Category: Articles
Cima Dome, East Mojave National Preserve
With “Postcards,” creative non-fiction stories grounded in place, we aspire to create a new cartography of California. For us, literature […]
Feudal-Aristocratic Drag: Neo-Liberal Erotic Imaginaries of California as Counterrevolutionary Heterotopia in The Mask of Zorro
LJ Frazier and Deborah Cohen Flirtatious repartee and sensuous swish of swords: gliding to and fro on soft horse stable […]
California’s COVID-19 Prison Disaster and the Trap of Palatable Reform
Hadar Aviram Eighteenth-century prison reformer John Howard was endowed not only with a considerable fortune but with an inquisitive eye […]
California and the 1918–1920 Influenza Pandemic
Published in collaboration with California History Diane M. T. North The 1918–1920 influenza pandemic remains the deadliest influenza pandemic in […]
The “Lost Cause” Goes West: Confederate Culture and Civil War Memory in California
This essay was originally published in California History, Vol 97, No. 1 Kevin Waite Where the monument once stood, only […]
South Bakersfield’s Confederate Remains
With “Postcards,” creative non-fiction stories grounded in place, we aspire to create a new cartography of California. For us, literature […]
Power Lines Around Los Angeles: Isolation, Interconnection, and Aesthetics
Daniel Wuebben Historically, California’s overhead electric lines have been pushed to the margins of the built environment and, when possible, […]
Acts of Grace: Memory Journeys through the San Joaquin Valley
With “Postcards,” creative non-fiction stories grounded in place, we aspire to create a new cartography of California. For us, literature […]
LA Oil Noir: Genre, Activism, and Spatial Justice in a City Made by Fossil Fuels
Miranda Trimmier Sometimes it’s hard to see the shape of the story you’re being told. As I understood it, the […]
A Chumash Line: How an old email and five PDFs revealed my Native Californian Roots
With “Postcards,” creative non-fiction stories grounded in place, we aspire to create a new cartography of California. For us, literature […]
