The true story, told for the first time, of a courageous, resilient couple who lived on the edge of fortune...

Most histories highlight men's lives. Disaster & Triumph: Sacramento Women, Gold Rush Through the Civil War is the first one...

Gerti’s war is a journal of Gerti’s life after Hitler took power and she found herself pressed into service as...

From 1947 through 1991, the United States and its allies faced off against the Soviet Union and her proxy states...

Jeanne Marie Suize emigrated to California from France in 1849 with the intention of mining gold. She was a very...

"The greatest adventure story to come out of the war"

           - Sir Winston Churchill

The WW2 Polish...

In its heyday Sutter’s Fort was a remote frontier outpost, a trading center, a Mecca for 1840s overlanders who trundled...

Sacramento boomed when forty-niners flocked to California, but the road from riverfront trading post to cosmopolitan capital was bumpy and...

New England stagemen followed thousands of bedazzled gold rushers out west in 1849, carving out the first public overland transportation...