Cheryl Anne Stapp

During the three hundred-plus years Spain claimed ownership of California by right of conquest, Spain’s official religion took a part in...

Mexico gained its independence from Spain in 1821—in general (though the specifics were different) for much the same political and...

When Franciscan friars Father Crespi and Father Junipero Serra came to colonize California in 1769, they looked upon this undertaking as...

A mere 300 years ago, while colonies on America’s Eastern Seaboard were developing, California’s vast stretches of geographically...