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The Crystal Tower's giant reflective glass tower remains one of the most distinctive buildings in Orange County. For decades, it was home to one of the most important evangelical Christian movements of the Cold War.
Glover Stadium in Anaheim's La Palma Park hosts high school sports events, but in 1961, also became a staging ground for a week-long rally held by the Orange County School of Anti-Communism, spurring Orange County's passionate brand of mid-century conservatism.
Near the Interstate 5 and squeezed in between a Holiday Inn Express and a small shopping plaza stands one of the few Cham Muslim mosques in the United States.
After experiencing displacement from war, Vietnamese Americans demonstrate their resilience in the face of the vastness of the California landscape with services like Xe Do Hoang, a bus service connecting the two largest Vietnamese communities in the U.S.
The military is often perceived as a conservative force, but the military also brought more equitable employment and housing to Orange County.
The dominance of Cambodian American-owned doughnut shops in the United States began in this La Habra shop.
What are now idyllic green spaces in Orange County used to be nuclear missile sites meant to protect the region during the Cold War.
Fueled by patronage from Laguna Beach artists, vacationers from Hollywood and beyond, as well as marines, the Boom Boom Room was a center of gay nightlife in Orange County.
The Cold War bolstered Southern California’s industrial military complex, particularly in Orange County. It brought the military and interstate highways to the county, but helped push the diversity of the region.
A long history of Asian Americans challenging systemic forms of racism and injustice in ways that linked their fates to their African American neighbors begins in the multiracial neighborhood of 1950s and 1960s Crenshaw.
In uncovering the fundamental imprint of emigrés had on Hollywood, we came across countless images that illustrate their fight against persecution and the communities of artists and intellectuals that were formed in this unfamiliar, and often unwelcoming, place.
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During WWII, L.A. became a sanctuary for Europe’s accomplished artists and intellectuals.