The Historical Society of Southern California’s Hidden Treasures, Including an Angeleno’s Civil War Diary and Letter

Paul R. Spitzzeri is Assistant Director at the Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum in City of Industry, California, where he has worked since 1988. He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees in history from California State University, Fullerton, and he is the author of The Workman and Temple Families of Southern California (2008) and articles and essays on regional and state history in such publications as Law in the Western United States, Icons of the American West, Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration in the American West, Journal of the West, California History, and Southern California Quarterly. A member of the Board of Directors of the Historical Society of Southern California since 2008, he currently serves as second vice-president.