Take a bite out of California’s past with these historic restaurants that have been serving great food and even better ...

Mental Floss: Three controversial maps Additionally, a new federal tax on mining operations added fuel to the region's civil unrest. Seeing little support from Washington, on April 7, 1850 ...

The United States is a nation of immigrants, and California even more so, with twice the national percentage of immigrants.

The Ventura County Star has chronicled every major milestone in the last 100 years of the county's history. Here is a ...

On this day in 1842, Francisco López, considered to be the first person to find gold in California, was granted land rights ...

The Monterey County Board of Supervisors commemorated the 50th anniversary of the ban on the short-handled hoe, a tool that ...

And if you pause the map and click on a dot, you’ll learn about the ship’s flag—was it British? Portuguese? French?—its origin point, its destination, and its history in the slave trade.

At a special meeting on Tuesday, leaders in Monterey County are celebrating 50 years since the banning of an agricultural ...

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Before joining the department, she taught at McGill, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Maryland Baltimore County. Her research interests include modern British cultural and social history ...