Contribute to a dynamic online database dedicated to our shared past: the LA History Archive. You are invited to donate any primary source or teaching technique that has been successful in your teaching of Southern California history. This donation is a digital version of the item; the object will be digitized, indexed and returned to its owner.

Examples: Sources may include photographs; maps; yearbooks; postcards; language from legal documents; deeds to houses with racially restrictive covenants; matchbooks, books, articles, travel guides, letters, artwork or other ephemera. Teaching techniques may include curricula from noted instructors, schools, museums, and other research institutions.

For example: the Japanese American Nation Museum’s JANM Kids Bento Box is a great teaching tool and one we will reference and include in the LA History Archive. Similarly, California State University Long Beach’s Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive is an amazing online collection of oral histories that will be listed as a resource through the LA History Archive.

Do you know of other great curricula, events, places or sources (online or in print) that we should include in the LA History Archive? Be sure to include any information on the provenance of the item: author, date of its creation, publisher (if applicable) and any information you may have on the source. If the item you wish to submit is not copyright free, please include the information necessary to obtain copyright clearance (publisher and contact information). E-mail your item(s) as a word document or jpeg electronically to thesocalstudio@gmail.com or mail it to:

LA History Archive
c/o the Studio for Southern California History
525 Alpine Suite 103
Los Angeles, CA 90012