Recommended Reading |
Special thanks to Los Angeles A toZ by Leonard Pitt and Dale Pitt |
| Abelmann & John Lie, Blue Dreams: Korean Americans and the Los Angeles Riots, 1995 |
| Abu-Lughod, Janet L. New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities, 1999 |
| Acuna, Rodolfo F. A Community Under Siege: A Chronicle of Chicago East of the Los Angeles River, 1949-1975, Chicano Studies Research Center, 1984. |
| Acuna, Rodolfo F., Anything But Mexican: Chicanos in Contemporary Los Angeles, 1996 |
| Allen, James P. and Eugene Turner. The Ethnic Quilt: Population Diversity in Southern California, 1997 |
| Apostol, Jane. Painting with Light: A Centennial History of the Judson Studios, 1997 |
| Banham, Reyner. Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies: Penquin Books, 1971 |
| Baur, John E. The Health Seekers of Southern California, Huntington Library, 1959 |
| Bell, Horace. Reminiscences of a Ranger, Anderson, Ritchie & Simon, 1965 |
| Bengstrom, John. Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, 2000 |
| Brodsly, David. L.A. Freeway: An Appreciative Essay, University of California Press, 1981 |
| Brownlow, Kevin. Hollywood: The Pioneers. Knopf, 1979 |
| Caughey, John, and LaRee Caughey, eds. Los Angeles: Biography of a City, University of California Press, 1976 |
| Chang, Edward T. and Russell C. Leong. Los Angeles-- Struggles toward Multiethnic Community: Asian, African American and Latino Perspectives, Washington Press, 1994 |
| Chavez, John R. Eastside Landmark: A History of the East Los Angeles Community Union, 1968-1993, 1998 |
| Clark, David. A History of the California Club, 1887-1997, 1997 |
| Cleland, Robert Glass. The Cattle on a Thousand Hills: Southern California: 1850-1880, Huntington Library, 1951 |
| Cole, Carolyn Kozo, Kathy Kobayashi. Shades of L.A.: Pictures from Ethnic Family Albums, 1996 |
| Comer, Virginia, Angel's Flight: A History of Bunker Hill's Incline Railway, 1996 |
| Corwin, Miles. The Killing Season: A Summer Inside an LAPD Homicide Division, 1997 |
| Cuff, Dana. The Provisional City: Los Angeles Stories of Architecture and Urbanism, 2000 |
| Dakin, Susanna B. A Scotch Paisano in Old Los Angeles: Hugo Reid's Life in California: 1832-1852, University of California Press, 1939 |
| Davis, Clark. Company Men: White-Collar Life and Corporate Cultures in Los Angeles, 1892-1941, 2000 |
| Davis, Margaret Leslie. Bullocks Wilshire, 1996 |
| Davis, Margaret Leslie. The Los Angeles Biltmore: The Host of the Coast, 1998 |
| Davis, Margaret Leslie. Dark Side of Fortune: Triumph and Scandal in the Life of Oil Tycoon Edward L. Doheny, 1998 |
| Davis, Mike. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. Vintage Books, 1992 |
| Davis, Mike. Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster, 1998 |
| Davis, Mike. Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the U.S. Big City, 2000 |
| Dawes, Amy, Michael Diehl and Others. Imagining Los Angeles: Photographs of a 20th Century City, 2000 |
| Dear, Michael, H. Eric Shockman and Greg Hise. Rethinking Los Angeles, 1996 |
| Duke, Donald. Incline Railways of Los Angeles and Southern California, 1998 |
| Dumke, Glenn. The Boom of the Eighties in Southern California. Huntington Library, 1966 |
| Eberts, Mike, Griffith Park: A Centennial History, 1996 |
| Escobar, Edward J. Race, Politics and the Making of a Political Identity, 1999 |
| Fine, David. Imagining Los Angeles: A City in Fiction, 2000 |
| Fogelson, Robert. The Fragmented Metropolis: Los Angeles 1850-1930, Harvard University Press, 1967 |
| Frederich, Otto. City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s, Harper & Row, 1980 |
| Fulton, William. The Reluctant Metropolis: The Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles, 1997 |
| Gebhard, David and Robert Winter. Los Angeles: An Architectural Guide, Peregrine Smith, 1975 |
| Getty Research Institute. Cultural Inheritance/L.A.: A Directory of Less-Visible Archives and Collections in the Los Angeles Region, 1999 |
| Griswold del Castillo. The Los Angeles Barrio, 1850-1890, University of California Press, 1979 |
| Gumbrecht, Blake. The Los Angeles River: It's Life, Death and Possible Rebirth, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999 |
| Hayden, Dolores, The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History, 1995 |
| Henstell, Bruce. Los Angeles: An Illustrated History, Knopf, 1980 |
| Hine, Robert V. California's Utopian Colonies. University of California Press, 1985 |
| Hines, Thomas S. Irving Gill and the Architecture of Reform, 2000 |
| Hise, Greg. Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth Century Metopolis, 1997 |
| Hise, Greg and William Deverell. Eden by Design: The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Plan for the Los Angeles Region, 2000 |
| Hoffman, Abraham. Vision or Villainy: Origins of the Owens Valley-Los Angeles Water Controversy, Chronicle Books, 1991 |
| Horton, John, et.al., The Politics of Diversity: Immigration, Resistance and change in Monterey Park, California, 1995 |
