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I would like to be more involved with LA history, both natural history and environmental history of LA, as well as the historical geography of LA, since I am a Geographer, not just an environmental biologist by academic training, which included also geology, anthropology and archaeology. I have had a few courses in Historical Geography at CSUN many years ago.
Peace,
Roy.....

Today it's traversed by the mighty 405, but as recently as 1934 only a winding, unpaved road snaked through Sepulveda Canyon.

Our directory of previously hidden archives and once-overlooked collections has been at the heart of L.A. as Subject since our founding in 1995. Now, with generous support from the California State Library, the USC Libraries are transforming the directory into a fully featured online portal to better serve researchers.

America's first woman police officer? By most accounts, it was Los Angeles' own Alice Stebbins Wells, who in 1910 successfully petitioned the city to change the law and allow a woman to serve on the force.

Jackie Robinson was born 100 years ago today. Best remembered for breaking Major League Baseball's color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, Robinson had previously accomplished himself as a student-athlete at UCLA and, pictured here, Pasadena City College.

To bring his Enchanted Tiki Room to life, Walt Disney borrowed technology from the Polaris nuclear missile launch system.