The unrecognized past of America’s newest national monument presents a chance for us to better understand our present environmental challenges. Before Los Angeles demolished it, the dam’s surviving ...

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Phillip Cesena transferred to San Franciscquito Canyon in February 1928 to work as a ranch hand, mucking out stalls and exercising ranch animals. Phillip Cesena, 15, showing off his trick riding he ...

Trace the devastation of the 1928 St. Francis Dam collapse and its deadly flood. Author Geoff Manaugh joins Nathan to understand the 1928 St. Francis Dam collapse, which unleashed a deadly flood that ...

The Hollywood Dam was meant to be celebrated. After the St. Francis Dam disaster, it was hidden. The Hollywood Reservoir Dam was originally envisioned as a civic monument to celebrate Los Angeles' ...

78 years ago today the St. Francis Dam burst, sending 12 billion gallons of water into a small town near Saugus. The flood was so powerful and so swift that the number killed has always been ...

Apr. 30—There's a lesson to be learned within each moment — including disasters. This is what Erika Bsumek, associate professor of history at the University of Texas, Austin, teaches in many of her ...

William Mulholland was the savior of Southern California until he wasn’t Matt Blitz The front page of the Los Angeles Times on March 14, 1928 Los Angeles Times It was three minutes before the stroke ...

Coastal lawmakers blocked a Central Valley Republican over fears his measure could lead to massive dam failures throughout California. This week's Open Mic guest is Matthew Dillon, Co-CEO of the ...

St. Francis Dam, about 40 miles north of Los Angeles. (Courtesy of UC Riverside, Library, Water Resources Collections and Archives) There's a lesson to be learned within each moment – including ...

The front page of the Los Angeles Times on March 14, 1928 Los Angeles Times It was three minutes before the stroke of midnight on a windy March 12, 1928, when the St. Francis Dam broke. Many of the ...