After the Gold Rush

After the Gold Rush

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Indigenous People's Day
Columbus’ arrival to the Americas triggered a mass genocide of Indigenous people throughout the Western hemisphere that lasted for centuries.
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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…
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Chinese workers build the Transcontinental Railroad
California History After the Gold Rush
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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After the Gold Rush
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