The Los Angeles City Historical Society invites you to watch a previously recorded webinar Britton Gustafson, UCLA History PhD student, who will discuss how the Los Angeles Pneumonic Plague Epidemic of 1924 served as the final urban plague outbreak in the U.S., and how a robust public health intervention prevented the outbreak from engulfing the entire city.
Watch the recorded presentations with two of our 2021 LACHS Scholarship recipients:
A Municipal Tail: The Rise of Animal Control in Los Angeles, 1880-1909
Sean McCaskill, CSU Northridge
La migra in 1980s Los Angeles: Exploitation, unemployment, and the legality of the INS raids
Arnoldo Toral, CSU Northridge
Watch the recorded presentations with two of our 2021 LACHS Scholarship recipients:
Calaveras in the Streets: Chicano Death, Art, and Día de los Muertos in Los Angeles, 1970-1980
Ariel Xochitl Hernandez, CSU Los Angeles
The Most Amazing Chapter in the Southland’s History: Mythmaking and Boosterism in the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics
Chris Fennessy, CSU Los Angeles
Watch the recorded presentations with two of our 2021 LACHS Scholarship recipients:
Sorry Charlie: How a Cartoon Fish Became America’s most Enduring Icon of Counterculture Capitalism
Angela Romero, CSU Long Beach
The Formula for a Massacre: Growing Stereotypes and Rising Tensions Towards the Chinese Community in the Late 1800s
Valeria Martinez, CSU Long Beach
George Rodriguez has been a professional photographer since the 1960s. During those five decades, he has photographed some of the most famous movie and television celebrities of our time as well as rock stars and sports heroes. But Rodriguez has also documented the culture and political events of the Mexican-American community in Los Angeles. The result is a compelling body of work that reveals two very distinct views of Los Angeles: life on the red carpet and life on the streets. His work is a visual record of some of the seminal episodes in the city’s history: the Sunset Strip riots of the 60s, the Chicano movement of the early 70s, the United Farm Workers movement and the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
