The exhibit is comprised of 16 graphic panels dealing with aspects of California history, up to and including the Civil War. Here is a list of the topics currently covered:

• California and the Civil War
• The Remotest Place on Earth
• American Expansionism
• The Mexican-American War
• GOLD!
• American California
• In the Southern Orbit
• The National Crisis
• The Election of 1860
• War!
• The Republic of the Pacific
• Albert Sidney Johnston
• The Chapman Affair
• Captain Ingram's Partisan Rangers
• The Man Who Saved California for the Union
• California Volunteers

Additional panels currently in development:

• The California Column
• With Connor in Utah

There are ten panels in landscape orientation, measuring 33 1/2" x 45 1/2" and 6 panels in portrait orientation, measuring 25 1/2" x 33 1/2."

All panels are protected by gold anodized aluminum frames and are wired for hanging.