemplates the built legacy of Americanization in the city today.

Yesenia Navarrete Hunter

"Performing Requests from Heart Mountain"

Kazuko Hata wrote to his friend and fellow-farmer, Don McDonald, requesting his help in locating belongings left behind in Wapato, Washington. Mr. Hata sent the letter from Heart Mountain, Wyoming on May 4, 1943, just a few short months after his family and neighbors were evacuated from the Yakima Valley. Mr. Hata's letter is one of 57 that McDonald's family kept in their family archive. In the span of four years, McDonald received and responded to dozens of individuals as they requested favors, inquired about the harvest, and negotiated the use of their place of worship, the Yakima Buddhist Bussei Kaikan. Rather than read the letters through the logics of resistance or agency, which has the potential for a contrary read of defeat or passivity, I read these letters to illuminate theperformance of requesting, or in other words, the ways in which Japanese individuals utilized their connections to allies to make their requests known, express their desires, and advocate for their needs.

The Browns of California: A Conversation with Governor Jerry Brown

Please join us for a conversation with Governor Jerry Brown and Miriam Pawel, moderated by ICW Director William Deverell.

Tuesday, May 21
7:30 p.m.
Rothenberg Hall, The Huntington

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Simulcast in Haaga Hall, The Huntington

A book signing with author Miriam Pawel will follow the event. The Browns of California  will be available for purchase at the Huntington Store. Red Car will be open before the program for coffee, pastries, sandwiches, and salads.

Edmund Gerald, "Jerry", Brown Jr. served as California's 34th and 39th Governor (1975-1983) and (2011-2019). With four terms as Governor, he is the longest-serving chief executive of the state of California.

Miriam Pawel is the author of The Browns of California: The Family Dynasty that Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation , a 2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist.

William Deverell is Director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, and Professor of History at the University of Southern California.

Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters 1542 to 2018

with David Kipen and Lynell George

Tuesday, May 7, 2019

The Huntington, Ahmanson Classroom, Botanical Center

Join David Kipen and Lynell George as they discuss and read a few letters fromDear Los Angeles.

The City of Angels has played a distinct role in the hearts, minds, and imaginations of millions of people, who see it as the ultimate symbol of the American Dream.David Kipen, a cultural historian and avid student of Los Angeles, has scoured libraries, archives, and private estates to assemble a kaleidoscopic view of a truly unique city. From the Spanish missionary expeditions in the early 1500s to the Golden Age of Hollywood to the strange new world of social media, the collection of letters inDear Los Angelesis a slice of life in L.A. through the years. The pieces are arranged by date—January 1st to December 31st—featuring selections from different decades and centuries. What emerges is a vivid tapestry of insights, personal discoveries, and wry observations that together distill the essence of the city.

David Kipenis the former literature director of the National Endowment for the Arts, and currently serves as book critic forLos AngelesMagazine and critic-at-large for the Los Angeles Timesand teaches in the writing program at UCLA. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Kipen opened the Boyle Heights bookstore and lending library Libros Schmibros in 2010. The former book editor/critic of theSan Francisco Chronicle and contributor to multiple volumes of California cultural history, Kipen holds a degree in literature from Yale University.

Lynell Georgeis a Los Angeles-based journalist and essayist. She is the author ofNo Crystal Stair African Americans in the City of AngelsandAfter/Image: Los Angeles Outside the Frame, a collection of her essays and photographs. She won a 2018 GRAMMY for liner notes for "Otis Redding Live at the Whisky A Go Go."

The Archival Future of the Iron Horse: California Railroad Collections at the Sesquicentennial of the Transcontinental Railroad

April 26, 2019, USC Doheny Library

with

Chris Rockwell, Librarian, California State Railroad Museum

Gordon Chang, Olive H. Palmer Professor in Humanities/Professor of American History, Stanford University and Co-Director of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project

Clay Stalls, Curator of California and Hispanic Collections, The Huntington Library

Peter Blodgett, H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western Historical Manuscript, The Huntington Library

andTheresa Salazar, Curator, Western Americana, The Bancroft Library.

This year marks the sesquicentennial of the Transcontinental Railroad. With perspectives of engineering and public history as well as the dynamic dimension of social and ethnic history reflected by the Chinese Railroad Workers Project, "The Archival Future of the Iron Horse" considers the present and future of railroad collections. Recognizing that the overwhelming physical bulk of railroad records, especially in the case of those generated by major railroad carriers, represents continuing challenges in housing, preservation, and reference service for archival institutions large and small, this panel, comprised of archivists and historians, will consider whether we should continue to collect such records, how they are being put to use today, and what promise they hold for the future.

Presented by the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, USC Sidney Harman Academy for Polymathic Study, USC Libraries & the USC Libraries Collections Convergence Initiative (CCI)

Policing Los Angeles: Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD

Monday, April 15, 2019

USC Doheny Library 241

When the Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts erupted in violent protest in August 1965, the uprising drew strength from decades of pent-up frustration with employment discrimination, residential segregation, and poverty. But the more immediate grievance was anger at the racist and abusive practices of the Los Angeles Police Department. Yet in the decades after Watts, the LAPD resisted all but the most limited demands for reform made by activists and residents of color, instead intensifying its power.

InPolicing Los Angeles, Max Felker-Kantor narrates the dynamic history of policing, anti-police abuse movements, race, and politics in Los Angeles from the 1965 Watts uprising to the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion. Using the explosions of two large-scale uprisings in Los Angeles as bookends, Felker-Kantor highlights the racism at the heart of the city's expansive police power through a range of previously unused and rare archival sources. His book is a gripping and timely account of the transformation in police power, the convergence of interests in support of law and order policies, and African American and Mexican American resistance to police violence after the Watts uprising.

Max Felker-Kantor is visiting assistant professor of history at Ball State University. Hereceived his PhD in history from the University of Southern California in 2014.

Presented by the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, USC Sidney Harman Academy for Polymathic Study, USC Libraries and the USC Libraries Collections Convergence Initiative (CCI)

Once Upon a Time in Korean America: Introducing the Literary Archive of Nak Chung Thun (1875-1953)

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Born in Pyŏngan Province in today's North Korea,Nak Chung Thun(1875-1953) emigrated to California via Hawaii in 1907, settling in Riverside and working as a laborer for most of his life. Until his passing in 1953, Thun privately wrote dramas and epic fiction in his native tongue, leaving behind a literary estate that is today a precious discovery for both Korean and Korean American literary historians.

This event will provide the first scholarly treatment of Thun's archive, which is part of the collection of the East Asian Library at the University of Southern California,through three studies that address its history as well as its contents. By way of contextualization,Edward Chang (UC Riverside) will offer an ethnographic and historical account of Riverside's Pachappa Camp, which was the very first Korean enclave in the United States.Ji-Young Yi (Chungbuk University) will then shift the focus to Thun's literary production, looking in particular at two full-length novels that, while set in Thun's native Korean province, can revealingly be read along with the earliest examples of diasporic Korean American literature. Finally,Jae-moon Hwang (Seoul National University) will discuss the thematic, formal, and linguistic characteristics of Thun's short stories that are set in Los Angeles and Riverside. The panelists will address the current editorial state of the Thun archive all the while detailing the initiatives that are underway to bring some of it to publication. Joining them will beSteven Lee (UC Berkeley) andNaoki Watanabe(Musashi University) as discussants and USC'sKenneth Klein andSunyoung Park as moderators.

Presented by USC Libraries and the USC Libraries Collections Convergence Initiative (CCI)

Busted: Brash Stories from Texas and New Mexico

Thursday, March 7, 2019

The Huntington, Rothenberg Hall

Join us for a discussion withBryan Mealer andJoshua Wheeler, the authors of new books about hardscrabble times, places, and people in Texas and New Mexico.

Mealer'sThe Kings of Big Spring, which has been called "the Texas version ofHillbilly Elegy," is a saga of God, family, and oil across many generations of the author's own family. Wheeler'sAcid West, a collection of essays about Southern New Mexico, has been called a "freaky, stylish, heart-cracking-open book."  The evening's discussion is moderated byGustavo Arellano,Los Angeles Times.

Brought to you by The Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, The Huntington Library Research Division,The Journal of Alta California (AltaOnline.com) and the USC Alumni Association.

A reception and booksigning follows the program.

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Bryan Mealer is the author ofMuck City and theNew York Times bestsellerThe Boy Who Harnessed the Wind  written with William Kamkwamba  which has been translated into more than a dozen languages and is the basis of a major motion picture. Hes also the author ofAll Things Must Fight to Live, which chronicled his time covering the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo for the Associated Press andHarper's. His other work has appeared inTexas Monthly,Esquire, theGuardian, and theNew York Times. Mealer and his family live in Austin.

The Kings of Big Spring

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250058911

Joshua Wheeler is from Alamogordo, New Mexico. His essays have appeared in many literary journals, includingThe Iowa Review,Sonora Review,PANK, and theMissouri Review. He has written feature stories for BuzzFeed andHarper's Magazine online and is a coeditor of the anthologyWe Might as Well Call It the Lyric Essay. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California, and New Mexico State University, and has an MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa. He teaches creative writing at Louisiana State University.

Acid West: https://www.fsgoriginals.com/books/acid-west

Gustavo Arellano is a longtime chronicler of California and the Southwest, and currently is a features writers for theLos Angeles Times. He has traveled through the Panhandle and New Mexico every summer for the past decade.

In Conversation with Tyler Green

"Carleton Watkins: Making the West American"

Thursday, February 21, 2019

The Huntington, Rothenberg Hall

Tyler Green  speaks about his new book,Carleton Watkins: Making the West American. Join us for a discussion between Tyler Green  and ICW Director Bill Deverell about Tyler 's magisterial new biography of the great landscape photographer Carleton Watkins. Our discussion will range broadly across such topics as the West and the Civil War, the rise of Yosemite and the National Park idea, and the fascinating life of arguably the greatest photographer in all of American history. The Huntington is home to one of the world's most important collections of Watkins photography, and Tyler Green  will discuss his research and writing drawn from that archive.

Haaga Lecture: The Entrepreneurial Frontier: The West and American Innovation, 1800 to the present

Wednesday, February 13, 2019

The Huntington, Rothenberg Hall

Professor William Deverell of USC explores the regional dimensions of American entrepreneurialism. What special features or challenges found in the American West helped drive entrepreneurs and stimulate original thinking? How and why did the West inhibit breakthroughs or pioneer innovations?

Wade Graham in Conversation with Daniel Lewis (The Western Environment)

Braided Waters: Environment and Society in Molokai, Hawaii

Wednesday, December 5, 2018

The Huntington

Braided Waterssheds new light on the relationship between environment and society by charting the history of Hawaii's Molokai island over a thousand-year period of repeated settlement. From the arrival of the first Polynesians to contact with eighteenth-century European explorers and traders to our present era, this study shows how the control of resources—especially water—in a fragile, highly variable environment has had profound effects on the history of Hawaii. Wade Graham examines the ways environmental variation repeatedly shapes human social and economic structures and how, in turn, man-made environmental degradation influences and reshapes societies. A key finding of this study is how deep structures of place interact with distinct cultural patterns across different societies to produce similar social and environmental outcomes, in both the Polynesian and modern eras—a case of historical isomorphism with profound implications for global environmental history.

Wade Graham is the author ofDream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World andAmerican Eden, a cultural history of gardens in America. He teaches urban and environmental policy at Pepperdine University's School of Public Policy.

Daniel Lewis is Dibner Senior Curator for the History of Science and Technology at The Huntington Library and teaches at the California Institute of Technology and Claremont Graduate University. His newest book isBelonging on an Island: Birds, Extinction, and Evolution in Hawai'i(2018).

In Conversation with Keith Makoto Woodhouse (The Western Environment)

The Ecocentrists: A History of Radical Environmentalism

Thursday, November 15, 2018

The Huntington

Disenchanted with the mainstream environmental movement, a new, more radical kind of environmental activist emerged in the 1980s. Radical environmentalists used direct action, from blockades and tree-sits to industrial sabotage, to save a wild nature that they believed to be in a state of crisis. Questioning the premises of liberal humanism, they subscribed to an ecocentric philosophy that attributed as much value to nature as to people. Although critics dismissed them as marginal, radicals posed a vital question that mainstream groups too often ignored: Is environmentalism a matter of common sense or a fundamental critique of the modern world?

InThe Ecocentrists, Woodhouse offers a nuanced history of radical environmental thought and action in the late-twentieth-century United States focusing especially on the group Earth First!. A groundbreaking intellectual history of environmental politics in the United States,The Ecocentrists is a timely study that considers humanism and individualism in an environmental age and makes a case for skepticism and doubt in environmental thought.

Keith Makoto Woodhouse is an assistant professor at Northwestern University, where he teaches in the History Department and the Environmental Policy and Culture Program.

Over LA: Aerial Accounts

https://dornsife.usc.edu/icw/overla/

Saturday, November 3, 2018

9:00am to 4:00pm

USC Doheny Memorial Library (DML) 240

Presented by the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West; the USC Sidney Harman Academy for Polymathic Study; and the USC Libraries Collections Convergence Initiative.

