After the Gold Rush

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 • Alexandra Sokoloff

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September 2025

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 • Alexandra Sokoloff

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Chinese workers build the Transcontinental Railroad

California History After the Gold Rush

Sep 1 • Alexandra Sokoloff

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June 2025

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 • Alexandra Sokoloff

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May 2025

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 • Alexandra Sokoloff

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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 • Alexandra Sokoloff

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March 2025

International Women's Day: California Heroines

As ELON-FELON tries to eliminate all history involving anyone but white men, I want to shout out just a few of the powerhouse California women I’ve been…

Mar 8 • Alexandra Sokoloff

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February 2025

Frederick Douglass and Kendrick Lamar

How 'bout that halftime show?

Feb 14 • Alexandra Sokoloff

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Andrew Johnson deconstructs Reconstruction

There’s a national lament going on, going something like, “How did we get HERE?” The real question is, “How did we get BACK here?”

Feb 13 • Alexandra Sokoloff

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Lincoln's inaugural address inaugurates Civil War

Frederick Douglass: Some thought we had in Mr. Lincoln the nerve and decision of an Oliver Cromwell, but the result shows we have merely a continuation…

Feb 12 • Alexandra Sokoloff

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January 2025

Lincoln "considers" Emancipation

One key to the fight ahead is looking back to see how we ever made social and moral progress in the first place. Studying Abraham Lincoln’s surprisingly…

Jan 29 • Alexandra Sokoloff

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California, forever

Taking heart from California history: The 1906 earthquake and devastating fires that followed leveled San Francisco. The city miraculously rebuilt…

Jan 14 • Alexandra Sokoloff

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