In summer 2024 the USC Libraries hosted five USC students to work with our library faculty on research with primary source materials at the intersection of history and sustainability. Throughout the spring semester, the students will present the results of their work at a series of brown bag lunch talks in USC’s Sustainability Hub at the center of campus.

On April 23rd, join us as Sharon Salgado Martínez explores the development of Palm Springs into a major tourist destination in the mid-20th century, focusing on the displacement of Indigenous communities, particularly the destruction of Section 14 in 1966. By centering Indigenous experiences and incorporating oral histories from the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, she highlights the human cost of urban expansion and calls for a more inclusive approach to historical narratives on land dispossession.

Part of a series of LUNCHTIME TALKS by the USC Libraries RESEARCH FELLOWS ON SUSTAINABILITY