For the past ten years, I have worked as an election worker in my precinct, checking in voters and handing them their ballots. But it is getting harder. We used to have at least six workers at every election, but as technology has improved, we are down to four in […]
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California Grows Quickly Despite Slow Communications
Throughout 1848, fortune-seekers streamed into California, even though the U.S. government had not yet acknowledged the discovery of gold. By October 1848, there were 8,000 men mining for gold in California, doubled from the 4,000 in July of that year. William T. Sherman made his second trip to the gold […]
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