Company housing for Mexican cotton pickers on a large ranch in Corcoran, California, 1940
California
The Sacramento flood of 1862.
More anti-Mexican violence for LGM's core of racist commenters who think that the U.S. conquest of northern Mexico was a-ok. White soldiers looking for Mexicans to beat, Zoot Suit Riots,.
We continue our needed lessons on the history of American colonization of northern Mexico, desperately needed by a racist group of LGM commenters who seem to think that "people move around, oh well!" is an acceptable answer to our history's violence. The lynched bodies of...
Hydraulic mining, Marin County, California, 1908
While the University of California has come to an agreement with one of its three striking unions--the postdocs--the other unions remain on strike. Fundamentally, this is a straightforward issue--the University.
John Wayne's statue at John Wayne / Orange County Airport (SNA) We sometimes forget now just how important southern California is to the rise of the conservative movement, especially in Orange County and in San Diego County. People such as Darrell Issa try to hold...
While I grant that the politics of dams and fish are not the topic of greatest interest at a site focused on national politics, I want to highlight this really.
While we'd all like to think that unions exist to promote "the workers" or socialism or the revolution or whatever we want, the reality is that they exist to promote.
Embers fly above a firefighter as he works to control a backfire as the Delta Fire burns in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Calif., on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018. The blaze had tripled in size overnight. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) Thanks to right-wing extremism, anything in the...
Since the Opus Dei Court is going all-in for destroying any democratic accountability and implementing their vision of how great things were in 1950 despite no knowledge about actual life.
On June 24, 1867, Chinese workers building the transcontinental railroad across Sierra Nevada went on strike over the horrific conditions of their work for the Central Pacific Railroad. This remarkable.