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For many of our readers, the world has been their oyster these last months. They’ve ridden camels in Tangier, explored Maine’s Acadia National Park and seen the Northern Lights in Iceland. And when ...

Few symbols in California are as ubiquitous as the roadside markers shaped like mission bells that flank state highways and the streets of coastal cities from San Diego to Sonoma along the so-called ...

Control of Los Cabos missions at San José del Cabo and Santiago shifted from the Jesuits to Franciscans in 1768, with dire ...

Access these resources as a member - it's free! Ruben Mendoza gave a tour of the Carmel Mission and talked about Father Junipero Serra, a Spanish priest of the Franciscan Order who founded the first ...

TODAY IS THE WINTER SOLSTICE... THE SHORTEST DAY OF THE YEAR.... AT MISSIONS ACROSS CALIFORNIA... THAT MEANS THE SUNRISE CREATED A RARE PHENOMENON CALLED áILLUMINATIONá. AT MISSION SAN JUAN BAUTISTA..

Picture postcards became popular in America as souvenirs and message sending devices in the late nineteenth century. Their minimal cost, portability, and accessibility enabled the tourist an ...

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect the Native American tribes included in the UCLA History-Geography Project’s lesson. For millions of Californians, growing up in the Golden State ...