| Hunt, Darnell M. Screening the Los Angeles "riots": Race, Seeing and Resistance, 1997 |
| Kahrl, William L. Water and Power: The Conflict over Los Angeles' Water Supply in the Owens Valley, University of California Press, 1982 |
| Keil, Roger. Los Angeles: Globalization, Urbanization and Social Change, 1998 |
| Kielbasa, John R. Historic Adobes of Los Angeles County, 1997 |
| Kim, Elaine H. and Eue-Young Yu. East to America. New Press 1996 |
| Klein, Norman M., and Martin G. Scheisel, eds. 20th Century Los Angeles: Power, Promotion and Social Conflict. Regina Books, 1990 |
| Klein, Norman M. The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory, 1997 |
| Lillard, Richard G. Eden in Jeopardy: Man's Prodigal Meddling with His Environment: The Southern California Experience. Knopf, 1966 |
| Longstreth, Richard. City Center to Regional Mall: Architecture, the Automobile, and Retailing in Los Angeles, 1920-1950, 1997 |
| Longstreth, Richard. The Drive-in, the Supermarket, and the Transformation of Commercial Space in Los Angeles, 1914-1941, 1999 |
| Lothrop, Gloria. A Tribute to Ethnic Diversity in Los Angeles, Historical Society of Southern California Publications, 1994 |
| Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia and Tridib Banerjee. Urban Design Downtown: Poetics and Politics of Form, 1998 |
| Martinez, Al. City of Angels: A Drive-by Portrait of Los Angeles, 1996 |
| Mazon, Mauricio. The Zoot Suit Riots: The Psychology Symbolic Annihilation. University of Texas Press, 1984 |
| McCawley, William, The First Angelinos: The Gabrielino Indians of Los Angeles, 1996 |
| McClung, William. Landscapes of Desire: Anglo Mythologies of Los Angeles, 2000 |
| McWilliams, Carey. Southern California: An Island on the Land. Peregrin Smith, 1973 |
| Monroy, Douglas. Rebirth: Mexican Los Angeles from the Great Migration to the Great Depression, 1999 |
| Mullholland, Catherine, The Owensmouth Baby: The Making of a San Fernando Valley Town, Santa Susana Press, 1987 |
| Mullholland, Catherine. William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles, 2000 |
| Nadeau, Remi A. City-Makers: The Men Who Transformed Los Angeles from Village to Metropolis, 1868-76, Doubleday, 1948 |
| Newmark, Harris. Sixty Years in Southern California: 1853-1913, Houghton-Mifflin, 1916 |
| Normark, Don. Chavez Ravine, 1949: A Los Angeles Story, 1999 |
| Nunis, Doyce B., Jr. ed. Southern California's Spanish Heritage: An Anthology, Historical Society of Southern California, 1992 |
| Ovnick, Merry. Los Angeles: The End of the Rainbow. Balcony Press, 1994 |
| Pardo, Mary S. Mexican-American Women Activists: Indentity and Resistance in Two Los Angeles Communities, 1998 |
| Pitt, Leonard. The Decline of the Californios: A Social History of the Spanish-Speaking Californians, 1846-1890, University of California Press, 1966 |
| Pitt, Leonard and Dale Pitt, Los Angeles: A-Z, University of California Press, 1997 |
| Rasmussen, Cecilia, L.A. Unconventional, 1998 |
| Robinson, W.W. Los Angeles from the Days of the Pueblo, California Historical Society, 1959 |
| Rolfe, Lionel. Literary L.A., Chronicle Books, 1981 |
| Rolle, Andrew. California: A History, H. Davidson, 1987 |
| Romo, Ricardo. East Los Angeles: History of a Barrio, University of Texas Press, 1981 |
| Rudd, Hynda (ed.). Los Angeles and Its Environs in The Twentieth Century: A Bibliography of a Metropolis, 1970-1990, 1996 |
| Scott, Allen J. and Edward J. Soja. The City: Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the Twentieth Century, 1997 |
| Siegel, Fred. The Future Once Happened Here, 1997 |
| Sitton, Tom. The Haynes Foundation and Urban Reform Philanthropy in Los Angeles: A History of the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, 1999 |
| Soja, Edward. W., Thirdspace: Journeys to Los Angeles and Other Real-and-Imagined Places, 1996 |
| Smith, Jack. Jack Smith's L.A., McGraw-Hill, 1980 |
| Smith, Sarah Bixby. Adobe Days, Torch Press, 1925 |
| Sonenshein, Raphael J. Politics in Black and White: Race and Power in Los Angeles, Princeton University Press, 1993 |
| Stanic, Borislav, Museum Companion to Los Angeles, 1996 |
| Starr, Kevin. Inventing the Dream: California Through the Progressive Era, Oxford University Press, 1986 |
| Starr, Kevin. Material Dreams: Southern California Through the 1920s, Oxford University Press, 1990 |
| Torrence, Bruce. Hollywood: The First 100 Years, Zoetrope Press, 1982 |
| Tygiel, Jules. The Great Los Angeles Swindle, Oxford University Press, 1994 |
| Vorspan, Max and Lloyd P. Gartner. History of the Jews of Los Angeles, Huntington Library, 1970 |
| Waldinger, Roger and Mehdi Bozorgmehr, eds. Ethnic Los Angeles, 1996 |
| Weaver, John. El Pueblo Grande, Ward Ritchie Press, 1971 |
| Winter, Robert. The California Bungalow, Hennessey & Ingalls, 1980 |
| Woolsey, Ronald C. Migrants West: Toward the Southern California Frontier, Grizzly Bear Publishing, 1996 |
| Wolf, Marvin J. and Katherine Mader, Fallen Angels: Chronicles of L.A. Crime and Mystery, Ballantine Books, 1988 |