William F Deverell

William Deverell is Professor of History at the University of Southern California and director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. He is the author of "Railroad Crossing: Californians and the Railroad, 1850-1910" (1994) and "Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past" (2004). He co-authored "Eden by Design: The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Plan for the Los Angeles Region" (2000) and "The West in the History of the Nation" (2000) and co...See more

William Deverell is Professor of History at the University of Southern California and director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. He is the author of "Railroad Crossing: Californians and the Railroad, 1850-1910" (1994) and "Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past" (2004). He co-authored "Eden by Design: The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Plan for the Los Angeles Region" (2000) and "The West in the History of the Nation" (2000) and co-edited "California Progressivism Revisited" (1994) and "Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s "(2001). See less