California

These Berkeley hippies just wanted to build a park. Then things got violent

The People’s Park was…

The 1968 student walkout that galvanized a national movement for Chicano rights

A group of high school students in East Los Angeles walked out of school to protest overcrowded classes, run-down…

The hippest, happiest bus drivers Southern California ever did know

These 1980s Employee-of-the-Month…

How a bunch of forest-dwelling socialists got steamrolled by industry

Life at California’s Kaweah…

Photos: Dark beauty in the oil fields of old Southern California

From Santa Barbara to Huntington…

There was a full-blown Russian colony in California for almost 30 years

A hundred miles north of San…

This is what one of the worst fires in California history looks like

More than two dozen people died…

Watch: After the Gold Rush, Emperor Norton entertained San Francisco with his delusions of grandeur

His bizarre proclamations and custom currency were honored

In the 1990s, America took thousands of immigrant orphans from LA and dumped them in Tijuana jails

When these 19th century farmers wanted to talk about sex, they just invented a new language