Videos

Historian Alice Baumgartner recalled the lives of slaves who escaped the South for Mexico. This was a virtual event hosted by the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West.

Sharla Fett, author of Recaptured Africans: Surviving Slave Ships, Detention, and Dislocation in the Final Years of the Slave Trade; Benjamin Madley, author of An American Genocide: The Unit…

Steven Hackel, Junipero Serra: California’s Founding Father; Les Standiford, Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles; and Miriam Pawel, …

Authors talked about their books about Los Angeles. Topics included the marketing of the city, privatization, class and racial differences, and other urban issues. They responded to question…

Authors talked about their books on Los Angeles, California. Topics included the significance of their subjects and why they were chosen. They also responded to questions from members of the…