The Los Angeles Times California Mission Database is here to help teachers, parents and students tackle them. If you score more than two right on this video quiz, you’re probably not a fourth ...

s Great Depression that La Purisima Mission was reconstructed. Its restored buildings and rural surroundings are likened to the 1820s and yet are accessible to fourth-grade California history ...

The fourth-grade tradition of building a California mission out of Popsicle sticks and sugar cubes is being pushed aside by the state as history lessons change to reflect all cultures and more ...

In my last article about the history of Los Alamos, I mentioned that the Chumash people living along San Antonio Creek were relocated to La Purisima Mission when it was established in 1787.