To all SOCALers - Thought you might be interested in this. Please don't contact me - write to <hosang@usc.edu> for more info. Carol >From: hosang@usc.edu [mailto:hosang@usc.edu] >Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 2:05 PM > >The Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West (ICW) >Brown Bag Series in US Western/Borderlands History presents > >'Forging Regional Identities: Image and Myth in the >19th Century West' > >Tuesday, March 7, 2006 >12-1:30 PM >Munger Research Center, Classroom 3 >The Huntington Library > > >KATHERINE UNTERMAN >Doctoral Student, Yale Department of History > >"Re-imagining Labor Relations: The Mission Myth in Southern >California's Citrus Communities, 1880-1910" > >Description: This paper examines the construction of a local mythology >about the Spanish missions in late nineteenth-century Anglo Los Angeles, >as promoted by Charles Fletcher Lummis, the Landmarks Club, and booster >periodicals like Land of Sunshine. It argues that citrus growers used >the mission myth to justify a new mode of production that deviated >substantially from the traditional Jeffersonian agrarian ideal. In >particular, the mission myth helped rationalize and defend a new >reliance on Mexican and Asian labor and an emphasis on profits over >self-sufficiency. > >MICHAEL BLOCK >Doctoral Student, USC Department of History > >"'Free Mountain Eagle': Westernness in John C. Fremont's 1856 >Presidential Campaign" > >Description: This paper investigates uses of Western imagery and ideas >in the campaign literature of 1856. The Republican Party ran Fremont as >more than simply "The Pathfinder." His opponents attacked both his >behavior in the West and his claims to even being a Westerner. Was the >West a place of dramatic heroism, or of creeping Catholicism? Was it a >continuation of Eastern sectional differences, or a new section all its >own? > > >Comment: David Igler, Associate Professor of History, UC Irvine > > >Lunch served. To reserve your lunch and receive copies of the papers in >advance, please RSVP to Barbara Soliz (soliz@usc.edu) by Friday, March >3rd. Carol De Priest Honest Intellectual Inquiry <http://www.dakotacom.net/~depriest/index.htm> ***moving to <http://www.cox.net/depriest3/index.htm>*** I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way did not become still more complicated. <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/p/poulanders137583.html>Poul Anderson