My own conclusion is that history is simply social development along the lines of weakest resistance, and that in most cases the line of weakest resistance is found as unconsciously by society as by water.”
History Department, CSU, Chico
Michael Magliari
Research
Dr. Magliari currently is conducting research on Indian slavery in California during the Gold Rush and Civil War eras.
Publications
Professor Magliari, with Michael Gillis, is the author of John Bidwell and California: The Life and Writings of a Pioneer, 1841-1900 (Arthur H. Clark Company, 2003). His articles have appeared in scholarly anthologies, as well as the Pacific Historical Review, California Territorial Quarterly, and Overland Journal. In addition to numerous entries in the American National Biography and other encyclopedias, he has published book reviews in such journals as the Journal of American History, Pacific Historical Review, Western Historical Quarterly, Ohio Valley History, California History, Agricultural History, Journal of the West, the Historian, the Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Western Legal History, and the Public Historian.
CV
Michael Magliari's CV (pdf)