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The Election of 1868
“History doesn’t repeat itself. But it often rhymes.” - Mark Twain -- It hardly seems that this election could be more existentially tense or…
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George Hearst & Mark Twain in the Comstock
George Hearst's lifelong friendship with the young Mark Twain was forged in that great melting pot known as the Comstock. Technically located in Nevada…
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Chinese medicine: Dr. Yee saves Jane Stanford's life
After the Gold Rush, Chapter 50
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What, to the Slave, is the Fourth of July? & The Picnic at Bull Run
There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour. —Frederick…
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Ambrose Bierce and Asbury Harpending at the Battle of Shiloh
California History After the Gold Rush
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The Stanfords and the Chinese Question
Jane and Leland Stanford were deeply problematic people. Jane is not by any means any kind of heroine to me. But I find her fascinating. As with all…
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San Francisco's Black newspapers, Civil War era
Mary Ellen Pleasant & the Executive Committee. San Francisco’s “Executive Committee” was a group of educated Black elite: ministers, teachers, business…
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