Contact with the new settlers brought about serious disruptions to the native way of life. The gold rush of 1848 brought still more devastation. Violence, disease and loss overwhelmed the tribes.

What were conditions like on the gold-farms and fields? How did the rush impact Australia’s First Nations People? And in what ways did it shape the country? This is a Short History Of The ...

Major financial institutions and media outlets are wrong; Trump's tariffs are not driving the gold price surge. Market data shows gold prices rising due to increased demand for physical gold ...

View the video clips below to see the effects the Gold Rush had on the state of California and the country. Marcia Eymann visited the Center for Sacramento History and talked about the California ...

The education team at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian hopes to change that with its recently ...

Like many get-rich-quick quests, the California gold rush caused a wave of destruction. During the peak years of the gold rush, the population of indigenous people in California dropped from ...

While Marshall found the first gold nugget in January 1848, initiating a rush of 300,000 people to ... security, or the impact on jobs. That is why the EU's intention to consider ethical and ...

Sandwiched between the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and the Civil War in 1861, the California Gold Rush is considered by many historians to be the most significant event of the first half of the ...

Stockton's very history is indelibly tied to the Gold Rush. The Californian Gold Rush of 1849. Many of the 'Forty niners' crossed the United States from the east to the Gold fields of California ...