The 153-year-old California Historical Society is winding down operations in San Francisco and is slated to transfer its vast ...

Belle da Costa Greene, who was JP Morgan’s librarian, became a lively fixture at Gilded Age mansions, country retreats, ...

Edmond Dédé's 1887 magnum opus "Morgiane"—billed as "the most important opera never heard"—will finally get its premiere ...

As Los Angeles rebuilds after devastating wildfires, the histories of these three cities offer helpful guidance.

The late Chicano historian Juan Gómez-Quiñones stored decades of Mexican American history in the garage and shed of his ...

Publisher Buford Boone denounced the violence and exclusion of Autherine Lucy, the University of Alabama’s first Black student ...

Autherine Lucy Foster made history on Feb. 3, 1956, becoming the first Black student to attend classes at the University of ...

Almost 125 years after Edmond Dédé’s death, his magnum opus “Morgiane,” perhaps the oldest existing opera by a Black American ...

Two thousand fans piled into their seats at Stanford University's baseball stadium in Palo Alto, filling the grandstands and ...

LOS ANGELES—On a typical weekday, lunch hour is bustling at Toscana Brentwood, a popular restaurant with the Hollywood elite where it isn’t uncommon to see Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger ...

One of the largest studies into diet and disease so far has shed new light on how easy, cheap lifestyle changes can help everyone to reduce their cancer risk.

Paul Getty Museum and the University of California, Los Angeles ... The flames hit schools, churches, a synagogue, libraries, boutiques, bars, restaurants, banks and local landmarks including ...