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Nov 27, 2017 · 1849 – The Gold Rush Era. According to History.com, the Gold Rush was “arguably one of the most significant events to shape American history during the first half of the 19th century.”. The striking of gold in California soil brought thousands upon thousands of prospectors and settlers to the state, all looking for that same fortuitous metal.
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- The 1900s. This decade opened the century with some amazing scientific and technological feats: the first flight by the Wright brothers, Henry Ford's first Model-T, and Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity.
- The 1910s. This decade was dominated by the first "total war"—World War I. It also saw other huge changes during the Russian Revolution and the beginning of Prohibition in the United States.
- The 1920s. The Roaring '20s were a time of a booming stock market, speakeasies, short skirts, the Charleston, and jazz. The '20s also showed great strides in women's suffrage—women got the vote in 1920.
- The 1930s. The Great Depression hit the world hard in the 1930s. The Nazis took advantage of this situation and came to power in Germany, established their first concentration camp, and began a systematic persecution of Jews in Europe.
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Photography collector Stephen White and curator Jonathan Spaulding discuss A Country Called California: Photographs 1850s to 1960s, a new book that traces the development of the Golden State from the nineteenth century to its emergence as the fifth-largest economy in the world as seen through the lenses of California photographers. March 8, 2022
Photographs can play a key role in sorting out the madness of cultural encounter at the turn of the last century, when immigrants, migrants, and settlers found themselves together in American port cities. Anthony W. Lee, professor of art history at Mount Holyoke College, looks at pictures of San Francisco’s notorious opium dens and shows how they c...
Based on her forthcoming book, Sue Fawn Chung, professor emerita at University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), discusses organizations and individuals that contracted Chinese workers for the construction of railroads throughout the American West in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her research highlights the experiences of one Chines...
The American Indian Cultural District (AICD) in San Francisco is undertaking a project called Mapping Genocide to examine the intentional erasure of American Indian history and contributions. AICD’s Co-founder and Executive Director Sharaya Souza (Taos Pueblo, Ute, Kiowa) and Director of Community Development & Partnerships Paloma Flores (Pit River...
Eighty years ago, this November, the U.S. Supreme court dramatically expanded Americans’ freedom to travel across state lines regardless of their income. Drawing heavily on the California Historical Society’s American Civil Liberties of Northern California collection and other primary sources, author Bill Lascher revisits an era when California and...
In the 1920s San Francisco hosted its own community of bohemians—not unlike Greenwich Village’s. Artists, writers, musicians, radicals, and free-thinkers of many stripes gathered in eateries such as the legendary Coppa’s and the artist colony at Monkey Block. Their goal: to create a new world of freedom, art and politics. Novelist Jasmin Darznik, a...
African Americans who moved to California in hopes of finding freedom and full citizenship instead faced all-too-familiar racial segregation. As one transplant put it, “The only difference between Pasadena and Mississippi is the way they are spelled.” From the beaches to streetcars to schools, the Golden State—in contrast to its reputation for tole...
The notion that Los Angeles does not care about its history and historic buildings has been pervasive among outsiders. In fact, the city is breaking new ground in its approach to historic preservation by moving beyond architecture to protect places that are socially and culturally meaningful to Los Angeles’s diverse communities. Ken Bernstein, head...
Bruce’s Beach was an African American resort overlooking the water in Manhattan Beach until 1924, when the city seized the land under the pretense of building a park. Officials recently took steps to return the property to the Bruce family. Alison Rose Jefferson, author of Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites during the Jim C...
Stereotypes of women in the Old West are ingrained in the American collective consciousness thanks to early pulp fiction and Hollywood movies. Fiction writer Wendy Voorsanger discusses how male storytellers romanticized a mythology of men as saviors of women. Presenting research for her historical novel, Prospects of a Woman, Voorsanger considers h...
California became an American cultural phenomenon; the idea of the "California Dream" as a portion of the larger American Dream of finding a better life drew 35 million new residents from the start to the end of the 20th century (1900–2010). [1] . Silicon Valley became the world's center for computer innovation. California demographics.
Which events were the most important in any given decade of U.S. history? This list tries to answer that question. See if you agree.
How well do you know the history of the 20th century? What are some of the major events that happened in this time period? If you’re like most people, you can list off inventions and discoveries, world wars and presidents, but what about more obscure events that shaped American history?
2023 Events: May 6th - Clarksville Heritage Day - 10am-5pm - Old Clarksville off Hwy 50 / Silva Valley parkway - pioneer heritage themed event featuring display booths and possible wagon rides for children May 13th - Roseville Carnegie Library - 557 Lincoln St. - old Roseville - Pioneer heritage displays and stories
