A look at American cartographic representations of WWII Europe, providing historical context for understanding our conception of global space.
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In the early 1900s, medical inspection and photographic documentation ushered in a new set of surveillance procedures for state oversight at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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How does modern war mark the California landscape? A single day's photographic record produced on the Southern California coast offers one compelling answer.
Read MoreA Brief History of Border Walls
Incendiary Traces lists historical and contemporary border walls to provide some global and historical context for understanding Southern California's contested US/Mexico border.
Read MoreLos Angeles: Camouflage and Contestation
Art historian Jason Weems examines three mid-century constructions understood as staples of the California landscape: Disneyland, Lakewood, and the aerospace industry.
Read More'Even Our Palm Trees Are Cooler'
Incendiary Traces examines the role that real estate and the railroad played in the advertisement of Southern California as a fertile tropical utopia in the late 1800s.
Read MoreHow a 19th Century Painting Transformed California's Desert World
In the late 19th century, Southern California's human and natural geography transformed as millions of new residents settled its semi-arid desert world, but artistic renditions of this region seldom get the attention of its northerly neighbors. But why is this the case?
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