Book Club of California

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  • Empress San Francisco: The Pacific Rim, The Great West, and California at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition

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    Zoom CA, United States

    When the more than 18 million visitors poured into the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) in San Francisco in 1915, they encountered a vision of the world born out of San Francisco’s particular local political and social climate. By seeking to please various constituent groups ranging from the government of Japan to local labor unions and […]

  • Clubhouse Turn: The Twilight of Hollywood Park Race Track

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    the blinn house 160 N Oakland Ave, Pasadena, CA, United States

    On December 22, 2013, Hollywood Park Racetrack closed its doors permanently. Comprising 500 photographs culled from more than 25,000 taken on location, Clubhouse Turn (2013-2016) is the final documentation of the historic landmark before its demolition. It is a portrait of not only the architecture and grounds of Hollywood Park, but of those individuals whose livelihood and […]

  • Redemptive Dreams: Engaging Kevin Starr’s California

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    Zoom CA, United States

    An essential piece in California Studies, Redemptive Dreams: Engaging Kevin Starr’s California offers the first critical engagement with the vision of California’s most ambitious interpreter. While Starr’s multifaceted and polymathic vision of California offered a unique gaze—synthesizing central features, big themes, and incredible problems with the propitious golden dream—his eight-volume California Dream series, along with several other books and […]

  • An Evening at the Quasi-Library

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    ArtCenter College of Design 1111 South Arroyo Parkway, Pasadena, United States

    Join guest librarian Alex Balgiu (Designing Writing), alongside Rachel Julius and Bob Dirig (ArtCenter Library) for an immersive and tactile happening where attendees will interact directly with the diverse array of books and printed materials on display. ** Co-presented by Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography and ArtCenter Graphic Design

  • California and Reframing the Making of a Modern U.S. West

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    Zoom CA, United States

    A central theme of Making a Modern U.S. West by Sarah Deutsch is the question of what would constitute a modern U.S. and whose vision would define the West and the nation. Modernity for some meant corporate consolidation, capital intensive agriculture, white supremacy, male-headed families and private individual land-holding. For others, modernity could include racial […]

  • Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West

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    Zoom CA, United States

    An archive survives to be revived. The archive as a limit, a thing in a box, is always also an opening. It opens on losses sustained, harms inflicted, the tenacity of survival, and on the persistence of lineages both proud and shameful. But what is it to approach an archive, to unlock the cabinet, lift […]

  • California, a Slave State

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    Zoom CA, United States

    California owes its origins and sunny prosperity to slavery. Spanish invaders captured Indigenous people to build the chain of Catholic missions. Russian otter hunters shipped Alaska Natives—the first slaves transported into California—and launched a Pacific slave triangle to China. Plantation slaves were marched across the plains for the Gold Rush. San Quentin Prison incubated California’s […]

  • Terminal Island: Lost Communities on America’s Edge

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    Pasadena Heritage 160 N Oakland Ave, Pasadena, United States

    Terminal lsland: Lost Communities on America’s Edge tells a story of the birth, flourishing, and ultimate destruction of Terminal Island, a vibrant community in Los Angeles Harbor. Few Los Angelenos have visited Terminal Island, a sheltered spot in the Pacific Ocean that once served as a resort for wealthy Southern California landowners and as a […]

  • Sand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles

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    Zoom CA, United States

    The Los Angeles shoreline is one of the most iconic natural landscapes in the United States, if not the world. Yet, in the early twentieth century Angelenos routinely lamented the city’s crowded, polluted, and eroded sands, many of which were private and inaccessible to the public. Between the 1920s and the 1960s, LA’s engineers, city […]

  • Ellen Browning Scripps: New Money and American Philanthropy, 1836-1932

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    Zoom CA, United States

    Molly McClain tells the remarkable story of Ellen Browning Scripps (1836–1932), an American newspaperwoman, feminist, suffragist, abolitionist, and social reformer. She used her fortune to support women’s education, the labor movement, and public access to science, the arts, and education. Born in London, Scripps grew up in rural poverty on the Illinois prairie. She went […]

  • Book Anatomy: Body Politics and the Materiality of Indigenous Book History

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    Zoom CA, United States

    From a book’s “spine” to its “appendix,” bibliographers use a language of the body that reveals our intimate connection with books. Yet books do more than describe bodies—they embody a frontline of colonization in which Indigenous authors battle the public perception and reception of Indigenous peoples. Starting with John Rollin Ridge’s The Life and Adventures […]

  • Santa Monica Pier: America’s Last Great Pleasure Pier

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    Pasadena Heritage 160 N Oakland Ave, Pasadena, United States

    In Santa Monica Pier: America’s Last Great Pleasure Pier! historian James Harris tells the dramatic story of survival for this Southern California icon—fighting Mother Nature, politics and changing times. This rich history makes Santa Monica Pier more than a landmark, more than a pleasure pier or a must see on the West Coast. For a […]