California - Civil War Information

It is generally believed that Americans have always had a love affair with the get-rich-quick scheme. That all changed in 1848, with the construction of a mill in Coloma, California. Business partners John Sutter and James Marshall set out to build a ...

The first homework assignment most probably dates back to the early Greeks when Socrates told his students to go home and reason why? For the past few years homework has been and is the point of contention in schools from the California ...

Back in 1857, the government of the United States took the advice of Jefferson Davis , and decided to try using camels in the southwest to carry soldiers and equipment across the barren hot stretches of land. The legends began over the ...

Following the end of the Mexican War in 1848, the U.S. had its claims on Texas and California recognized and also acquired much of what is now Arizona and New Mexico. This was done and, in 1854, the U.S. Senate approved the ...

Calif. headstone of ex-Union Army soldier corrected after decades marked as ConfederateThe headstone of a former slave and Union soldier no longer identifies him as a member of the Confederate army, after his family failed to notice the error for years.More than ...

The observance of Labor Day, which was declared a national holiday in 1894, is usually associated more with the organized labor movement in industry than in agriculture. As the Wall Street Journal's Douglas A. Blackmon asserts in his Pulitzer Prize-winning 2008 book ...

Southern Overland Mail Company, organization awarded (1858) the U.S. government contract to deliver mail to the Pacific coast. The company operated a 25-day, semiweekly stagecoach run along a route from St. Louis, Mo., through El Paso, Texas, and Tucson, New Mexico Territory, ...

Vignettes from scattered locales shed light on our polity.Location Matters! By Conor Friedersdorf, November 19, 2008 On a September morning several years ago, I knocked at the door of a new tract home in Rancho Cucamonga, California, having arranged to interview its ...

I've lived more than 40 years in California.I had dinner and a night in a motel in Rhode Island.Pennsylvania got three years of my life. Indiana, a long afternoon.I've walked all over New York. I barely got out of my car in ...

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American history: The Gold Rush of 1848

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History mysteries: The legendary ghost camels of the American West

When Camels Roamed Arizona

Union soldier's headstone corrected after decades

A Brief History of American Farm Labor

Southern Overland Mail Company

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