# Competing Visions: A History of California

- By: Robert W. Cherny, Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo, & Richard Griswold del Castillo
- Source: [LibreTexts](https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/History/State_and_Local_History/Competing_Visions%3A_A_History_of_California_(Cherny_Lemke-Santiangelo_and_Castillo))
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)
- Read at LibreTexts: https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/History/State_and_Local_History/Competing_Visions%3A_A_History_of_California_(Cherny_Lemke-Santiangelo_and_Castillo)
- PDF: https://downloads.libretexts.org/api/v1/download/human-126936/pdf

The decision to write this textbook grew out of our experience teaching California history to an increasingly diverse student population. Our classrooms contain an exciting mix of students from a myriad of ethnic, multiethnic, international, gender, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Their levels of academic readiness also differ, and nearly all are products of a visual, rather than print-oriented, culture.