"The understanding of a culture comes from hearing the language, tasting the food, seeing personal interactions, experiencing the traditions, and so much more in context."

— Elizabeth Laval & Candice Pendergrass, Sikh Youth Public History Project

"The understanding of a culture comes from hearing the language, tasting the food, seeing personal interactions, experiencing the traditions, and so much more when it is in context."

— Elizabeth Laval & Candice Pendergrass, Sikh Youth Public History Project

California Reads The Grapes of Wrath

“This is the beginning—from ‘I’ to ‘we’” is how Steinbeck describes the Joad’s family journey along Route 66 to California as that “western land nervous under the beginning change” in..Read More

Re-Envisioning the Los Angeles River

We are the Humanities - 1999 : LA River Re-Envisioned

Re-Envisioning the Los Angeles River was an ambitious, multifaceted, year-long project organized by Occidental College’s Urban and Environmental Policy Institute in partnership with the community-based environmental organization, Friends of the..Read More

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