What's over Los Angeles? Sun and sky, trees and buildings, birds, bugs, and flying machines: Angelenos live in a city marked by three dimensions, in which what we encounter overhead is as essential as what lies beneath our feet. "Over L.A.: Aerial Accounts" is a day-long conference investigating this under-appreciated aspect of Southern California — its past, present, and future. Mixing panel discussions, interviews, and brief, impressionistic interludes, we will explore the special qualities of Southland sunlight and the biodiversity of flora and of fauna; the influence of zoning and of the overlays of redlining; the peculiar relationship of helicopters to the city's architecture and imagery; and the future of taxi drones. "Over L.A.: Aerial Accounts" is the counterpart to last fall's "Under L.A.: Subterranean Stories" symposium, and will take place all day Saturday November 3, on the second floor of USC's Doheny Memorial Library.  The conference is free of charge, but registration is required.

In Conversation with David Vogel (The Western Environment)

California Greenin': How the Golden State Became an Environmental Leader

Thursday, October 25, 2018

The Huntington, Ahmanson Room, Botanical Center

From its historic protection of Yosemite in 1864 to its contemporary initiatives to address the risks of global climate change, California has long been on the cutting edge of environmental policy leadership and innovation in the United States.  InCalifornia Greenin',David Vogel illustrates the critical roles played by the state's attractive natural environment, the threats to that environment due to rapid economic growth and  the economic value of its natural resources, extensive citizen mobilization and businesses  that found it in their interests to support more extensive environmental regulation. Also detailed are the state's environmental policy shortcomings, most notably its water management and continued dependence of motor vehicles.

David Vogel  recently retired from 42 years on the faculty of the Department of Political Science and the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Vogel has written  extensively on government regulation and environmental policy in the United States, Europe, and internationally. His books includeThe Politics of Precaution, Trading Up,National Styles of Regulation, andTheMarket for Virtue. In 2017 he received a lifetime achievement award from the American Political Science Association for his research on environmental policy.

Migrant Letters: The Chinese and Mexican Experience

Saturday, October 13, 2018

9:30am - 3:00pm

The Huntington

Ahmanson Room, Botanical Center

What do the letters of Mexican and Chinese migrants voice about their stories in California's history of migration?  A symposium co-sponsored by the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West and The Huntington Library will explore this question by examining twentieth-century Mexican and Chinese migrant letters as sources in writing this history.  Besides this important question, the symposium also seeks to highlight, as well as to understand, historian José Orozco's important—and poignant—declaration that migrant letters are "the quieter affirmations of humanity, those simple exchanges …  expressions of love … scribbled in ink that fades, written on paper that yellows."

Schedule:

Opening Remarks (9:30am-9:45am): William F. Deverell (Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West)

Session I (9:45am-10:30am): Why this Symposium? Thoughts on collecting migrant letters.

• Li Wei Yang (Huntington Curator of Pacific Rim Collections)

• Clay Stalls (Curator of California and Hispanic Collections)

Break (10:30am-10:45am)

Session II (10:45am-noon): Mexican Migrant Letters

Moderator: Clay Stalls
• Miroslava Chávez-García (University of California, Santa Barbara)
• José Orozco (Whittier College)
• Romeo Guzmán (Fresno State)

Lunch (noon-1pm)

Session III (1pm-2:15pm): Chinese Migrant Letters

Moderator: Li Wei Yang
Speakers:
• Sue Fawn Chung (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
• Haiming Liu (Cal Poly Pomona)
• Susie Lan Cassel (California State University, San Marcos)

Break (2:15pm-2:30pm)

Wrap-Up: Comments and Observations (2:30pm-3pm): Natalia Molina (University of California, San Diego)

Miriam Pawel: "California Dynasty: The Browns and the State They Shaped"

Wednesday, October 10, 2018

USC Doheny Memorial Library (DML) 240

From the Prussian pioneer who arrived in Colusa in 1852 through his great grandson, the oldest and longest-tenured governor in state history, Miriam Pawel examines how four generations of a remarkable family came to play such a vital role in shaping California. Drawing heavily on archival materials, including the Jerry Brown papers at USC, and supplemented with extensive interviews, she uses the family as a lens through which to narrate a history of the Golden State.

Miriam Pawel is a journalist, author, and independent historian.The Browns of California is her third book; she also wrote the first biography of Cesar Chavez and a history of the United Farm Workers. She spent 25 years as an award-winning reporter and editor atNewsdayand theLos Angeles Times before turning to narrative non-fiction.

In Conversation with Geraldo L. Cadava (The Western Environment Series)

California, Birthplace of the Hispanic Conservative Movement

Tuesday, October 2, 2018

The Huntington.Ahmanson Room, Botanical Center

Join Geraldo L. Cadava, associate professor of History at Northwestern University, as he discusses current research for his forthcoming book about the Hispanic Conservative Movement from the 1960s until the 1990s. This thirty year period was bookended by the founding of the Republican National Hispanic Assembly and Proposition 187, which split the group in two and ultimately led to its dissolution. During this period, Republican leaders went from calling for amnesty to calling for the construction of imposing border walls. As the party took a hard right turn on immigration, Hispanic conservatives no longer found it to be a welcoming home for them. In many ways, the birthplace of the Hispanic Conservative Movement (and maybe its burial site, too) was in California and the American West, not the 90-mile-wide strait between Havana and Miami, as many would assume.

Geraldo L. Cadava is from Tucson, Arizona. He received a B.A. from Dartmouth College and a Ph.D. from Yale University. His first book, Standing on Common Ground: The Making of a Sunbelt Borderland (Harvard University Press, 2013), won the Frederick Jackson Turner Award from the Organization of American Historians.

David Levitus: "A Career Outside Academia, In Context"

Monday, September 24, 2018

12:00-1:00pm

USC Doheny Memorial Library (DML) 241

Join us for a conversation with David Levitus (2013 USC History Ph.D.) about the path to career outside academia that makes use of the historical knowledge and skills honed inside the academy. He'll share the story of his own circuitous journey to establish and run a social justice organizing nonprofit in the five years after grad school and the hard lessons learned along the way. We'll discuss the relationship between history and contemporary political and social change work and a whole lot more!

David Levitus earned his Ph.D. in History from USC in 2013. Since graduating, he's gone on to become the Founder & Executive Director of LA Forward, which activates a rising generation of Angelenos to create a fair, flourishing Los Angeles. Through grassroots organizing, digital mobilization, and civic media, LA Forward connects people with opportunities to partners with groups representing disadvantaged communities in order to change the policies and systems that limit our collective potential. The organization is a culmination of what he learned in fifteen years of work in organizing and policy advocacy in Los Angeles, New York, and Washington, DC — including extensive volunteering during grad school. Over the last year, he's published long-form essays on progressive politics and urban policy in the LA Review of Books and Streetsblog Los Angeles. He's a Board Member with LA Voice Action and served previously on the West LA Neighborhood Council.

In Conversation with Teresa Sabol Spezio (The Western Environment Series)

Slick Policy: Environmental and Science Policy in the Aftermath of the Santa Barbara Oil Spill

Monday, September 17, 2018

The Huntington, Ahmanson Room, Botanical Center

In January 1969, the blowout on an offshore oil platform off the coast of Santa Barbara, California and the resulting oil spill proved to be a transformative event in pollution control and the nascent environmental movement. It accelerated the advancement of environmental policies and would change the way the government managed pollution. Slick Policy presents an original history of the 1969 spill.  In this discussion, Spezio will explore how scientists and politicians used public outrage over the spill to implement wide-ranging changes to federal environmental and science policy, and demonstrates the advancements to offshore oil drilling, pollution technology, and water protection law that resulted from these actions.

Teresa Sabol Spezio is a visiting assistant professor in environmental analysis at Pitzer College in Claremont, CA. She is a licensed professional engineer who has worked in the environmental field.

Western Histories in the Making: Graduate Student Presentations

Wednesday, August 15, 2018

12:00-1:30pm

USC Doheny Memorial Library 240

Jordan Keagle (@jkeagle)

Harvesting Winter – The Natural Ice Trade in the American West

Jordan Keagle's research ties together two broad narratives, the "conquering" of the Western environment and the rise of capitalism, by examining a curious commodity: ice. Specifically, his work reconstructs the natural ice industry in the Pacific West in the nineteenth century. In his presentation, Keagle will argue that ice was itself a critical raw material in the building of the West—one that has been so far overlooked despite its interconnection with other industries and products. His paper illustrates the opportunities the ice trade offered consumers and the lengths to which Westerners went to obtain a measure of control over their environment.

Yesenia Navarrete Hunter (@yeshunter)

Go After the Boys: The Spanish American Institute and Ethnic Boundary-Making in Early Twentieth Century California

Religious-based Americanization projects helped create the boundaries of an ethnic identity based on Anglo-Protestantism in early twentieth century American history. Although Americanization projects have largely been seen as imposed on communities of color Navarrete Hunter's paper will show how Mexican families engaged in the process of ethnic boundary-making when sending their boys to the Methodist-run Spanish American Institute, a boarding school for Mexican boys, in Gardena, California. By looking at parental engagement in records archived at The Huntington Library, alongside publications produced by the boys at the institute archived at Doheny Library, this paper shows the dynamic process of identity and boundary-making and the social landscape on which it took shape.

Daniel Wallace (@therealtalice)

Omaha Affairs: Prostitutes, Railroads, and Divorce in Progressive Era Omaha

When Mary McKeen remarried, she perhaps thought the only reminder of her ex-husband would be the regular alimony payments he was expected to make. But in 1912, Omaha coal magnate Charles Hull sued McKeen and her new husband, William R. McKeen, Jr., in an attempt to get out of paying the $91,000 (over $2 million today) he owed to her. What Hull apparently failed to predict was the counter strategy that the McKeens would employ in attempts to expose Hull's infidelity and promiscuous behavior. The McKeens' lawyers began interviewing a who's who of Omaha movers and shakers, including powerful businessmen, country club employees, and the gamblers and prostitutes of Omaha's notorious Third Ward. Daniel Wallace's project analyzes this high-drama story and its implications regarding divorce, prostitution, race, and class in 1912 Omaha.

This event is open to any who wish to attend so please feel free to bring your own lunch and join us. Presented by the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West (ICW) and USC Libraries Collections Convergence Initiative (CCI).

In Conversation with Miroslava Chávez-García

Migrant Longing: Letter Writing across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Thursday, May 3, 2018

12:00-1:00pm

The Huntington

Miroslava Chávez-García is Professor in the Department of History at the University of California at Santa Barbara and holds affiliate status in the Departments of Chicana and Chicano Studies and Feminist Studies. She is also currently the Faculty Director of Graduate Diversity Initiatives. Chávez-García is author of Negotiating Conquest: Gender and Power in California, 1770s to 1880s (University of Arizona Press, 2004) and States of Delinquency: Race and Science in the Making of California's Juvenile Justice System (University of California Press, 2012). Her most recent book, Migrant Longing: Letter Writing across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (University of North Carolina Press, 2018), is a history of migration, courtship, and identity as told through more than 300 personal letters exchanged among family members and friends across the U.S.-Mexico border in the 1960s and 1970s. Most recently, Chávez-García received the Western Association of Women's Historians Judith Lee Ridge Prize for the best article by any member of the organization for "Migrant Longing, Courtship, and Gendered Identity in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands," published by the Western History Quarterly in Summer 2016. In November 2017, that same essay received the Bolton-Cutter Award from the Western History Association for the best article on Spanish Borderlands history.

In Conversation with Enid Baxter Ryce

War and the Weather: a project by Enid Baxter Ryce

Thursday, April 26, 2018

12:00-1:00pm

The Huntington

Featuring the music of Philip Glass, "War and the Weather" is a work-in-progress that explores the impact of atmospheric rivers on the colonization, conspiracy and politicization of the American West through film and painting.

Enid Baxter Ryce (nee Blader) is an artist, filmmaker and musician. She grew up in a strip-mining town that was also a Revolutionary War reenactment park. Her works have exhibited internationally at venues including the National Gallery of Art and Library of Congress, Washington, D.C;  the J.P. Getty Museum, Director's Guild of America and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Location One and Academy of Art and Sciences, New York City; Sundance, Park City UT; The Kunsthalle Vienna; The Arnolfini in London;  Center for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow; CCA Andratx, Mallorca and has been written about in The New York Times, Artforum, Artreviews, The Los Angeles Times, and many others.  She has won awards for her work as an artist and arts educator.  Enid studied fine art at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, Yale University and Claremont Graduate University.  She is Professor of Cinematic Arts and Environmental Studies and Director of the California State University Monterey Bay Salinas Center for Arts and Culture.

In Conversation with Mark Potts

Alta: A New Magazine for California

Editing a print magazine in a digital era.

Monday, April 23, 2018

12:00-1:00pm

Munger Research Center, The Huntington

Mark Potts is the managing editor ofJournal of Alta California (Alta), the quarterly magazine founded by William R. Hearst III. Over the past 25 years, Mark has been an innovator in print and online media. He created one of the first electronic news prototypes in the early 1990s, and then co-founded The Washington Post Co.'s digital division. He was a member of the founding team of @Home Network, where he led the creation of the first consumer broadband programming service. As co-founder of Backfence and GrowthSpur, Mark was a pioneer in the field of hyperlocal media. A longtime journalist, he was a reporter and editor forThe Washington Post,Chicago Tribune,San Francisco Examiner andAssociated Press, and was editor of theLawrence (KS) Journal-World when it was named one of "10 Newspapers That Do It Right" by Editor & Publisher in 2013.

