Tom Sitton

Biographic Data

ID3977728
NAMETom Sitton
GIVEN NAMESTom
FAMILY NAMESitton
SIGNATURESITTON T
AFFILIATIONSNatural History Museum of Los Angeles County
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS7
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1987
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX1

  • Water and Los Angeles

    Open AccessWilliam Deverell, William F Deverell et al.BOOKWater and Los Angeles2019

    The two of us have been thinking and writing about Greater Los Angeles for a long time.Some of this work pertains to projects we have pursued separately: scholarly articles and books on this or that theme or topic pertaining to the history of Southern California.But much of what we've done has been collaborative as friends and colleagues.We edited a collection of essays about Progressive Era California; we brought out a volume devoted to the 1920…

  • Los Angeles Transformed

    Steven P Erie, Tom SittonARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2006

    Journal Article Los Angeles Transformed: Fletcher Bowron's Urban Reform Revival, 1938–1953 Get access Los Angeles Transformed: Fletcher Bowron's Urban Reform Revival, 1938–1953. By Sitton Tom. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. xvi + 256 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $32.50.) Steven P. Erie Steven P. Erie University of California, San Diego Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Histor…

  • Metropolis in the Making

    Albert S Broussard, Tom Sitton et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2002Cited by: 5

    Historians are constantly in search of watersheds, turning points, and pivotal events in their quest to understand why an era evolved as it did. Is it possible to isolate a single decade to explain why a major American city emerged as a metropolis? This is the task of fifteen historians who examine Los Angeles during the 1920s in a collection of remarkably fresh essays edited by Tom Sitton and William Deverell, Metropolis in the Making. The essay…

  • Metropolis in the Making

    Eric Sandwei, Eric Sandweiss et al.ARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2002

    Journal Article Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s Get access Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s. Edited by Sitton Tom Deverell William. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. xii + 371 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, index. $55 cloth; $22.50, paper.) Eric Sandweiss Eric Sandweiss Missouri Historical Society Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarter…

  • Proportional Representation and the Decline of Progressive Reform in Los Angeles

    Tom SittonARTICLESouthern California Quarterly1995

    1911 AND 1913 ELECTION CAMPAIGNS in Los Angeles have been viewed traditionally as the demise of the city's progressive movement. Both the 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times building and fusion of the Socialist Party with local laborites pushing for the election of Socialist mayoral candidate Job Harriman terrified reformers and forced them into an alliance with the old guard, revealing the fundamental conservatism of the progressives. When Har…

  • California Progressivism Revisited

    Rob Johnson, Robert David Johnson et al.ARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1995

    Journal Article California Progressivism Revisited Get access California Progressivism Revisited. Edited by Deverell William Sitton Tom. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. xii + 278 pp. Tables, notes, index. $40.00, cloth; $15.00, paper.) Robert David Johnson Robert David Johnson Arizona State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 26, Issue 3, Autumn …

  • California Progressivism Revisited

    William Deverell, Tom SittonEDITORBOOKCalifornia Progressivism Revisited1994

  • One Side of Main Street

    Bryant Simon, William A Link et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1994References: 1

    Sinclair Lewis described Carol Kenicott, the college-educated reformer in Main Street, as ever so correct and modem. Sometime around 1910, Kenicott moved Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, pledging rock its foundations. tried almost everything. wanted remodel the town hall, build a new school, revamp the local antifly program, upgrade the library, coax the women's club read sociology instead of the Bible, secure women's suffrage, and teach rural housewiv…

  • John Randolph Haynes

    MARTIN J SCHIESL, Tom SittonARTICLEJournal of American History1993

    Journal Article John Randolph Haynes: California Progressive. By Tom Sitton. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992. xiv, 331 pp. $39.50, ISBN 0-8047-2067-3.) Get access Martin J. Schiesl Martin J. Schiesl California State University, Los Angeles, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 3, December 1993, Pages 1121–1122, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080513 P…

  • Direct Democracy vs. Free Speech

    Tom SittonARTICLEPacific Historical Review1988Cited by: 1References: 2

    Research Article| August 01 1988 Direct Democracy vs. Free Speech: Gerald L. K. Smith and the Recall Election of 1946 in Los Angeles Tom Sitton Tom Sitton Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1988) 57 (3): 285–304. https://doi.org/10.2307/3640706 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Ma…

  • Another Generation of Urban Reformers

    Tom SittonARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1987Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Another Generation of Urban Reformers: Los Angeles in the 1930s Get access Tom Sitton Tom Sitton head of social history History Division, Los Angeles County Natural History Museum Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 18, Issue 3, July 1987, Pages 315–332, https://doi.org/10.2307/969090 Published: 01 July 1987