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Making History

California: The Not-So Golden State

Blessed with beauty and wealth, California fails to come to terms with its past.

Suzannah Lipscomb | Published in History Today Volume 68 Issue 10 October 2018

Paradise lost: Native Americans in the Yosemite Valley, California, c.1870. © John Soule/Bridgeman Images.

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