For decades, California 4th-graders have studied the Golden State: its geography, people and history. Now, historians and Native American teachers are pushing to broaden that curriculum to include ...

In the 1860s, an armed militia swept into the historic land of the Serrano people in the San Bernardino mountains and went on a killing spree, attempting to slaughter the entire tribe. A tribal leader ...

*According to, author James W. Loewen in his best-selling book “Lies My Teacher Told Me,” virtually none of the body of knowledge, as taught in school curricula and World History, has an ounce of ...

If California were a country, its gross domestic product would rank fifth in the world, behind only the United States, China, Japan and Germany. As a mere state, its impact — cultural, political, ...

We humans, if we are to live intentional and thoughtful lives, almost always return to a series of timeless questions: Who are we? Where did we come from? Where are we going? To answer those questions ...

OAKLAND, Calif. - California became the 31st state to join the union on September 9, 1850. Relatively speaking, that’s a long time ago, but as far as politics is concerned, historically – the Golden ...

The tally is relentlessly grim: a whole settlement wiped out in Trinity County "excepting a few children"; an Indian girl raped and left to die somewhere near Mendocino; as many as 50 killed at Goose ...

This post is in partnership with the History News Network, the website that puts the news into historical perspective. The article below was originally published at HNN. The fires that have blitzed ...

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In the 1860s, an armed militia swept into the historic land of the Serrano people in the San Bernardino mountains and went on a killing spree, attempting to slaughter the entire tribe. A tribal leader ...