V.N. Trinh - No Humans: Race, Citizenship, and the Los Angeles Police Department, 1973-1992

Wednesday, April 18, 2018

12:00-1:00pm

USC Doheny Memorial Library, DML 240

V.N. Trinh investigates the interplay between racialized notions of citizenship and a rapidly transforming police force in Southern California. In doing so, he critically narrates the stories of black policemen and policewomen who saw in the LAPD a special opportunity to both defend their communities from crime and bear the uniform's respect. Building upon other scholarship on race and policing and using materials from USC Libraries, Trinh's project interrogates contemporary assumptions about racial liberalism, diversity, and affirmative action.

Trinh is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Yale University. His dissertation-in-progress, "Burning All Illusions: Race and Rebellion in the City of Angels, 1950-1992," uncovers black and Korean Angelenos' entangled relationships with the police, with respectability politics, and with each other.

This talk is sponsored by the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, the USC Libraries Collections Convergence Initiative and the USC Sidney Harman Academy for Polymathic Study.

In Conversation with Daniel Lewis

Belonging on an Island: Birds, Extinction, and Evolution in Hawai'i

Friday, April 13, 2018

12:00-1:00pm

Munger Research Center, The Huntington

Daniel Lewis discusses the shifting and complex meanings of being "native" and his new book, Belonging on an Island: Birds, Extinction, and Evolution in Hawai'i. Focusing on four species—the Stumbling Moa-Nalo, the Kaua'I 'O'o, the Palila, and the Japanese White-Eye, Lewis' work spans more than 1,000 years and challenges current paradigms on biocultural nativeness and belonging.  Lewis is Dibner Senior Curator for the History of Science and Technology at The Huntington Library and teaches at the California Institute of Technology and Claremont Graduate University. His previous books include, The Feathery Tribe (Yale, 2012) and Iron Horse Imperialism (U of Arizona Press, 2007).

In Conversation with Geraldine Knatz

Angel's Gateway: Los Angeles and its Port

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

12:00-1:00pm

The Huntington

Geraldine Knatz is a Professor of Practice with a joint appointment in USC's Viterbi School of Engineering and the Price School of Public Policy.  The former Director of the Port of Los Angeles, since her retirement four years ago Knatz has focused on telling the history of the Port of Los Angeles from the perspective of the people that lived there (Terminal Island, The Lost Communities of Los Angeles Harbor) and now her latest project, the people who worked there.   Angel's Gateway is the history of the Port of Los Angeles from the perspective of city and harbor officials, businessmen and private citizens whose names may not be familiar to many because their actions, contributions and disputes have never been chronicled before.  Some of these people were visionaries, some were greedy.  Some believed in serving the city, some believed in serving themselves. The consequences of their actions and the decisions they made explain the harbor we have today. This work gives voice to their role in the governance of the Port of Los Angeles.

William Cronon: "The Portage: How to Read a Landscape"

Gary B. Cohen Distinguished Lectureship in History

Monday, March 19, 2018

4:00pm

USC, Doheny Memorial Library, DML 240

In a lecture based on the opening chapter of the book he is writing on the history of Portage, Wisconsin, environmental historian William Cronon meditates on the role of memory and storytelling in the complicated ways human beings construct their individual and collective sense of place. A natural ecosystem or an abstract geographical space becomes a human place, he argues, through the endless accretion of narratives that render that place meaningful for those who visit or live in it. Portage is an especially interesting community in which to explore this idea, since it was the home town of Frederick Jackson Turner, the American historian who authored the famous "frontier thesis." It was also the town into whose hinterland John Muir migrated as an eleven-year-old boy from Scotland, and the town where Aldo Leopold's "Shack," famed subject of the book A Sand County Almanac, is located. Although virtually unknown to most Americans, few places have played so central a role in shaping our national ideas of nature.

William Cronon studies American environmental history and the history of the American West. He is the Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor

Cronon's work seeks to understand the history of human interactions with the natural world: how we depend on the ecosystems around us to sustain our material lives, how we modify the landscapes in which we live and work, and how our ideas of nature shape our relationships with the world around us. Cronon has authored Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (1983), which was awarded the Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians and Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (1991). Nature's Metropolis was awarded the Bancroft Prize for the best work of American history and the George Perkins Marsh Prize from the American Society for Environmental History, and many other awards.

The History Graduate Student Association is pleased to welcome Professor Cronon as the inaugural lecturer of the Gary B. Cohen Distinguished Lectureship in History.

Made possible by the generous support of the Gary B. Cohen Distinguished Lectureship in History Fund, the USC Dornsife Department of History, and The Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. Thanks to the History Graduate Student Association for organizing this event.

Mark Padoongpatt: Flavors of Empire

Monday, March 12, 2018

3:00-5:00pm

EVC Steven's Classroom, The Huntington

Join ICW and Mark Padoongpatt at The Huntington as he discusses how and why Thai food has shaped Thai American community and identity since World War II.

Mark Padoongpatt is Assistant Professor of Asian and Asian American Studies and of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He received his Ph.D. in American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California in 2011. His research centers on the experiences of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the twentieth century United States. His new book, Flavors of Empire: Food and the Making of Thai America (University of California Press, American Crossroads series), explores how and why Thai food has shaped Thai American community and identity since World War II. He argues that foodways, more than just cultural heritage, became an indispensable part of the Thai American experience because of the confluence of U.S. Cold War intervention in Southeast Asia, the rise of discretionary leisure spending and consumer services, and the ascension of Los Angeles as a multicultural global city over the second half of the twentieth century. The book stands as the first historical examination of Thai Americans.

In Conversation with Peter L. Reich

"The Law of the United States-Mexico Border:  A Casebook"

Thursday, February 22, 2018

12:00 - 1:00pm

The Huntington, Munger Research Center, Seaver Classrooms

Peter L. Reich received his J.D. from UC Berkeley and Ph.D. in modern Latin American history from UCLA.  He is Lecturer in Law at UCLA School of Law, where he teaches constitutional Law, contracts, evidence, and academic support to foreign law students pursuing the LL.M. degree.  Professor Reich was formerly Associate Dean and Professor of Law at Whittier Law School, where he taught environmental Law, law of the U.S.-Mexico border, real property, and water Law.  He also serves as a thesis supervisor for Harvard University's Graduate Program in Sustainability and Environmental Management.   Professor Reich's research focuses on the environmental law of Latin America and the U.S. Southwest, and he has published numerous books and articles.  He has received Fulbright, Social Science Research Council, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, and Huntington Library fellowships.  Professor Reich's The Law of the United States-Mexico Border:  A Casebook was just released by Carolina Academic Press.  As an expert on Mexican and U.S. environmental law, he prepares legal documents, testifies in court proceedings, and consults on litigation and appellate strategy.

Reconsidering the Spanish Colonial Revival in California

Monday, February 5, 2018

7:30pm, LACMA, Brown Auditorium

William Deverell, Director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, moderates a panel discussion on Spanish Revival forms, materials, inspirations, and consequences.

The discussion draws from the Spanish Colonial Revival exhibition, "Found in Translation: Design in California and Mexico, 1915–1985," on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, part of the Getty Foundation's Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative. Panelists include LA Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne, entrepreneur Cedd Moses, theater artist Theresa Chavez, and Julianne Polanco, California's State Historic Preservation Officer.

In Conversation with Elizabeth Logan

"California's Culture of Flowers"

Thursday, January 25, 2018

12:00 - 1:00pm

The Huntington, Munger Research Center, Seaver Classrooms

Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West Associate Director Elizabeth Logan discusses her work on California's culture of flowers from the late 19th century to the Panama Pacific Exposition in 1915 with Director William Deverell. As California floriculturists transformed their spaces from what they originally saw as blank canvases, they created an international garden of landscape and commerce. From wild botanizing to flower shows to scientific experimental botany, their stories blend with broader notions of landscapes as cultural markers of the state of current and future communities.

In Conversation with Deanne Stillman

Monday, November 27, 2017

12:00 - 1:00pm

The Huntington, Munger Research Center, Seaver Classrooms

Blood Brothers: The Story of the Strange Friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill

Deanne Stillman is a widely published, critically acclaimed writer. Her books include the just-published Blood Brothers (recipient of starred review in Kirkus, and Doug Brinkley calls it "a landmark achievement"), Desert Reckoning(winner of the Spur and LA Press Club Awards for nonfiction), and Mustang, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. In addition, she wrote the cult classic, Twentynine Palms, a Los Angeles Times bestseller that Hunter Thompson called, "A strange and brilliant story by an important American writer." She writes the "Letter from the West" column for the Los Angeles Review of Books and is a member of the core faculty at the UC Riverside-Palm Desert MFA Low Residency Creative Writing Program.

Stillman's newest book, Blood Brothers, explores the little-known story of the unlikely friendship between these two famous figures in the American West, told through their time in Cody's Wild West show in the 1880s.

Under LA: Subterranean Stories

November 11, 2017

9am to 4:30pm

Doheny Memorial Library, Room 240

What lies beneath our Los Angeles feet?  What is the connection between our terra firma and all that lies below?  This conference explores the worlds below us and the inextricable ties that bind us to the mysteries of the subterranean.  Hydrology, seismology, petroleum engineering -- each of these fields will have a voice at this conference -- as will folklorists, cemetery scholars, and poets and writers.  Together, we will navigate the underworlds of LA past, present, and future ... real, imagined, metaphorical.

Sponsors:

Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West

USC Dornsife College

USC Libraries Collections Convergence Institute

USC Sidney Harman Academy for Polymathic Study

LOST LA

Prof. Rosina Lozano: An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States

Thursday, November 9, 2017

4:00 - 6:00pm, reception to follow

Doheny Memorial Library, USC

DML 240

An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States

USC Libraries Collections Convergence Initiative and the Huntington-USC Institute on California and West are pleased to present

Prof. Rosina Lozano, Department of History at Princeton University speaking on her forthcoming book, An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States with an introduction by Prof. David G. Gutiérrez of the University of California, San Diego.

Stemming from dissertation research that began at USC, An American Language reveals the origins of Spanish as a language binding residents of the Southwest to the politics and culture of an expanding nation in the 1840s. As the West increasingly integrated into the United States over the following century, struggles over power, identity, and citizenship transformed the place of the Spanish language in the nation. An American Language reimagines what it means to be an American—a history with profound implications for our own time.

In Conversation with Alice Echols and Steve Ross

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

12:00 - 1:00pm

The Huntington, Munger Research Center, Seaver Classrooms

Two new books that explore the history of hard-right politics on the ground in the American West.

Recent histories of modern American conservatism often highlight powerful businessmen and the thinkers whose work influenced them. This event features instead two versions of hard-right politics on the ground — in Los Angeles and Colorado Springs — during the 1930s. In the 1930s and 1940s, Jewish attorney Leon Lewis recruited military veterans—and their wives and daughters—to go undercover and join Nazi and fascist groups in Los Angeles. Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America tells the story of how this daring group of men and women uncovered Nazi plots to kill the city's Jews and to sabotage American military installations. Shortfall unearths a forgotten chapter of our financial history—the Depression-era collapse of the building and loan industry. A history told in microcosm through the B&L crisis in Colorado, Shortfall exposes the dangers of unfettered capitalism as well as its appeal, even to defrauded depositors, who rejected the New Deal collectivism usually associated with the 1930s. What gives this story its especially intimate feel and power is the family connection between the book's central figure and the book's author.

This conversation is part of a brown bag luncheon series sponsored by ICW. The event is open to any who wish to attend so please feel free to bring your own lunch and join us.

In Conversation with Chad Alligood and Tyler Green

Friday, September 8, 2017

12:00 - 1:00pm

The Huntington, Munger Research Center, Seaver Classrooms

Art historian and curator Chad Alligood oversees American art from the 17th century to the present at The Huntington. Born and raised in Perry, GA, Alligood earned his AB in the History of Art and Architecture from Harvard, his MA in Art History from the University of Georgia, and completed his PhD coursework in Art History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY).

Tyler Green is an award-winning critic and historian. He is the producer and host of The Modern Art Notes Podcast, America's most popular audio program on art. Green is also writing a book about 19th-century artist Carleton Watkins. Tentatively titled "Making the West American: How Carleton Watkins Wielded Beauty to Complete a Nation," the book will be published by University of California Press in 2018.

Western Histories in the Making: Graduate Student Presentations

Doheny Library, DML 240

July 19, 2017 from 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Please join ICW at a brown-bag lunch of Western Histories in the Making. Three graduate students and recent graduates will present their work and their research paths to continue fostering a connection between ICW and Doheny Library. All are welcome.

Featuring:

Alicia Gutierrez-Romine, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History at La Sierra University: "Tijuana Abortions:" Border Crossing and Abortion Decriminalization in California

William Cowan, USC: "The Pacific Slope Megaflood of 1861-62"

Carolyn Schutten, University of California, Riverside: "Testing the Waters: Emergent Modes of Environmental Activism at the Tijuana River, 1970s-2010s"

California's Climate Future: Water and the Sierra Nevada

Thursday, June 15, 2017

7:30pm - 8:30pm

Light refreshments available at 7:00pm

Ahmanson Classroom, Botanical Center

The Huntington

Free / RSVP required:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/californias-climate-future-water-and-the-sierra-nevada-tickets-34633547874

Over the past few years, Californians saw first-hand the consequences of hotter temperatures and smaller Sierra Nevada snowpack, including low reservoir levels, dying trees, and increased wildfire risk. Now, after a very wet winter, we have brimming reservoirs and a snowpack that is likely to bring flooding when it melts. When it comes to water, the Sierra Nevada has always been a feast-or-famine environment. As global temperatures climb with human emissions of greenhouse gases, how will this change? What is the future of the Sierra Nevada, and what does it mean for us?

