For a broad overview of California’s story start with Kevin Starr’s one-volume history of the state. The historian and former state librarian somehow manages to cover everything from the Spaniards’ ...
Susan D. Anderson talks about the forgotten history of California’s earliest Black residents. By Soumya Karlamangla Black residents make up a relatively small share of California’s population. But the ...
Larry Mantle talks with author Kevin Nelson about his new book The Golden Game: The Story of California Baseball (Heyday books), that chronicles more than 150 years of baseball history from sandlot ...
With recent news that the California DMV has begun production on the black license plates with the same gold lettering of the 1960s, we look back at the colorful history of California’s plates, prior ...
BE LYING TO CONGRESS. WELL, TROPICAL CYCLONES AREN’T A REGULAR PART OF CALIFORNIA’S WEATHER, BUT IF ONE COMES OUR WAY, IT’S MOST LIKELY TO HAPPEN IN SEPTEMBER. AND METEOROLOGIST HEATHER WALDMAN SHOWS ...
On the shortest few days and the very longest nights of the year at the winter solstice in the year 1775, on Dec. 20-22, Juan Bautista de Anza camped his expedition next to a freshwater spring in ...
The Florida Museum of Natural History recently published “The Butterflies of California,” an online book that contains a ...