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The 442nd Regiment comprised second-generation soldiers fighting for the liberation of Europe from Nazism. Ironically, while helping free those in Europe, their relatives were incarcerated in camps across the U.S.
The spirit of adventure moved people to explore the coastlines and channels of Southern California. Now a new generation of adventurers uses tech and tools to understand the oceans.
Though Captain Hancock would make many trips to the Galapagos on his ocean research vessel, Velero III. This trip was special in that it was not to study the remote island chains’ unique flora and fauna, but to solve a gripping mystery.
The Velero III was no regular pleasure cruiser. It was a floating lab for scientists, funded by millionaire Angeleno George Allan Hancock. Its adventures benefited knowledge in the early days of ocean research.
Two things have shaped the life of Robert García. That he was a civil rights attorney and that he was an immigrant.
As an enslaved woman in the south, Biddy Mason was valued highly because of her knowledge in herbal medicine, but as a free woman in Los Angeles, Mason became a boundry-breaking midwife, nurse and philantropist.
The traditional narrative of the Watts Uprisings suggest that businesses fled from the chaos, but the story of Operation Boostrap suggests a wholly different story. Through their work, Operation Boostrap uplifted the community.
Paul R. Williams not only worked on high-end design, he also worked on civic projects that carry his signature style.
In the early post-1945 period, California served as the emblem of the American dream, the ideal of modernity and purveyor of modernism, which it broadcast to the nation and larger world. Did it manage to live up to its promise?
Explore the world beneath King Eddy and see how alcohol got into L.A. during Prohibition.
In 1919, Congress passed the Volstead Act, the 18th Amendment’s liquor ban. Despite the Prohibition the liquor continued to flow in the Southland, along with the sun and waves and a few secret tunnels.
On January 17, 1920 fourteen years of Prohibition began. What began as a grand, noble experiment quickly turned sour. See some of the strange goings-on in Los Angeles during that short-lived period.