California History

Papers
(The median citation count of California History is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Review: Soundies and the Changing Image of Black Americans on Screen: One Dime at a Time, by Susan Delson31
The California Indian Scalp Bounty Myth2
Review: Salinas: A History of Race and Resilience in an Agricultural City, by Carol Lynn McKibben1
In the Shadow of the Spanish Fantasy Heritage1
Review: Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement, by Jennifer L. Holland1
Born-Again Boogie0
Review: A Coalition of Lineages: The Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians, by Duane Champagne and Carole Goldberg0
Plague at the Golden Gate: Prejudice Spread Faster Than the Pandemic, PBS, an American Experience film (season 34, episode 4)0
Letter from Special Guest Editors0
Review: Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance, by Mia Bay0
Review: Ranching and the American West: A History in Documents, by Susan Nance0
Retracing The Oregon Trail0
Review: We Are Not Animals: Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California, by Martin Rizzo-Martinez0
Oakland Tough0
Flexible Positions0
Review: Building Downtown Los Angeles: The Politics of Race and Place in Urban America, by Leland T. Saito0
Review: Katrina: A History, 1915–2015, by Andy Horowitz0
Review: The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants, by Adam Goodman0
Review: Hella Town: Oakland’s History of Development and Disruption, by Mitchell Schwarzer0
Review: Higher Education for All: Racial Inequality, Cold War Liberalism, and the California Master Plan, by Andrew Stone Higgins0
Review: Cast Out of Eden: The Untold Story of John Muir, Indigenous Peoples, and the American Wilderness, by Robert Aquinas McNally0
Review: A Vulnerable System: The History of Information Security in the Computer Age, by Andrew J. Stewart0
Review: California, A Slave State, by Jean Pfaelzer0
Review: Silent Serial Sensations: The Wharton Brothers and the Magic of Early Cinema, by Barbara Tepa Lupack0
Review: Evolution of a Movement: Four Decades of California Environmental Justice Activism, by Tracy E. Perkins0
Review: From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920–1969, by Alicia Gutierrez-Romine0
Review: California: An American History, by John Mack Faragher0
Review: The Mobilized American West, 1940–2000, by John M. Findlay0
Anarcho-Motherhood, Border Controls, and Resistance in the Greater U.S.–Mexico Borderlands0
Review: Boyle Heights: How a Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American Democracy, by George J. Sánchez0
Review: The $16 Taco: Contested Geographies of Food, Ethnicity, and Gentrification, by Pascale Joassart-Marcelli0
Review: The Deportation Express: A History of America through Forced Removal, by Ethan Blue0
Review: Havoc and Reform: Workplace Disasters in Modern America, by James P. Kraft0
Letter from the Editor0
Review: Paving the Way: The First American Women Law Professors, by Herma Hill Kay0
Review: A Connected Metropolis: Los Angeles Elites and the Making of a Modern City, 1890–1965, by Maxwell Johnson0
Geeking and Freaking0
Review: Rails East to Ogden: Utah’s Transcontinental Railroad Story, by Michael R. Polk and Christopher W. Merritt0
Review: Resisting Change in Suburbia: Asian Immigrants and Frontier Nostalgia in L.A., by James Zarsadiaz0
Review: From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information Age, by Xaq Frohlich0
Review: Teaching Black History to White People, by Leonard N. Moore0
Review: Imposing Order without Law: American Expansion to the Eastern Sierra, 1850–1865, by Michael J. Makley0
Respecting the Ancestors0
Review: Canyon, Mountain, Cloud: Absence and Longing in American Parks, by Tyra A. Olstad0
New Resources for California Scholars0
Review: The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History, by Ned Blackhawk0
Letter from the Editor0
Review: Assimilation, Resilience, and Survival: A History of the Stewart Indian School, 1890–2020, by Samantha M. Williams0
Public History: Podcast, Documentary, Digital Resources0
Fire and Lies: Did the Berkeley Fire of 1923 Contribute to the Tunnel Fire of 1991?0
Announcing the 2022 Richard J. Orsi “Best Article” Prize0
Review: The Settler Sea: California’s Salton Sea and the Consequences of Colonialism, by Traci Brynne Voyles0
Review: Backcountry Ghosts: California Homesteaders and the Making of a Dubious Dream, by Josh Sides0
Review: Koreatown, Los Angeles: Immigration, Race, and the “American Dream”, by Shelley Sang-Hee Lee0
“Forces of Nature”0
“Nothing Less Than Justice”0
Review: The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America, by Greg Grandin0
Review: Dreams of Flight: The Great Escape in American Film Culture, by Dana Polan0
Disease in History0
Review: The Archaeology of Refuge and Recourse: Coast Miwok Resilience and Indigenous Hinterlands in Colonial California, by Tsim D. Schneider0
Review: Dressed for Freedom: The Fashionable Politics of American Feminism, by Einav Rabinovitch-Fox0
Voices from La Frontera0
Restarting at Midlife0
Letter from the Editor0
Review: California Gold: Sidney Robertson and the WPA California Folk Music Project, by Catherine Hiebert Kerst0
