Nathan Masters
Nathan Masters is host and executive producer of Lost L.A., an Emmy Award-winning public television series from KCET and the USC Libraries. The show explores how rare artifacts from Southern California's archives can unlock hidden and often-surprising stories from the region's past. Nathan’s writing has appeared in many publications, including Los Angeles Magazine and the Los Angeles Times. He also helps manage public programs and media initiatives at the USC Libraries, home to the L.A. as Subjectresearch consortium.
Lost L.A. turns to the region's archives to discover the damage, fear, and politics that have marked the Southland's seismic history.
Six L.A. as Subject members dug through their archives to share an item or collection that helps Southern Californians understand our region's heritage.
L.A.'s new bicycle master plan represents an embrace of a past era when bicycle paths rather than freeways or rail lines connected the Southland's communities.
Many Southern Californians have only hazy memories of severe smog in the Los Angeles area. Here's a reminder in pictures.
Rugged mountains to the north, the vast Pacific Ocean to the west, and inhospitable desert to the east--natural barriers isolate Los Angeles from the rest of the continent on three sides.
Built in the final days before the era of long-distance passenger rail gave way to the Jet Age, L.A.'s Union Station is known as the "Last of the Great Railway Stations."
A journalist, adventurer, Indian rights activist, presidential advisor, and amateur anthropologist, Charles Fletcher Lummis cuts a unique figure among those who populate the ranks of larger-than-life Angelenos.
Governor Brown's recent call to return some authority - including financial responsibility - to local governments has brought new attention to the complex and challenging relationships among California's counties, cities, special districts, and other g...
Preserving not only finished works by L.A. artists but also papers, photographs, and other materials related to the artists' lives and practice, the archives of Southern California's cultural institutions provide insight into the artists' influences, m...
L.A.'s weather is nearly perfect – except when it isn't.
It's as true about archivists and archives as it is about activists--their influence often exceeds their fame. Southern California activists have profoundly shaped regional--and national--history through their advocacy.
On January 3, Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown, Jr. was sworn in as California's 39th governor, returning to the office he left 28 years ago.The archives of…