Josh Sides

Josh Sides, holding the Sunland grizzly skull, is Whitsett Professor of California History at California State University Northridge. He has published two books: L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present (University of California Press, 2004) and Erotic City: Sexual Revolutions
and the Making of Modern San Francisco
(Oxford University Press, 2009). He also serves as editor of California History, the state’s ninety-year-old historical journal. More of his work can be found at www.joshsides.com.

Recent Stories

The way they live, the food they eat, and the effect on us

A true but unlikely tale

Story and Photographs by William Rowan

Increasing day length on the early Earth boosted oxygen released by photosynthetic cyanobacteria.

Genomic evidence shows that Denisovans and modern humans may have overlapped in Wallacea.