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Paradise lost: Native Americans in the Yosemite Valley, California, c.1870.

California: The Not-So Golden State

Suzannah Lipscomb | Published in History Today Volume 68 Issue 10 October 2018

Blessed with beauty and wealth, California fails to come to terms with its past.

‘A View of Sydney on Norfolk Island, 1792’. Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales. Public Domain.

Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island

J.M. Moore | Published in History Today Volume 75 Issue 1 January 2025

As convicts celebrated Queen Victoria’s birthday on remote Norfolk Island, debates raged over the purpose of punishment and the merits of Alexander Maconochi