Public History Projects

All Saints Church, ca. 1880-1910. USC Digital Library.

Over the past dozen years, I’ve participated in a number for public history projects for a variety of entities— from the City of Los Angeles, to the State of California, the LA Conservancy, FortLA, and All Saints Church in Pasadena.

Since 2010, I worked on several historic context statements for Survey LA, a broad-based survey of the historic resources across the entire city. This included reports on a number of topics, including the history of suburbanization and the history of various population groups.

I also devised a “trail” for FortLA, on the History of Mail Order Homes in Los Angeles, with the assistance of my daughter Marina Weisenberg. “Mail Order Homes in Los Angeles,” Fort LA Trail, April 2024

In 2022-23, I co-authored a report for All Saints Church Pasadena, on the history of the land under and around the church, with a focus on the displacement of indigenous peoples. The report, “Telling the Whole Story: The Land We are On,” uses a variety of sources, including oral history, and we worked in concert with members of the Tongva nation. Read more about this work at:

“Telling the Whole Story: The Land We are On,” All Saints Church, Pasadena.
“At Church Building’s Centennial, All Saints Report Candidly Tells the Whole Story of the Land It Occupies,” Pasadena Now,” Nov 6, 2023.