A historian's view of the changing 'California dream'
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Kevin Starr has added a seventh volume to his history of the nation's most populous state.
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Bee Staff Writer. Slowly and deliberately over the years, the grounds of the old Sacramento County Hospital have been morphing into the modern campus of the UC Davis medical school.
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VIENNA, Austria Austrian scholars say California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger needs to brush up on the history of his homeland.
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Southwest Washington is an antique vision of the future. It's mid-century's idea of "progress," a never-to-be-repeated experiment in bulldozing shabby if genuine neighborhoods and replacing them with chilly high-rise modernity. To this day it struggles to present much sense of life or soul.
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Economic geographer AnnaLee Saxenian says the migration of Silicon Valley's "New Argonauts" speaks volumes about wider changes in techdom.
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Leon Panetta remembers when his grandfather fished off California's coast hauling in catches that once made Monterey the sardine capital of the world and the backdrop for the 1945 John Steinbeck novel "Cannery Row."
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Let the past put current conditions in perspective.
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Actress Marilyn Monroe, writer John Steinbeck, baseball star Jackie Robinson, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren are among the many Californians who made a huge mark on history.
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By Deirdre Fernandes, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Sep. 10--VIRGINIA BEACH -- The city is increasing its stock of historic homes, but concerns about how to best manage them are pitting long time grass-roots activists against each other.
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By Jeff Hood, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Sep.
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After 9/11, Amy Wilentz thought that California might offer a respite from the anxieties of living in New York, but soon discovered that the Golden State manufactures anxieties all its own.
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By Nicole C. Wong, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Mar.
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By Kevin Howe, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Sep.
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The last century, through its great cataclysms, offers two clear, ringing, and, unfortunately, contradictory lessons.
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Locke, California, was built almost a century ago, by and for Chinese immigrants. Can its legacy save it from extinction?
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By Therese Poletti, Michelle Quinn and Pete Carey, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep.
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By ROBIN GAULDIE  WHEN the Aga Khan bought up a vast stretch of bleak, sunblasted Sardinian coastline in the 1960s, he turned the Costa Smeralda into a byword for floating gin palaces and exclusive hotels.   But it only takes a quick peek to explode that old myth.