Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West

The Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West is an educational institute created in 2004 by a partnership between the Huntington Library and the University of Southern California. Its goal is to bring together writers, students, scholars, policy-makers, and historians to study the history of the American West and California, and to promote more extensive use of the Huntington Library's extensive materials on the subject.^[1]^[2] The institute has sponsored conferences and research on subjects such as the impact of the Hollywood film industry^[3] and the "subterranean West".^[4]

References

^ Jia-Rui Chong, "Institute Will Help Scholars Mine Golden State's History: The Huntington Library and USC team up to promote the study of California, the West and their place in the world." Los Angeles Times, July 19, 2004.
^ Larry Gordon, "Young Institutes Breaking Historical Ground", Los Angeles Times, June 19, 2006.
^ Susan King, "Studying Hollywood between the wars", Los Angeles Times, May 28, 2008.
^ Larry Gordon, "Historians dig deep to find West's past", Los Angeles Times, June 1, 2008.