Shelley Brooks is the Communications Coordinator for the California History-Social Science Project. She outlines a California History lesson on the Gilded Age.

Nancy McTygue is the Executive Director of the California History-Social Science Project. She introduces the History Blueprint project, and its goals for improving history education especially among English learners.

Bill Deverell is a professor of history at University of Southern California. He gives a keynote address on late nineteenth-century California history.