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Watch video highlights of the Queen's astonishing six decades of sovereignty.
Snow once fell on the Los Angeles coastal plain roughly once per decade, but the city is now in the middle of a 54-year snow drought.
An Olympic gold medalist diver, Lee (1920-2016) fought housing segregation in California and communism abroad.
In 1965, a proposed convention threatened to change the character of L.A.'s Elysian Park – until a group of activists, led by retired journalist Grace Simons, rallied to defeat the plan.
Transcending the grassroots, L.A. activists entered the halls of local politics and showed how public resources could embolden gay power.
Like many long-lived screen icons, the Bradbury Building has endured almost as many years of irrelevance and dissolution as it has enjoyed years of celebration.
From candy-cane streetcars to Broadway twinkle lights, vintage photos reveal how Southern California once decorated its public spaces for the holidays.
Thanksgiving has long been criticized as a whitewashed holiday that erases Native people. With Standing Rock, those criticisms become more pressing.
Hollywood at the turn of the 20th century was a small country hamlet where lemon trees outnumbered people.
From a Space Age Tomorrowland to an "authentic" Indian Village, this home movie footage reveals much that's changed at "The Happiest Place on Earth."
"In these uncertain days," commentator Stephen A. Nuño writes, "I am reminded of the neighborhood I was born in because of the rich history of resistance and diversity it represents."
California has long been one of the Americas' most diverse regions – but its diversity has not always implied racial and ethnic equality.