Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West
@huscicw.bsky.social
A teaching, research, and service initiative focused on the history and culture of the modern American West.
Together with white allies and Chinese across the Pacific, Chinese denizens of the United States formed one of the largest civil disobedience movements of their century. At stake was the future of exclusion and the avenues of belonging for Chinese in America.
November 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Together with white allies and Chinese across the Pacific, Chinese denizens of the United States formed one of the largest civil disobedience movements of their century. At stake was the future of exclusion and the avenues of belonging for Chinese in America.
In 1892, the Geary Act dramatically expanded Chinese exclusion by requiring all Chinese immigrants in the United States to register, under threat of deportation. This article unearths the transpacific networks of people and ideas that are revealed by, and mobilized against, the Geary Act.
November 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
In 1892, the Geary Act dramatically expanded Chinese exclusion by requiring all Chinese immigrants in the United States to register, under threat of deportation. This article unearths the transpacific networks of people and ideas that are revealed by, and mobilized against, the Geary Act.
🧵 New, noteworthy, and open-access Western scholarship!
Our partners at Pacific Historical Review @ucpress have made a piece from their new issue open to our readers and the public: “’No Chinese Should Obey It’: A Transpacific History of the Geary Act” by Alexander Jin.
Our partners at Pacific Historical Review @ucpress have made a piece from their new issue open to our readers and the public: “’No Chinese Should Obey It’: A Transpacific History of the Geary Act” by Alexander Jin.
November 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
🧵 New, noteworthy, and open-access Western scholarship!
Our partners at Pacific Historical Review @ucpress have made a piece from their new issue open to our readers and the public: “’No Chinese Should Obey It’: A Transpacific History of the Geary Act” by Alexander Jin.
Our partners at Pacific Historical Review @ucpress have made a piece from their new issue open to our readers and the public: “’No Chinese Should Obey It’: A Transpacific History of the Geary Act” by Alexander Jin.
Every year students in our high school program work a shift at the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank. We’ve witnessed firsthand how they provide crucial resources for families facing food insecurity.
If you can, please consider supporting the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank: lafoodbank.org
If you can, please consider supporting the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank: lafoodbank.org
November 7, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Every year students in our high school program work a shift at the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank. We’ve witnessed firsthand how they provide crucial resources for families facing food insecurity.
If you can, please consider supporting the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank: lafoodbank.org
If you can, please consider supporting the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank: lafoodbank.org
Really important project from Million Dollar Hoods and @uclacilp.bsky.social explaining the history of race, immigration, and deportations in the US. It's an excellent teaching tool!
mappingdeportations.com
mappingdeportations.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Really important project from Million Dollar Hoods and @uclacilp.bsky.social explaining the history of race, immigration, and deportations in the US. It's an excellent teaching tool!
mappingdeportations.com
mappingdeportations.com
📸 Basque sheep herder leading pack train down from summer camp in Bear Valley, Adams County, Idaho, 1939. Dorothea Lange, Library of Congress.
Read the full article (free!): online.ucpress.edu/phr
Read the full article (free!): online.ucpress.edu/phr
October 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
📸 Basque sheep herder leading pack train down from summer camp in Bear Valley, Adams County, Idaho, 1939. Dorothea Lange, Library of Congress.
Read the full article (free!): online.ucpress.edu/phr
Read the full article (free!): online.ucpress.edu/phr
October 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
📸 Sheepherder “tying his horse to chuck wagon [i.e., sheepherder's wagon],” Madison County, Montana, 1939. Arthur Rothstein, Library of Congress.
October 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
📸 Sheepherder “tying his horse to chuck wagon [i.e., sheepherder's wagon],” Madison County, Montana, 1939. Arthur Rothstein, Library of Congress.
October 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
📸 Basque sheepherder, Dangberg Ranch, Douglas County, Nevada, 1940. Arthur Rothstein, Library of Congress.
October 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
📸 Basque sheepherder, Dangberg Ranch, Douglas County, Nevada, 1940. Arthur Rothstein, Library of Congress.
