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California has long been one of the Americas' most diverse regions – but its diversity has not always implied racial and ethnic equality.
Does this 1976 video make you nostalgic for the days of shredding in your elbow pads and tube socks?
A hypothetical Interstate 1 would trace North America’s western margin, where the Pacific foams against a fractured landmass.
Here are six places where you can picture yourself in the pilot’s seat, sit in a cockpit, and even take flight – just like the great airmen and airwomen of SoCal once did during The Golden Age of Aviation (and beyond).
Traditional Environmental Knowledge includes education and activism. Mabel McKay embodied both.
The boomtime of 1887 had a fluid, phantasmagoric quality, as if scripted by Tim Burton.
Neither candidate took much notice of Los Angeles during the 1852 presidential campaign – and why would they? The City of Angels was then a dusty adobe village of some 2,000 souls, a frontier outpost within a state worth only four electoral votes.
If you call L.A., Orange, or San Diego County home, you may well live on one of Pico's former ranchos.
Whether you want to journey in a luxury dining car, hang with the crew in the caboose, or just do a little spectating from a vintage depot along some historic tracks, here are six great attractions for SoCal railway buffs and curious travelers alike.
Pío Pico’s life story will continue to remind California of what we were and what we will continue to be.
Why did Pío Pico – the last governor of Mexican Alta California – refuse to represent the state at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair?
This 1965 film footage from the Los Angeles City Archives reveals a proud and patriotic side that many only wish today’s election possessed.