We’re always on the edge of catastrophe,” Nathaniel Philbrick says of America, from 1850s San Francisco to 2020s Silicon ...

This historic California Gold Rush town feels frozen in time, and it warmly welcomes visitors to explore its shops, take a ...

The native tribes of California saw themselves as stewards not owners of the land. The white settlers who arrived during the ...

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The best-selling author Nathaniel Philbrick sees links between eighteen-fifties California and the current A.I. boom. What ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the morning of Jan. 24, 1848, James Marshall made a discovery that would forever change the trajectory of California. In a ...

Chinese immigrants first arrived in San Francisco in 1848. By the end of the 1850s, they made up one-fifth of the population ...

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In a tiny town where the California gold rush began, Black families are seeking restitution for land that was taken from their ancestors to make way for a state park now frequented by fourth graders ...

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On the morning of Jan. 24, 1848, James Marshall made a discovery that would forever change the trajectory of California. In a creek near the town of Coloma, a remote community wedged in the foothills ...