Because of the visions of William Heath Davis, Jr. and later, Alonzo Horton, we can all enjoy America’s Finest City.

Like many get-rich-quick quests, the California gold rush caused a wave of destruction. During the peak years of the gold rush, the population of indigenous people in California dropped from ...

Prospectors came to Nevada City for gold, but the forested community has become an enduring oasis for artists, musicians, and ...

Evangeline's Costume Mansion is a historic gem along the waterfront where the Gold Rush boomed and where California's story is carved into cobblestone streets and wooden sidewalks.

Roughly 73 square miles of ancestral homelands once belonging to California's Yurok Tribe have been returned to them.

California history is often thought of as synonymous with the railroad and the gold rush, but Black history is not. “Black ...

On March 1, 1890, the California Supreme Court, in Wysinger vs. Crookshank, reversed the lower court decision and ordered that 12-year-old Arthur Wysinger be admitted to Visalia's regular school ...

After more than two decades and millions of dollars, the Yurok Tribe today has regained control of its ancestral lands.

The Yurok Tribe had 90% of its territory taken during the California Gold Rush in the mid-1800s, suffering massacres and ...

"To be part of that ongoing history of something that goes back to the very beginning of California, that was always an ...