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The New California Curriculum
Alta Readers Help Define California Canon
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Alta Readers Share Their California Heritage
Theodor Adorno and Herbert Marcuse
Resistance: How—Not Whether—to Act
For many drivers, a common place to see the bells is along California highway 101 or 82, or El Camino Real; this gold-painted bell sits in front of San Bruno City Hall.
El Camino Real Bells Controversy Rings Loud
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hamlin garland 1860 1940, novelist and author of 40 books on life, adventure and love in the middle border country
Birth of the California Canon
Marilyn Monroe by pool
Atomic Petrifaction
migrant letters
Migrant Letters
A photo of Bret Harte's fiction chronicled the colorful lives of gamblers and miners during the California Gold Rush.
He Left His Harte
Thomas O. Larkin
San Francisco’s First Boom
Kate Crane Gartz
The Socialist Socialite
John Muir seated on rock with lake and trees in background.
John Muir, Naturally
Portrait photograph of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, more popularly known as Mark Twain, seated, reading a newspaper.
Twain on California
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