Julia Dixon Evans: In 1769, Father Junípero Serra founded the first Spanish mission in California — just a couple of miles from our KPBS studio. Back then, California was home to an estimated 300,000 ...

In California's 175 years of statehood, there's been so much history, and there's one place that's dedicated to preserving it. Lisa Gonzalez takes us inside the California State Library. In the hustle ...

Staff at Redwood National and State Parks in Northern California have flagged several books about Native American culture and ...

The day after author Myriam Gurba filed the final draft of her latest book, the land caught fire. She evacuated along with other residents of Altadena and Pasadena as the Eaton Fire burned, destroying ...

As Michael Hiltzik considered writing a new chronicle of California, he examined the region’s past five centuries in search of a fresh perspective. “I pitched it as a look at what California had ...