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The California Supreme Court Historical Society (CSCHS) describes itself as "a non-profit public benefit corporation dedicated to recovering, preserving, and promoting California’s legal and judicial history, with a particular emphasis on the State’s highest court." [1] It is chaired by Patricia Guerrero, the chief justice of California. [2]
John W. Dwinelle led a group of prominent Californian intellectuals in founding the society at Santa Clara University in June 1871.. The California Historical Society was founded in June 1871 by a group of prominent Californian politicians and professors at the Santa Clara University (then the College of Santa Clara), led by Californian Assemblyman John W. Dwinelle (an influential founder of ...
Then and now, 1901 and 2019 - CHRS Radio Central, main building, Alameda, CA, photos Mike Adams (colorized) California Historical Radio Society (CHRS) was founded by Norman Berge, Jim Cirner, Gene Rippen, and several others as a non-profit corporation in 1974 and was qualified as an IRC 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization.
[17] [18] [19] In a Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology article, Howard D. White et al. wrote: "Bibliometric measures for evaluating research units in the book-oriented humanities and social sciences are underdeveloped relative to those available for journal-oriented science and technology".
The GLBT Historical Society (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society) (formerly Gay and Lesbian Historical Society of Northern California; San Francisco Bay Area Gay and Lesbian Historical Society) maintains an extensive collection of archival materials, artifacts and graphic arts relating to the history of LGBTQ people in the United States, with a focus on the LGBT communities ...
In 1909 a eugenics law was passed in California allowing for state institutions to sterilize those deemed "unfit" or "feeble-minded". [12] The Asexualization Act authorized the involuntary sterilization of certain groups of people, including inmates of state hospitals, certain institutionalized people, life-sentenced prisoners, repeat offenders of certain sexual offenses, or simply repeat ...
The Institute for Historical Review and its publishing arm, Noontide Press, were founded in 1978 by the leading organizer of modern American anti-Semitism, Willis Carto, and his wife Elisabeth. Based near Los Angeles in Torrance, California, the group pioneered organizing efforts among Holocaust deniers , who had heretofore labored mostly in ...
Originally built in Hollywood during 1912, the colony was eventually relocated to Ojai, California, in 1926, where it operates today as the Krotona Institute of Theosophy. [ 2 ] Located just off of State Route 33 , the Krotona Institute holds regular classes and workshops on Theosophy, maintains an extensive library on the occult, and has a ...