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JOIN US ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2025 AT 7:15 P.M. (Pacific Time)
FOR A PRESENTATION ON:
"THE MARCH TOWARD CIVIL WAR IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA"
WITH Dr. Maria Carrillo Colato, A.K. Smiley Library and the Lincoln Memorial Shrine
Los Angeles Reservoir and Plaza - 1857
(courtesy of Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library)
From its admission into the Union as free state in 1850, through the start of the conflict, California factored greatly into the march toward civil war. Controlled politically by Southern Democrats and far from the center of power in the east, the Golden State became a beacon for the expansion of Southern culture in the antebellum period. In Southern California, where a unique Californio culture reigned, migrants from the American South formed strategic alliances with southern Californians to stake their claim as leaders of the new sociopolitical order. Learn how the unlikely alliance between Southerners and Californios brought California to the brink of disunion as the war loomed on the horizon.
Maria Carrillo Colato is Special Collections Manager in the Division of Special Collections of A.K. Smiley Public Library, which includes the Lincoln Memorial Shrine and forthcoming Museum of Redlands. She has a Master of Arts in History with an emphasis in Public History and a PhD in History from the University of California, Riverside. Her doctoral work focused on disunion efforts in California in the Civil War-era. As a graduate student, Maria completed an internship with the National Park Service at Fort Donelson National Battlefield in Dover, Tennessee, where she was fortunate enough to live in the historic Dover Hotel and explore neighboring battlefields of middle and western Tennessee. She has coauthored Images of America: Early Redlands and Redlands in World War I and has worked in museums and special collections in Southern California for over two decades.
Thanks to the volunteer efforts and expertise of our Pasadena CWRT members, Tina Miller and Monika Skerbelis, we are now able to record our monthly meetings and post the videos to our YouTube Channel for your enjoyment and edification if you are unable to join us for our live meetings. We invite you to check out the videos from our two years of virtual meetings, as well as our most recent presentations, at our YouTube Channel:
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We are indebted to Tina and Monika for helping us to bring this wonderful added benefit to allow our non-local members and guests to enjoy the presentations of our distinguished roster of speakers.
PLEASE JOIN US FOR OUR IN-PERSON MEETING:
Pasadena CWRT - TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2025 - 7:15 PM (Pacific Time)
The Blinn House - 160 North Oakland Avenue - Pasadena
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