The "WPA Guide to the Golden State" is a travel book with exceptional literary flair that transports its readers to Depression-era California. The Depression of the 1930s hit California – and the rest ...

Even Herbert Hoover voters — there are a very few left — and their descendants marvel at the creations of the Depression-era WPA. The Works Progress Administration took New Deal dough and employed ...

In the 1930s, as many as two million Mexicans and Mexican-Americans living in California were deported. The reason given was to open up jobs for non-Mexican Americans. A state Senate committee is ...

OAKLAND — In the early 1930s, California designed and built the 8-mile Bay Bridge — west and east spans linked by the world’s biggest bore tunnel — in a mere 51/2 years. And workers did it ahead of ...

COLUMBIA, Calif. (AP) — Delmer Berg, the last known American survivor who fought fascists in 1930s Spain, has died in northern California. Berg died Sunday at his home in Columbia, Marina Garde from ...