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After the film industry came to Los Angeles, Lummis advised several producers and directors. He called them “the most conscienceless pirates” he'd ever met.
In 1884, Lummis walked 3,507 miles to Los Angeles. His suffering, even as part of a publicity stunt, seemed to prove that he had earned his golden California destiny.
MGM and other Hollywood studios helped defeat Upton Sinclair's 1934 "End Poverty in California" campaign for governor.
Socialists seemed poised to gain control of L.A.'s city government – until explosive developments disrupted the 1911 citywide election.
In Los Angeles at the turn of the 20th century, the war of Capital and Labor seemed to be turning in favor of Labor, with socialists in the vanguard.
Gold and silver lured many a prospector out to the Mojave Desert, but the mineral compound that surprisingly proved most financially lucrative for a handful of them is common borax.
Built from 1950-60, Interstate 5 lured aerospace firms, millions of residents, and a Magic Kingdom to once-rural Orange County.
The Corona del Mar institution, named after Los Angeles land developer and railway baron Moses Sherman, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.
Citizen science is a means by which we continue to cast off the shackles of the Middle Ages.
In 1948, as Cold War paranoia gripped the nation, 17 Los Angeles County social workers lost their jobs for refusing to take loyalty oaths.
The exhibition is on display at the Skirball Cultural Center through Oct. 30, 2016.
Los Angeles officially became the territorial capital of Alta California in 1835.