California

The US battleship that blasted a fleeing Japanese cruiser to oblivion on February 1944

How women flooded Oregon’s Kaiser shipyards in 1942 to help build the Liberty ships that won WWII

The WWII Army nurse who became the first Black woman major despite military segregation in 1946

The little-known raid that emptied Yosemite Valley of every last Ahwahneechee family in 1851

This Cold War incident left one US Navy vessel permanently trapped in North Korea

How the USS Midway helped excute one of the deepest rescue missions in North Vietnam

California’s desert town that looks like another planet

Step into California’s eerie desert where the ground twists, the sky stretches, and nothing looks like it belongs on this Earth.

12 Reasons Why People in California Are Built Different Than the Rest of the Country

California isn’t just a state—it’s a whole mood, a cultural genre, and a walking contradiction wrapped in avocado toast. From surfboards to Teslas, from redwoods to...

The black jazz singer who dominated the first-ever Grammy awards on May 4, 1959

This dusty California valley held America’s largest concentration camp during WWII

The deadliest homefront disaster of WWII killed 202 Black sailors and sparked the largest mutiny trial in US history