Rolle, Andrew

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ROLLE, Andrew

ROLLE, Andrew. American, b. 1922. Genres: History, Biography. Career: American Vice-Consul, Genoa, 1945-48; Cleland Professor of History, Occidental College, 1952-88; Research Scholar, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, 1962-88. Publications: Riviera Path, 1948; An American in California, 1956; The Road to Virginia City, 1960, 2nd ed., 1990; (with A. Nevins and I. Stone) Lincoln: A Contemporary Portrait, 1962; Occidental College: The First Seventy-Five Years, 1962; California: A History, 1963, 5th ed., 1997; The Lost Cause: Confederate Exiles in Mexico, 1965, 2nd ed., 1993; California: A Students' Guide to Localized History, 1965; The Golden State, 1965, 3rd ed., 1990; Los Angeles: A Students' Guide to Localized History, 1966; The Immigrant Upraised: Italian Adventurers and Colonists in an Expanding America, 1968; The American Italians: Their History and Culture, 1973; (co-author) Essays and Assays: California History Reconsidered, 1973; The Italian-Americans: Troubled Roots, 1981; Los Angeles: From Pueblo to City of the Future, 1982, 2nd ed., 1995; Occidental College: A Centennial History, 1987; John Charles Fremont: Character as Destiny, 1992; Henry Mayo Newhall and His Times, A California Legacy, 1993; Westward the Immigrants, 1999. EDITOR: Helen Hunt Jackson's A Century of Dishonor: The Early Crusade for Indian Reform, 1965; Alfred Robinson's Life in California, 1970. Address: Research Division, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA 91108, U.S.A.

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