The flag of Mexico has become ubiquitous on the streets of America as a protest symbol against Donald Trump and his government’s immigration policies. Which makes sense given that many people in Texas ...

The story of how the United States took California and Texas from Mexico is a complex tale of war, politics, and expansionism that shaped the map of North America forever. It begins with Texas, a ...

Thousands of people from the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), Oregon, Mexico, Chile, Peru and China headed for California in the summer and fall of 1848, before Americans on the East Coast had a clue of ...

Consider all that happened in the first remarkable months at the beginning of 1848. On Jan. 24, gold was discovered accidentally on a river in Northern California–the first fleck of what would ...

Between 1848 and 1855, California produced an estimated 750,000 pounds of gold. After that the take gradually declined, and by the end of the decade it was over.