California Historian Magazine

 

The California HISTORIAN is our flagship publication -- one of the many benefits of membership in the CCHS. As time permits, we will be posting an index of important articles in past issues. Some of the articles and book reviews will be posted on this site. However, if you want to get the benefits of the historic content of the California HISTORIAN -- and receive it early, we recommend that you become a member today.

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Previous Issues:

 

2004 to 2002

 

2001 to 1990

 
 
 
 

 

Spring 2011          (Vol 57, No. 3)

 
 
  • "Our Monitor:" the Odyssey of the Camanche
  • Lake bed may tell past, future
  • Plastered pigeons take a pass
  • Floods of 1800s changed coastline, brought shipping to Orange County
  • A walk through Ferndale Cemetery
  • Future governor walked from Illinois to Sacramento to join Gold Rush
  • The night Pablo Picasso heard the UC Berkeley fight song
  • National History Day (Calif) moves to OC Dept of Education
 
 

 

Fall & Winter 2011       (Vol 57, No. 1 & 2)

 
 
  • Lasers in eye surgery: A revolutionary impact on vision treatment (Stanford)
  • Raiding the railroaders: The Huntington heist
  • Jeffries vs. Johnson boxing match was an important event
  • The Coyote Flat murders
  • Rare Book room at State Library is dedicated to J. S. Holliday
  • Fossils found in Riverside dig predate LA La Brea tar pits
 
 

 

Summer 2010          (Vol 56, No. 3)

 
 
 

 
 

Spring 2010          (Vol 56, No. 2)

 
 
 

 
 

Summer/Fall 2009          (Vol 56, No. 1)

 
 
 
California Historian cover - Spring 2009
 
 

Spring 2009          (Vol 55, No. 3)

 
 
 

California Historian cover - Winter 2008
 

Winter 2008          (Vol 55, No. 2)

 
 
  • Calif. Suffragette Sought Equality and Vote
  • Fremont Raised American Flag on Gavilan Peak Defying Orders to Leave Alta, Calif.
  • California Connecting to Collections Project
  • Fall Symposium in Kern County
  • Famed Sacramento Bridge Needs New Home
  • Demise of Our Ceramic Industries
 
 

California Historian cover - Summer-Fall 2008
 

 

Summer-Fall-2008          (Vol 55, No. 1)

 
 
  • Conflicts and Compromises of the Japanese Journey to Assimilation in California
  • Retrace Footsteps of Von Schmidt & Sinclair, First Surveyors of California's Eastern Boundary
  • California Museum's 2008 Hall of Fame Inductees
  • Death of a Valley: Master Photographers Catch Last Glimpses of Monticello & Berryessa Valley
  • CCHS Annual Meeting - Seeing Los Angeles Today
  • 2008 National History Day Winners
  • Awards of Merit Winners
 
California Historian magazine, Spring 2008 issue  

Spring 2008          (Vol 54, No. 3)

 
 
 
California Historian magazine, Winter 2007-2008 issue
 
 

Winter 2007-2008          (Vol 54, No. 2)

 
 
 

California Historian magazine, Fall 2007  issue
 

Fall 2007          (Vol 54, No. 1)

 
 
  • The Chumash Indians of Santa Ynez Valley
  • The Narrow Gauge Railroad
  • Native Sons of the Golden West
  • Pea Soup Andersens
  • Bob Hope Airport in Burbank
  • Port Reyes National Seashore
  • CCHS Awards to Outstanding Contributions to Preserving History
  • Santa Ynez Valley Annual Meeting
 

 

Summer 2007          (Vol 53, No. 4)

 
 
  • History Day 2007
  • Chinese Exclusion Act: the Age of Darkness
  • Galt Teens Presented Young Historians Gold Seals
  • Californians and their Gardens
  • Cucamonga Valley
  • Early Town of Lankershim

 

 


 
 

Spring 2007          (Vol 53, No. 3)

 
 
  • Former governor's abodes
  • History of the Cupertino Post Office
  • Establishment of the first Continental overland mail
  • Brief History of Templeton
  • Woodmen of the World
  • Treasures in your attic
  • Colynn Wood-Hard
  • El Roy Nathan
  • Cupertino Vintner John Doyle
 
 

Winter 2006-2007          (Vol 53, No. 2)

 
 
  • The Mysterious Arabella Huntington
  • Memories of the 1938 Flood
  • Cheviot Hills
  • Brief History of Galt
  • Women in logging
  • Oakland Fall Symposium Overview
  • Remember Burma-Shave Signs?
  • Willa Klug Baum
 
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Fall 2006          (Vol 53, No. 1)

 
 
 
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Summer 2006          (Vol 52, No. 4)

 
  • Irene Neasham: California's First Lady of History
  • Mr. California - Tribute to Dr. Rockwell Dennis Hunt
  • Recalling CCHS roots... How the Conference Came to be
  • The death of David Terry: Justifiable homicide or murder
  • Snowshoe Thompson: The Sierra's most famous postman
  • Mexican Americans taking a stand against segregation in the 1930s and 1940s.
 
 

Spring 2006          (Vol 52, No. 3)

 
 

 

Winter 2005          (Vol 52, No. 2)

 
 
  • West's Pioneer Railroad Celebrates Sesquicentennial
  • Salinas Tied to Fertile Land
  • Sacramento Pioneers Reinterred
  • CCHS Fall 2005 Symposium in Monterey
  • Santa Ana Historical Preservation Society Wins Governor's Award
  • Edward Fitzgerald "Ned" Beale

 

 
 

Fall 2005          (Vol 52, No. 1)

 
 
 

Summer 2005          (Vol 51, No. 4)

 
  • William Alexander Leidesdorff, pioneer leader
  • Local history: What's wrong & what's right?
  • California's past fortells her future
  • Banjo Connection
  • Kelso Depot in Mojave restored
  • Bancroft Library relocates
  • San Bernardino's famed Santa Fe depot reborn
  • History of Delano
 
 

Spring 2005          (Vol 51, No. 3)

 
  • Alberto de Cordoba -- "engineer extraordinary"
  • Ole Hanson's Dream (San Clemente)
  • From the Gold Rush to Camp Pendleton - O'Neill, Flood, Forster, 1849-2005
  • Cahuilla call the Coachella Valley Home
  • Julia Morgan - pioneer 20th century architect
  • Lava Beds National Monument -- the Modoc War
  • CCHS Symposium in Coachella Valley
 

Previous Issues:

 

2004 to 2002

 

2001 to 1990

 
 

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