Between 1864 and 1869, thousands of Chinese migrants toil at a grueling pace and in perilous working conditions to help construct America’s first transcontinental railroad.…
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For nearly 90 years, as a city and a world have change utterly around it, the famed hotel Chateau Marmont, perched above a famous road…
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“The California Gold Rush was a “universal mass trespass that shortly created laws to legitimize itself.” — Wallace Stegner Some states are conceived in slavery.…
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As a boy growing up in Suffolk County on Long Island, I climb the tops of the highest hills with my mother and father and…
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