Skip to main content

History & Society

Support Provided By
Today, California is arguably the epicenter of a revolution in Islamic political and legal thinking.
ONE magazine, volume 6, number 8 (1958 August). | Dawn Frederic, cover, ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries
For all its moral ambiguities, the military industrial complex has also provided a space for resistance and the assertion of rights and community for gay men and women across the U.S. but especially in California.
Cross-cultural community is of the utmost importance to overcoming the pain of the recent mass shooting.
Hollywood Hotel,1956 | Photo: Herald-Examiner Collection/LAPL
Less than 100 years ago, Hollywood and Highland was a rural paradise, and at its heart was the genteel Hollywood Hotel, where the idea for the Hollywood Walk of Fame was born.
Compare
Is it possible to achieve Supervisor Yaroslavsky's hope that "our county seal should be a unifying emblem that all Los Angeles residents can call their own"?
Latinos businesses are adapting quickly, learning the rules of the game and changing them up with their own skills and savvy.
The plain photographs on view at the Grand Central Art Center aren't at all lurid or simple. In their quiet way, they move the awful into the everyday.
Despite dwindling numbers, the Miss Bell Gardens pageant cultivates leadership from woman to woman.
In the volatile public vs. charter fight, one LAUSD campus is just trying to stay put.
Ice! Ice!
In the late 1850s, saloons imported the town's first commercially available ice, which rarely occurs naturally in Los Angeles.
El Alisal | Photo: Herald-Examiner Collection/LAPL
In the process of crafting his own California fairytale, Charles Lummis drove away those who loved him and lost touch with the reality of the ever changing city that surrounded him.
'Hollywoodland' sign | Photo: LAPL
Many things in L.A. will spike your curiosity.
Active loading indicator