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Admission Day: California admitted to United States 173 years ago
KTLA articles via Yahoo News· 8 months agoHappy 173rd birthday, California! On Sept. 9, 1850, California became the 31st state to be admitted...
Column: Threats to criminalize out-of-state abortions are a scary reminder of 1850s America
LA Times via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoAbortion rights supporters march to the White House to denounce the U.S. Supreme Court decision to...
Trump Says We Should Have Negotiated Around the Civil War. Here’s What Would Have Happened.
Politico via Yahoo News· 4 months agoFormer President Donald Trump thinks history could have been different, if only Abraham Lincoln had...
California Has A Connection To Juneteenth You Probably Never Knew About
Blavity via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIn 1852, the California Supreme Court said the state constitution’s ban on slavery didn’t apply to...
Trump calls for release of Jan. 6 rioters, falsely describes Capitol attack as 'peaceful'
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 5 months agoFormer President Donald Trump campaigned in Iowa on the third anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot...
Texas history museum dissects treaty that ended Mexican American War and changed the world
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 2 months agoBe honest: What do you really know about the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo? The accord that formally...
Orion Griffin: Today in history: D.C. abolishes the slave trade
The Newberry Observer, S.C. via Yahoo News· 8 months agoSep. 20—On September 20, 1850, the District of Columbia abolished the slave trade, making it illegal to buy and sell slaves in the nation's capital. Although it outlawed the trade, slavery was ...
Most Californians want reparations for slavery but don't want to pay cash. Now what?
LA Times via Yahoo News· 8 months agoMost California voters possess a more nuanced view on the lasting legacy of slavery and how the...
Column: The right-wing campaign to make our kids dumber
LA Times via Yahoo Finance· 9 months agoFrom "PragerU" in the Florida schools to the evisceration of language and humanities courses in West...
How a long history of racism and neglect set the stage for Pajaro flooding
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMaria Terriquez, right, and Blanca Garcia push a shopping cart of supplies across the Pajaro River...