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158 - Dr. James Buckley, City of Wood: San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry
Today, we have Dr. James Buckley on the show. Dr. Buckley is an Associate Professor and Venerable Chair in Historic Preservation and the Director...
157 - Tony Platt, The Scandal of Cal: Land Grabs, White Supremacy, and Miseducation at UC Berkeley
Tony Platt is the author of thirteen books and 150 essays and articles on race, inequality, and social justice in American history, among them...
156 - Chinese in California History, Part I
Today's episode is the first in a series of episodes on the history of Chinese Americans in California. We are beginning the series by...
155 - Gary Krist, Trespassers at the Golden Gate: A True Account of Love, Murder, and Madness in Gilded-Age San Francisco
Today, we have Gary Krist on the show. Gary has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Esquire, the Wall Street Journal,...
154 - Jack Gedney, The Birds in the Oaks: Secret Voices of the Western Woods
Jack Gedney is the author of The Private Lives of Public Birds: Learning to Listen to the Birds Where We Live and a compact...
153 - