Historian • Humanities Instructor • Wannabe Grillmaster • Author of A Connected Metropolis: Los Angeles Elites and the Making of a Modern City, 1890-1965
Joined April 2022
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"A CONNECTED METROPOLIS is an excellent addition to the [Los Angeles]'s growing historiography," writes Lawrence Culver for California History (@ucpress).
Read the review: bit.ly/3PQjKFA
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22 Jan 2025
Thanks so much to the "History of California" podcast for having me on to discuss my book! I really enjoyed the conversation.
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Maxwell Johnson retweeted
22 Nov 2024
"[Johnson's] insights and analysis are at their best when focused on elite preoccupations and agendas most specific to Los Angeles," writes California History of A CONNECTED METROPOLIS.
Read their review: online.ucpress.edu/ch/articl…
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4 Nov 2024
Thanks so much to @LawrenceCPhD for this wonderful review of A Connected Metropolis : "A Connected Metropolis is an excellent addition to the city’s growing historiography." I so appreciate the care with which he approached the book!
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Maxwell Johnson retweeted
24 Oct 2024
Stop by the @UnivNebPress booth at #WHA2024! We have lots of new books and @whitehorn_w and @MattBokovoy! @WhaHistory
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Maxwell Johnson retweeted
28 Aug 2024
Maxwell Johnson's A CONNECTED METROPOLIS "is well-written, broad in scope, and offers a compelling approach to understanding the rise of Los Angeles," writes Western Historical Quarterly.
Order a copy: bit.ly/3MgOMVy
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Maxwell Johnson retweeted
20 Mar 2024
Spending time reading @johnlmax88’s fascinating book about the making of Los Angeles between my lectures. I wish I could figure out how to incorporate it into my curriculum. Every page has a thought-nugget that makes me pause and think. Great stuff.
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20 Mar 2024
Wow! Best blurb ever @UnivNebPress
20 Mar 2024
This book is blowing my mind. @johnlmax88 is the perfect Virgil for this educational adventure.
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Maxwell Johnson retweeted
30 Jan 2024
Browse the latest UNP titles in #LatinAmericanHistory #AmericanHistory #MilitaryHistory #World History and more in our History Catalog: bit.ly/3OoGe05
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Maxwell Johnson retweeted
1 Aug 2023
Excerpt: A Connected Metropolis
A CONNECTED METROPOLIS by @johnlmax88 describes Los Angeles’s rise in the early twentieth century as catalyzed by a series of upper-class debates about the city’s connections to the outside world. bit.ly/43LAeDr
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Maxwell Johnson retweeted
26 Jul 2023
Very excited to read this! It’s on the reading docket as a fall read by the fire table. 🔥 🥃 📖
26 Jul 2023
In A CONNECTED METROPOLIS Maxwell Johnson (@johnlmax88) describes Los Angeles's rise in the early twentieth century as catalyzed by a series of upper-class debates about the city's connections to the outside world. bit.ly/477aiVH
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Maxwell Johnson retweeted
26 Jul 2023
In A CONNECTED METROPOLIS Maxwell Johnson (@johnlmax88) describes Los Angeles's rise in the early twentieth century as catalyzed by a series of upper-class debates about the city's connections to the outside world. bit.ly/477aiVH
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20 Jul 2023
For all of the information that has been digitized, there is still so much to be gained from in-person, archival research.
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20 Jul 2023
So grateful for all of the wonderful archivists and librarians @csunorthridge @DominguezHills @TheHuntington @LACountyRRCC @IULillyLibrary @UCLALibrary @USCLibraries for their invaluable help, as I researched A Connected Metropolis!
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20 Jul 2023
The Frontier of Leisure is a fantastic book and was so important to me as I wrote the dissertation that eventually became my own monograph @LawrenceCPhD !
7 Jul 2023
"Selling climate and leisure sold Southern California to tourists and future residents alike," Lawrence Culver [@LawrenceCPhD]. google.com/books/edition/The…
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Maxwell Johnson retweeted
7 Jul 2023
Today's #ArchivesHashtagParty theme is #ArchivesVacay. 🏖️
Published by the All-Year Club of Southern California, a 1939 travel brochure for those planning vacations to the region. @LAPublicLibrary: dbase1.lapl.org/webpics/cali…
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These extraordinary photos were taken by Chikashi Tanaka (1888 - 1977) who operated a successful photo studio before WWII, on 1st Street, right here in Little Tokyo.
View the online collection: janm.emuseum.com/groups/tana…
ALT Black and white photograph of a family standing in front of a house. There is a father, mother, and three young children.
ALT Black and white photograph of a car parked in a field of flowers. A man and a woman are standing next to the car in the field.
ALT Black and white photograph of the inside of a hair salon. Several women are standing at the back of the salon looking at the camera. There are chairs and hair dryers in the salon.
ALT Black and white photograph of a street view of Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. City Hall is seen in the background. Cars are parked along the side of the street and a sign on the building reads, "Tanaka Studio"
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6 Jul 2023
Great article!
I wrote about the early advance of LA aviation via the 1910 Aviation Meet, Lindbergh's 1927 visit to LA, and the contested effort to secure what became LAX in my book, "A Connected Metropolis."
Just published by @UnivNebPress!
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4 Jul 2023
My column on #LosAngeles ' rise to be the aviation capital of the nation, and what happened since ... latimes.com/california/story…
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5 Jul 2023
So thrilled with how the book looks! Grateful to all of the editors and production staff at @UnivNebPress.
Also want to thank @IUBHistory @CulverAcademies and @parktudor for their support of the project over the last ten years!
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