📸 Sheepherders and lambing tents, Madison County, Montana, 1939. Arthur Rothstein, Library of Congress.
October 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
📸 Sheepherders and lambing tents, Madison County, Montana, 1939. Arthur Rothstein, Library of Congress.
🧵Check out this new and award-winning piece from our friends at Pacific Historical Review by Iker Saitua at Univ of the Basque Country—”‘Labor Freezing’: Spanish-Basque Immigrants, Mexican Labor, and the Sheepherder Shortage in the American West during the Second World War.”
online.ucpress.edu/phr
online.ucpress.edu/phr
October 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
🧵Check out this new and award-winning piece from our friends at Pacific Historical Review by Iker Saitua at Univ of the Basque Country—”‘Labor Freezing’: Spanish-Basque Immigrants, Mexican Labor, and the Sheepherder Shortage in the American West during the Second World War.”
online.ucpress.edu/phr
online.ucpress.edu/phr
Join ICW co-directors Bill Deverell and Elizabeth Logan for tomorrow's @dornsife.usc.edu Dialogues!
From Gold Rush to Gigabytes: California’s 175 Years of Change and Reinvention
Oct. 23, 2025 at 12:00 pm PT
RSVP: dornsife.usc.edu/dornsife-alu...
From Gold Rush to Gigabytes: California’s 175 Years of Change and Reinvention
Oct. 23, 2025 at 12:00 pm PT
RSVP: dornsife.usc.edu/dornsife-alu...
October 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Join ICW co-directors Bill Deverell and Elizabeth Logan for tomorrow's @dornsife.usc.edu Dialogues!
From Gold Rush to Gigabytes: California’s 175 Years of Change and Reinvention
Oct. 23, 2025 at 12:00 pm PT
RSVP: dornsife.usc.edu/dornsife-alu...
From Gold Rush to Gigabytes: California’s 175 Years of Change and Reinvention
Oct. 23, 2025 at 12:00 pm PT
RSVP: dornsife.usc.edu/dornsife-alu...
Next week's @dornsife.usc.edu Dialogues will be hosted by ICW's very own co-directors, Bill Deverell and Elizabeth Logan!
From Gold Rush to Gigabytes: California’s 175 Years of Change and Reinvention
Oct. 23, 2025 at 12:00 pm PT
RSVP: dornsife.usc.edu/dornsife-alu...
From Gold Rush to Gigabytes: California’s 175 Years of Change and Reinvention
Oct. 23, 2025 at 12:00 pm PT
RSVP: dornsife.usc.edu/dornsife-alu...
October 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Next week's @dornsife.usc.edu Dialogues will be hosted by ICW's very own co-directors, Bill Deverell and Elizabeth Logan!
From Gold Rush to Gigabytes: California’s 175 Years of Change and Reinvention
Oct. 23, 2025 at 12:00 pm PT
RSVP: dornsife.usc.edu/dornsife-alu...
From Gold Rush to Gigabytes: California’s 175 Years of Change and Reinvention
Oct. 23, 2025 at 12:00 pm PT
RSVP: dornsife.usc.edu/dornsife-alu...
6/ Remains of a home following a fire in Malibu in the late 1950s. Pepperdine Libraries.
October 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
6/ Remains of a home following a fire in Malibu in the late 1950s. Pepperdine Libraries.
5/ A burning hillside in Malibu during the Old Topanga Fire, 1993. The fire burned 18,000 acres and destroyed 323 structures. Pepperdine Libraries.
October 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
5/ A burning hillside in Malibu during the Old Topanga Fire, 1993. The fire burned 18,000 acres and destroyed 323 structures. Pepperdine Libraries.
4/ Firetruck in the “flamed-scarred” Topanga-Malibu area where a fire threatened countless homes, 1943. Los Angeles Public Library.
October 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
4/ Firetruck in the “flamed-scarred” Topanga-Malibu area where a fire threatened countless homes, 1943. Los Angeles Public Library.
