The Shortest History of California: From Contested Frontier to Tech and Cultural Superpower - The Unsettled History of the Golden State

From Native stewardship to Pacific Rim trading to Walt Disney Imagineering, discover the evolution and constant reinvention of the nation's most populous state-and a global superpower in its own right

California, one of the biggest and most consequential states in the union, looms even larger in the imagination-for good reason.

California's story is one of constant reinvention. It's been shaped by each of the peoples who've called it home, from its first Indigenous inhabitants to Spanish miss...