By James Zarsadiaz, author of Resisting Change in Suburbia: Asian Immigrants and Frontier Nostalgia in L.A. Today, notions of an urban and liberal Asian America continue to prevail, even though Asian Americans …
By Anne Marie Todd, author of Valley of Heart’s Delight: Environment and Sense of Place in the Santa Clara Valley The winter of 2023 has been especially soggy in the Santa Clara …
By Christen T. Sasaki, author of Pacific Confluence: Fighting over the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Hawai‘i Typically, the history of U.S. empire is told as a story of inevitable expansion. Within this narrative, …
By Yu Tokunaga, author of Transborder Los Angeles: An Unknown Transpacific History of Japanese-Mexican Relations “Lo voy a comprar 👏 Felicidades!!!” I recently received this comment from my Costa Rican friend after …
By Eric Porter, author of A People’s History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport For many people, airports may seem like alienating “nonplaces”—as anthropologist Marc Augé put …
By Elaine Lewinnek and Thuy Vo Dang, co-authors of A People’s Guide to Orange County Former President of the Western History Association Patricia Nelson Limerick famously wrote of California and the American …