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Going through the tunnel (1898)
The train tunnel in this 1898 film is now where Interstate 10 turns into Pacific Coast Highway.
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The park-like forests of the 19th Century Sierra Nevada were sustained by carefully planned fires conducted by Native people.
South Spring Street, Los Angeles, Cal. (1897)
On Dec. 31, 1897, a photographer for the Edison Manufacturing Company captured a lively downtown scene on Spring Street.
Border Security Remains Key Issue In Presidential Campaigns
One-third of the unaccompanied minors flooding the southwest border are girls, many escaping sexual violence in Central America, and arriving in the U.S. pregnant or with young children and are left to navigate a precarious health care system.
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No matter what you learned in fourth grade, California Indians didn't vanish when the '49ers arrived.
Portrait of the Los Angeles Police team, posing with rifles, 1890
The first LAPD officer killed in the line of duty was shot by a fellow officer over a reward for recovering a runaway Chinese prostitute.
Farm in Coachella Valley near Mecca
It took decades, but now California farmworkers will get the pay they deserve. The California Senate passed AB 1066 earlier this month, a bill introduced by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez that will create new rules for overtime pay for farmworkers.
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Early American observers were too unsophisticated to appreciate the accomplishments of California's Native peoples.
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Something must be done with the LAPD's former home on Los Angeles St., either to make its presence more felt or to erase its image from memory.
Literary Riot: Mila Cuda and Caitlyn Bove
Mila Cuda and Caitlyn Bove from iLead North Hollywood use the analogy of car traffic to break down sexual assault.
Literary Riot: Joel Lopez
In his original poem, Joel Lopez examines the conflict with his identity as an American who was raised as a Latino.
Early automobiles, including a Ford Model T, descend Santa Monica's California Incline in the early 20th century.
When the ramp opened sometime around 1905, it was the first automobile shortcut over the cliffs separating Santa Monica from its beach.
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