Announcing a professional learning series featuring geographic and global perspectives on history.
For educators and students in Grades 4 and higher. Special relevance to 5th, 8th, and Ethnic Studies, but all are welcome to join.
SESSION 1 (DEPARTING): OCTOBER 22, 2025, 4-5:30 pm
On the Frontier of New Spain: Empire, Culture, and the Making of an Expedition Understand the purpose of the expedition, learn about its leaders and the settlers who made the choice to start a new life, explore the route they took, and examine accounts of contact they had with the landscapes and indigenous peoples they encountered.
SESSION 2 (ON THE JOURNEY): JANUARY 7, 2026, 4-5:30 pm Centering Difference in the Anza Expedition and Early California Few citizens of New Spain were eager to join an expedition to settle an unknown and potentially hazardous land, but some saw an opportunity on the frontier. Learn how Afro-Latinos and independent women were a major part of the Anza Expedition and the early development of California.
SESSION 3 (ARRIVING): MARCH 25, 2026, 4-5:30 pm
Legacies of the Expedition and the Making of Place in California, 1776 to 2026 What are the outcomes of the Anza Expedition? A settlement called Yerba Buena, a settler population that develops its own cultural and political identities, a sequence of transitions in control of the territory resulting in California’s incorporation into the United States. The people and the trail they followed continue to be relevant in many ways.