Atmospheric scientist Alex Hall, Director of the Center for Climate Science at UCLA, and his research team have set out to understand future impacts of climate change on the mountain landscapes we love—and the snowpack upon which California depends for its water resources. Using innovative techniques to bring global climate model projections to very high spatial resolution, the UCLA team has produced first-of-their-kind projections of future climate that capture the intricate physical processes affecting climate in the Sierra.

In this talk sponsored by the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, Dr. Hall will present key findings from the study and discuss what they mean for decision-makers, resource managers, and anyone who cares about the fate of California's iconic mountain range and how its unique ecosystems are fundamentally tied to the future of Southern California.

About Alex Hall

Alex Hall is Professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and Director of the Center for Climate Science at UCLA. His research is focused on reducing climate change uncertainty at both regional and global scales. At the regional scale, he has been active in the development of downscaling techniques to create neighborhood-scale projections of future climate, and he recently completed downscaling studies over the Los Angeles region and the Sierra Nevada. Dr. Hall was a Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 5th Assessment Report's chapter on regional climate change and a Contributing Author to its chapter on climate model evaluation. In 2016, Dr. Hall received the American Geophysical Union's Atmospheric Sciences Ascent Award.

About ICW

The Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West (ICW) is a center for scholarly investigation of the history and culture of California and the American West. Through sponsorship of innovative scholarship and research, ICW draws on the resources of the University of Southern California and The Huntington Library to build an innovative and unique collaboration between a research university and a research library.

Woody Guthrie L.A.: Events & Reviews, 2017

The Pico House, Los Angeles: The Pio Pico Years

Friday, April 28, 2017

12:00pm - 1:00pm

The Huntington, Munger Research Center, Seaver 3

Free

We are pleased to invite you to an illustrated talk, "The Pico House, Los Angeles: The Pio Pico Years," given by Eric Nelson and consisting of materials from his extensive private collection of Pico House documents, images, and memorabilia.

A semi-retired attorney, Eric Nelson is Past President of the Los Angeles Corral of Westerners and Director Emeritus of the Historical Society of Southern California.  His family has resided in Los Angeles since 1850.  Mr. Nelson will be introduced by Darryl Holter, who will moderate the Q and A following the illustrated talk.

Image: An early view of the Pico House, circa 1870-75. Photo courtesy of the USC Libraries – California Historical Society Collection.

In Conversation with Louise Pubols

"At Sea with Peggy Stewart"

Monday, Feburary 27, 2017

4:00 – 5:00pm

The Huntington, Seaver Classrooms, Munger Research Center

Join us for a work-in-progress discussion with western historian Louise Pubols as she talks about approaching a major new research project.

In November 1813, a young woman, recently a passenger on an otter hunting ship, presented herself and her newborn daughter for baptism at the San Diego Mission in Alta California. The presiding missionary recorded that the woman was an "Indian" from the "Island of San Duich," that her Indian name was Peque, her Spanish name was Margarita, and her age was 16.  Almost none of this, as it turns out, was true.

So who was this mysterious woman? Join Louise Pubols as she talks with ICW Director Bill Deverell about how she discovered this intriguing life, and is starting to follow the traces it left. From remote Pacific Islands, alongside shipboard hunters and traders, and in Mexican settlements along the coast of North America—how does a historian track someone who slips between worlds, and what are the limits of what we can know?

In Conversation with Denise Lawrence-Zúñiga

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"Protecting Suburban America: Gentrification, Advocacy and the Historic Imaginary"

 Friday, January 20, 2017

12:00pm - 1:00pm

The Huntington, Seaver Classrooms, Munger Research Center

Denise Lawrence-Zúñiga is Professor of Architecture and a sociocultural anthropologist at the College of Environmental Design, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Her recent book "Protecting Suburban America" explores the dynamics and conflicts inherent in preserving historic twentieth-century suburban landscapes in America. Bridging architecture, anthropology, planning, and urban studies, its unique approach combines a study of historic preservation with multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, to shed fascinating light on issues of heritage, preservation, gentrification, class, ethnicity, and contested values in suburbia.

In Conversation with Anne Soon Choi

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Recreating the Aloha Spirit: Japanese Americans from Hawai'i and the Postwar American Dream

Thursday, November 3, 2016

12:00pm - 1:00pm

The Huntington, Melanie's Classroom, EVC

Anne Soon Choi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at California State University Dominguez Hills (CSUDH). She is trained as a historian and a gerontologist and is a specialist in immigration history and community-based care for older adults. Before her appointment at CSUDH, Choi was on the faculty at the University of Kansas. She has also held postdoctoral fellowships at Swarthmore College and UCLA. She earned her Ph.D. in History from the University of Southern California and her MPH and MSW from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in Amerasia, American Studies, Acta Koreana, and Health and Social Care in the Community. Her book project "Recreating the Aloha Spirit: Japanese Americans from Hawai'i and Postwar Suburbanization in Southern California" is under contract with University of Hawai'i Press.

Science Fiction Los Angeles: Words and World Building in the City of Angels

October 28-29, 2016

Ticketing for the screening on Friday, October 28 and the panels on Saturday, October 29 are separate. If you wish to attend both days, please make sure you have obtained tickets for each day. Please see https://dornsife.usc.edu/icw/scifila/ for full information.

Science fiction is part of the cultural heritage of Los Angeles. From the Los Angeles Science Fiction Society, whose members, including Ray Bradbury and Robert Heinlein, began meeting at Clifton's Cafeteria in the 1930s, to the dystopian visions of the film Blade Runner, based on Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Southern California's particular blend of high and pop culture has made the place an incubator of the form. On October 28 and 29, we will honor this heritage with a two-day conference exploring the lively, curious, and critical role that Los Angeles had played in the development of science fiction landscapes across literature and film.

Sponsored by the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, the conference begins with aFriday night screening of the film HER at theAcademy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood and a conversation with Christopher Hawthorne on the architectural settings and moods of L.A. science fiction films.

On Saturday, we move to USC and the Doheny Memorial Library for a series of panels and discussions with writers and thinkers on the implications of Los Angeles's science fiction heritage.  Featured authors include Steve Erickson, Mark Frauenfelder, Margaret Wappler, and M.G. Lord, and panels will cover such themes as Artificial Intelligence and visions of the future, the sustained influence of the late Octavia Butler, and the ways in which Ray Bradbury's life in Los Angeles influenced his writing.

Xenogenesis Suite: A Musical Tribute to Octavia E. ButlerXenogenesis Suite: A Musical Tribute to Octavia E. Butler

Thursday, October 27, 2016

7:30–9:00 pm

The Huntington, Rothenberg Hall

Composed byNicole Mitchell

Xenogenesis Suite highlights a journey into otherworldly experiences inspired by the award winning science fiction author and Afro-Futurist,Octavia E. Butler.

In Butler's Dawn, the extra-terrestrial "Oankali rescue the earth from the destruction of nuclear war" and the surviving humans meet their fate to live among intelligent, benevolent, yet paternalistic aliens. Through music, flutist composer Nicole Mitchell evokes an emotional journey into the horrific, yet fascinating unknown — a journey through the process of fear and will feature compositions from her Octavia E. Butler projects — Xenogenesis Suite (Firehouse 12, New Haven) with some visitation of Intergalactic Beings (FPE, Chicago). The event will premiere Mitchell's Chicago-based group,Black Earth Ensemble for a rare Los Angeles appearance, merging old friends with new musician friends from Southern California.

This event is presented in collaboration withClockshop and theHuntington-USC Institute on California and the West.

The performance will be followed by a Q&A with Mitchell and a reception with light refreshments.

Science and the Humanities: A Meeting of Minds

http://www.rancholosalamitos.com/events/2016_conversations/index.html

Sunday, October 16, 2016

1:30-3:30PM

Rancho Los Alamitos

6400 E. Bixby Hill Road

Long Beach, CA 90815

The intersection of science, technology and the humanities is the meeting of creative, collaborative thinking and the "continuum of possibility" from diverse perspectives. In imagining something different, science and the humanities explore and verify conditions and aspirations that will lead to home.

Our guides along the way are:

Lori Bettison-Varga, President and Director of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

Michael H. Dickinsen, Zarem Professor of Biology and Bioengineering at the California Institute of Technology and head of the Dickinson Lab.

William Deverell, Professor in the History Department at USC and Director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West.

Ursula K. Heise, Marcia H. Howard Professor in the Department of English and the Institute of the Environment & Sustainability at UCLA.

Hannah Landecker, Director of The UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics.

D. J. Waldie, author, essayist, and commentator.

Please see the Rancho Los Alamitos site for full information.

USC Alumni Event: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles: A Conversation with writer David L. Ulin

For USC Alumni

Sunday, August 28, 2016

10:00 am  Champagne Brunch
11:30 am  Presentation

The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens
Haaga Hall

USC Dornsife and Huntington-USC Institute on California & the West invite you to spend the day with fellow Trojans at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens. The day will kick off with a champagne brunch followed by a conversation with USC History Professor William Deverell and writer David L. Ulin, one of our regions most astute observers of Los Angeles. The conversation will address Ulin's new book, Sidewalking, as well as the different ways in which his writing, teachings, and  projects express a desire, even an obligation, to come to terms with his adopted city.

Guests are free to explore the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens after the presentation.

In Conversation with Benjamin Madley

Wednesday, July 27, 2016
12:00 - 1:00pm
Seaver Classrooms, Munger Research Center
The Huntington

Benjamin Madley is an assistant professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles where he teaches courses in American Indian history, nineteenth-century U.S. history, and genocide in world history. He holds a B.A., M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Yale University and a M.St. from Oxford University. Madley's deeply researched new book,An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873, is a comprehensive and chilling history of an American genocide. Between 1846 and 1873, California's Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. InAn American Genocide, Madley uncovers the full extent of the slaughter, the involvement of state and federal officials, the taxpayer dollars that supported the violence, indigenous resistance, who did the killing, and why the killings ended.

This conversation is part of a brown bag luncheon series sponsored by ICW. The event is open to any who wish to attend so please feel free to bring your own lunch and join us.

One Hundred Years Since Columbus: Pancho Villa, the Border, & U.S. History

In the spring of 1916 and in the midst of the Mexican Revolution, Pancho Villa crossed the border to attack Columbus, New Mexico.  One hundred years after this attack, how have the Mexican Revolution and the border shaped American history?

Join ICW director Bill Deverell as he discusses a century of borderlands history with Veronica Castillo-Muñoz (UCSB), Kelly Lytle Hernández (UCLA), and Jessica Kim (CSUN).

Saturday, June 4, 10:00 am-12:00 pm

The Huntington, Munger Research Center, Seaver 3

Free and open to the public

From Ranchos to Residents: Transforming Southern California, 1850-1950

Rancho Los Cerritos Lecture Series

William F. Deverell

Director, Huntington-USC Institute on California & the West

Saturday, April 23, 2016, 10am

Rancho Los Cerritos Historic Site, Long Beach

The discovery of gold brought hundreds of thousands to California, and the transcontinental railroads brought many more. Whether these immigrants sought fortune and adventure or rejuvenation and recuperation, they needed places to live and work. Southern California's rancheros, who owned much of coastal California in 1850, were faced with the decision of whether to retain or sell off portions of their pasture lands to accommodate the burgeoning population. Dr. Deverell will examine the influences and outcomes of this tremendous shift in land use over time.

PDF of all Rancho Los Cerritos lectures

Conference - The Fabricated American Desert: Modern and Anti-Modern

Apr 15 - 16 , 2016

Friday–Saturday, 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m.

The Huntington, Rothenberg Hall

Program and registration

$25 conference registration fee (students free).

The southwestern desert has long stood for American individualism, modernist and anti-modernist sentiments, and social and political experiments. As such it has attracted artistic and architectural movements that give form to these ideas. This conference brings together scholars from diverse disciplines to explore the relationship between desert extremes and the built environment.

What Good Is History?

March 25, 2016, 7:30pm

The Huntington, Haaga Hall

A video recording of this event is available on the California Humanities site.

An audio recording is available through The Huntington's podcast.

And read Kevin Durkin's writeup of the event on Verso.

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As part of a national celebration of the 100^th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prize, California Humanities will convene a series of discussion forums throughout the state as part of the Pulitzer Prizes Centennial Campfires Initiative.  Aimed at deepening the public's engagement with contemporary issues through a humanities lens, On the Road with California Humanities will connect Pulitzer-prize winning authors, artists, journalists, and other notable thinkers who are helping to guide California along the road to a vibrant future.The first in the series will feature a conversation on the need for historical perspective in our times and is presented in partnership with the Huntington Library and USC Institute on California and the West.

What Good Is History?

William Deverell, Professor of History, University of Southern California

History Department Chair, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Vice-Chair, California Humanities Board of Directors

Two of America's most talented historians talk about the relevance of history and the humanities in today's times, and we should listen to them.  Why?  Because history matters, because history is the fragile tether that not only connects us to what and who came before us, it is by way of history that "then" has become "now."  Asking questions of history brings perspective, knowledge, maybe even lessons.  And it is always fascinating.

