A new lesson plan centers Native American perspectives on the violence of Western expansion Anne ... include missing narratives about the California Gold Rush. Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz ...

“Whether or not we want to be living in a Western,” Schwartz says ... An aggressively heady new movie it inspired, “Pavements,” thumbs its nose at the epic rock bio-pic.

On the morning of Jan. 24, 1848, James Marshall made a discovery that would forever change the trajectory of California. In a creek near the town of Coloma, a remote community wedged in the ...

A replica of Sutter’s Mill, where gold was first spotted in Northern California ... in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada burst onto the scene in 1848 during the fabled gold rush.

Like many get-rich-quick quests, the California gold rush caused a wave of destruction. During the peak years of the gold rush, the population of indigenous people in California dropped from ...