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Celebrity preachers, fundamentalist bible schools, Pentecostalism – these were among the defining features of L.A.'s early-20th-century religious landscape.
When Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared into the Pacific in 1926, Los Angeles grieved. Five weeks later, the larger-than-life evangelist resurfaced in an Arizona border town.
L.A. is the golden home of America’s queer rights movement, the site of several uprisings and protests that predate New York's historic Stonewall riots.
William Mulholland began flooding the meadowlands of Ivanhoe Canyon in November 1907.
It is possible to drive for pleasure – leisurely – amidst wide-open spaces and gorgeous landscapes in Southern California. That is, if you go to the desert.
In the early 20th century, countless visitors toured Los Angeles on the red cars of the Pacific Electric's Balloon Route.
A proposed ballot measure seeks to slow down development in Los Angeles. As the city debates its future, D.J. Waldie considers the lessons we can draw from its past.
Real cowboys waiting to be hired as Hollywood extras once hung out at the site of the Western-themed strip mall.
Boxing halls were once as numerous as movie theaters in Los Angeles, and a young Mexican-American prize fighter named Bobby Herman was among the star attractions.
Elysian Valley got its moniker from the many four-legged amphibians that used the crawl into the neighborhood. But they weren't frogs.
In a new book, the University of California’s Rachel Surls and certified Master Gardener Judith Gerber detail the rise and fall of agriculture in Los Angeles.
In 1908, journalist Charles Fletcher Lummis campaigned against the many ways English tongues were butchering the Spanish name.