Between them, our speakers have been awarded three Pulitzer Prizes.  Two have gone to Professor Alan Taylor, the Thomas Jefferson Chair in American History at the University of Virginia.  A renowned scholar of early America, Alan Taylor's historical research ranges across questions of belonging, of racial politics and identity in the colonial era, and of the politics and economics of the infant American republic.  Though centered in the 18th and 19th century, his books ask enduring and yet timely questions about American meanings, American people, and American values. Elizabeth "Lil" Fenn is the Walter and Lucienne Driskill Professor of Western American History and Chair of the History Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder.  She won a Pulitzer Prize for her innovative history of the Mandan peoples of the northern Great Plains, and she is also the author of a penetrating study of the role of smallpox in the history of North America.

This event at The Huntington Library, a research institution close to the hearts and minds of both of our guests, will feature Taylor and Fenn in conversation with one another.  Why do they do what they do?  How does their present influence their perceptions of the past, and, more important, how do they imagine their analyses of the past can be of use to their students, their peers, and all of us in our complex and often troubled world of today?  What good, after all, is history?

This forum is free and open to the public. For registration information and more information on the series, please visit www.calhum.org/programs/on-the-road

In Conversation with Natale Zappia

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Indigenous Borderlands in the Formation of the Early American West

March 3, 2016

The Huntington

Natale Zappia is an assistant professor of history at Whittier College specializing in the environmental history of the early America. His work explores the intersection of continental trading networks, food pathways, and ecological transformations across the West. His recent book,Traders and Raiders:  The Indigenous World of the Colorado Basin (UNC Press, 2014), tells the history the early American Lower Colorado River, a watershed that looms large over the modern urban landscapes of Los Angeles and other western cities. Zappia is now at work on a new book project, "Food Frontiers: Borderland Ecologies in Early America," which explores the evolution of food systems in early North America. Zappia is also the Associate Project Director of the Early California Cultural Atlas (www.ecai.org/ecca), a digital atlas mapping Indigenous migration across California between 1769-1848.

This conversation is part of a brown bag luncheon series sponsored by ICW. The event is open to any who wish to attend so please feel free to bring your own lunch and join us.

Forgotten Founders: The Hidden African Ancestry of L.A.

Open Feb. 4-29, 2016

El Pueblo's Pico House

http://www.forgottenfoundersla.org

ICW Visiting Associate Director Jessica Kim worked with her CSUN Public History students to research and bring the exhibition "Forgotten Founders: The Hidden African Ancestry of Los Angeles" to El Pueblo's Pico House.

This collaborative exhibit will trace the role of individuals of African descent in the founding of Los Angeles. While emphasizing the diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds of the forty-fourpobladores who founded the pueblo on the edge of the Los Angeles River in 1781, the exhibit will also trace the connections between this specific event and the broader history of communities of African descent in Mexico and the American West.

This exhibit is brought to you in part by California State University, Northridge Public History Program. This project takes CSUN Public History students out of the classroom, away from traditional textbooks, and into the rich world of public history. More specifically, students have the unique opportunity to practice "hands-on" history through researching and curating a historical exhibit for a public audience. The exhibit is also presented in conjunction with the National Parks Conservation Association, the Western National Parks Association, and the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West.

Read the article in the San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Download Press Release

Past Tense: "The Problem of Homicide in Los Angeles County, 1840-1874"

John Mack Faragher

Howard R. Lamar Prof of History & American Studies // Director, Howard R. Lamar Center, Yale University

Friday, February 5, 2016

The Huntington

John Mack Faragher was born in Phoenix, Arizona and raised in southern California, where he attended the University of California, Riverside (B.A., 1967), and did social work, before arriving at Yale (Ph.D., 1977). His books includeWomen and Men on the Overland Trail(1979);Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie (1986);Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (1992);The American West: A New Interpretive History (2000), with Robert V. Hine;A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from their American Homeland (2005); andFrontiers: A Short History of the American West (2007), with Robert V. Hine. He teaches the history of the American West and directs the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders.

Required Reading:

1) Eric Monkkonen, "Western Homicide:  The Case of Los Angeles, 1830-1870."Pacific Historical Review 74 (2005): 603–17.

2) John Mack Faragher, "Homicide in Los Angeles County, 1830-1874"

The Past Tense Seminar Series is co-sponsored by the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, the Huntington-USC Institute for California and the West, and the Huntington Library.

DigitaLA

Jan. 30, 2016

10:00-12:00

The Huntington

Come explore the digital landscapes of LA's storied past!

In the past five years, Angelenos have enjoyed a flowering of new and exiting digital projects highlighting their city's rich history.  From popular Twitter feeds to original YouTube series to digitized archives, Los Angeles history has found its place in the digital California sun.  Drawing together practitioners from across Los Angeles and the Internet, this event will highlight some of the most exciting digital projects dedicated to the city's past.

Participants include:

Genevieve Carpio, UCLA

Nathan Masters, KCET, USC

Victoria Bernal, Twitter: @lahistory

Jeremiah Axelrod, Occidental College

Tom Carroll, Tom Explores LA

Organized by Jessica Kim, Visiting Associate Director, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West

Events: Christopher Isherwood in Los Angeles

"My Logical Grandfather" : Armistead Maupin on Christopher Isherwood

Thursday, November 12, 2015

The Huntington

Armistead Maupin, American novelist and LGBT activist, reflects on his friendship with author Christopher Isherwood and on the significance of Isherwood's cultural leadership.

"My Self In A Transitional State: Isherwood in California"

Conference, Nov. 13 - 14

Conveners: James J. Berg (College of the Desert) and Chris Freeman (USC)

In Conversation with Liz Goldwyn

Talk & Book Signing

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

The Huntington

Author and filmmaker Liz Goldwyn discusses her bookSporting Guide, a series of interlinked stories that evoke a lost world on the margins of Los Angeles society in the 1890s. Long before the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, Los Angeles was a city where dreamers came to make their fortunes—and where a madam named Pearl Morton entertained the city's most powerful politicians and entrepreneurs inside her namesake brothel. William Deverell, director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, talks with Goldwyn about her research (much of it conducted at The Huntington) and about the creative process that fictionalizes the real-life people and events of a tumultuous era. A book signing follows the program.

Want to learn more? This interview with Goldwyn from The Paris Review is full of interesting information about vice in Victorian-era Los Angeles.

In Conversation with Frances Dinkelspiel

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Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession, and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California

Monday, November 2, 2015

The Huntington

Tangled Vines centers around a 2005 arson fire in a wine storage warehouse. Around 4.5 million bottles of fine wine worth $250 million were destroyed, making it the largest crime involving wine in history. About 175 bottles made by Isaias Hellman, my great-great grandfather, in 1875 were burned. In the book, I trace the history of those bottles, which came from a vineyard in Rancho Cucamonga in San Bernardino County. Grapes were first planted there in 1839, when California was part of Mexico.

Frances Dinkelspiel is an award-winning journalist who cofounded the local news site Berkeleyside. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, People magazine and elsewhere. Her first bookTowers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California was a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller and was named a Best Book of 2008 by the newspaper. Her second book,Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession, and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California was published in October 2015.

When LA's vineyards ruled California by abusing Native Americans  - read Frances's piece on LA Observed

Gendered Borderlands

Saturday, October 10, 2015

10:00am-12:00pm

Huntington Library

Organized by Jessica Kim

Join ICW and leading scholars in the field of borderlands studies for a roundtable on the ways in which borders are shaping gender identities and opening opportunities for the renegotiation of femininity, masculinity, and family dynamics along the U.S.-Mexico Border.

Often focused on the history of capital, labor, and immigration, borderlands historians are also calling attention to the gendered dimensions of border crossing. Recent work by scholars in the field are raising and addressing questions of state power and gender and sexuality in border regions as well as the ways in which border relationships reshape gender identities or open opportunities for the renegotiation of femininity, masculinity, and family dynamics.

Roundtable participants include:

Leisy Abrego, Associate Professor, UCLA
Miroslava Chavez-Garcia, Professor, UCSB
Celeste Menchaca, PhD Candidate, USC
Veronica Castillo Muñoz, Assistant Professor, UCSB
Anne Reid, Assistant Professor, CSU San Luis Obispo

Deep LA: A Graduate History Conference

October 2nd-October 3rd, 2015

The Huntington

Keynote Speaker: Michelle Nickerson

http://lahistoryconference.tumblr.com/

We would like to draw your attention to our graduate history conference, "Deep L.A.," hosted by UCLA, USC, and the Huntington Library. The conference will be held on October 2nd at UCLA and October 3rd at the Huntington Library and will showcase innovative scholarship about Los Angeles. The conference is free and open to scholars as well as the broader public.

Please send any questions you might have to lahistoryconference@gmail.com.

To view the conference schedule visit, http://lahistoryconference.tumblr.com/.

Conference Organizers:

UCLA, Department of History

USC, Department of American Studies and Ethnicity

In Conversation with Shaun Ossei-Owusu

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Thursday, September 17, 2015

The Huntington

Zealous Romantics: The Progressive Era and the Naïveté of Legal Aid Reformers

Dr. Shaun Ossei-Owusu is the Doheny Postdoctoral Fellow at the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West and USC Libraries at the University of Southern California. He received his PhD from the Department of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley in 2014. He also received his graduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his undergraduate degree from Northwestern University. He is currently working on a book manuscript on the historical development of legal aid institutions and a project on public health in post-1970 South Los Angeles. The National Science Foundation and the American Bar Foundation have funded his scholarly research and his writings have appeared in Salon, Huffington Post, The Root, and Jacobin.

This conversation is part of a brown bag luncheon series sponsored by ICW. The event is open to any who wish to attend so please feel free to bring your own lunch and join us.

In Conversation with Michael Datcher

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Tuesday, June 16, 2015

The Huntington

AMERICUS: The Historical Novel & the Present Historical Moment

Set in East St. Louis, "Americus" interrogates the intersection of family, race, and violence in America at the moment of the 1917 East St. Louis Race Riots. The bildungsroman narrative follows a set of African American identical twins, whose relationship turns catastrophic when the youngest contracts vitiligo—the skin condition that fades pigmentation in splotches.

Michael Datcher is an award-winning writer and journalist, and the author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller "Raising Fences". His play "Silence" was commissioned by and premiered at the Getty Museum, and he is Editor of "The Truth About the Fact: International Journal of Literary Nonfiction". He is co-host of the weekly public affairs news magazine "Beautiful Struggle" on KPFK in Los Angeles.

This conversation is part of a brown bag luncheon series sponsored by ICW. The event is open to any who wish to attend so please feel free to bring your own lunch and join us.

In Conversation with Tyler Green

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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

The Huntington

Carleton Watkins in California: How an Artist on the Edge of America Impacted American Science, History and Business

Tyler Green is an award-winning art journalist and the producer and host of The Modern Art Notes Podcast, America's most popular audio program on art. He is writing a book (UC Press) on Carleton Watkins, the greatest American photographer of the 19th-century and arguably the most influential American artist of his time. The Huntington is home to the one of the most important collections of Watkins's work.

This conversation is part of a brown bag luncheon series sponsored by ICW. The event is open to any who wish to attend so please feel free to bring your own lunch and join us.

ICW Commemorates Ten Years of the West 2004-2014

USC Dornsife Dean Steve Kay, Professor William Deverell, Patt Morrison, Professor Kevin Starr, Huntington President Steve Koblik

On Tuesday evening, October 28th, ICW friends and supporters gathered at The Huntington to commemorate and celebrate a decade of work aimed at understanding the history and culture of California and the American West. Nearly a hundred guests chatted for an hour over cocktails and snacks in the magnificently re-done "bamboo court" inside the library complex. We then moved into the Ahmanson Rare Reading Room, where USC Dornsife Dean Steve Kay and Huntington President Steve Koblik welcomed the audience and touched upon some highlights of the ten years' of ICW's work and outreach. Patt Morrison of theLos Angeles Timesthen moderated a discussion between herself, USC University Professor Kevin Starr, and ICW Director Bill Deverell, after which audience members were invited to ask questions of the group. The evening ended back in the courtyard with desserts and more conversation.

We are so grateful to our guests and supporters—all of you who have made a decade go back quickly and with excitement, and all of you who will help us reach our research, teaching, and outreach goals over the next ten years. Warmest and special thanks to the ten-year event team: Cynthia Gellis, Doug Colby, Chris Wiedey, Hally Prater, Randy Shulman, Jessica Ashbrook, and Sarah Krupczak.

Our work goes on!

Click here to see the article written about the Institute's ten-year anniversary.

In Conversation with Jason Sexton

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Thursday, May 14, 2015

The Huntington

Theology and California: Theological Refractions on California's Culture

This new book explores California as a theological place. It asks questions about how theology might be able to meaningfully engage Californians in academic and public arenas, and whether there is a "theology of California" that may be discernible throughout the complex contours of California history and culture.

Jason Sexton is a fourth generation Californian and Convener of the Theological Engagement with California's Culture Project (TECC). He's taught theology at the University of Cambridge as a Visiting Scholar and is currently Lecturer in the Honors Program at Cal State Fullerton and Research Associate at USC's Center for Religion & Civic Culture. With Jon Christensen, he is guest editing a forthcoming issue ofBOOM: A Journal of California (March 2016) on Religion in California.

This conversation is part of a brown bag luncheon series sponsored by ICW. The event is open to any who wish to attend so please feel free to bring your own lunch and join us.

