Public Los Angeles is a collection of unpublished essays by scholar Don Parson focusing on little-known characters and histories located in the first half of tw

What? Los Angeles was the original wine country of California, leading the state's wine production for more than a century? Los Angeles County was the agricultu

Shades of L.A., a collection of more than one hundred photographs selected from the family albums of eight different communities, makes available, for the first

Shows how science and public health shaped the meaning of race in the early twentieth century. Examining the experiences of Mexican, Japanese, and Chinese immig

Architect and urban designer Suisman lays out his views on the urban structure of Los Angeles, exemplified by the long boulevards that cut across the urban body