Overlooking the San Pedro waterfront stands a 9-foot-high bronze and stone pillar marking the site of a historic protest and the place where a muckraking idealist stood his ground. Eighty years ago ...

Who reads Upton Sinclair’s books? Who recognizes his name? Not many, especially those under the age of say, 40, though “U.S.,” to borrow his iconic initials, created a commotion with his muckraking ...

We missed this over the Christmas break, but it’s the best 75-year-old breaking news story of 2005: The Los Angeles Times reported on December 24 that an Orange County lawyer and collector, looking ...

Test your knowledge of novels written during (or about) this memorable era of American history. By J. D. Biersdorfer In the Netflix drama, Hollywood gets involved in the race for governor. But while ...