William Deverell

William Deverell is the director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West.

Playing Catch with Los Angeles

A new cultural history of Los Angeles has more twists and curves than Angeles Crest Highway but provides views just as spectacular....

WILLIAM DEVERELL

HISTORY

A New Voice of the Southwest

When the going gets weird in Southern New Mexico....

WILLIAM DEVERELL

MEMOIR & ESSAY

LA: “A Place People Hack One Another to Pieces with Pistols”

HISTORIAN JOHN MACK FARAGHER has come home. A Southern Californian who has spent an illustrious and influential career at Mount Holyoke and Yale, Faragher is one of the nation’s most distinguished American historians. His impressive body of work zeroes in ...

WILLIAM DEVERELL

HISTORY