Review: Latina Lives, Latina Narratives: Influential Essays by Vicki L. Ruiz, edited by Miroslava Chávez-García0
Review: A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community, by Natalia Molina0
California Unbound0
Response to Paul Spickard and Kendall Lovely, “Respecting the Ancestors: On Repatriating American Indian Remains,” California History 100, no. 4 (Winter 2023)0
Review: Ridgelands! The Closing of a Frontier: The History of Open Space from the Hayward Shorelands to Pleasanton Ridge, 1960–2020, by Sherman Lewis0
Review: At Home in the World: California Women and the Postwar Environmental Movement, by Kathleen A. Cairns0
Review: The Scandal of Cal: Land Grabs, White Supremacy, and Miseducation at UC Berkeley, by Tony Platt0
San Francisco’s Magnificent Department Stores0
Review: The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy and the Path to a Shared American Future, by Robert P. Jones0
Watts Teach-In: “Restorative Histories” through Activist-Led Scholarship0
Review: Atomic Doctors: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age, by James L. Nolan, Jr.0
Review: Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue: A Life’s Work Fighting for a More Perfect Union, by Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Amanda L. Tyler0
Review: Road Trip to Nowhere: Hollywood Encounters the Counterculture, by Jon Lewis0
Review: Strong Hearts and Healing Hands: Southern California Indians and Field Nurses, 1920–1950, by Clifford E. Trafzer0
When San Francisco Met Tennessee: Civil War Memory, Racial Violence, and the Costs of Sectional Reconciliation during the Spanish-American War0
Review: Adolph Sutro: King of the Comstock Lode and Mayor of San Francisco, by William R. Huber0
Brushes with History0
Review: Facing the Mountain: An Inspiring Story of Japanese American Patriots in World War II, by Daniel James Brown0
Review: Borders of Violence and Justice: Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Law Enforcement in the Southwest, 1835–1935, by Brian D. Behnken0
Review: Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion, by Elliott West0
Letter from the Editor0
Review: Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy, by Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano0
The Militant Young Minister0
Review: For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug, by Nathan Vardi0
Vernacular Houses in Nineteenth-Century California0
“A Triumph for Women” in Progressive Era Los Angeles: Socialist-Feminism, Coalition Building, and Independent Partisanship in the Political Career of Councilwoman Estelle Lawton Lindsey0
Review: Votes for College Women: Alumni, Students, and the Woman Suffrage Campaign, by Kelly L. Marino0
Review: Mexican Americans with Moxie: A Transgenerational History of El Movimiento Chicano in Ventura County, California, 1945–1975, by Frank P. Barajas0
Review: The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City, by Destin Jenkins0
Hallucinations of the Spanish Imaginary and the Idealized Hotel California0
Bringing Home the News: Reading Black Family History, the Second World War, and Change in Marin City0
Review: West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire, by Kevin Waite0
Review: The Grapes of Conquest: Race, Labor, and the Industrialization of California Wine, 1769–1920, by Julia Ornelas-Higdon0
Cosmic California0
Review: Bloody Bay: Grassroots Policing in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco, by Darren A. Raspa0
Review: Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands, by Kelly Lytle Hernández0
Review: Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology, by Chris Miller0
Review: The Shadow of El Centro: A History of Migrant Incarceration and Solidarity, by Jessica Ordaz0
Review: The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years, by Ulbe Bosma0
Bloody Island Investigation0
Review: Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites during the Jim Crow Era, by Alison Rose Jefferson0
Review: American by Birth: Wong Kim Ark and the Battle for Citizenship, by Carol Nackenoff and Julie Novkov0
Review: Manzanar Mosaic: Essays and Oral Histories on America’s First World War II Japanese American Concentration Camp, by Arthur A. Hansen0
When Do You Stop Arriving? The Project “We Are Not Strangers Here: African American Histories in Rural California”0
Review: Dancing Down the Barricades: Sammy Davis Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era, A Cultural History, by Matthew Frye Jacobson0
The Bronze Buckaroo0
Review: Chinatown Film Culture: The Appearance of Cinema in San Francisco’s Chinese Neighborhood, by Kim K. Fahlstedt0
Review: Hollywood: The Oral History, by Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson0
“The Walls Have Fallen”0
Review: Elaine Black Yoneda: Jewish Immigration, Labor Activism, and Japanese American Exclusion and Incarceration, by Rachel Schreiber0
“The Selling of American Girls”0
Review: Razabilly: Transforming Sights, Sounds, and History in the Los Angeles Latina/o Rockabilly Scene, by Nicholas F. Centino0
