Abstract
This digital exhibit demonstrates the professional intersection of public historians and archivists and encourages a closer working relationship between the two professions. As California Revealed’s first digital exhibit, the project focuses on the program’s Gold Rush-era digitized newspaper collections, between 1849 and 1856, and their cultural influences on California history. The digital exhibit argues that Gold Rush-era newspapers operated as cultural media that reinforced negative and stereotypical racial identities and hierarchies in California’s multiethnic and multinational environment. With the use of archival material, coupled with secondary source research, the project utilizes the skills of a public historian and archivist to challenge modern historical memory of the Gold Rush and its commonly whitewashed narrative.