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Map of current day Santa Clara Mission with overlapping labels of missions sites

During the mid 19th and early 20th century, Americans were very concerned with having the proper ceramic serving wares, and tea cups were an essential piece to any household’s dining sets (Fitts, 1999; Fitts, 2002; Brighton, 2011). It was considered…

Small projectile points made from obsidian (volcanic glass)

Renuka Paltanwale was born in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India in 1998. Her father had moved to California in 1994 to work for Microsoft, and she and her family lived in California until she was in fifth grade. They returned to India, and she continued…

A xerox of a news clipping from the Palo Alto Times outlining how SCU has increased its efforts to enroll more minority students and increase diversity at the school.

Have you noticed similarities and differences between Desi Americans and Desi immigrants? We’re excited to present a podswap with Pallavi Janiani from the ! Highlights include: Pallavi’s experience growing up in a joint family in Jaipur, India and…

A sit-in by Junior NAACP activists at a segregated movie theater in Farmville, Virginia. The item was donated by Phyllis Padow-Sederbaum, a volunteer with the Virginia Student-Help Project in 1963.