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Train Dreams: The Chinese build the Central Pacific Railroad
The new movie Train Dreams focuses on the experience of a white male railroad worker, but in reality the western half of the Transcontinental railroad…
May 7
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The assassination of Lincoln - in California
San Francisco reacts to the assassination of Lincoln, and the teenage de Youngs begin a newspaper dynasty
Apr 16
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Indigenous People's Day
Columbus’ arrival to the Americas triggered a mass genocide of Indigenous people throughout the Western hemisphere that lasted for centuries.
Oct 13, 2025
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Remembering Horst Wessel
The 22-year old Nazi activist’s 1930 murder was used by Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels & the Nazi party to create a martyr for Hitler’s…
Sep 22, 2025
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Chinese workers build the Transcontinental Railroad
California History After the Gold Rush
Sep 1, 2025
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Say Gay! California History: Charles Warren Stoddard
Charles Warren Stoddard wrote the first acknowledged American novel about openly gay characters and lived out in a time that had not yet heard the word…
Jun 26, 2025
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Swing Around the Circle & NO KINGS Day
The similarities between the current lawless occupant of the White House and the unelected post-Civil War president Andrew Johnson are many. They are…
May 30, 2025
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1866 - the Memphis and New Orleans massacres
It was reported as starting with “a shooting altercation between white policemen and Black soldiers recently mustered out of the Union Army.” It ended…
May 29, 2025
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