William Deverell
William Deverell is the director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. Deverell is the author of numerous studies on the 19th and 20th-century American West and his recent publications include "Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past," and "Land of Sunshine: The Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles."
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Rare photographs surface of L.A.'s Chinatown in the early 1930s. These photographs are being used to bring the original Chinatown — on what is now Union Station — to AR life.
A new podcast explores the people who lived in Chinatown and examines historical issues, as well as new questions that affect Chinatown, Los Angeles and beyond.
A podcast from the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West places wildfire in historical context and explores fire from the margins.
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