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 . . .

Detailed information on economic losses suffered by Japanese American internees is scarce, especially community-specific detail. This study helps to address this problem by examining Japanese American landownership in communities within Sacramento and . . .

On December 26 1908, to the disdain of white Americans, an African American pugilist captured the laurels of the heavyweight championship of the world. Becoming the seventh heavyweight champion in modern history and more significantly setting the prec . . .

In Looking Backward, A Modern Utopia, and Moving the Mountain, Edward Bellamy, H.G. Wells, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, respectively, refashioned conceptions of women’s roles as the basis for their visions of economic and social order. Although each . . .

Between the end of World War I and the passage of the Radio Act of 1927, the business of radio broadcasting in the United States developed rapidly. When Congress passed the Radio Act of 1927 as a means of regulating broadcasting, it did so without an . . .

Long before written record, men and women have known the healing properties of herbs and medicinal arts have been practiced even before the first civilizations emerged. This ancient tradition of treating infirmity with herbal medicants was especially . . .

Abstract of ONEIDA‟S UTOPIA: A RELIGIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENT by Katherine Anne Heim The Oneida Community was a Perfectionist communal venture undertaken in Madison County, New York from 1848 until 1881. The group‟s leader, John Humphrey Noyes, a . . .

This study focuses on an area within northern California during the nineteenth century. Specifically, the following study provides insight into the early history of Folsom, California. Generally, this work examines the intersection of two different wo . . .

In 1855, a small group of predominately Mexican men murdered five white people and one Native American man in the now non-existent mining town of Lower Rancheria in Amador County, California. In the wake of the Rancheria massacre, the Anglo-American r . . .

The 1954 overthrow of President Jacobo Arbenz Gúzman orchestrated by the United States has been approached by various points of view by different historians. While many aspects of the overthrow such as the involvement of the Central Intelligence Agenc . . .