History

The West Point Cemetery has taken in graduates of the Long Gray Line from the age of the cavalry charge to the dawn of drone strikes. Headstones etched with names like Custer and Westmoreland stand near plots with freshly turned earth.

Come celebrate John Muir's lifelong commitment to conservation at the John Muir National Historic Site in Martinez on April 20.

The legacy of St. Francis High School teacher Kathy Carlisle will be in the spotlight in hopes of galvanizing the next generation of teachers, as the University of Minnesota this week begins an exhibit of Holocaust-inspired photos shot by her students.

During Jerry Brown's first stint as governor three-plus decades ago, a number of books were written about him – some laudatory, some critical and some analytical.

The threat of rain didn't put a damper on this year's Easter Bonnet Promenade in Old Sacramento.

/PRNewswire/ -- The Titanic sank because of good corporate decisions poorly applied — and your business may be steaming toward the same fate. That's the claim of Joseph Mortati, author of the new business ebook, Collision Course: How Good Business Decisions Sank the Titanic (http://www.amazon.com/kindle/dp/B00C259DCM).

/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On National Agriculture Day, the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is unveiling a new website where the public can upload stories about technologies and innovation that have changed their work lives in agriculture—stories about precision farming, food-borne illness tracking, environmental concerns, government practices, irrigation, biotechnology and hybrid seeds.

The folks at the Sacramento-based state appellate court had begun to wonder whether Thomas Wolfe was right when he wrote his best-known novel, "You Can't Go Home Again."

Team members all speak wistfully about the summer of '83, the last time a Sacramento team made it to the Little League World Series.

Less than a mile from Death Valley National Park is one of the most well-preserved historic mining camps in America: Ryan, California. Here, for select tour groups, scientists and guests, history comes alive.

Two Rocklin brothers are joining the quest for a renowned collector's hidden treasure of gold and gems.

On Wednesday, Gov. Jerry Brown, first lady Anne Gust Brown and the California Museum will induct the four Warner brothers into the California Hall of Fame.

For nine years, a pair of Capitol Hill lawmakers have asked the president of the United States to pardon posthumously American boxing legend Jack Johnson.

March is Women's History Month, when the nation pays tribute to "the generations of women whose commitments have proved invaluable to society." People like astronaut Sally Ride, artist Frida Kahlo, athlete Wilma Rudolph, novelist Virginia Woolf, aviator Amelia Earhart, and the Rosie the Riveter archetype.

Only a few years ago, Diana Rambo learned a distant relative had served on the USS Monitor, the warship that elementary school lessons had taught her played a pivotal role in the Civil War.

Lorrie Toohey-Maeda's breast cancer had come back, but the longtime Sacramento City College history teacher put off chemo treatments to be with her husband, Wayne Maeda, who was suffering from cancer, too.

Melanie Benjamin had returned to her Chicago suburbs home the day before, exhausted from another leg of a book tour that's been going nonstop since the January debut of her best-selling historical novel, "The Aviator's Wife."

When the First United Methodist Church in Roseville opened 130 years ago, even the bars stopped serving to pay their respects.

GUINDA – From across Northern California, they came for links, ribs, jazz, gospel and a rare taste of Yolo County's secret African American past.

When the First Methodist Church in Roseville opened 130 years ago, even the bars stopped serving to pay their respects.

William "Wes" Freeman, a lifelong Lincoln resident who helped establish the town's archive museum, died Feb. 7 of heart failure, his family said. He was 90.

Abraham Lincoln and George Washington consistently rank with historians and the public as the nation's best presidents – and we rightly celebrate their accomplishments.

The lack of a catchy, go-to name for Sacramento's downtown train station is bothering some at City Hall.

Daydreaming about fashion, the future matriarch of modern design spent her Sacramento youth sketching clothes and making paper dolls.

It was a sight to warm a teacher's heart on a school holiday: A room full of big dads hunched over little tables, helping their kids color, cut and glue … paper dolls.

More than 200 Mien refugees from across California poured into south Sacramento on Saturday to hear from the man they hope will save their ancient language.

