California is a world within a state — home to towering mountains, vast deserts, volcanic fields, and lush forests. From the ...

1. California joined the United States with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican-American War, in 1848. The U.S. paid Mexico $15 million for war damages. In turn, ...

THIS is a book almost as encyclopedic as its title would indicate ; and is evidently written with a desire to say everything which the theme permits, and to say it truly. It answers almost every ...

At the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, a show about California’s geography begins with a wall of people. Catherine Opie’s intimate photograph of two farmworkers wrapped in a butch ...