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California History
A quarterly historical journal that publishes scholarly articles dedicated to the study and promotion of all aspects of California and Western history, from pre-Columbian to modern times.
Articles from Vol. 80, No. 1, Spring
"Here the Society Is United"
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"Respectable" Anglos and Intercultural Marriage in Pre-Gold Rush California In the dramatic swings of early California history. from the fantasy heritage of Spanish Arcadia to the fantasy heritage of Aztlan in the American Southwest, intercultural...
"Inspired and Possessed"
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SAN FRANCISCO WOMEN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS San Francisco was an entrepreneur's dream in the decades after the Gold Rush. [1] Many migrants discovered that if they could not make a fortune panning gold in the Sierra Nevada foothills they might not...
Larger Than Texas
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Proposals to Combine California and Mormon Deseret as One State Many who are familiar with the history of the far western United States know of the seemingly grandiose attempt of Brigham Young and his Mormon associates in the mid-nineteenth century...
The Compatibility of Light and Land
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Many Californians know that in southern California there is an almost unbearable lightness of being. Some explain it as flakiness or superficiality; they say that in southern California--especially in Los Angeles--there is no substance, there is only...
"To Have and to Hold"
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THE SAN PEDRO WOMAN'S CLUB AND THE UNION OF Two CITIEs, 1906-1909 "The people of San Pedro, by annexing to Los Angeles, would abandon all hope of ever building a city here," intoned Fanny Hogaboom of the San Pedro Woman's Club in 1906. [1] The...
