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William Deverell

William Deverell is the director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. Deverell is the author of numerous studies on the 19th and 20th-century American West and his recent publications include "Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past," and "Land of Sunshine: The Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles."
Recent Articles
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science fiction
Lost L.A.
What Makes L.A. the "Capital of Science Fiction"?
Post date: 2016-10-26T20:57:49-07:00A conversation about "Her," the Bradbury Building, JPL, Octavia Butler, and imagining utopic and dystopic futures for the City of Angels.
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Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
Who Was Charles Fletcher Lummis?
Post date: 2016-05-03T13:20:00-07:00Charles Lummis -- writer, photographer, collector, museum founder, city librarian -- kept himself busy for decades spreading a gospel about indigenous and regional Southwestern history and culture.
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Commentary
Fast, Faster L.A.: Looking at History to Steer Our Future
Post date: 2015-10-09T09:35:47-07:00We hang L.A. history on imperial expansion, of Spain and the United States.