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Tourists at the information booth at Cost Plus. A sign of the changing nature of Fisherman's Wharf.

Oscar Wilde said “Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.“
Even under the most ideal circumstances, parenting is at best a flawed act of trying to balance teaching our kids what we…

Presents the text of the Immigration Act of 1917, which regulated immigration of aliens to the United States. Definitions used in the Act; Prohibitions settled upon those seeking admittance; Prohibitions against indentured service.

a photograph of the outside of the building of the hut

community gathers around for re-opening of famed college bar-turned-restaurant

An article from the Daily Alta California, Vol. 2, No. 312
October 20th, 1851
Describing the Columbia Star

In April 1977, disability activists nationwide picketed or occupied the Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) offices to fight for the passage of Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act. The largest and longest protest took place at the HEW offices…

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Journalist Ari Berman says both the Supreme Court and the lower courts are working to dismantle the 1965 law that's considered one of the most…

It talks about the debt that the Civil War is possibly going to leave. It also mentions that many are being wounded because of the war.

Scanned documents, Peter Aivars Roze explaining the impacts of the "Gruesome Year" in Latvia.