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Delilah Beasley chronicled African American "firsts" and notable achievements in early California in her book The Negro Trail-Blazers of California (1919), which is a compilation of records from the California Archives in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, found in newspapers from 1848 to the 1890s, and most particularly all the black newspapers from the first in ...
The novel describes, in retrospect, the history and culture of California from its earliest days, and its influence on the rest of the United States and the world when - after an unspecified date in 1969 - the state suffers a Richter magnitude 9 earthquake and the populous coastal regions west of the San Andreas Fault sink into the Pacific Ocean.
The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California ( ISBN 978-0520029057) is a 1975 labor and California history book by Alexander Saxton which became one of the founding texts of Asian American studies. The book has been described as "represent [ing] the best example of writing in the historical materialist tradition ...
e. This is a bibliography of California history. It contains English language (including translations) books and mainstream academic journal articles published after World War II. Inclusion criteria. This list is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all works about California history. It is limited to works primarily or substantially ...
In Christianity, particularly in Catholic and Lutheran theology, concupiscence is the tendency of humans to sin. [2][3] There are nine occurrences of concupiscence in the Douay-Rheims Bible [4] and three occurrences in the King James Bible. [5] It is also one of the English translations of the Koine Greek epithumia (ἐπιθυμία), [6 ...
Traditional narratives of Indigenous Californians. Appearance. The traditional narratives of Native California are the folklore and mythology of the native people of California. For many historic nations of California, there is only a fragmentary record of their traditions. Spanish missions in California from the 18th century Christianized many ...
Donald H. Pflueger (1923–1994) was an American historian, educator and author from Glendora, California, known for his work on the history of the Inland Empire. His parents, the G. H. Pflueger, were early citrus ranchers, and their river rock family home is still located on the northeast corner of Pflueger Avenue and Foothill Boulevard, in Glendora.
t. e. The history of California can be divided into the Native American period (about 10,000 years ago until 1542), the European exploration period (1542–1769), the Spanish colonial period (1769–1821), the Mexican period (1821–1848), and United States statehood (September 9, 1850–present). California was one of the most culturally and ...