Early Explorations
- Coastal navigation and exploration
- Vizcaino’s exploration of Monterey in 1602
- The Portolá expedition of 1769
Spanish Colonization
- The founding of Monterey
- Monterey’s first years: The Presidio of Monterey
- A Brief Overview of Monterey Bay Area Missions
- Scientific and other expeditions to Monterey
- La Pérouse, 1786
- Malaspina and Bustamante, 1791
- Galiano and Valdés, 1792
- Vancouver, 1792
- Rezanof,
- Spanish concessions
- Hipólito (Hypolite) Bouchard and the pirate raid of 1818
- Spanish governors of Alta California
Mexican Era
- Foreign immigrants to Hispanic California
- Mexican governors of Alta California
- Indian Horse Raiding at Monterey
- Expeditions against the Central Valley Indians
- Secularization of the Missions
- Did William Hartnell Start California’s First College?
- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
American Era Settlement
- Overview of Post-Hispanic Monterey County History
- The First Newspaper in California (1846)
- The Influence of the Gold Rush
- The California Cattle Boom, 1849-1862
- Salinas, A Short History
- Pioneers of the Salinas Area (in progress)
- Black Pioneers of the Salinas Area
- Central Coast Railroads–An Overview
- Railroads Put Salinas on the Map
- Colony settlements
- Overview of Monterey County Agriculture
- Ethnic Participation during the American Period, 1846-1930
