Digital technology has interconnected people and services, but  global governance driven by mercantilist interests have led ...

If you come across this special coin minted with gold from the California gold rush, you could be looking at a small fortune for yourself.

So many prospectors flocked to San Francisco during the gold rush in California that the city's population rose from 1,000 to 25,000 between 1848 and 1849. The discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill in ...

An anthropologist from California got more than he bargained for during a secret journey into the Nevada desert - coming face ...

Spring, even in drought years, is the time for California wildflowers to burst ... valleys east into Sierra foothills, linking to Gold Rush sites, cute towns with mining and logging history ...

Richardson Bay is a natural harbor that on maps resembles a cartoon fish chomping into the Marin County peninsula. It is ...

Unlike most cities in the U.S.A., Corpus Christi has no Main Street. This week's Coastal Bend History looks at the 1930s ...

Manly’s book, Death Valley in ’49, stands as one of the few surviving records of the journey in history, capturing not only ...

The California gold rush of 1849 had triggered America's earliest wave of Chinese immigration, with some 66,000 people, mostly men, arriving over the next decade. (About half of them stayed.) ...