OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Review: Vineyards and Vaqueros: Indian Labor and the Economic Expansion of Southern California, 1771–1877, by George Harwood Phillips	31
Review: The Scandal of Cal: Land Grabs, White Supremacy, and Miseducation at UC Berkeley, by Tony Platt	2
The Nipomo Dunes and Diablo Canyon	1
Review: Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue: A Life’s Work Fighting for a More Perfect Union, by Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Amanda L. Tyler	1
Review: Backcountry Ghosts: California Homesteaders and the Making of a Dubious Dream, by Josh Sides	1
Cosmic California	0
Review: Higher Education for All: Racial Inequality, Cold War Liberalism, and the California Master Plan, by Andrew Stone Higgins	0
Review: Resisting Change in Suburbia: Asian Immigrants and Frontier Nostalgia in L.A., by James Zarsadiaz	0
Oakland Tough	0
“The Selling of American Girls”	0
Bloody Island Investigation	0
The California Indian Scalp Bounty Myth	0
Review: Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement, by Jennifer L. Holland	0
Response to Paul Spickard and Kendall Lovely, “Respecting the Ancestors: On Repatriating American Indian Remains,” California History 100, no. 4 (Winter 2023)	0
Transforming Community Space During World War II	0
A Circus in Tulare	0
Review: Guarding the Golden Gate: A History of the U.S. Quarantine Station in San Francisco Bay, by J. Gordon Frierson, MD	0
Review: Alliance Rises in the West: Labor, Race, and Solidarity in Industrial California, by Charlotte K. Sunseri	0
Review: Dreams of Flight: The Great Escape in American Film Culture, by Dana Polan	0
Review: A People’s History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport, by Eric Porter	0
Letter from the Editor	0
Review: Mass Murder in California’s Empty Quarter: A Tale of Tribal Treachery at the Cedarville Rancheria, by Ray A. March	0
Review: The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy and the Path to a Shared American Future, by Robert P. Jones	0
Review: Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy, by Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano	0
Letter from the Editor	0

Review: Koreatown, Los Angeles: Immigration, Race, and the “American Dream”, by Shelley Sang-Hee Lee	0
Digital Testimonios and Reimagining Public History	0
Review: Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World, by Malcolm Harris	0
Review: Bloody Bay: Grassroots Policing in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco, by Darren A. Raspa	0
Review: The $16 Taco: Contested Geographies of Food, Ethnicity, and Gentrification, by Pascale Joassart-Marcelli	0
Letter from the Editor	0
Review: Teaching Black History to White People, by Leonard N. Moore	0
Review: Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology, by Chris Miller	0
When Do You Stop Arriving? The Project “We Are Not Strangers Here: African American Histories in Rural California”	0
“Forces of Nature”	0
San Francisco’s Magnificent Department Stores	0
Bringing Home the News: Reading Black Family History, the Second World War, and Change in Marin City	0
Review: The Most Beautiful Place on Earth: Wallace Stegner in California, by Matthew D. Stewart	0
Winner of the 2021 Richard J. Orsi Prize	0
Review: The Accidental Ecosystem: People and Wildlife in American Cities, by Peter S. Alagona	0
Review: Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands, by Kelly Lytle Hernández	0
Review: The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City, by Destin Jenkins	0
The Nature of Her Business	0
Anarcho-Motherhood, Border Controls, and Resistance in the Greater U.S.–Mexico Borderlands	0
Review: Facing the Mountain: An Inspiring Story of Japanese American Patriots in World War II, by Daniel James Brown	0
Review: Mexican Americans with Moxie: A Transgenerational History of El Movimiento Chicano in Ventura County, California, 1945–1975, by Frank P. Barajas	0
Review: The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years, by Ulbe Bosma	0
Review: Enemies among Us: The Relocation, Internment, and Repatriation of German, Italian, and Japanese Americans during the Second World War, by John E. Schmitz	0
Review: All the Water the Law Allows: Las Vegas and Colorado River Politics, by Christian S. Harrison	0
Review: The Coveted Westside: How the Black Homeowners’ Rights Movement Shaped Modern Los Angeles, by Jennifer Mandel	0
Review: Climate Stewardship: Taking Collective Action to Protect California, by Adina Merenlender with Brendan Buhler	0
In the Shadow of the Spanish Fantasy Heritage	0
Biden’s CHIPS and Science Act in Historical Perspective	0
Review: Rebel Imaginaries: Labor, Culture, and Politics in Depression-Era California, by Elizabeth E. Sine	0
Review: Atomic Doctors: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age, by James L. Nolan, Jr.	0
Abortion and the Law in California	0
When San Francisco Met Tennessee: Civil War Memory, Racial Violence, and the Costs of Sectional Reconciliation during the Spanish-American War	0
Review: Canyon, Mountain, Cloud: Absence and Longing in American Parks, by Tyra A. Olstad	0
Review: Economic Poisoning: Industrial Waste and the Chemicalization of American Agriculture, by Adam M. Romero	0
