Zoot Suit Files: Intelligence Report on Subversives
Sept. 24, 1942: Intelligence officer B.L. Canaga compiles a report on subversives that might be active in the 11th Naval District. His list includes communists, Japanese, Falangists, Sinarchists,...
View ArticleA Revolution in Research
Image: Rohwer Camp #23. Credit: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies Writing in the New York Times, Stephen Mihm notes the effect that digital newspapers are having on historic research. For...
View ArticleU.S. Prepares to Round Up Japanese in Event of War, Nov. 13, 1941
Nov. 13, 1941: An FBI investigation into the Los Angeles Japanese Chamber of Commerce and the Central Japanese Assn. reveals monthly donations of $4,000 to $5,000 to the Japanese government “for the...
View ArticleBill Would Bar Japanese From Owning Land
April 10, 1913: The Times seems to be featuring a woman artist, but it’s difficult to make out her elaborate signature. Is it N. Tanaga? V. Tanaga? V. Kanaga? Aha! she was Neva Kanaga. Further...
View ArticleWho Was California’s First Woman Judge? A Puzzlement
April 17, 1913: Clara Jess, described as the first woman in California to be appointed as a judge, resigns after a year. She was the recorder of Daly City and functioned like a justice of the peace,...
View ArticleGinza
No story here. I just like the ad. This is now the site of the Jackie Robinson VFW.
View ArticleJune 11, 1908
ook, if you dare, into the mysterious disappearance of a fisherman on Santa Catalina Island named Tony the Greek, obscured not only by the details, but further muddied by the convoluted account in The...
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