{"title":"Letter from the Editor","authors":"Mary Ann Irwin","doi":"10.1525/ch.2023.100.3.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.3.1","url":null,"abstract":"Editorial| August 01 2023 Letter from the Editor Mary Ann Irwin Mary Ann Irwin Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar California History (2023) 100 (3): 1. https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.3.1 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Mary Ann Irwin; Letter from the Editor. California History 1 August 2023; 100 (3): 1. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.3.1 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentCalifornia History Search On this last day of Spring, the sun is shining, a brisk wind riffles the trees, my summer classes are well underway, and the President of the United States is experiencing two of California’s most notable features: tourism and technology. After a night at an historic Nob Hill hotel, he meets with experts in artificial intelligence to discuss its potentials for profit and peril. As an educator, I worry less about ChatGPT than I do the gig economy, both of which I have experienced first-hand. Do my students use AI to write their papers? Absolutely. Many of those who write their own work will still use a San Francisco-based artificial-intelligence program to check their grammar and spelling. (Dinosaurs like me will remember using 1990s word-processing programs that corrected punctuation, spelling, and sentence construction.) My hands remain unwrung. No matter how AI has evolved, nor how it evolves going forward, it... You do not currently have access to this content.","PeriodicalId":43253,"journal":{"name":"CALIFORNIA HISTORY","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136029341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review: J. Stitt Wilson: Socialist, Christian, Mayor of Berkeley, by Stephen E. Barton","authors":"Pamela Gleason","doi":"10.1525/ch.2023.100.1.98","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.1.98","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43253,"journal":{"name":"CALIFORNIA HISTORY","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89048481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Resources for California Scholars","authors":"Diane M. T. North","doi":"10.1525/ch.2023.100.2.82","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.2.82","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43253,"journal":{"name":"CALIFORNIA HISTORY","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75293185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review: The $16 Taco: Contested Geographies of Food, Ethnicity, and Gentrification, by Pascale Joassart-Marcelli","authors":"Sean M. Crotty","doi":"10.1525/ch.2023.100.1.96","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.1.96","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43253,"journal":{"name":"CALIFORNIA HISTORY","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88167977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In the Shadow of the Spanish Fantasy Heritage","authors":"John J. Macias","doi":"10.1525/ch.2023.100.2.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.2.31","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents an overlooked chapter in San Gabriel’s history as it examines the Mexican experience in the historic mission city during the early twentieth century. In the 1910s, enterprising Anglo-American commercial and civic leaders romanticized the city’s Spanish heritage, especially in the area around old Mission San Gabriel, hoping to draw tourists to the newly incorporated city. Simultaneously, the arrival of Mexican immigrants to San Gabriel sparked concern among local leaders who, ironically, viewed the growing Mexican population as a threat to the city’s Spanish fantasy heritage. This article reveals how San Gabriel’s Mexican community harnessed civic leaders’ merchandizing of the city’s history, subverting the Spanish fantasy narrative to celebrate their Mexican history and presence in a city seemingly determined to deny both. It uses Spanish-language accounts, church records, and contemporary local histories to reveal a Mexican community asserting pride in its culture and history. In the process, it illustrates the interplay between San Gabriel’s Mexican community and the Roman Catholic parish at Mission San Gabriel, and the ways in which Mexican radicalism and grassroots mutualistas (mutual-aid societies) shaped the colonia (Mexican neighborhood).","PeriodicalId":43253,"journal":{"name":"CALIFORNIA HISTORY","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74299999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Flexible Positions","authors":"David J. Neumann","doi":"10.1525/ch.2023.100.4.