In Conversation with Enid Baxter Ryce

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Thursday, April 30, 2015

The Huntington

PLANET ORD: Enid Baxter Ryce

Once the largest military base in the American West and a vital center during the 20th century, Fort Ord is now decommissioned and slowly changing. The more than one million people who lived and worked at Fort Ord contributed to embedding the architectural remnants with layers of murals and evidence of their lives. Planet Ord is a multimedia art project that explores the contemporary experience and historical echoes of this abandoned city.

Documented by artist Enid Baxter Ryce in 2009, the Planet Ord project presents the contemporary landscape of Fort Ord, nearly twenty years after its closure, including thousands of graffiti murals painted by generations of soldiers, most of which have since been destroyed.

Enid Baxter Ryce is an artist, filmmaker and musician whose investigations explore the relationships resonating in places between ecology and hidden histories. Her works have exhibited at venues such as the Smithsonian, Washington, D.C; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Location One, New York; Sundance, Park City; The Arclight Theater, Los Angeles; The Kunsthalle Vienna, The Arnolfini in London; the Director's Guild of America; Center for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, CCA Andratx, Mallorca, and many others. Her work was featured in the Getty Museum's retrospective of California Video, 1960-present. She received her BFA from The Cooper Union (1996), was a fellow at Yale University and received her MFA with a fellowship from Claremont Graduate University (2000). She is Associate Professor of Cinematic Arts and Environmental Studies and Chair of Cinematic Arts at CSU Monterey Bay. She lives and works on the former Fort Ord, with her husband Walter and their two children.

This conversation is part of a brown bag luncheon series sponsored by ICW. The event is open to any who wish to attend so please feel free to bring your own lunch and join us.

In Conversation with Sandra Rebok

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Thursday, April 23, 2015

The Huntington

Alexander Von Humboldt And Scientific Exploration Of The American West

Sandra Rebok, Spanish National Research Council

In spring 1804, after completing his famous five-year expedition through the Spanish colonies in Latin America, Alexander von Humboldt traveled to the United States and was invited to meet with President Thomas Jefferson. The Prussian scientist and the 3rd President of the US discussed the Lewis and Clark expedition as well as Jefferson's vision for the American West following the Louisiana Purchase.

Over the next fifty-five years, Humboldt developed a particular interest in the exploration of this vast territory. Through personal and epistolary contact with expeditionary leaders and participants, such as John C. Fremont, Amiel W. Whipple, Balduin Möllhausen, Prince Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied, and Duke Paul Wilhelm of Württemberg, he was informed about the latest scientific work in the West. Humboldt would not only become an important European promoter of the exploration of the American West, but he would also exert remarkable influence through his wide scientific and other networks.

This conversation is part of a brown bag luncheon series sponsored by ICW. The event is open to any who wish to attend so please feel free to bring your own lunch and join us.

Indigenous and Decolonial Practices and Imaginaries Symposium

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April 6, 2015

The Huntington Library

PROGRAM

10-10:30AM coffee, tea, and snacks

10:30-10:50AM Welcome by Matt Hooley, Visiting Fellow, UCLA Institute of American Cultures/American Indian Studies Center

11-12:15  Panel 1 Indigeneity and Decolonization Across Geographies

Moderator: Maylei Blackwell,UCLA

Making Indigenous Theory through Contemporary Maya Women's Theater in Guatemala, Gloria Chacon,UCSD

• Decolonizing the Sacred: Chicana Feminism, Sexuality, and Spiritual Activism in Carla Trujillo'sWhat Night Brings, Cecilia Caballero,USC
• Construction as Commemoration: Memorializing Violence through West Bank Settlement Construction, Sarah HughesUCLA
• Indigenous Presence at the Global Stage of the Venice Biennale, Nancy Marie Mithlo,Occidental College

12:15-12:45 Lunch

1-2:00 Keynote, Nicole Guidotti-Hernandez: "Borderlands Histories of Indigenous Exclusion" followed by Q&A

2-3:15 Panel 2 Challenging the Archive: Epistemologies of Islandness and Indigeneity in the Pacific

Moderator: Maile Arvin, UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow,UCR

• Disrupting the Liberation of Land Narrative: Chamorro Land Stewardship and Military Land Taking on Guam, 1941-1972, Alfred Peredo Flores,UCLA
• Oceanscapes of Life: Island Epistemology and Settler Kuleana/Responsibility,
• Rebekah Garrison,USC
• Theorizing the Pō: Genealogy and the Racial Production of the Kanaka Maoli State in Victoria Nālani Kneubuhl's "Hoʻoulu Lāhui", Joyce Pualani Warren,UCLA
• Decolonial Possibilities: The Politics of California Indian and Native Hawaiian Relations, Kehaulani Vaughn,UCR

3:15-3:30 Closing

We invite all participants to attend a memorial service this evening for our colleague Professor Maria Elena Martinez from 4:00PM to 6:30PM at Doheny Memorial Library, University of Southern California.

2015 Whitsett Graduate Seminar & Lecture

Department of History, CSUN

Thursday, March 26, 2015

Hosted Lunch: 12:00-1:00

Panel 1: 1:00-2:30

Elizabeth A. Logan,USC, "Sweet Peas of Civility: The Cultural Politics of Environment in California, 1848 to 1915"

Guy McClellan,UNM, "Sierra Sprawl: Yosemite's Age of Decentralization, 1956-1966"

Panel 2: 2:30-4:30

Dinna Rivera-Pitt,CSUN, "Behind the Legend of Miguel Leonis"

Eric Stewart,CSUN, "Victorian Sprawl: Streetcar Technology, Anti-Urban Planning, and the Natural Environment in Los Angeles, 1873-1913"

Israel Pastrana,UCSD, "Making Mexicans Permanently Temporary in 1920s California"

Lecture: 7:00pm

Dr. Margaret Salazar-Porzio: "Practicing Public History: California Stories at the Smithsonian"

Dr. Margaret Salazar-Porzio is a Curator in the Division of Home and Community Life at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian, with interests and expertise in 20th century visual and material culture of the Western United States, Pacific Rim, and Mexico; Race, Citizenship and National Identity in U.S. urban history; U.S. Latina/o History and Culture; Cultural Studies and 20th Century Cultural History in the U.S.; and K-20 Education.

Teaching American History 2014-15

ICW is pleased to serve as content provider to two Teaching American History (TAH) grant programs:

California as America, 2009-2011

California, U.S.A., 2010-2014

The TAH program, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, is designed to raise student achievement by improving teachers' knowledge and understanding of and appreciation for traditional U.S. history. Grant awards will assist LEAs, in partnership with entities that have content expertise, to develop, document, evaluate, and disseminate innovative and cohesive models of professional development. By helping teachers to develop a deeper understanding and appreciation of U.S. history as a separate subject matter within the core curriculum, these programs will improve instruction and raise student achievement.

In Conversation with Jeremy Rosenberg and Sam Sweet

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Tuesday, November 18, 2014

The Huntington

Jeremy Rosenberg

Between 2006 and 2013, artist Lauren Bon and her Metabolic Studio team transformed the area below Los Angeles' North Spring Street Bridge into a vibrantly creative space that served as a public square, ceremonial ground, art gallery, community garden, and musical instrument. In Jeremy Rosenberg's award-winning oral history book, Under Spring: Voices + Art + Los Angeles, sixty-six people from all walks of life chronicle the space's many metamorphoses, and in doing so construct an energized account of change and development in L.A. Under Spring is the winner of the 2013 California Historical Society Book Award. Jeremy Rosenberg is the Assistant Dean, Public Affairs and Special Events, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Connect with him on Twitter @LosJeremy

Sam Sweet

All Night Menu is a series of booklets about the untold histories of Los Angeles. Each volume contains eight addresses; each address reveals a different strand of LA culture. The booklets draw from all time periods, subcultures, and sections of the city. Their only bias is towards subjects distinct to Los Angeles and unnoticed by the rest of the world. Sam Sweet has written about surfing, music, and Southern California for the New Yorker and the Paris Review. He lives in Highland Park.

This conversation is part of a brown bag luncheon series sponsored by ICW. The event is open to any who wish to attend so please feel free to bring your own lunch and join us.

"A Century Beyond Muir" Symposium to Explore Nature and California

Thursday, November 13, 2014

11:00 am - 6:30 pm

California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), UCLA Campus

A special symposium in honor of the investiture of Glen MacDonald, UCLA John Muir Memorial Chair in Geography

Featuring keynote addresses by:

John van De Kamp and

Richard White

Reservations required.

Click here to view full poster with link to RSVP.

In Conversation with Jessica Kim

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Thursday, November 6, 2014

The Huntington

Jessica Kim is an assistant professor of history at California State University, Northridge. She is currently working on a book project titled "Oilmen and Cactus Rustlers: Mexico and the Rise of Modern Los Angeles, 1865-1940. Focusing on the first century of Los Angeles' phenomenal growth, the study explores how Angeleno and Mexican investors, elected officials, workers, lawyers, and journalists first forged and then negotiated the relationship between an urban core in Southern California and an imagined and real periphery that stretched across the border deep into Mexico.

This conversation is part of a brown bag luncheon series sponsored by ICW. The event is open to any who wish to attend so please feel free to bring your own lunch and join us.

The Paradox of the Jewish Indians: Religion and Race on the Colonial Campus

Flyer: In Conversation with Craig Wilder, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Paradox of the Jewish Indians: Religion and Race on the Colonial Campus

September 22, 2014

Craig Wilder is Professor of History and Head of the History Faculty in the School of Humanities, Arts, and the Social Sciences at MIT. His studies focus on American urban, intellectual, and cultural history. Professor Wilder's most recent book isEbony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities (New York: Bloomsbury, 2013). In 2004, Columbia University awarded him the University Medal of Excellence during its 250th Anniversary Commencement.

Living New Deal

May 28, 2014

TheLiving New Deal is a collaborative project to document, map and make public the legacy of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs, which put people back to work during the Great Depression creating infrastructure, including schools, parks, public buildings, and artworks. Please join us for a presentation by New Deal expertsGray Brechin and Harvey Smith as they explore the legacy of the New Deal in Los Angeles and Southern California. Harvey and Gray demonstrate how to use the Living New Deal website, map and archive as a resource, as well as share details on how you can contribute to this monumental effort.

ICW is pleased to sponsor this presentation about the New Deal's continuing cultural and built-environment resonances in Southern California.

In Conversation with Miriam Pawel

Miriam Pawel, author ofThe Crusades of Cesar Chavez, A Biography

May 21, 2014

In the first comprehensive biography of Chavez, Miriam Pawel offers a searching yet empathetic portrayal. Chavez emerges here as a visionary figure with tragic flaws; a brilliant strategist who sometimes stumbled; and a canny, streetwise organizer whose pragmatism was often a odds with his elusive, soaring dreams. He was an experimental thinker with eclectic passions—an avid, self-educated historian and a disciple of Gandhian non-violent protest. Drawing on thousands of documents and scores of interviews, this superbly written life deepens our understanding of one of Chavez's most salient qualities: his profound humanity.

In Conversation with Thomas Andrews

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The Environmental History of the Rockies

April 24, 2014

Professor Andrews discusses his work on the environmental history of the Colorado Rockies as it relates to his published and work-in-progress scholarship.

In Conversation with Brenda Marshall

Brenda Marshall, a uthor ofDakota, Or What's A Heaven For

April 15, 2014

Brenda Marshall was born on a farm in the Red River Valley of eastern North Dakota, and grew up climbing trees, riding her pony, and daydreaming under the wide prairie sky. She left North Dakota after college, and has since lived in Colorado, Minnesota, Iowa, Washington, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and for the past seventeen years, Michigan.  She holds a Ph.D. in English and teaches part-time in the English Department at the University of Michigan.

Writing from California: Tales From Two Cities

February 21-22, 2014

PART 2: LOS ANGELES

Two free conferences examining the literature of Alta, California, north and south — from immigration to innovation, from the desert to the coast. Poetry, fiction, non-fiction, print and digital: It's all part of how California defines itself, going back to the earliest days. Regional distinctions are important, but most essential is the idea of California as a state with a culture and aesthetic all its own. What is our sensibility? How does the literature of California tell us who we are?

In Conversation with Deanne Stillman

February 11, 2014

BLURB (doc)

InDesert Reckoning, Deanne Stillman continues her long-time desert beat and uses Kueck's story as a point of departure to further explore our relationship to place and the wars that are playing out on our homeland. In addition, Stillman also delves into the hidden geologic, Native American, and cultural history of Los Angeles County, and traces the paths of two men on a collision course that could only end in the modern Wild West.

The Tyranny Of Turf

TreePeople:

The Tyranny Of Turf: Los Angeles Landscapes After The Aqueduct

November 17, 2013

Bill Deverell (USC), Chris Sellers (SUNY Stony Brook), Doug Sackman (University of Puget Sound), Paula Schiffman (CSUN)

Mixed-Race Families In The West: What Is Lost And What Is Gained?

ICW conference:

Mixed-Race Families In The West: What Is Lost And What Is Gained?

November 16, 2013

An inter-disciplinary workshop exploring issues of mixed-race and multi-ethnic identity in the American West.  Drawing from the region's historic diversity, the workshop will consider the role that California and the West plays in shaping the nation's understandings of mixed-race families and individuals, and how the growing mixed-race population is shaping education, politics, public policy and the media.

