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Posted in Featured on Jan 7th, 2009
Here’s a cool bit of LA and US history up for grabs on EBAY this week: a person offers a family treasure: an unused ticket to Robert F Kennedy’s speech and fundraiser for his presidential run on May 24, 1968 at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena. This was the last speech Kennedy gave before [...]
Posted in Featured on Jan 6th, 2009
I just love edwired– Mills Kelly’s blog devoted to the intersections of digital technology and history. It’s also connected to the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.
Earlier this year, Mills taught a course called “Lying About the Past” and mentored his students in the creation of their own historical hoax, which [...]
Posted in Featured on Nov 30th, 2008
It’s December 1st already. The last month of the year. How did 2008 reach this point already? We all know that time flies but now scholars are actually documenting the process.
The USC History Seminar, a forum for discussion of current work by leading historians on emerging questions of historical methods, topics and theories, has dedicated [...]
Posted in Featured on Oct 30th, 2008
A Photo Essay on the Great Depression has some stunning photos. These images make a nice contract to LACMA’s latest photo exhibit “Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008.” What a waste of space, notwithstanding the iconic Edward Steichen photo used to promote the exhibit. That photo, called Much Screened Lady—Gloria Swanson, 1924 , is one [...]
Posted in Featured on Oct 15th, 2008
I’ve been enjoying recent New York Times articles about California history. This week it’s Jessye McKinley’s “Promoting Offbeat History Between the Drinks” article, which profiles the hijinks of The Order of E Clampus Vitus, “one of the oldest and oddest entities in a state known for having a few, a Gold Rush-era [...]
Posted in Featured on Sep 30th, 2008
Last weekend was a full one for L.A. history buffs.
I was pooped after taking the LA chapter of the Dorothy Parker Society on a walking tour of West Hollywood that I forgot all about the West Adams Heritage Association’s Living History Tour at the Angelus Rosedale Cemetery on Sunday, Sept 29th. [...]
Posted in Featured on Jul 7th, 2008
I run the LA Chapter of the Dorothy Parker Society. We are having our first event this month. Join us for an evening of frolic and LA history in the 20s.
We will have time to get to know each other during cocktail hour between 6:30-7:30 in the Casa Del Mar bar.
Thursday, July 31 at [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 2nd, 2008
Hi,
Tonight I’m hosting a Meet Up group event. We’re all going to the San Gabriel Valley Historical Society’s monthly lecture “An Evening About Rockhaven Sanitarium.” It was a sanitarium established in 1923 for the treatment of mentally ill women.
Monday, June 2nd, 7 PM at the La Crescenta Church of Religious Science
La Crescenta Church of Religious [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 29th, 2008
John Chase, author of Glitter Stucco & Dumptser Diving, one of my favorite books about crazy architecture in LA, will moderate a rather academic colloquium about vernacular architecture history hosted by the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West at the Huntington Library on June 28th. You must RSVP
ETA: Contact these folks at the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 19th, 2008
Upcoming around the world
TechnoTravels/TeleMobility: HASTAC in Motion
22-24 May 2008
Second annual conference of the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory, UC-Irvine and UCLA, 22–24 May 2008. The theme is “techno-travels” and explores the multiple ways in which place, movement, borders, and identities are being renegotiated and remapped by new locative technologies.
Keynote Speakers: Howard Rheingold and [...]
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