LA City Historical Society Presents: "Grapes of-Conquest" with Author Dr Julia Ornelas Higdon

Join City Archivist, Michael Holland of the Los Angeles City Historical Society in partnership with the Richard J. Riordan Central Library's History Department for an afternoon conversation with Dr. Julia Ornelas-Higdon about her new book "Grapes of Conquest". California’s wine country conjures images of pastoral vineyards and cellars lined with oak barrels. As a mainstay of the state’s economy, California wines occupy the popular imagination like never before and drive tourism in famous viticultural regions across the state. Hear Dr. Julia Ornelas-Higdon share the history of the state's commercial wine industry was born amid social turmoil and racialized violence in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century California.

Meet us at the Central Library, Mark Taper Auditorium (1st floor) for this installment of our Marie Northrop Lecture Series. Author Book signing afterwards.

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