January/February 1998
In This Issue January/February 1998
“I Have Seen the Elephant”
Some forty-niners found instant wealth in California, but for most the trek west meant hardship and loss.
Volume 19, Issue 1
Miners in the Sierras by Charles Christian Nahl and A. Wentworth, 1851.
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American Art
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Features
“History Alive!”
A gallery of California notables are recreated in Chautauqua performances for the state's sesquicentennial.
Friars, Soldiers, and Settlers
A multimedia website describes the overland journeys of California's early explorer, Juan Battista de Anza.
By Meredith HindleyPassage from India
How Gandhi's nonviolent resistance took shape on American shores.
By Richard G. FoxArguing the World
A new film traces the lives of four controversial thinkers who believe that ideas can change the world.
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Departments
Conversation
The Courageous Were Those Left Behind
Historian Malcolm J. Rohrbough talks about the heroes and heroines left behind.




































































































