Cheryl Anne Stapp

Best known for her work on the Hearst Castle in San Simeon, Julia Morgan designed more than 700 buildings after becoming, in 1904, the...

Privileged, headstrong, and in love with an “unsuitable” man, Jessie Benton—the daughter of powerful U.S. Senator Thomas Hart...

Perched on a sheltered cove in San Francisco Bay, the little hamlet known as Yerba Buena (good herb) had been so named by the Spanish...

California was admitted to the Union as the 31st state on September 9, 1850. That year 27 original counties were created, with Mariposa...

A mere 300 years ago, while colonies on America’s Eastern Seaboard were developing, California’s vast stretches of geographically...