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These articles are just a few of the many originally published in our magazine, the California HISTORIAN - another benefit of membership in the CONFERENCE of California Historical Societies. For information on becoming a member, click the "Join Us" link on any page.

These reviews are just a few of the many originally published in our magazine, the California HISTORIAN - another benefit of membership in the CONFERENCE of California Historical Societies. For information on becoming a member, click the "Join Us" link on any page.

• Big Daddy: Jesse Unruh and the Art of Power Politics  (New)

• John Sutter: A Life on the North American Frontier  (New)

• Tales from the Blue Ox: A Hands-On Manual of Traditional Skills from
  the Blue Ox Millworks Historic Park

• American Prophet: The Life and Work of Carey McWilliams

• Alice's Drive

• The Golden Game: The Story of California Baseball 

• Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America  

• California Rising: The Life and Times of Pat Brown  

• The Great Thirst: Californians and Water - a History 

• Stagecoaching on the California Coast 

• Chinatown Dreams: The Life and Photographs of George Lee 

• Lights and Shades in San Francisco 

• The American West: The Invention of a Myth

• Death Valley in '49

• A Good Camp: Gold Mines of Julian and the Cuyamacas

• Japanese Pride, American Prejudice: Modifying the Exclusion Clause of the 1924 Immigration Act

• King & Queen of the River: The Legendary Paddle-Wheel Steamboats Delta King and Delta Queen from Roaring Twenties to New Millennium

• Lands of Promise and Despair: Chronicles of Early California, 1535-1846

• Landscapes of Desire: Anglo Mythologies of Los Angeles

• The Olive in California: History of An Immigrant Tree

• Ridge Route: The Road that United California

• Rooted in Barbarous Soil: People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California

• The Saga of the Pony Express