Shaping History
Shaping History

Author: Helen Geracimos Chapin

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 1996-07-01

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 0824864271

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Just a decade after the first printing press arrived in Honolulu in 1820, American Protestant missionaries produced the first newspaper in the islands. More than a thousand daily, weekly, or monthly papers in nine different languages have appeared since then. Today they are often considered a secondary source of information, but in their heyday Hawai‘i’s newspapers formed one of the most diversified, vigorous, and influential presses in the world. In this original and timely work, Helen Geracimos Chapin charts the role Hawai‘i’s newspapers played in shaping major historic events in the islands and how the rise of the newspaper abetted the rise of American influence in Hawai‘i. Shaping History is based on a wide selection of written and oral sources, including extensive interviews with journalists and others working in the newspaper industry. Students of journalism and Hawaiian history will find this comprehensive history of Hawai‘i’s newspapers especially valuable.

Up and Down California in 1860-1864
Up and Down California in 1860-1864

Author: William Henry Brewer

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 630

ISBN-13: 9780520027626

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The journal seems to contain information for everyone regardless of one's interest...Each page of this almost six hundred page journal is crammed with facts and descriptions. So much of interest is contained in every entry that each re-reading will reveal many interesting incidents or observations not quite grasped on the first perusal....This book will be a valuable source to all students of California or United States history and to the casual readers as well.

Lynching in the West, 1850-1935
Lynching in the West, 1850-1935

Author: Ken Gonzales-Day

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9780822337942

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This visual and textual study of lynchings that took place in California between 1850 and 1935 shows that race-based lynching in the United States reached far beyond the South.

From Cows to Concrete
From Cows to Concrete

Author: Rachel Surls

Publisher: Angel City Press

Published: 2016-05-14

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781626400313

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What? Los Angeles was the original wine country of California, leading the state's wine production for more than a century? Los Angeles County was the agricultural center of North America until the 1950s? And where today's freeways soar, cows calmly chewed their cud? How could that be? Los Angeles, the capital of asphalt and Klieg lights, was once a paradise filled with grapevines and bovines, so abundant with Nature's gifts that no one could imagine a more pastoral place? Los Angeles County was the center of an agricultural empire. Today, it is the nation's most populous urban metropolis. What happened? Where did the green go? As Americans connect with gardens, farmers markets, and urban farms, most are unaware that each of these activities have deep roots in Los Angeles, and that the healthy food they savor literally had its roots in L.A. This book is for all who treasure the country's agrarian history.

The Fraser Mines Vindicated, Or, The History of Four Months [microform]
The Fraser Mines Vindicated, Or, The History of Four Months [microform]

Author: Alfred 1800?-1872 Waddington

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2021-09-10

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13: 9781015043909

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