Starr, Kevin

Dr. Kevin Starr is the University Professor of History at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. From 1994 to 2004 he served as the California State Librarian and was honored with the title of California State Librarian Emeritus upon his retirement. His writing has won a Guggenheim Fellowship and gold and silver medals from the Commonwealth Club of California.

J.S. Holliday (Jaquelin Smith Holliday II, 1924-2006) was an American historian best known as the author of "The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience." He was also the founding director of the Oakland Museum of California and executive director emeritus of the California Historical Society, taught history at San Francisco State University, and served for a time as assistant director of the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley. He died in Carmel, California on August 31, 2006.

Kevin Starr is the California State Librarian Emeritus and an American historian, best known for his multi-volume series on the history of California, "Americans and the California Dream."