CHERISHING OUR VALLEY 2013
Bob Lisenby, Board Member of the Campo de Cahuenga Memorial Historical Association has shared with us a very important information site of the Huntington (Library) in Pasadena. Here are some of the values available through the site for historians:
http://www.huntington.org/information/ecppmain.htm
•
|
Community
historians can study in greater detail the individuals and families who
settled California’s first presidios and pueblos
|
|
| • |
Anthropologists
and ethno-historians can examine the settlement patterns of Indians in
Alta California and their movement to the missions
|
|
| • |
Historical
demographers can bring greater detail to their attempts to understand
the pace and magnitude of Indian population decline in Alta California
|
|
| • |
Scholars
of religion can study the practice and administration of Catholicism in
the California missions and the lives of California’s Franciscans
|
|
•
|
Social
historians can study the structure and growth of the missions and the
secular communities of Spanish and Mexican California
|
|
| • |
Genealogists can more easily trace and identify the people who lived in California from 1769 to 1850
|
|
| • |
Historians
of colonial America can more easily incorporate regions and peoples
beyond the eastern seaboard into the narrative of our country’s early
history, and
|
|
| • | Scholars can attain an increased awareness of the tremendous diversity that has long characterized the people of the Golden State and the American Southwest |
No comments:
Post a Comment