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.4.18","url":null,"abstract":"Donald Walters was an ideal candidate to lead an eclectic transnational religious movement rooted in Hinduism that has survived for more than fifty years by balancing core commitments with flexibility on less central matters. He read Autobiography of a Yogi in 1948 and was mentored by its author, Paramahansa Yogananda, at Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF) in Southern California. Walters took his monastic vows in 1955 to become Swami Kriyananda. After leaving SRF, he decided to start Ananda, a cooperative living community northeast of Sacramento, in 1968. While similar to other hippie communes in its Eastern spirituality and sense of experimentation, it was unusual in rejecting drugs and embracing Jesus Christ. Despite hurdles, the community began to grow by the early 1980s. Like its principled-pragmatic organization, Ananda’s spiritual identity likewise combined a firm core and some flexibility in beliefs and practices. Its practices are drawn directly from those taught by Yogananda, including its syncretistic beliefs rooted in Hindu cosmology but shaped by fascination with Jesus Christ. Ananda eventually grew from a small California community into a global movement, establishing footholds in both India and Italy. Since the mid-1990s, the community has faced several challenges, including lawsuits and the death of Kriyananda. But his passing was an opportunity as well as a crisis. Following their mentor’s example of balancing core firmness with flexibility, recent leaders have ensured that Ananda will continue as a rural Northern California model of life and community, as well as a global spiritual enterprise centered on Kriya Yoga.","PeriodicalId":43253,"journal":{"name":"CALIFORNIA HISTORY","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135561180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review: <i>Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology</i>, by Chris Miller","authors":"Mark R. Wilson","doi":"10.1525/ch.2023.100.4.139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.4.139","url":null,"abstract":"Book Review| November 01 2023 Review: Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology, by Chris Miller Chris Miller. Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology. New York: Scribner, 2022. 464 pp. Hardcover $30.00. Mark R. Wilson Mark R. Wilson MARK R. WILSON is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is the author of The Business of Civil War (2006) and Destructive Creation: American Business and the Winning of World War II (2016), and coeditor of the edited volume The Military and the Market (2022). He is currently writing a book about the history of the U.S. military-industrial complex from the 1950s to the present. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar California History (2023) 100 (4): 139–141. https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.4.139 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Mark R. Wilson; Review: Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology, by Chris Miller. California History 1 November 2023; 100 (4): 139–141. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.4.139 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentCalifornia History Search Chris Miller’s history of the global computer chip industry belongs to a very rare breed of books: an original work by a history professor that became an immediate best seller, widely discussed and influential among policymakers. Miller’s timing was excellent. Just days before his book appeared, President Joe Biden signed into law the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, which provides tens of billions of dollars in subsidies aimed at bolstering U.S. microchip manufacturing capacity. Since then, the Biden administration has imposed new export controls designed to hinder China’s access to the most advanced chip technologies. Meanwhile, Russia’s attack on Ukraine amplified concerns about a possible invasion by China of Taiwan, which—as Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology emphasizes—happens to be the site of the world’s most important chip factory. For government officials and general readers alike, the book provides a valuable, up-to-the-minute historical account of... You do not currently have access to this content.","PeriodicalId":43253,"journal":{"name":"CALIFORNIA HISTORY","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135561186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review: <i>Ranching and the American West: A History in Documents</i>, by Susan Nance","authors":"John Ryan Fischer","doi":"10.1525/ch.2023.100.4.119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.4.119","url":null,"abstract":"Book Review| November 01 2023 Review: Ranching and the American West: A History in Documents, by Susan Nance Susan Nance. Ranching and the American West: A History in Documents. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2021. 224 pp. Paperback $29.95. John Ryan Fischer John Ryan Fischer JOHN RYAN FISCHER, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin–River Falls, received his PhD in history from the University of California, Davis. His first book is Cattle Colonialism: An Environmental History of California and Hawai‘i (2015). His current work examines the movements and adaptations of Meskwaki and Sauk peoples from the 1600s to the 1800s. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar California History (2023) 100 (4): 119–121. https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.4.119 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation John Ryan Fischer; Review: Ranching and the American West: A History in Documents, by Susan Nance. California History 1 November 2023; 100 (4): 119–121. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.4.119 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentCalifornia History Search This document reader, part of the Broadview Sources Series, gathers forty-two documents—including published accounts, newspaper articles, photographs, and advertisements—concerning a wide array of issues related to the management of cattle and horses in the American West. In the introduction, the collection’s editor Susan Nance succinctly states the book’s theme as “the transformation of animals and the land from beings and entities with intrinsic value to entities taken to be property or commodities” (1). The sources do stretch beyond this framework to include issues surrounding the ethnicity and gender of ranch owners and laborers, different cultures’ understandings of cattle and horses, and the lives and behaviors of the animals themselves. Altogether, Nance’s documents tell the story of an animal-driven colonial transformation of the American West through the horses, cattle, and people that enabled it. Nance groups the sources into six parts, beginning with European introductions of animals and Native American horse... You do not currently have access to this content.","PeriodicalId":43253,"journal":{"name":"CALIFORNIA HISTORY","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135561665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review: <i>Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion</i>, by Elliott West","authors":"Stephen Aron","doi":"10.1525/ch.2023.100.4.113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.4.113","url":null,"abstract":"Book Review| November 01 2023 Review: Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion, by Elliott West Elliott West. Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2023. 704 pp. Illustrations and maps. Hardcover $39.95. Stephen Aron Stephen Aron STEPHEN ARON is the Calvin and Marilyn Gross Director, and president and CEO, of the Autry Museum and professor of history emeritus at UCLA. His most recent book is Peace and Friendship: An Alternative History of the American West (2022). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar California History (2023) 100 (4): 113–115. https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.4.113 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Stephen Aron; Review: Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion, by Elliott West. California History 1 November 2023; 100 (4): 113–115. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.4.113 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentCalifornia History Search As a former president of the Western History Association, I know that presidential addresses to that organization don’t usually create much of a trail. Not so, Elliott West’s 2002 oration in which he introduced the construct “Greater Reconstruction.” Challenging the long-held wisdom that confined Reconstruction to a twelve-year period from the end of the Civil War until 1877 and to the territory of the Confederate states, West argued for an extended chronology and an expanded geography. Greater Reconstruction, he maintained, began with the acquisition of territories after the Mexican-American War and continued to the end of the nineteenth century. In West’s telling, it played out across the nation, with the West being central to the era’s remaking of race relations and to the consolidations of national authority and industrial capitalist supremacy. West’s speech and its published version reset the research agendas of western historians and sparked vigorous debates about Reconstruction’s... You do not currently have access to this content.","PeriodicalId":43253,"journal":{"name":"CALIFORNIA HISTORY","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135562378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"<i>In Memoriam</i>","authors":"Josh Sides","doi":"10.1525/ch.2023.100.4.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.4.1","url":null,"abstract":"Editorial| November 01 2023 In Memoriam: Natale Zappia Josh Sides Josh Sides JOSH SIDES is the Whitsett Professor of California History at California State University, Northridge, and former editor of California History (2014–2019). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar California History (2023) 100 (4): 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.4.1 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Josh Sides; In Memoriam: Natale Zappia. California History 1 November 2023; 100 (4): 1–2. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.4.1 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentCalifornia History Search In April 2023, we lost Natale “Nat” Zappia, a passionate humanist who was also an extraordinary scholar, teacher, and community leader—and a loyal friend to California History, serving on the journal’s editorial board throughout my time as editor. Nat’s academic bona fides were impeccable. A graduate of Cornell (BS), Claremont Graduate University (MA), and UC Santa Cruz (PhD), he was a leading scholar of American environmental history, focusing on patterns of production and consumption between regions and communities across North America, including trade networks and food pathways. He authored or coauthored several books, including Traders and Raiders: The Indigenous World of the Colorado Basin, 1540–1859 (University of North Carolina Press, 2014) and Rez Metal: Inside the Navajo Nation Heavy Metal Scene (University of Nebraska Press, 2020), as well as numerous articles in prestigious journals such as Nature, Early American Studies, Environmental History, California History, Southern... You do not currently have access to this content.","PeriodicalId":43253,"journal":{"name":"CALIFORNIA HISTORY","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135562595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}