Panelists:Robert Chao Romero (UCLA), Duncan Williams (USC), Marcia Dawkins (USC), Fernando de Necochea (SCE), Kurt Streeter (LA Times), Michelle Chihara (Whittier College), Jessica Kim (CSUN), Wonil Kim (La Sierra University), Keith Woodhouse (Northwestern)

Can Settler Colonial Studies Contribute To A Reappraisal Of The Mormon Settlement Of A Great Basin Kingdom?

ICW and USC's American Studies and Ethnicity Department present:

Can Settler Colonial Studies Contribute To A Reappraisal Of The Mormon Settlement Of A Great Basin Kingdom?

November 13, 2013

Lorenzo Veracini (Swinburne Institute for Social Research, Melbourne, Australia)

ICW In Conversation with Andrew Isenberg

ICW In Conversation with Andrew Isenberg

November 12, 2013

Andrew Isenberg is Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies at Temple University in Philadelphia.  He is the author ofThe Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920 (Cambridge University Press, 2000);Mining California: An Ecological History (Hill and Wang, 2005), and, most recently,Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life(Hill and Wang 2013).

Writing from California: Tales from Two Cities

PART 1: SAN FRANCISCO

OCTOBER 4-5, 2013

Two free conferences examining the literature of Alta, California, north and south — from immigration to innovation, from the desert to the coast. Poetry, fiction, non-fiction, print and digital: It's all part of how California defines itself, going back to the earliest days. Regional distinctions are important, but most essential is the idea of California as a state with a culture and aesthetic all its own. What is our sensibility? How does the literature of California tell us who we are?

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"Conference will examine state's literary identity"

by Evan Karp, SFGate

CHINATOWN at the Natural History Museum

Natural History Museum Summer Movie Series

CHINATOWN on our big outdoor wall

September 27, 2013

Co-presented by NHM and the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. Made possible with support from Metabolic Studio.

The 100th anniversary of the Los Angeles Aqueduct and NHM is marked with a special outdoor screening ofChinatown, the classic 1974 neo-noir film about the rise of Los Angeles by way of the importation of water starring John Huston, Jack Nicholson, and Faye Dunaway.

In Conversation with Peter Westwick and Peter Neushul

In Conversation withPeter Westwick and Peter Neushul

July 25, 2013

Despite, its rebellious, outlaw reputation, or perhaps because of it, surfing occupies a central place in the American – and global – imagination, embodying the tension between subversive romantic counterculture and mainstream middle-class values, between an individualistic communion with nature and a growing commitment to commerce and technology.The World in the Curloffers a fresh angle on the remarkable rise of the sport and its influence on modern life, by highlighting the forces that fueled the sport's expansion: colonialism, tourism, the military-industrial complex, globalization, capitalism, environmental engineering, and race and gender roles.

Catastrophe In California: A Reappraisal Of The St. Francis Dam Collapse

ICW and ALOUD of the Library Foundation of Los Angeles

Catastrophe In California: A Reappraisal Of The St. Francis Dam Collapse

July 23, 2013

In March of 1928, the St. Francis Dam north of Los Angeles—designed by William Mulholland as a reservoir for the California Aqueduct—collapsed. The largest engineering disaster in California history is inextricably woven into the epic history of water in Los Angeles. In this centennial year of the California Aqueduct, join us for a discussion of the St. Francis tragedy and its enduring catastrophic and cultural significance.

With author Rebecca Solnit and historians William Deverell and Donald Jackson; moderated by Patt Morrison,Los Angeles Times columnist & radio host.

Laboratory For Modernity

ICW Panel on Southern California Edison Photographic Archive

Laboratory For Modernity

July 11, 2013

Scholars and urban planners participate in a discussion focused on landscape and infrastructural changes in greater Los Angeles, ca. 1940-1990.  The evening's panel event draws on a new online photographic exhibit drawn from the Southern California Edison photographic archive at the Huntington Library.  That archive, with more than 70,000 images, offers a fascinating tour of the Los Angeles past and insight into how Los Angeles became modern.  Panelists and discussants includeGreg Hise, William Deverell, Sarah Schrank, Jan Reiff, Eric Avila, andAlan Loomis.

In Conversation with David Igler

The Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds From Captain Cook To The Gold Rush

April 24, 2013

The Pacific of the early eighteenth century was not a single ocean but a vast and varied waterscape, a place of baffling complexity, with 25,000 islands and seemingly endless continental shorelines. But with the voyages of Captain James Cook, global attention turned to the Pacific, and European and American dreams of scientific exploration, trade, and empire grew dramatically. By the time of the California gold rush, the Pacific's many shores were fully integrated into world markets-and world consciousness.  The Great Ocean draws on hundreds of documented voyages--some painstakingly recorded by participants, some only known by archeological remains or indigenous memory--as a window into the commercial, cultural, and ecological upheavals following Cook's exploits.

Paving The Past: The Los Angeles River As Flood Control Device

Trent Dames Lecture in the History of Civil Engineering

Paving The Past: The Los Angeles River As Flood Control Device

April 22, 2013

William Deverell, USC

As Los Angeles grew to metropolitan maturity with the arrival of the 20th century, one landscape feature became increasingly tagged as a problem, even a menace.

The tiny and generally unreliable Los Angeles River proved, as winter rains caused it to leap its banks and fill much of the basin with floodwater, to be a tempestuous and even dangerous obstacle to regional growth. Enter, by way of innovations in engineering and hydrology, the long-range plan to pave the river into submission. This lecture explores that history and, along the way, investigates the ways in which large-scale environmental projects such as cementing a river can inevitably reveal much about regional culture and identity.

Inexplicable Los Angeles: Ghosts And Traces, 1940-1990

Pacific Standard Time Presents

Inexplicable Los Angeles: Ghosts And Traces, 1940-1990

April 15, 2013

This panel discussion with distinguished thinkers and writers about Los Angeles ponders the astonishing Southern California Edison archive of 70,000 images devoted to the expansion of electrification in the Los Angeles basin.  This event showcases the online exhibition about landscape and form in Los Angeles, which is part of The Getty's initiativePacific Standard Time Presents, an exploration of the rise of modern architecture in Los Angeles, 1940-1990.

The discussion and slide show feature images and narratives drawn from the Edison archive at The Huntington Library.  Panelists include writerD.J. Waldie, USC University ProfessorLeo Braudy, USC history professorsBill Deverell andPhilip Ethington, independent curatorClaudia Bohn Spector, and filmmakerJosh Oreck.

Getty Edison Exhibit Launch and Blog

ICW and The Huntington Library: Getty Edison Exhibit Launch and Blog

"Better Living Through Electricity:" Los Angeles, 1940-1990

April 1, 2013

Join us for an evening's discussion and presentation of images about architecture, culture, and electricity in modern Los Angeles.  Panelists include project organizers Greg Hise and William Deverell, exhibit curators Jessica Kim and Peter Westwick, project designer Kris Mun, photographer Robbert Flick, andLos Angeles Times architectural critic Christopher Hawthorne.

VERSO LECTURE BLOG

What We Talk About When We Talk About Energy

USC History Department and ICW

What We Talk About When We Talk About Energy: History, Culture, And Energy In The Twentieth-Century United States

March 12, 2013

A panel featuring presentations by three scholars:

Chris Jones  (University of California-Berkeley) - "Landscapes of Intensification: Infrastructure and Energy Demand"

Darren Dochuk  (Washington University) - "There Will Be Oil: A Religious History of Pipeline Politics"

Jim Feldman  (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh) - "Permanence, Justice, and Nuclear Waste"

The history of energy generation and use in the United States is not only technical and geographic; it is cultural and political. This panel will examine the relationship between people and different energy regimes by discussing the Holtwood hydroelectric dam on the Susquehanna River and how infrastructure shaped patterns of use and personal behavior; the history of oil patch religion, evangelical Protestantism, and wildcat entrepreneurialism; and the ongoing search for a nuclear waste repository at the intersection of national policy, local interests, and long-term sustainability.

The Battle For The American Mind: The Culture Wars In Higher Education

USC History Department and ICW

The Battle For The American Mind: The Culture Wars In Higher Education

Andrew Hartman, Illinois State University

February 25, 2013

Whether the culture wars in higher education during the 1980s and 1990s had political consequences is debatable. But that they had enduring historical significance is inarguable. Shouting matches about academia reverberated beyond the ivory tower to lay bare a crisis of national faith, demonstrating that the culture wars did not boil down to any one specific issue or even a set of issues. Rather, the culture wars often hinged on a more epistemological question about national identity: How should Americans think?

In Conversation with Jon Wiener

November 30, 2012

In "How We Forgot the Cold War: A Historical Journey Across America,"JonWiener criss-crosses the U.S., visiting almost two dozen Cold War museums, monuments, and historical sites.  What he finds is remarkable: Despite the 1991 appropriation of $10 million to create a program that would help future generations appreciate the significance of the Cold War, the monuments weren't built, the historic sites have few visitors, and many of the museums have shifted focus to other topics.  The problem: the public has not embraced the conservatives' view that "Ronald Reagan won the Cold War."  Instead, public response to that message has ranged from apathy, to skepticism, to resistance.

Jon Wiener is professor of history at UC Irvine and a contributing editor ofThe Nation magazine.

In Conversation with Frederick Hoxie

November 5, 2012

While American Indian political activists have long been dismissed as "assimilated" people cut off from the mainstream of tribal life, this new monograph demonstrates that Indian political activism is older than the United States and that the activists' political agenda emerged from the struggles of dozens of individuals working in a variety of cultural settings. Frederick Hoxie's newest book,THIS INDIAN COUNTRY , demonstrates that Native activists were the principal authors of the ideas opened a space for Native people, both in the law and in American society. Hoxie is Swanlund Professor of History, Law and American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign.

PAST TENSE at the Huntington Library

2012-2013 Seminar Schedule

Writing The Stagecoach Nation: Thinking Through Locality, Communication And The Historical Novel In Nineteenth-Century Britain

April 19, 2013

Ruth Livesey (University of London and Huntington Short-Term Fellow)

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"The Internal Enemy:" Narrating Slavery In Post-Revolutionary Virginia

March 8, 2013

Alan Taylor(UC Davis and Huntington Long-Term Fellow)

Understanding Inner Lives From Lincoln To John Lennon

February 1, 2013

Joshua Wolf Shenk (author and Huntington Long-Term Fellow)

Stop Saving The Planet, Already!: Rachel Carson, History, And The Future Of Environmentalism

December 14, 2012

Jenny Price (independent scholar and L.A. Urban Ranger)

Reducing The Scale Of Historical Observation: Micro-History, Alltagsgeschichte, Local History

October 19, 2012

Steve Hindle (W.M. Keck Foundation Director of Research, Huntington Library)

The Art Of The Profile: Telling China's Story, One Life At A Time

September 28, 2012

Jeff Wasserstrom (UC Irvine and Chinese Characters co-editor),Angilee Shah (journalist and Chinese Characters co-editor),James Carter (St. Joseph's University and Chinese Characters contributor)

Things I'd Like To Know About Los Angeles

September 8, 2012

ICW Workshop and Discussion
THINGS I'D LIKE TO KNOW ABOUT LOS ANGELES

Drawn in part from A Companion to Los Angeles, edited by William Deverell and Greg Hise (Blackwell-Wiley, 2010)

Participants include: Stephen Aron, Eric Avila, Peter Coveney, William Deverell, John Mack Faragher, Anthea Hartig, Christopher Hawthorne, Steve Hindle, Greg Hise, Josh Kun, Ruben Martinez, Jim Newton, Michelle Nickerson, Angela Oh, Manuel Pastor, Jane Pisano, George Sanchez, Josh Sides, Raphael Sonenshein, Susan Straight, Dell Upton

VERSO LECTURE BLOG

In Conversation with Michelle Nickerson

September 7, 2012

Michelle Nickerson is Assistant Professor of History at Loyola University, Chicago where she teaches U.S. women's, gender, and urban history. Nickerson recently published MOTHERS OF CONSERVATISM: WOMEN AND THE POSTWAR RIGHT, which documents the grassroots activism of conservative women in Cold War Los Angeles and explores the impact of that activism on the emerging American right. This work has led to her interest in regional and metropolitan political-economic development, which she examines in a volume essays, co-edited with historian Darren Dochuk called SUNBELT RISING: THE POLITICS OF PLACE, SPACE, AND REGION published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2011.

The Elemental West: Reflections On Moving Water

Kathleen Dean Moore and Dean Childs in conversation with William Deverell

June 6, 2012

ALOUD at Los Angeles Public Library

Program 2 of 4: The Elemental West: Fire, Water, Air, Earth

Two celebrated writers deeply influenced by the riparian and other landscapes of the American West will read from their work and explore how storytelling – in the tradition of Thoreau and Emerson – can give voice to natural resources.

In Conversation with Sam Watters

July 27, 2012

When Progressives took on the elevation of American culture and taste after the perceived vulgarities of the Gilded Age, women participated through the beautification of house and garden. In 1913, wives of the period's one percenters corralled family and friends to found and fund the national Garden Club of America. Determined to promote by example horticultural standards and professional landscape design, members commissioned photo-journalist Frances Benjamin Johnston to document for publication and illustrated lectures gardening successes East and West.

