...Yvette J. Saavedra Engaging the gendered elements of Californio ranchero culture, this article shows how Californio liberalism influenced sociocultural determinations of respectable womanhood and propriety in early nineteenth-century Los Angeles. By examining the testimonios and court cases...

... communities of San Francisco, Sacramento, and Los Angeles. Emancipation Day celebrations illustrate how black Californians in the state’s largest African American communities used ritualized celebration and public dialogue to construct their new civic identities as free black men and women. Emancipation Day...

...Elwing Sương Gonzalez Starting in 1975, Los Angeles attracted what would become, within a decade, the largest concentration of resettled Vietnamese refugees in the United States. A combination of legacies led to the concentration of Vietnamese in Los Angeles: decades of U.S. involvement in Vietnam...

...Maxwell Johnson In the 1920s and early 1930s, Robert P. Shuler, head of Trinity Methodist Church, rose to fame in Los Angeles as a tireless evangelical muckraker. Shuler, via Bob Shuler’s Magazine and his popular radio station KGEF, charged that many powerful Angelenos were involved in various vice...

... installations, World War I, Public Health Service, California State Board of Health, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Oakland T HE 1918 1920 INFLUENZA PANDEMIC remains the deadliest influenza pandemic in re- corded history. It began in themidst ofWorldWar I (1914 1918), asmillions of com- batants fought...

...Jorge N. Leal This essay examines how maps created by Latina/o youth created “ephemeral forums,” improvised ad hoc spaces that served as music venues in 1990s South Los Angeles. The maps included on “Rock en Español ” event flyers demonstrate how Latinx youth envisioned Los Angeles and proclaimed...

... and misrepresentation. The purpose of this article is to shed light on that Nazi past, based mainly on documents from the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles, Community Relations Committee Collection, and based as well on film footage of the League's 1936 German Day celebration at the park. © 2018...

...=reprints . 2017 Officer Involved Shootings Crime Los Angeles MAP ROOM STEVE GRAVES The ethnicity of victims in officer-involved shootings (OIS) has generated intense media scrutiny in the last few years. Racial bias is a common charge leveled against law enforcement officers and ad- ministrative...

...Simon J. Judkins During the late 1930s Los Angeles' public sphere was radically transformed through the actions of a little known citizens' organization which created and deployed a sophisticated surveillance apparatus to pursue reform of the city government. That group—CIVIC—labored to convince...

...Laura Dominguez The evolution and construction of cultural identity and memory in unincorporated East Los Angeles, both in scholarship and the popular imagination, establishes a critical framework for understanding changing relationships between communities of color and the broader historic...

...Eric Stewart Beginning in the 1880s, transportation innovations allowed the City of Los Angeles to expand past natural barriers and develop the vast land beyond the city's core. The cable car and the electric trolley aided the expression of a Victorian residential ideal and urban aesthetic imported...

...Clay Stalls The Centinela Land Company of Daniel Freeman and Francis Pliny Fisk Temple and other prominent Los Angeles businessmen demonstrates the practices and philosophy of land speculation that fueled the city's growth during the Gilded Age. Furthermore, the company's history also demonstrates...

...Shelly Kale In 1932–33, the German geologist and urban geographer Anton Wagner conducted a “geographical investigation” of Los Angeles. Wagner had become interested in Los Angeles in 1925–26, when a visit provided a firsthand view of the city’s rapid development following World War I. Now...