3/ Firefighters and photographers flee a wildfire in Malibu with flames just feet behind them after a sudden shift of the wind caused flames to shoot toward them, 1957. Pepperdine Libraries.
October 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
3/ Firefighters and photographers flee a wildfire in Malibu with flames just feet behind them after a sudden shift of the wind caused flames to shoot toward them, 1957. Pepperdine Libraries.
2/ A wildfire endangers a house on the PCH in eastern Malibu, 1956. Pepperdine Libraries.
October 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
2/ A wildfire endangers a house on the PCH in eastern Malibu, 1956. Pepperdine Libraries.
🧵1/ To accompany his recent piece for our blog, author Wade Graham sat down for a conversation with ICW co-director Bill Deverell. They talked about the long history and future of fire in Malibu.
Hear all of their conversation and read Wade’s recent piece: dornsife.usc.edu/icw/west-on-fire.
Hear all of their conversation and read Wade’s recent piece: dornsife.usc.edu/icw/west-on-fire.
October 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
🧵1/ To accompany his recent piece for our blog, author Wade Graham sat down for a conversation with ICW co-director Bill Deverell. They talked about the long history and future of fire in Malibu.
Hear all of their conversation and read Wade’s recent piece: dornsife.usc.edu/icw/west-on-fire.
Hear all of their conversation and read Wade’s recent piece: dornsife.usc.edu/icw/west-on-fire.
In Conversation with William Schultz
Thursday, October 2, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00 pm PST
Join us for a conversation with Dr. William Schultz about his forthcoming book, Jesus Springs: Evangelical Capitalism and the Fate of an American City.
Register Now: bit.ly/willschultz
Thursday, October 2, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00 pm PST
Join us for a conversation with Dr. William Schultz about his forthcoming book, Jesus Springs: Evangelical Capitalism and the Fate of an American City.
Register Now: bit.ly/willschultz
September 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
In Conversation with William Schultz
Thursday, October 2, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00 pm PST
Join us for a conversation with Dr. William Schultz about his forthcoming book, Jesus Springs: Evangelical Capitalism and the Fate of an American City.
Register Now: bit.ly/willschultz
Thursday, October 2, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00 pm PST
Join us for a conversation with Dr. William Schultz about his forthcoming book, Jesus Springs: Evangelical Capitalism and the Fate of an American City.
Register Now: bit.ly/willschultz
7/7 Aimee kneeling on stage preaching to followers during a revival in Boston in 1931. Copyright protected. Used by express consent of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel.
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September 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM
7/7 Aimee kneeling on stage preaching to followers during a revival in Boston in 1931. Copyright protected. Used by express consent of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel.
Join us! bit.ly/sistersinner
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6/7 Aimee opened her Angelus Temple on New Year’s Day 1923. Arguably the nation’s first mega church, the Angelus Temple seated 6,000 people, with a vast staff that held multiple services a day. Copyright protected. Used by express consent of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel.
September 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM
6/7 Aimee opened her Angelus Temple on New Year’s Day 1923. Arguably the nation’s first mega church, the Angelus Temple seated 6,000 people, with a vast staff that held multiple services a day. Copyright protected. Used by express consent of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel.
5/7 Left: Herald Examiner Collection, Los Angeles Public Library.
Right: Used by express consent of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel.
Right: Used by express consent of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel.
September 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM
5/7 Left: Herald Examiner Collection, Los Angeles Public Library.
Right: Used by express consent of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel.
Right: Used by express consent of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel.
4/7 Aimee used all the talent that Hollywood had to offer to help her bring her sermons to life at the Angelus Temple, employing elaborate sets, dancers, musicians, and wild animals. Her services were dubbed the best show in town. 1931. Herald Examiner Collection, Los Angeles Public Library.
September 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM
4/7 Aimee used all the talent that Hollywood had to offer to help her bring her sermons to life at the Angelus Temple, employing elaborate sets, dancers, musicians, and wild animals. Her services were dubbed the best show in town. 1931. Herald Examiner Collection, Los Angeles Public Library.