In Conversation with Wade Graham

June 14, 2012

Wade Graham explores what four hundred years of garden making in America reveal about our values, politics, and dreams, and how our evolving relationship with Nature in our gardens forms a unique window onto the continuing process of fashioning a national identity in his newly-published book, AMERICAN EDEN: FROM MONTICELLO TO CENTRAL PARK TO OUR BACKYARDS, WHAT OUR GARDENS TELL US ABOUT WHO WE ARE (HarperCollins 2011). This social history of gardens in America is an expansive and penetrating exploration of how our evolving relationships with our gardens and landscapes have reflected our national identity over the course of time.

In Conversation with Miroslava Chávez-García

June 1, 2012

Miroslava Chávez-García is Chair and associate professor in the Chicana/o Studies Department at the University of California at Davis. She received her doctorate in History from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1998 and is the author of NEGOTIATING CONQUEST: GENDER AND POWER IN CALIFORNIA, 1770s to 1880s (University of Arizona Press, 2004) as well as articles on gender, patriarchy, and the law in nineteenth century California. Her most recent book, STATES OF DELINQUENCY: RACE AND SCIENCE IN THE MAKING OF CALIFORNIA'S JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM (University of California Press, 2012) uses one of the harshest states—California—as a case study for examining racism in the treatment of incarcerated young people of color. Using rich new untapped archives, Delinquency is the first book to explore the experiences of young Mexican Americans, African Americans, and ethnic Euro-Americans in California correctional facilities including Whittier State School for Boys and the Preston School of Industry.

This Great And Crowded City: Woody Guthrie's Los Angeles

ICW and USC Visions and Voices

This Great And Crowded City: Woody Guthrie's Los Angeles

April 14, 2012

In conjunction with the Visions and Voices program at USC and the GRAMMY Museum of Los Angeles, ICW is proud to present a major conference honoring the life, legacy, and centenary of Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie. The conference took place on April 14th, 2012, at Bovard Auditorium on the USC campus. Speakers and musicians will highlight Guthrie's music and rise to fame in Depression-era Los Angeles. Individual presentations discuss such topics as Guthrie's influences, the power of radio in 1930s Los Angeles, Guthrie's ties to John Steinbeck and the Joads, as well as the contemporary resonance of Guthrie in folk music and folk migration across borders and boundaries in North America. The pinnacle of the Los Angeles celebration took place on Saturday evening, April 14, with the second installment of This Land Is Your Land ~ The Woody Guthrie Centennial Celebration Concert at Club Nokia at L.A. LIVE in downtown Los Angeles. Performing classic Guthrie songs will be Jackson Browne, David Crosby & Graham Nash, Dawes, John Doe, Richie Furay, Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion, Kris Kristofferson, Tom Morello, Joel Rafael, Rob Wasserman and More.

Verso Lecture Blog

In Conversation with Keith Woodhouse

April 19, 2012

Keith Woodhouse is a postdoctoral fellow with the University of Southern California and the Huntington Library Institute on California and the West. He has taught at several campuses in the University of Wisconsin system, as well as at U.S.C. His research focuses on the politics, ethics, and philosophy of radical environmentalism in the late-twentieth-century United States. In his conversation with Bill Deverell, he will discuss the debate over "ecoterrorism" from the 1980s to the present.

Sunbelt Rising: The California Origins of the Modern Evangelical Right

ICW and the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies present:

Sunbelt Rising: The California Origins of the Modern Evangelical Right

March 1, 2012

Darren Dochuk, Purdue University

Darren Dochuk—author of FROM BIBLE BELT TO SUNBELT: PLAIN-FOLK RELIGION, GRASSROOTS POLITICS, AND THE RISE OF EVANGELICAL CONSERVATISM—will highlight some of the key (and until now, relatively hidden) political dimensions of evangelical conservatism as they emerged in Southern California in the decades following World War II. Connecting current events to deep-rooted historical trends, Dochuk will discuss Southern California evangelicalism's ongoing influence on our politics as well as some of the innovative and fascinating ways that scholars, journalists and students can uncover this component of American culture in its fullest dimensions.

Past Tense at The Huntington: 2011-12 seminar series

PAST TENSE WORKSHOP: CREATIVELY WRITING A HUNTINGTON OBJECT
APRIL 27, 2012
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WRITING ABOUT VIOLENCE
Susan Juster, University of Michigan
MARCH 23, 2012

WRITING THE PERSONAL AND HISTORICAL IN THE SOUTHWEST BORDERLANDS
David Adams, Cleveland State
FEBRUARY 17, 2012

WHAT IS A BOOK? AND HOW DO WE WRITE ABOUT IT?
Peter Stallybrass, University of Pennsylvania
JANUARY 20, 2012

WRITING AND NEW MEDIA panel discussion
Jana Remy, Chapman and UCI; Elizabeth Losh, UCSD; Douglas Dechow & Anna Leahy, Chapman
NOVEMBER 18, 2011

EARLY MODERN WRITING ABOUT MUSIC
Carla Zecher, Newberry Library
DECEMBER 9, 2011

The Ray Allen Billington Lecture in the History of the American West

A Hole in the Dream: The Ghost Dance and the Crisis of Gilded Age America

November 8, 2011

The Huntington

The tragic climax of the Ghost Dance at Wounded Knee, South Dakota in 1890 has come to symbolize the end of the frontier, but it was more than that.  According to Louis Warren, professor of history at UC Davis, the visions that gave birth to the movement and the complicated American response to its signaled the start of the twentieth century and its pervasive anxieties about environmental decay and racial animosity.

AxS Festival 2011: Fire and Water

FIRE SEASON

October 12, 2011

William Deverell and Philip Connors

 FIRE SEASON is a conversation between William Deverell, Professor of History and Director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, and Philip Connors, acclaimed author and ardent wilderness look-out in the American Northwest.

 Deverell and Connors discuss how FIRE and WATER have shaped the region - its politics, its economy and the lives of all of us living in the region, in fire zones and flood plains.

Art Along the Hyphen: The Mexican-American Generation

George Sanchez

October 9, 2011

BECOMING MEXICAN AMERICAN AND BEYOND

Professor George Sanchez's 1993 study, BECOMING MEXICAN AMERICAN: ETHNICITY, CULTURE, AND IDENTITY IN CHICANO LOS ANGELES, 1900-1945, is considered one of the most influential works on the formation of Latino ethnic identity and culture in pre-World War II Los Angeles.  This symposium brings Professor Sanchez, scholars, educators, and others together for an in-depth exploration and discussion of Latino ethnic identity in the U.S., current research in the field, and the ongoing impact of Sanchez's important book.

L.A. vs. San Francisco: Who Runs California?

October 3, 2011

Zocalo Public Square series

L.A. VS. SAN FRANCISCO: WHO RUNS CALIFORNIA?

For most of the past half-century, Southern Californians have dominated the highest state offices, including the state governorship.  But in recent years, a young class of talented politicians, including Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Kamala Harris, has risen in San Francisco, while L.A.'s balkanized politics has produced fewer politicians with statewide aim. Compounding the trouble for Southern Californians, San Francisco voters are some of the most engaged in the state - 59 percent of them voted in the November 2010 general election, compared to 43 percent of Angelenos. Is this part of a natural cycle that will soon swing L.A.'s way once again, or symbolic of a permanent shift?

Creator and publisher of LA Observed Kevin Roderick; founding editor of Buzz Magazine Allan Mayer; historical geographer and author Gray Brechin; and University of Washington historian Margaret O'Mara visit Zocalo to discuss the Los Angeles-San Francisco rivalry. moderated by Conan Nolan.

In Conversation with Greg Fischer

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Greg Fischer, Los Angeles Planning and Transportation deputy for Council District 9 (downtown) and a member of ICW's Los Angeles Regional History Planning Group, has lectured to many groups about why Los Angeles exists and how it came to dominate Southern California. In his conversation with Bill Deverell, Fischer will share his research on Los Angeles visionary Arthur Letts, one of the most prominent men in L.A. from the mid-1890's to the early 1920's.

In Conversation with Anne Hyde

August 5, 2011

EMPIRES, NATIONS, AND FAMILIES: A HISTORY OF THE NORTH AMERICAN WEST, 1800-1860 is part of a five-volume series published by the University of Nebraska Press that reassesses the entire field of Western history.

The book makes clear that the Louisiana Purchase did not involve virgin wilderness discovered by virtuous Anglo entrepreneurs. Rather, the United States was a newcomer in a place already complicated by vying empires.

The period covered in Hyde's book spans the fur trade, Mexican War, gold rushes, and the Overland Trail, usually very male-dominated fields of study. Hyde has taken a different approach, and, using letters and business records, documented the broad family associations that crossed national and ethnic boundaries.  According to Hyde, "These folks turned out to be almost entirely people of great wealth and status who loved and married across racial and cultural lines. It turns out that the West of that period is really a mixed race world that made perfect cultural and economic sense until national ideas made that cultural choice impossible in the 1850s."

Fire Monks: Wildfires in California

July 19, 2011

Fire Monks: Wildfires in California

ALOUD at Los Angeles Public Library

Program 1 of 4: The Elemental West: Fire, Water, Air, Earth

In Conversation with Bill Deverell, Colleen Morton Busch and Stephen H. Pyne

When a massive wildfire blazed across California in June 2008, five monks risked their lives to save Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. Pyne - wildfire expert and the country's preeminent fire historian - and Busch - author and longtime Zen student - discuss the ways of wildfires in the West and what it means to meet a crisis with full presence of mind.

VERSO LECTURE BLOG

In Conversation with Eric John Abrahamson

July 12, 2011

From the New Deal forward, the promotion of homeownership became a critical component of the regulated and managed economy. Seizing opportunities created by politicians eager to support this new American dream, Howard F. Ahmanson built an empire in Los Angeles that included the largest savings and loan in the nation and made him one of the richest men in America.  He helped promote Southern California's dramatic growth and encouraged the city's cultural transformation.  For policymakers, scholars and general readers struggling to understand the mortgage-led financial crisis of the 21st century, Ahmanson's life and times offer insights into the strengths and weaknesses of the managed economy and the dream of widespread homeownership.

Railroaded: A Conversation with Richard White And Bill Deverell

Flyer: Railroaded

July 9, 2011

To mark the publication of historian Richard White's new book (W.W. Norton, 2011), the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West hosted a workshop featuring commentary from four distinguished scholars and a response from the author. Participants include: Daniel Carpenter, Naomi Lamoreaux, Eric Rauchway, Steve Usselman, and Richard White.

Western History Dissertation Workshop

June 11, 2011

The Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, the Research Division of The Huntington Library, The Hemispheric Institute of the Americas at the University of California, Davis,  The Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders at Yale University, the Institute for the Study of the North American West at the Autry National Center, and the Bill Lane Center for the Study of the North American West at Stanford University invite applications for the sixth annual "Western History Dissertation Workshop."

Huntington Blog posting

In Conversation with Lawrence Culver

May 12, 2011

Author of THE FRONTIER OF LEISURE: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND THE SHAPING OF MODERN AMERICA.

Southern California has long been promoted as the playground of the world, the home of resort-style living, backyard swimming pools, and year-round suntans. Tracing the history of Southern California from the late nineteenth century through the late twentieth century,The Frontier of Leisurereveals how this region did much more than just create lavish resorts like Santa Catalina Island and Palm Springs--it literally remade American attitudes towards leisure. Lawrence Culver shows how this "culture of leisure" gradually took hold with an increasingly broad group of Americans, and ultimately manifested itself in suburban developments throughout the Sunbelt and across the United States. This history connects Southern Californian recreation and leisure to larger historical themes, including regional development, architecture and urban planning, labor and race relations, Indian policy, politics, suburbanization, and changing perceptions of nature.

In Conversation with Gabrielle Burton

May 5, 2011

We know from history that Tamsen Donner, the pioneer heroine of the 1846 Donner Party, kept a journal, but it was never found.  Combining years of historical research with insight and empathy, Burton imaginatively creates Tamsen's lost journal, particularly during the four months she was starving and trapped in the mountains with her five daughters and dying husband.   Anchored in Tamsen Donner's compelling story of adventure, love, and motherhood, Burton delves into larger questions about how people confront adversity: Why do some maintain hope, while others give up?  At its heart, IMPATIENT WITH DESIRE: THE LOST JOURNAL OF TAMSEN DONNERis a story of hope, heroism, and the enduring human spirit.

In Conversation with Erika Esau

March 30, 2011

Fulbright Scholar and art historian Erika Esau has just published IMAGES OF THE PACIFIC RIM: AUSTRALIA AND CALIFORNIA, 1850-1935(Power Publications) on the aesthetic connections between Australia and the American West. From gold rush photography to Spanish style houses, the absorption of images into the everyday life of these "new" Western societies constructed distinctive cultural iconographies and helped to create a sense of place based upon a shared ocean and climate. Esau works presently as librarian at LACMA's Rifkind Center of German Expressionist Studies.

Autry Western History Workshop 2010-2011

EXTRACTING GRAVITY'S CAPITAL: CREATING THE COMSTOCK'S INDUSTRIAL WATERSHED

Robert Chester, University of the Pacific

APRIL 12, 2011

People, Peoples, and Politics in Borderlands: Blood Talk in New Mexico

Brian Delay, UC Berkeley

Joint session with ICW Borderlands Group

MARCH 8, 2011

Black Desert Marino Farm Warehouse Knowledge

Source: https://dornsife.usc.edu/icw/past-events/

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