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Florence Middleton/CalMattersCalifornia is strengthening civics education as America marks its 250th birthday. Teachers have to navigate a polarized political environment as they guide lessons on the Constitution. -
Nick Ut/AP PhotoCalifornia voted to bar immigrants from schools and social services in 1994. Now most Californians see immigrants as a benefit to the state.
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Christmas morning provided a surprise to the owners of Eagle Point's historic Butte Creek Mill, but not the pleasant kind. The mill burned to the ground… -
Alcatraz Island, vaudeville, and immigration all emerge as subject matter in Kristina McMorris's latest novel, The Edge of Lost. So we could not resist… -
Jon Meacham's book about George H.W. Bush made news even before anyone bought it. Because the 41st president was unusually candid in his interviews with… -
It's hard to believe World War I was once called The Great War, when an even greater war followed it. The two World Wars are taken up as a single subject… -
It's weird enough to think about one of our founding fathers being killed in a duel. It's just that much weirder to imagine the sitting Vice-President of… -
Maybe you don't generally visit federal courthouses for art displays, but here's your chance. The Wayne Morse Federal Courthouse in Eugene is the… -
Nazi Germany did not surrender without a fight... a very big fight. Hitler's Germany made a last great push in Western Europe starting in late 1944, in… -
Mark Lombardi was an artist, to be sure, but what else was he? Before his death, he made intricate drawings that told stories of banking and organized… -
So much of what we know about the past and our ancestors comes from the records they kept. And those end up archived somewhere. In recent years, the "I… -
Maybe you never heard of Edward Proctor Hunt, but he lived a fascinating life. He was born into the Acoma Pueblo tribe in New Mexico in the middle of the… -
Michael Gruenbaum was young when his family was forced to move into a Jewish ghetto in Prague. But he grew up fast when the Nazis increased their… -
We attach a certain level of cinematic romance to the gangsters of the Prohibition era. But they were just as scary in their time as our drug cartels and…
