A brief history of California's different flags.

From the Indians who inhabited the land before the first Europeans saw it through the warfare that would finally leave the province in American hands, this book

Mutiny tore like wildfire through the wooden warships of the age of revolution. While commoners across Europe laid siege to the nobility and enslaved workers pu

Explores the role of sex and gender on California's multi-cultural frontier under the influences of Spain, Mexico, and the United States.

“A California classic . . . California, it should be remembered, was very much the wild west, having to wait until 1850 before it could force its way into sta