Review: Imposing Order without Law: American Expansion to the Eastern Sierra, 1850–1865, by Michael J. Makley	0
Watts Teach-In: “Restorative Histories” through Activist-Led Scholarship	0
California Unbound	0
Review: Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo: Life in Spanish, Mexican, and American California, by Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz	0
Review: Chinatown Film Culture: The Appearance of Cinema in San Francisco’s Chinese Neighborhood, by Kim K. Fahlstedt	0
Fire and Lies: Did the Berkeley Fire of 1923 Contribute to the Tunnel Fire of 1991?	0
Review: A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community, by Natalia Molina	0
Review: Borders of Violence and Justice: Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Law Enforcement in the Southwest, 1835–1935, by Brian D. Behnken	0
Review: Redeem All: How Digital Life Is Changing Evangelical Culture, by Corrina Laughlin	0
Review: Lincoln and California: The President, the War, and the Golden State, by Brian McGinty	0
Vernacular Houses in Nineteenth-Century California	0
Review: American by Birth: Wong Kim Ark and the Battle for Citizenship, by Carol Nackenoff and Julie Novkov	0
Review: The Anatomy of Fake News: A Critical News Literacy Education, by Nolan Higdon	0
Review: Richard Nixon: California’s Native Son, by Paul Carter	0
Review: Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America, by Pekka Hämäläinen	0
Review: For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug, by Nathan Vardi	0

Retracing The Oregon Trail	0
“Flipping the Script”	0
Voices from La Frontera	0
Review: A Coalition of Lineages: The Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians, by Duane Champagne and Carole Goldberg	0
Review: California Gold: Sidney Robertson and the WPA California Folk Music Project, by Catherine Hiebert Kerst	0
Review: West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire, by Kevin Waite	0
Review: The Shadow of El Centro: A History of Migrant Incarceration and Solidarity, by Jessica Ordaz	0
Review: Havoc and Reform: Workplace Disasters in Modern America, by James P. Kraft	0
Envisioning an Immigrant Invasion	0
Review: Katrina: A History, 1915–2015, by Andy Horowitz	0
Review: Hollywood: The Oral History, by Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson	0
“Turn Back the Noisy Wheels of Progress”	0
Review: J. Stitt Wilson: Socialist, Christian, Mayor of Berkeley, by Stephen E. Barton	0
Letter from the Editor	0
Review: The Settler Sea: California’s Salton Sea and the Consequences of Colonialism, by Traci Brynne Voyles	0
Review: Elaine Black Yoneda: Jewish Immigration, Labor Activism, and Japanese American Exclusion and Incarceration, by Rachel Schreiber	0
Review: Restoring Nature: The Evolution of Channel Islands National Park, by Larry M. Dilsaver and Timothy J. Babalis	0
Review: Ridgelands! The Closing of a Frontier: The History of Open Space from the Hayward Shorelands to Pleasanton Ridge, 1960–2020, by Sherman Lewis	0
The Work of Citrus	0
Review: Boyle Heights: How a Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American Democracy, by George J. Sánchez	0
Review: Silent Serial Sensations: The Wharton Brothers and the Magic of Early Cinema, by Barbara Tepa Lupack	0
Respecting the Ancestors	0
Alfred Robinson and Ferdinand Deppe	0
Review: The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants, by Adam Goodman	0
Review: Salinas: A History of Race and Resilience in an Agricultural City, by Carol Lynn McKibben	0
Review: Building Downtown Los Angeles: The Politics of Race and Place in Urban America, by Leland T. Saito	0
Review: Making Minimum Wage: Elsie Parrish versus the West Coast Hotel Company, by Helen J. Knowles	0
Review: Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, by Joseph Plaster	0
Review: The Archaeology of Refuge and Recourse: Coast Miwok Resilience and Indigenous Hinterlands in Colonial California, by Tsim D. Schneider	0
Review: From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920–1969, by Alicia Gutierrez-Romine	0
Review: Road Trip to Nowhere: Hollywood Encounters the Counterculture, by Jon Lewis	0
Review: Rails East to Ogden: Utah’s Transcontinental Railroad Story, by Michael R. Polk and Christopher W. Merritt	0
Brushes with History	0
Letter from the Editor	0
The Decline of the Northern California Indian Association	0
Review: Assimilation, Resilience, and Survival: A History of the Stewart Indian School, 1890–2020, by Samantha M. Williams	0
Review: Dressed for Freedom: The Fashionable Politics of American Feminism, by Einav Rabinovitch-Fox	0
Review: Razabilly: Transforming Sights, Sounds, and History in the Los Angeles Latina/o Rockabilly Scene, by Nicholas F. Centino	0
Review: The Nuclear Club: How America and the World Policed the Atom from Hiroshima to Vietnam, by Jonathan R. Hunt	0
The Bronze Buckaroo	0
Review: Manzanar Mosaic: Essays and Oral Histories on America’s First World War II Japanese American Concentration Camp, by Arthur A. Hansen	0
Review: Soundies and the Changing Image of Black Americans on Screen: One Dime at a Time, by Susan Delson	0
