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Orange County Mexican American Historical Society

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2010

    OCMAHS Give the OC A Chicano Music History Lesson

    The late Bobby Espinosa was a vital part of Chicano music history​On Saturday, Chicano music lovers young and old (but mostly old--respect to my elders!) descended upon Santa Ana's Delhi Community Center for a concert teach-in. The lesson plan for the day was on the History of Chicano Music in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 29, 2009

    Wacky OC History Moment of the Week!

    In anticipation of the Barrio History Symposium held this Saturday morning at Golden West College by the Orange County Mexican American Historical Society (I'll lecture on the 1936 Citrus War), here's a blast from the county's Mexican-hating past. From the Sept. 6, 1918 Los Angeles Times:Ask a Mexic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2008

    Why Anaheim Historians Rule, and Santa Ana Historians Drool

    People frequently assume I'm a SanTana native, but that's probably because I devote so many stories to the Banana Republic. Fact is (as I've said a billion times in this paper and blog), I'm a proud fourth-generation Anaheimer (pre-order my coming book on the subject) who will proclaim Anaheim's sup ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2008

    On Thin-Skinned SanTana Historians

    Moxley fends off idiot Republicans; Nick Schou battles conspiracy loons; Vickie Chang gets the hipsters riled up. My petty, non-pedo-apologist fights? Local amateur historians. My post last week about SanTana's missing segregationist history in a recent Images of America book about the county seat ... More >>

  • Features

    July 12, 2007

    Whatever Happened to the Santa Ana Four?

    Orange County seethes with immigration raids, demonized Mexicans and appeals for amnesty. 2007? No, 1951

  • Features

    September 15, 2005

    The Tragedy of It All

    Orange Countys own Hurricane Katrina: the Great Flood of 1938

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