This work chronicles the construction of two nineteenth-century train robbers from Tulare County, California into social bandits. It presents the context of late nineteenth-century California as an essential element in creating a social bandit, and su . . .

This thesis aims to examine the reasons for the Saints’ settlement in and subsequent expulsion from Jackson County. It also presents the Saints’ attempts at reinstatement. Historians generally attribute the Saints’ religion as the cause of their expul . . .

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 . . .

This work demonstrates the consequences of conflict over timber between the British imperial government and Anglo-Atlantic colonies. English colonists in the North Atlantic quickly turned to the available forestlands to meet their needs for survival a . . .

The purpose of this consultant’s report is to identify current archival best practices that will serve as a foundation for maintaining, preserving, and making accessible Martinez Historical Society’s (MHS) collections for researchers and the public. A . . .

In December of 1974, the Sacramento City Council adopted the city’s first historic preservation ordinance. The measure represented a triumph for Sacramento’s citizen preservationists. Seeking to strengthen the city’s livability, they wasted little tim . . .

This research seeks to understand how the National Farm Worker Association and the newspaper, El Malcriado: Voice of the Farm Worker engaged farmworker and activist identity during the Delano grape strike, and ensuing nation-wide boycott. It analyzes . . .

Roughly one million American servicemen married foreign women while serving abroad during World War II. After the war, these foreign “war brides” immigrated to the United States en masse. “Journey of Love” is an oral history-based research project tha . . .

The 1979 National Register documentation of the Minidoka Relocation Center, a nomination from 1979, was outdated and insufficient. The historic context was lacking, and only a handful of extant historical buildings were included in the old site nomina . . .

The California State Railroad Museum Foundation (CSRMF) emerged out of a vast network of docents, fundraisers, state workers and interested citizens involved in the 1976 opening of the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento, California. The Ca . . .