George W. Porter, an American patriot who fought for his country in World War II while battling racism at home as a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, died Saturday at 91.

Sacramento's Iu Mien community – largest in the nation – will celebrate Lunar New Year on Saturday by honoring Mien elders.

They pipe in music here on Main Street, mostly tunes from the '20s.

To get a picture of African American life in the Sacramento region over the last 50 years, all Larry Lee need do is dive into the archives of his family's newspaper.

There was little doubt that West Sacramento's Richard L. Laws died April 3, 1966, when the naval fighter pilot's aircraft was hit by enemy fire and crashed in North Vietnam.

Ever since she was a junior in high school, Karen Burney wanted to know who she was and where she came from. Now a veteran genealogist, she believes her origins began in the Congo more than 200 years ago.

Tucked away among the streets of Sacramento's Arden Park neighborhood sits a modest ranchette – with a curiosity in its backyard.

February is Black History Month, which has its roots in Negro History Week, founded in 1926 by Harvard-educated Carter G. Woodson. It's a time for Americans to remember the struggles, accomplishments and contributions of African Americans.

Joanne Murphy knew something was unusual when she opened up an old Bible last week. The holy book turned up among the tens of thousands of materials donated to the Friends of the Sacramento Public Library each year.

A social scientist, a labor activist and a football star are among the newest class of inductees named by Gov. Jerry Brown and first lady Anne Gust Brown to the California Hall of Fame.

On a frosty Monday morning that thawed out quickly, a joyous procession of more than 20,000 Sacramentans trekked downtown from Oak Park, Sacramento City College and Grant High School to honor the vision of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

BURLINGAME – A man who has dedicated much of his life to the acquisition and lavish display of 5-inch plastic candy dispensers that shoot out pellets from a tracheotomy-scar opening probably doesn't give a whit what you might think of such an endeavor.

Both battled enormous odds to build historic multi-ethnic, multi-racial coalitions, one to advance the cause of civil rights, the other to win the nation’s highest office. Both won the Nobel Peace Prize. Both could use soaring rhetoric to inspire millions. Both also had to overcome critics who accused them of socialist or communist sympathies, as well as black activists who maintained that they weren’t strong advocates for African-Americans.

When the Anne Frank exhibit came to London for the first time in 1986, Holocaust survivor Eva Schloss was unexpectedly asked to speak.

Sacramento welcomed a new neighbor Friday as workers carefully planted a red oak tree at 18th Street and Capitol Avenue – the old home of the historic camphor tree that was removed in August.

Richard Nixon would have turned 100 Wednesday, and his old friends will gather at a hotel near the White House to toast the memory of the 37th president. What is not said also will say much about his evolving legacy, because no protesters or seething Nixon-haters are expected outside the doors.

A Los Angeles television station has confirmed that Huell Howser, maker of upbeat PBS shows about California for public television, has died at the age of 67.

On a clear, warm October day, the Union Pacific No. 844 steam locomotive slowly made its way under the I Street viaduct with the mournful whistle echoing and steam billowing off the structure.

Readers of The Bee probably raised a few eyebrows when they examined the front page on March 11, 1893. Headlines were arranged in a way that they spelled out a message to state lawmakers: "THANK GOD THE SESSION NOW IS ALMOST OVER."

The saga of Ruby Bridges, a brave 6-year-old who became the first African American student to integrate Louisiana schools in 1960, came to life Friday at the Crocker Art Museum's Family Kwanzaa Concert.

Originally conceived as a children's library, the Ella K. McClatchy Library has been a quiet refuge for generations of Sacramento book lovers of all ages for decades.

The annual Eleanor J. Marks Holocaust Essay Contest is accepting submissions from students in grades 6-12, with deadlines of March 1 in some categories and Feb. 1 in others.

As the dark steel arm of the excavator hung in the air – its claw clamped firmly around a mass of debris – retired Col. John Scully shielded his eyes from the afternoon sun.

Benton Wong salutes as a ceremonial wreath is laid in the Sacramento River on Friday from a Sheriff's Department patrol boat.