Review: Laboratory of Deficiency: Sterilization and Confinement in California, 1900–1950s, by Natalie Lira	0
Geeking and Freaking	0
Electric Eyes	0
Review: Transborder Los Angeles: An Unknown Transpacific History of Japanese-Mexican Relations, by Yu Tokunaga	0
The Militant Young Minister	0
Review: We Are Not Animals: Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California, by Martin Rizzo-Martinez	0
“Nothing Less Than Justice”	0
S. An-Sky’s The Dybbuk and the Process of Jewish American Identity in 1920s San Francisco	0
Review: Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand, by John Markoff	0
“For Us, There Are No More Back Doors”	0
Review: The War on Wine: Prohibition, Neoprohibition, and American Culture, by Victor W. Geraci	0
In Memoriam	0
Born-Again Boogie	0
Flexible Positions	0
Review: Strong Hearts and Healing Hands: Southern California Indians and Field Nurses, 1920–1950, by Clifford E. Trafzer	0
Review: The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History, by Ned Blackhawk	0
Letter from Special Guest Editors	0
Review: California, A Slave State, by Jean Pfaelzer	0
Plague at the Golden Gate: Prejudice Spread Faster Than the Pandemic, PBS, an American Experience film (season 34, episode 4)	0
Speaking for Themselves	0
Review: A Connected Metropolis: Los Angeles Elites and the Making of a Modern City, 1890–1965, by Maxwell Johnson	0
A Letter from the American Historical Association to California’s Placentia–Yorba Linda Unified School District	0
Review: Charmian Kittredge London: Trailblazer, Author, Adventurer, by Iris Jamahl Dunkle	0
Restarting at Midlife	0
Announcing the 2022 Richard J. Orsi “Best Article” Prize	0
Letter from the Editor	0
Review: A Field Guide to White Supremacy, edited by Kathleen Belew and Ramón A. Gutiérrez	0
Review: At Home in the World: California Women and the Postwar Environmental Movement, by Kathleen A. Cairns	0
Review: The Grapes of Conquest: Race, Labor, and the Industrialization of California Wine, 1769–1920, by Julia Ornelas-Higdon	0
Review: Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites during the Jim Crow Era, by Alison Rose Jefferson	0
Letter from the Editor	0
Review: Dancing Down the Barricades: Sammy Davis Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era, A Cultural History, by Matthew Frye Jacobson	0
Letter from the Editor	0
Celebrating 100 Years of California History	0
Review: Votes for College Women: Alumni, Students, and the Woman Suffrage Campaign, by Kelly L. Marino	0
Review: Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion, by Elliott West	0
Review: Hella Town: Oakland’s History of Development and Disruption, by Mitchell Schwarzer	0
Review: The Deportation Express: A History of America through Forced Removal, by Ethan Blue	0

Review: California: An American History, by John Mack Faragher	0
Review: Latina Lives, Latina Narratives: Influential Essays by Vicki L. Ruiz, edited by Miroslava Chávez-García	0
Review: Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance, by Mia Bay	0
Announcing the 2023 Richard J. Orsi “Best Article” Prize	0
The U.S. Border Patrol	0
Review: Adolph Sutro: King of the Comstock Lode and Mayor of San Francisco, by William R. Huber	0
“A Triumph for Women” in Progressive Era Los Angeles: Socialist-Feminism, Coalition Building, and Independent Partisanship in the Political Career of Councilwoman Estelle Lawton Lindsey	0
Review: Paving the Way: The First American Women Law Professors, by Herma Hill Kay	0
Review: The Mobilized American West, 1940–2000, by John M. Findlay	0
Review: Beyond Blue Skies: The Rocket Plane Programs That Led to the Space Age, by Chris Petty	0
Paul Spickard Replies	0
Review: A Vulnerable System: The History of Information Security in the Computer Age, by Andrew J. Stewart	0
Stoned	0
Review: Ranching and the American West: A History in Documents, by Susan Nance	0
Hallucinations of the Spanish Imaginary and the Idealized Hotel California	0
Disease in History	0
Review: The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America, by Greg Grandin	0
Response to Paul Spickard and Kendall Lovely, “Respecting the Ancestors: On Repatriating American Indian Remains,” California History 100, no. 4 (Winter 2023)	0
Public History: Podcast, Documentary, Digital Resources	0
Review: In Pursuit of Utopia: Los Angeles in the Great Depression, by Errol Wayne Stevens	0
Review: From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information Age, by Xaq Frohlich	0
Review: Evolution of a Movement: Four Decades of California Environmental Justice Activism, by Tracy E. Perkins	0
Review: Italian Immigration in the American West, 1870–1940, by Kenneth Scambray	0
New Resources for California Scholars	0
Place Matters	0
Review: Cast Out of Eden: The Untold Story of John Muir, Indigenous Peoples, and the American Wilderness, by Robert Aquinas McNally	0
Fire and Lies: Did the Berkeley Fire of 1923 Contribute to the Tunnel Fire of 1991?	0
“The Walls Have Fallen”	0
Review: Gendered Citizenship: The Original Conflict over the Equal Rights Amendment, 1920–1963, by Rebecca DeWolf	0
Review: Who Killed Jane Stanford? A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits, and the Birth of a University, by Richard White	0