History of Los Angeles – Southern California

Almaguer, Tomás. Racial Fault Lines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. Find at your local library.

Bartlett, John Russell. Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua: Connected with the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission, during the Years 1850, ’51, ’52, and ’53. New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1854. Access through Google Books. Find at your local library.

Bell, Horace. Reminiscences of a Ranger: Or Early Times in Southern California. Los Angeles: Yarnell, Caystile & Mathes, Printers, 1881. https://www.loc.gov/item/rc01000760/.

Biederman, Patricia Ward. “Quake Damage Is History at State Park; Los Encinos: With Building Repairs Nearly Done, Valley Site Reopens after 18 Months.” Los Angeles Times. April 29, 2002, Valley Edition edition, sec. California; Metro Desk. Find at your local library. Access through LMU.

Boyd, Peter. The Birth of Los Angeles 1767-1826: And the Genocide of the Tongva. FlintStrike Publishing, 2011. Find at your local library.

Brook, Vincent. Land of Smoke and Mirrors: A Cultural History of Los Angeles. Piscataway: Rutgers University Press, 2013. Find at your local library. Access through LMU.

Cameron, Una B. “The History of San Gabriel Valley.” M.A., University of Southern California, 1938. Find at your local library. Access through LMU.

Caughey, John Walton, and LaRee Caughey, eds. Los Angeles: Biography of a City. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976. Find at your local library.

Caughey, John Walton, and Benjamin Davis Wilson. The Indians of Southern California in 1852: The B. D. Wilson Report and a Selection of Contemporary Comment. 1st ed. Huntington Library Publications. San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1952. Find at your local library.

Cerra, Julie Lugo, and Cynthia Simone. Culver City: The Heart of Screenland. 1st ed. Chatsworth, CA: Windsor Publications, 1992. Find at your local library.

Clark, Alfred. “The San Gabriel River: A Century of Dividing the Waters.” Southern California Quarterly 52, no. 2 (June 1970): 155–69. https://doi.org/10.2307/41170285. Access through JSTOR. Find at your local library.

Cleland, Robert Glass. El Molino Viejo: Spanish California’s First Grist Mill. San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1971. Find at your local library.

Cowan, Robert G. Ranchos of California: A List of Spanish Concessions, 1775-1822, and Mexican Grants, 1822-1846. Los Angeles: Historical Society of Southern California, 1977. Find at your local library.

DeMarco, Gordon. A Short History of Los Angeles. 1st ed. San Francisco: Lexikos, 1988. Find at your local library.

Eargle, Dolan. California Indian Country: The Land & the People. San Francisco, CA: Trees Company Press, 1992. Find at your local library.

Faragher, John Mack. Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles. 1st edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016. Find at your local library.

Greenwood, Roberta S. “Historical Archaeology in California.” Historical Archaeology 25, no. 3 (1991): 24–28. Find at your local library. Access through JSTOR.

Gumprecht, Blake. The Los Angeles River: Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirth. Creating the North American Landscape. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. Find at your local library.

Hackel, Steven W. “Digging up the Remains of Early Los Angeles: The Plaza Church Cemetery.” Southern California Quarterly 94, no. 1 (March 19, 2012): 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1525/scq.2012.94.1.5. Find at your local library.

Harder, Dan. “Finding God in L.A.; Just Off the 405 Is a Forlorn Lot Where, the Tongva Indians Say, Something Very Sacred Happened.” Los Angeles Times. January 28, 2001, sec. Los Angeles Times Magazine; PART-; Times Magazine Desk. Find at your local library. Access through ProQuest.

Hayes, Benjamin, and Marjorie Tisdale Wolcott. Pioneer Notes from the Diaries of Judge Benjamin Hayes, 1849-1875. Los Angeles: Private Print, 1929. https://www.loc.gov/item/29014767/.

