California’s Gold Rush of 1848 is often depicted as a time of adventure, opportunity, and transformation. Picture it: waves ...

Sandwiched between the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and the Civil War in 1861, the California Gold Rush is considered by many historians to be the most significant event of the first half of the ...

Hume had never been to Kerala, but his curiosity is believed to have been piqued by accounts from British surveyors and ...

Arcadia Publishing has announced the publication of “California Agriculture,” a new history of the state’s agriculture industry.

Here are the latest results for California’s 9th Congressional District race. The district covers parts of San Joaquin and ...

SUTTER CREEK – A historic commercial building in a California gold rush town went up in flames early Friday morning, officials said. The fire broke out at the former Palace Restaurant along Main ...

Among Placerville’s many gold rush-era curiosities are rumors of ... It’s the only city in all of California to own a gold mine. Off Highway 50 on the way to Tahoe, Gold Bug Mine, inside ...

Two new charts showing Gold & Silver’s performance after Gold breaks to a new all-time high.

Built in 1855 during the Gold Rush, the two-story brick Franco-American Hotel at 310 W. Miner St. is a nationally-known ...

This ‘Great Performances’ presentation observes the staging of John Adams and Peter Sellars’s ‘Girls of the Golden West’ at ...

This ‘Great Performances’ presentation observes the staging of John Adams and Peter Sellars’s ‘Girls of the Golden West’ at ...