RIVERSIDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Historical Journal
Welcome to the Journal of the Riverside Historical Society
The Riverside Historical Society publishes an annual journal dedicated to original research into the history of Riverside. The following links will take you to older editions of the journal. The newest editions are available at Historical Society meetings, and the newest journal is given to all active members.
Submission Criteria - The Riverside Historical Society is always looking for researched articles on any aspect of the history of Riverside. If you have an interest in writing about Riverside's long and fascinating history, we encourage you to do so. Contact us about any submission to our journal.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.
Volume 3
Number Three – February 1999 – William Swafford
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Making Riverside Word: The Benefits of the WPA – Terry Baggs
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Law Enforcement, Politics, and Prohibition – Alan Curl
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Prohibition in a Dry Town – Joyce C. Vickery
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Edmund Carrol Jaeger – Examining the Early Career of one of Southern California’s
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Premier Naturalists – James Bryant & Vince Moses
Volume 4
Number Four – February 2000 – William Swafford
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Rancho Boundaries – Tom Patterson
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Benedict Castle: Riverside’s “Castle in Spain” – R. Bruce Harley
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Changing Homes, Changing Lives: Transitions in the Delineation of Domestic Interior Space – Mary Bagne
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Riverside’s Architectural Heritage – Daniel Tossounion
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Golf and the Fallon Dynasty – Sarah Healton
Volume 5
Number Five – February 2001 – William Swafford
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Sumi Harada – Tom Patterson
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A Chinese American Perspective on Mrs. Bettner’s Letter – Deborah Wong
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Our China Boys of Long Ago – Mrs. Robert Bettner
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Fairmount Park Episode – Sue Strickland
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Evans Letters – S.C. Evans
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Relocation Evacuation – Mabel Zink
Volume 6
Number Six – February 2002 – William Swafford
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Rediscovering Riverside’ Father: A Short Life of Dr. James Porter Greves – Ronald Baker
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History of Riverside – Dr. James Porter Greves
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San Timoteo and its Chapel, 1845-1945 – R. Bruce Harley
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African Americans in Riverside – Sue Strickland
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Death Valley Scotty Offers All That Glitters – Joan H. Hall
Volume 7
Number Seven – February 2003 – William Swafford
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Riverside’s Historical Societies Centennial – Joan Hall
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Reprint of 1908 Newspaper Story, “New Society of Historians”
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An Early Riverside Suburb at La Placita – R. Bruce Harley
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Victoria Club Centennial – 2003 – Joan Hall
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Tragedy at Mockingbird Lake – John A. Adams
Volume 14
Number Fourteen – February 2010 – Steve Lech
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Clinton Marr, FAIA – Award-Winning Architect and Riverside Native – Casey Tibbet
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Walter C. Banks – A Prominent Riverside Businessman and Park Commission President
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Erin Gettis, Rudy Hardman and the Development of the Hardman Center Area – Kim
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Jarrell Johnson, Ike Logan – The Bell Ringer of Mt. Rubidoux – Glenn Wenzel
Volume 15
Number Fifteen – February 2011 – Steve Lech
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Benedict Castle Revisited – Joan Hall and Laura Klure
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What Might Have Been – Glenn Wenzel
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Ebay Purchase Brings Old Letters Back to Riverside – Kim Jarrell Johnson
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Description of Riverside (1892) – Charles Dudley Warner
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Casa Blanca’s Evans Street – Bill Wilkman
Volume 16
Number Sixteen – February 2012 – Glenn Wenzel & Laura Klure
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The Right to Bare Libel – Mel Opotowsky
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Riverside’s Mine Okubo – Mary Curtin
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Stewarts Boathouse at Fairmount Park – Patricia Stewart
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Reading the Sites: The Japanese-American Community in Riverside – Erin Gettis et al
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Parks Family – Early Jurupa Pioneers – Kim Jarrell Johnson
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Upton Sinclair in Riverside: Charting a Research Cul-di-Sac – Andrew Howe
Volume 23
Number Twenty-Three - April 2017
Rise Up Singing: Riverside and the Folk Revival by Nicolette Rohr
Location Unknown by Steve and Marie Mains
The Haunting World of Uncaptioned Photos by Carlos Cortéz
The Trujillo Adobe - La Corazon de La Placita by Nancy Melendez
Our Favorite Pictures of Riverside by the RHS Board