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 . . .

The coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) is unique among the trees of the world. Occupying only a narrow strip along the Pacific Coast of California, these trees are considered to be the oldest, largest, and most impressive of all living things. Prior . . .

The 1860 presidential election marked a crucial change in California state politics which paralleled a major national political change in the same year. It was the first time that the Republican party won a major victory in the state as well as in the . . .

This thesis offers an analysis of the Phoenix Program, a counterinsurgency operation during the Vietnam War. From 1967 to 1972, American military advisors worked with South Vietnamese military and police forces to defeat a Communist insurgency deeply . . .

Paul Warburg’s contributions to the movement for technocratic central banking reflected a teleological vision of the modern economy that rejected American exceptionalism. He believed that the US could only become a fully civilized country if it create . . .

The dam, a barrier to prevent the flow of water, is believed to be one of the primary and most basic tools of civilized man. The first dams, constructed of mud and twigs, were probably built to store or divert water for irrigation purposes. From these . . .

When gold was discovered at Sutter's mill by John Marshall on January 24, 1848, thousands of Americans, Europeans, Orientals and Mexicans flocked to California. Bancroft estimated California to have in residence in mid-1848 about 14,000 persons. In th . . .