Review: Charmian Kittredge London: Trailblazer, Author, Adventurer, by Iris Jamahl Dunkle0
The U.S. Border Patrol0
Fire and Lies: Did the Berkeley Fire of 1923 Contribute to the Tunnel Fire of 1991?0
Speaking for Themselves0
Alfred Robinson and Ferdinand Deppe0
Review: The War on Wine: Prohibition, Neoprohibition, and American Culture, by Victor W. Geraci0
Review: Economic Poisoning: Industrial Waste and the Chemicalization of American Agriculture, by Adam M. Romero0
Review: The Nuclear Club: How America and the World Policed the Atom from Hiroshima to Vietnam, by Jonathan R. Hunt0
Letter from the Editor0
Review: Guarding the Golden Gate: A History of the U.S. Quarantine Station in San Francisco Bay, by J. Gordon Frierson, MD0
Review: Richard Nixon: California’s Native Son, by Paul Carter0
Review: Restoring Nature: The Evolution of Channel Islands National Park, by Larry M. Dilsaver and Timothy J. Babalis0
Review: Transborder Los Angeles: An Unknown Transpacific History of Japanese-Mexican Relations, by Yu Tokunaga0
Stoned0
Review: The Most Beautiful Place on Earth: Wallace Stegner in California, by Matthew D. Stewart0
Letter from the Editor0
Digital Testimonios and Reimagining Public History0
Place Matters0
Review: All the Water the Law Allows: Las Vegas and Colorado River Politics, by Christian S. Harrison0
Review: Who Killed Jane Stanford? A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits, and the Birth of a University, by Richard White0
Review: Gendered Citizenship: The Original Conflict over the Equal Rights Amendment, 1920–1963, by Rebecca DeWolf0
The Work of Citrus0
Review: Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo: Life in Spanish, Mexican, and American California, by Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz0
Review: Making Minimum Wage: Elsie Parrish versus the West Coast Hotel Company, by Helen J. Knowles0
Review: Lincoln and California: The President, the War, and the Golden State, by Brian McGinty0
“For Us, There Are No More Back Doors”0
Response to Paul Spickard and Kendall Lovely, “Respecting the Ancestors: On Repatriating American Indian Remains,” California History 100, no. 4 (Winter 2023)0
Letter from the Editor0
The Nature of Her Business0
Review: Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, by Joseph Plaster0
Transforming Community Space During World War II0
Review: Vineyards and Vaqueros: Indian Labor and the Economic Expansion of Southern California, 1771–1877, by George Harwood Phillips0
Paul Spickard Replies0
Review: The Accidental Ecosystem: People and Wildlife in American Cities, by Peter S. Alagona0
Announcing the 2023 Richard J. Orsi “Best Article” Prize0
The Decline of the Northern California Indian Association0
Envisioning an Immigrant Invasion0
Review: Alliance Rises in the West: Labor, Race, and Solidarity in Industrial California, by Charlotte K. Sunseri0
Review: Italian Immigration in the American West, 1870–1940, by Kenneth Scambray0
Review: Rebel Imaginaries: Labor, Culture, and Politics in Depression-Era California, by Elizabeth E. Sine0
Letter from the Editor0
Review: Redeem All: How Digital Life Is Changing Evangelical Culture, by Corrina Laughlin0
Winner of the 2021 Richard J. Orsi Prize0
Review: Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America, by Pekka Hämäläinen0
Celebrating 100 Years of California History0
Review: Laboratory of Deficiency: Sterilization and Confinement in California, 1900–1950s, by Natalie Lira0
“Turn Back the Noisy Wheels of Progress”0
S. An-Sky’s The Dybbuk and the Process of Jewish American Identity in 1920s San Francisco0
Review: A People’s History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport, by Eric Porter0
Review: Beyond Blue Skies: The Rocket Plane Programs That Led to the Space Age, by Chris Petty0
Review: Mass Murder in California’s Empty Quarter: A Tale of Tribal Treachery at the Cedarville Rancheria, by Ray A. March0
Abortion and the Law in California0
Biden’s CHIPS and Science Act in Historical Perspective0
Review: The Coveted Westside: How the Black Homeowners’ Rights Movement Shaped Modern Los Angeles, by Jennifer Mandel0
Review: Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World, by Malcolm Harris0
Review: In Pursuit of Utopia: Los Angeles in the Great Depression, by Errol Wayne Stevens0
Review: Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand, by John Markoff0
Review: A Field Guide to White Supremacy, edited by Kathleen Belew and Ramón A. Gutiérrez0
The Nipomo Dunes and Diablo Canyon0
Review: J. Stitt Wilson: Socialist, Christian, Mayor of Berkeley, by Stephen E. Barton0
In Memoriam0
Review: Climate Stewardship: Taking Collective Action to Protect California, by Adina Merenlender with Brendan Buhler0
A Letter from the American Historical Association to California’s Placentia–Yorba Linda Unified School District0
Electric Eyes0
“Flipping the Script”0
Review: Enemies among Us: The Relocation, Internment, and Repatriation of German, Italian, and Japanese Americans during the Second World War, by John E. Schmitz0
A Circus in Tulare0
Review: The Anatomy of Fake News: A Critical News Literacy Education, by Nolan Higdon0
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