Lt. Gov. Goodwin Jesse Knight, a genial, moderate Republican, is sworn in on October 5, 1953, as California’s 31st governor after the resignation of Earl…
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Stories about the lives and landscapes of California
Between 1864 and 1869, thousands of Chinese migrants toil at a grueling pace and in perilous working conditions to help construct America’s first transcontinental railroad.…
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For nearly 90 years, as a city and a world have change utterly around it, the famed hotel Chateau Marmont, perched above a famous road…
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The lands of the Pomo spread across modern-day Sonoma, Mendocino, and Lake counties. The Pomo lack access to clay for pottery and so baskets are…
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“The California Gold Rush was a “universal mass trespass that shortly created laws to legitimize itself.” — Wallace Stegner Some states are conceived in slavery.…
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As a boy growing up in Suffolk County on Long Island, I climb the tops of the highest hills with my mother and father and…
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That’s how an article in the July 30, 1897 San Francisco Call describes Mrs. Eliza Thorrold, who is set to take the examination to be…
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Alexander and Abby Clifton Fisher come to San Francisco in 1877. In 1879, Abby Fisher is presented the highest award at the State Fair in…
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On Sunday, May 3, 1992, I’m asked by my dear friend Pastor John Bowie to address his congregation in South Los Angeles. The city is…
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On orders from his father, Ging Chuck Yee leaves China for the United States when he is just 14 years old. Ging is a paper…
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