Below are a series of mini histories. These are brief histories of some aspect of Fullerton’s history, such as the history of Fullerton High School, or a history of Maple School. Some of them are book reports I’ve written on books that have proven useful to understand some aspect of local history, such as a history of migratory farm labor or of the California Native American genocide. Click each title to read more…
Orange County History @ The Bowers Museum
The Limits of Desegregation: a Story of Maple School
Factories in the Field: The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California (a book report)
Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right (a book report)
Richard Nixon’s Years at Fullerton High School
How Fullerton Benefitted from the New Deal
“Pastoral California”: The Story of a Mural
The Early History of Fullerton College
The “Americanization” Program at Fullerton High School
Louis Plummer’s History of Fullerton Union High School and Fullerton College
Charles Chapman and the Citrus Industry
The Roots of Inequality: The Citrus Industry Prospered on the Back of Segregated Immigrant Labor
Chinese Farm Labor and Exclusion in 19th Century California
Water Use in Early Orange County
The California Native American Genocide
Pio Pico: The Last Governor of Mexican California (a book report)
The Dark Legacy of the California Missions
The Expedition of Gaspar de Portola
Orange County Vietnam Veterans Against the War
Kids of the Black Hole: Punk in Southern California
A Brief History of the Hughes Plant in Fullerton
The Boom of the 1880s in Southern California
A History of Hawaiian Punch in Fullerton
Remembering the 1970 Student Strike at CSUF
Fullerton: The Boom Years (a book report)
Fullerton History 