Haynes, Karima A. “Valley History Exposed; About 80 Children Watch as a Portion of Campo de Cahuenga Adobe Ruins Dating from Mexican War Is Unearthed.” Los Angeles Times. January 7, 2000, Valley Edition edition, sec. Metro; PART- B; Zones Desk. Find at your local library. Access through ProQuest.

Herrera, Juan. “¡La Lucha Continua! Gloria Arellanes and the Women of the Chicano Movement.” In East of East, edited by ROMEO GUZMÁN, CARRIBEAN FRAGOZA, ALEX SAYF CUMMINGS, and RYAN REFT, 102–11. The Making of Greater El Monte. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvwcjfsx.4. Access through LMU. Find at your local library. Access through JSTOR.

Hillburg, Bill. “Tongva Roots Go Deep in L.A. Area: [Valley Edition].” Daily News. December 23, 2001, sec. News. Find at your local library. Access through ProQuest.

Holder, Charles F. All About Pasadena and Its Vicinity; Its Climate, Missions, Trails and Cañons, Fruits, Flowers and Game. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1889. Find at your local library.

Jaurequi, Lena. “Reconfiguring Diversity in 19th Century Los Angeles: An Archaeological Analysis of the Los Angeles/Depot Hotel.” M.A., California State University, Northridge, Anthropology, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/215058. Find at your local library.

Kealhofer, Lisa. “Cultural Interaction during the Spanish Colonial Period: The Plaza Church Site, Los Angeles.” Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1991. Find at your local library.

The Daily News of Los Angeles. “Looking Back: Northridge’s Roots Traced to Early Ranch, Home Tract.” July 15, 1989. Find at your local library.

Lopez, Jocelyn. “Re-Indigenizing Spaces: How Mapping Racial Violence Shows the Interconnections Between Settler Colonialism and Gentrification.” Senior Honors Thesis for the Ethnic Studies Department, University of California, Berkeley, 2020. Access through eScholarship. Access through LMU. Find at your local library.

Los Angeles Water School: YAANGNA (AKA L.A.). LAWS: LAWS, 2018. https://soundcloud.com/nomadicdivision/los-angeles-water-school-yaangna-aka-la.

Ord, Edward Otho Cresap, and Neal Harlow. The City of the Angels and the City of the Saints, or, A Trip to Los Angeles and San Bernardino in 1856. San Marino: Huntington Library, 1978. Find at your local library.

Oventile, Robert S. “Cross Out: The Los Angeles County Seal Debate.” In Impossible Reading: Idolatry and Diversity in Literature, 185–205. Aurora: The Davies Group, Publishers, 2005. Find at your local library. Access through ProQuest.

Palóu, Francisco. “Noticias de Las California.” In Documentos Para La Historia de México, Vol. 4. México, 1857.

———. “Noticias de Las California.” In Diario Oficial de México. México, 1857.

Palóu, Francisco, and Herbert Eugene Bolton. Historical Memoirs of New California. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1926. Find at your local library.

Palóu, Francisco, John T. Doyle, and Juan Crespí. Noticias de La Nueva California. 4 vols. Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Photography:The World through the Lens. San Francisco: Impr. de E. Bosqui y cia, 1874. Find at your local library.

Perez, Cris. Land Grants in Alta California: A Compilation of Spanishand Mexican Private Land Claims in the State of California: Giving Pertinent Data in Relation to the United States of America’s Confirmation and Patenting of Said Claims, Together with a Compilation of Legislation and Litigation Affecting Each Claim. Rancho Cordova, CA: Landmark Enterprises, 10324 Newton Way, 1996. Find at your local library.

Phillips, George Harwood. “Indians in Los Angeles, 1781-1875: Economic Integration, Social Disintegration.” Pacific Historical Review 49, no. 3 (August 1, 1980): 427–51. https://doi.org/10.2307/3638564. Find at your local library. Access through University of California Press.

———. “Indians in Los Angeles, 1781-1875: Economic Integration, Social Disintegration.” In The American Indian, edited by Roger L. Nichols, 3rd ed., 179–93. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986.

