Please join the Los Angeles City Historical Society for a special webinar with award-winning author and historian, Colleen Adair Fliedner. The talk will delve into the history and legends of Griffith Park, as well as the life of Griffith J. Griffith, who had purchased Rancho Los Feliz in 1882.
The second lecture in the 2025 Marie Northrop Lecture Series will be a discussion with author Nathan Marsak on his book, Los Angeles Before the Freeways: Images of an Era 1850-1950.
Please join the Los Angeles City Historical Society for a special webinar with acclaimed authors Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans who will discuss their new book The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels.
Based on their seven years of research, the book follows the lives, deaths and ultimately, the remains, of four Angelenos from the more than 1,500 individuals at risk of being “unclaimed,” meaning that upon their death, relatives or loved ones are unable or unwilling to bury them or to have their bodies cremated. Also included in the book are volunteers, community members and government workers dedicated to providing burials for unclaimed strangers, imparting a sense of dignity after death.
We’re thrilled to announce that for the first time ever, the Los Angeles City Historical Society will be an exhibitor at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books celebrating 30 years of storytelling, discovery, and community!
The first lecture in the 2025 Marie Northrop Lecture Series will be a discussion with author Todd Lerew on his new book, Also On View: Unique and Unexpected Museums of Greater Los Angeles (Angel City Press), featuring photographs by Ryan Schude.
Please join the Los Angeles City Historical Society for a special webinar with Britton Gustafson, UCLA History PhD student, who will discuss how the Los Angeles Pneumonic Plague Epidemic of 1924 served as the final urban plague outbreak in the U.S., and how a robust public health intervention prevented the outbreak from engulfing the entire city.
Join LA City Archivist Michael Holland on a guided exploration of the rarely seen City Archives!
Please join the Los Angeles City Historical Society for a special preview tour and sneak peek of all five stories and eight lands of Clifton’s Republic on Saturday, November 2 at 5pm.
At Self Help Graphics, Día de los Muertos is not just a day, it’s a season marked by our annual Celebration taking place this Saturday, November 2 from 3:00 PM-8:00 PM, at the East LA Civic Center Park in East LA (4801 E 3rd St, Los Angeles, CA 90022). This family-friendly event is FREE to the public and open to ALL AGES.
Please join the Los Angeles City Historical Society for a special webinar with James Tejani, author of “A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles and America.”
Come by and meet some of our board members at our exhibit table.
Photo: Rich Schmitt
Please join the Los Angeles City Historical Society for a special webinar with historian and consultant Becky Nicolaides, author of The New Suburbia: How Diversity Remade Suburban Life in Los Angeles After 1945 (Oxford, 2024).
Join LA City Archivist Michael Holland on a guided exploration of the rarely seen City Archives!
Join the Los Angeles City Historical Society for a special tour of the historic Tom of Finland House, the former studio and residence of the influential queer artist in Echo Park.
Join LA City Archivist Michael Holland on a guided exploration of the rarely seen City Archives!
The Los Angeles City Historical Society will host its 2020 annual awards banquet at the TAIX French Restaurant on Sunday, May 19th 2024 with the social hour starting at 5 pm, followed by dinner and the awards program.
Join the Los Angeles City Historical Society for a special tour of the Virginia Robinson Gardens, a unique historic estate and cultural jewel that transports the visitor back to the birthplace of Beverly Hills. Built in 1911, it was once the residence of retail giants Virginia and Harry Robinson (of the Robinson department stores) and now occupies an illustrious place in history as the first luxury estate built in Beverly Hills.
Please join the Los Angeles City Historical Society for a special webinar with Jeff Lapides, author of The Mojave Road in 1863: The Pioneering Photographs of Rudolph d’Heureuse.
Please join us for a webinar with our 2023 LACHS Scholarship recipients from California State University, Long Beach. The two students will present their essays followed by a Q&A session.
7:00 pm
”The 1956 Machris Brazilian Expedition: A Vehicle for Scientific Discovery and Ecological Conservation” with Araceli Ramos
7:30 pm
"Conspirando en Los Ángeles" with Hazel Carias-Urbina
The Los Angeles City Historical Society is proud to partner with the UCLA Film and Television Archive for a special free film screening of ‘Smog’ (dir. Franco Rossi, 1962) at the Billy Wilder Theater inside the Hammer Museum. In ‘Smog’, an Italian tourist wanders around Los Angeles while on a layover, passing by various LA architectural monuments.
The second lecture in the 2024 Marie Northrop Lecture Series will be a discussion with author Dr. Julia Ornelas-Higdon on her latest book, “The Grapes of Conquest: Race, Labor, and the Industrialization of California Wine, 1769-1920” (University of Nebraska Press).
Join the Los Angeles City Historical Society for a special tour of the African American Firefighter Museum – home of the old Fire Station # 30 in Los Angeles. The event includes an exclusive docent-led tour of the museum followed by a Q&A session.
This lecture series is co-sponsored by Los Angeles City Historical Society and the History Department of the Richard J. Riordan Central Library. Lectures are held in the Mark Taper Auditorium, on the first floor of the Central Library, 630 W. 5th Street, Los Angeles.
Join the Los Angeles City Historical Society for a webinar featuring author Roger Rapoport and his new book, “Searching for Patty Hearst.”
Join LA City Archivist Michael Holland on a guided exploration of the rarely seen City Archives!
Watch the recorded webinar presentation of the new book Oldest Los Angeles with author Mimi Slawoff.
Come by and meet some of our board members at our exhibit table.
Photo: Rich Schmitt
Please join us for a webinar presentation of the new book California, A Slave State with author Jean Pfaelzer.
Join LA City Archivist Michael Holland on a guided exploration of the rarely seen City Archives!
Please join us for a webinar presentation of Los Angeles Scavenger: The Ultimate Search for LA’s Hidden Treasures with author and LACHS Board Member Danny Jensen.
