Labor “A Series of Interesting Sketches and Scenes in California” in Gleason’s Pictorial Drawing Room Companion, 30 October 1852 by homesteadmuseum Posted on October 30, 2024 Read More
Politics & Government “A Pacific Railroad is . . . Worthy of a Great and Powerful Nation”: A Report by the Select Committee on the Pacific Railroad, House of Representatives, 13 April 1860, Part One by homesteadmuseum Posted on April 13, 2023April 13, 2023 Read More
Holidays & Celebrations “A Community Unparalleled in the Manifold Fusions of Races or Combinations of Men”: The “Birth-Day of California” in Littell’s Living Age, 15 March 1851 by homesteadmuseum Posted on March 15, 2023March 16, 2023 Read More
Places & Communities “The World in California”: An Essay on Ethnicity in Hutchings’ California Magazine, March 1857 by homesteadmuseum Posted on March 8, 2023 Read More
Economics “A Man Without Worthy Aims and of Weak Principles Will Go to Perdition”: Mining Life in California in Harper’s Weekly, 3 October 1857 by homesteadmuseum Posted on October 3, 2022 Read More
Law & Crime “A Curse and Scourge Upon the Most Magnificent Portions of the American Empire”: Government Letters Concerning Fraud in California Land Claims, 1858-1860 by homesteadmuseum Posted on May 22, 2022 Read More
Politics & Government “A Difficult, Delicate and Yet Most Responsible Duty”: A Report on Settling Land Claims in California, 31 August 1852 by homesteadmuseum Posted on August 31, 2020October 20, 2025 Read More