Pulido, Laura, Laura R. Barraclough, and Wendy Cheng. A People’s Guide to Los Angeles. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2012. Find at your local library. Access through ProQuest.

Rasmussen, Cecilia. “From Site of Ancient Tribal Tree, the City of Angels Grew.” Los Angeles Times. April 12, 1997, sec. Metro. Find at your local library. Access through ProQuest.

———. “L.A. Scene Southern California Then and Now.” Los Angeles Times. February 28, 1994, sec. Metro. Find at your local library. Access through ProQuest.

Reid, Hiram A, and Alfred James McClatchie. History of Pasadena, Comprising an Account of the Native Indian, the Early Spanish, the Mexican, the American, the Colony, and the Incorporated. Pasadena: Pasadena History Co., 1895. Find at your local library.

Robinson, W. W. “Los Alamitos: The Indian and Rancho Phases.” California Historical Society Quarterly 45, no. 1 (1966): 21–30. https://doi.org/10.2307/25154101. Find at your local library. Access through JSTOR.

———. Ranchos Become Cities. Pasadena, CA: San Pasqual Press, 1939. Find at your local library.

Robinson, W. W. The Indians of Los Angeles: Story of the Liquidation of a People. Early California Travels Series 8. Los Angeles: Glen Dawson, 1952. Find at your local library.

Rosenthal, Nicolas G. “This Is Indian Country.” LMU Magazine, August 22, 2016. https://magazine.lmu.edu/articles/this-is-indian-country/, archived at https://perma.cc/T556-NTPX.

Roy, Aurelie. “The Tongva People.” In East of East, edited by Romeo Guzman, Carribean Fragoza, Alex Sayf Cummings, and Ryan Reft, 17–24. The Making of Greater El Monte. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2020. 10.2307/j.ctvwcjfsx.4. Access through JSTOR. Access through LMU. Find at your local library.

Torres-Rouff, David Samuel. “A Pueblo by the Porciuncula, 1781 – 1840.” In Before L. A.: Race, Space, and Municipal Power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894, 23–54. The Lamar Series in Western History Ser. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. Find at your local library. Access through ProQuest.

Vernon, Charles Clark. “A History of the San Gabriel Mountains.” The Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly 38, no. 1 (1956): 39–60. https://doi.org/10.2307/41168569. Access through JSTOR. Find at your local library.

Wayte, Beverly. “Linda Vista Revisited: From Indian Days to Modern Pasadenans: Part II.” Southern California Quarterly 73, no. 3 (1991): 251–78. https://doi.org/10.2307/41171581. Find at your local library. Access through JSTOR.

———. “Linda Vista Revisited: From Indian Days to Modern Pasadenans: Part III.” Southern California Quarterly 73, no. 4 (1991): 327–54. https://doi.org/10.2307/41171595. Find at your local library. Access through JSTOR.

———. “Linda Vista Revisited: From Indians to Modern-Day Pasadenans: Part I.” Southern California Quarterly 73, no. 2 (1991): 125–56. https://doi-org.electra.lmu.edu/10.2307/41171569. Find at your local library. Access through JSTOR.

Willard, Charles Dwight. The Herald’s History of Los Angeles City. Los Angeles, CA: Kingsley-Barnes & Neuner Co. Publishers, 1901. Find at your local library.

Williamson, M. Burton. “History of Santa Catalina Island.” Annual Publication of the Historical Society of Southern California and of the Pioneers of Los Angeles County 6, no. 1 (1903): 14–31. https://doi.org/10.2307/41169603. Find at your local library. Access through JSTOR.

Wilson, Benjamin Davis. The Indians of Southern California in 1852: The B.D. Wilson Report and a Selection of Contemporary Comment. Edited by John Walton Caughey. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995. Find at your local library.

Wilson, Benjamin Davis, and John Walton Caughey. The Indians of Southern California in 1852: The B. D. Wilson Report and a Selection of Contemporary Comment. 1st ed. Huntington Library Publications. San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1952. Find at your local library.