Historians have generally ignored James Ben Ali Haggin, even though he represented one of the wealthiest and most influential entrepreneurs in West. And those who have written about Haggin have offered at best a cursory view of his Rancho Del Paso, wh . . .

In 1941, counties in northern California and southern Oregon expressed a growing dissatisfaction with their respective governments' inadequate attention to the needs of these communities to either develop their economic infrastructure, nor address the . . .

The objective of this thesis critically examines the Cold War framework offered by the leading scholar of the conflict, John Lewis Gaddis. His analysis is narrowed down to three maxims, or principles, that are then subjected to a case study: the 1973 . . .

California's Civil Addict Program, a statewide compulsory civil commitment treatment program for narcotics addicts headed by the Department of Corrections, emerged within the context of new applied therapeutic perspectives in dealing with narcotics ad . . .

This thesis examines the strike that resultedfrom the 1979 case of sexual discrimination filed by Toni Lee Gilbertson against the Simpson Timber Company in Shelton, Washington. The thesis explores the responses of Gilbertson, the Washington State bure . . .

Following World War Two, federal legislation allowed leaders in American cities to implement aggressive programs of urban renewal. Designed to revitalize neighborhoods blighted by decades of neglect, such programs often razed a city’s oldest and poore . . .

In 1911, California's Progressive legislature passed an act that limited a woman's working day in certain occupations to eight hours. The courts upheld the California Woman's Eighthour Bill on the grounds that a woman's role as the mother of succeedin . . .

The Kindertransport, a British scheme to bring unaccompanied mostly Jewish refugee children threatened by Nazism to Great Britain, occupies a unique place in modern British history. In the months leading up to the Second World War, it brought over 10, . . .

This thesis offers an analysis of the life of Rena Marie Vale (1898-1983), a professional anticommunist crusader who likely shaped the agenda if not the personality of the California Un-American Activities Committee (CUAC) in the 1960s. Topics explore . . .

Britain relied upon the practice of impressment to man its navy until the late 19th century. The feudal system of the Norman period provided precedent for such a method of recruiting. The successive lines of English kings recognized the strength of su . . .