Bibliography
A selection of scholarly articles, books, and digital projects related to Southern California history and 1776.
Akins, Damon B. and William J. Bauer, Jr. We Are the Land: A History of Native California. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021.
Allen, Danielle. Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality. New York: Liveright, 2014.
Archibald, Robert. The Economic Aspects of the California Missions. Washington, DC: Academy of American Franciscan History, 1978.
Aron, Stephen. Peace and Friendship: An Alternative History of the American West. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Balderrama, Francisco E. Decade of Betrayal: Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995.
Bargellini, Clara, and Michael K. Komanecky. The Arts of the Missions of Northern New Spain 1600–1821. Mexico City: Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, 2009.
Bauer, William J., Jr. California through Native Eyes: Reclaiming History. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2016.
Baumgartner, Alice L. South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War. New York: Basic Books, 2020.
Blackhawk, Ned. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U. S. History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023.
Brooks, Lisa. Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018.
Chavez, Yve. Indigenizing California Mission Art and Architecture. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2025.
Chavez, Yve, and Nancy Marie Mithlo, eds. Visualizing Genocide: Indigenous Interventions in Art, Archives, and Museums. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2022.
Chávez-Garcia, Miroslava. Negotiating Conquest: Gender and Power in California, 1770s to the 1880s. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2004.
Deverell, William. Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of its Mexican Past. University of California Press, 2004.
Estrada, William D. The Los Angeles Plaza: Sacred and Contested Space. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008.
Faragher, John Mack. Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles. New York: W.W. Norton, 2016.
Farmer, Jared. Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees. New York: Basic Books, 2022.
—–. Trees in Paradise: A California History. New York: W.W. Norton, 2013.
Grenier, Judson, Doyce Blackman Nunis, and Jean Bruce Poole, eds. A Guide to Historic Places in Los Angeles County: Prepared under the Auspices of the History Team of the City of Los Angeles American Revolution Bicentennial Committee. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall Hunt Publishing Co., 1978.
Haas, Lisbeth. Saints and Citizens: Indigenous Histories of Colonial Missions and Mexican California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014.
Hackel, Steven W. Junípero Serra: California’s Founding Father. New York: Hill and Wang, 2013.
—–. Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis: Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769-1850. Williamsburg and Chapel Hill: Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press, 2018.
Jackson, Robert H., and Edward D. Castillo. Indians, Franciscans, and Spanish Colonization: The Impact of the Mission System on California Indians. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995.
Kryder-Reid, Elizabeth. California Mission Landscapes: Race, Memory, and the Politics of Heritage. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
Lightfoot, Kent G. Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants: The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontiers. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
López, César. “Mexican American Parrhesia at Troy.” California History 98, no. 1 (2021): 28-55.
Loza, Mireya. Defiant Workers: Race, Sexuality, and the Political Visions of Braceros. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
Lytle-Hernández, Kelly. City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
Madley, Benjamin. An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016.
Miranda, Deborah A. Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir. Berkeley: Heyday, 2013.
Montoya, Sarah. “Moving Toward Accountability: Challenging Settler Narratives through Interpretive Shifts and Tribal Engagement at Anza National HIstoric Trail.” Park Stewardship Forum 42, no. 1 (2026): 101-110.
Panich, Lee. Narratives of Persistence: Indigenous Negotiations of Colonialism in Alta and Baja California. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2021.
PARES (Portal de Archivos Españoles). A large list of archival collections and digitized archives about Spain and its American colonies.
Poole, Jean Bruce., and Tevvy. Ball. El Pueblo: The Historic Heart of Los Angeles. Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum, 2002.
Ramírez, Marla A. Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican American Women Who Endured Repatriation. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2025.
Reid, Joshua L. The Sea Is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs, an Indigenous Borderlands People. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015.
Rushforth, Brett. Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France. Williamsburg and Chapel Hill: Omohundro Institute/University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Russell, Craig H. From Serra to Sancho: Music and Pageantry in the California Missions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Salomon, Carlos Manuel. Pío Pico: The Last Governor of Mexican California. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010.
Sandos, James A. Converting California: Indians and Franciscans in the Missions. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.
Saunt, Claudio. Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory. New York: W.W. Norton, 2020.
—–. West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776. New York: Norton, 2014.
Schneider, Tsim D. The Archaeology of Refuge and Recourse: Coast Miwok Resilience and Indigenous Hinterlands in Colonial California. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2021.
Sepulveda, Charles. Native Alienation: Spiritual Conquest and the Violence of California Missions. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2024.
Slonimsky, Nora, Mark Boonshoft, and Ben Wright, eds. American Revolutions in the Digital Age. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2024.
Snyder, Christina. Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2010.
Torres-Rouff, David Samuel. Before L.A.: Race, Space, and Municipal Power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013.
Witgen, Michael. Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America. Williamsburg and Chapel Hill: Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press, 2022.