John CaugheyHistory was Caughey's passion, and he was very active in several different organizations. He was a dignified, gentlemanly, and gifted teacher at UCLA for more than forty years. He was a mentor for two generations of historians of California and the Wst and supervised three dozen doctoral dissertations. He was also a social activist and civil libertarian who cared deeply about education and wrote one of the first textbooks that took into account the role of women and minorities in American history. Read More Read Less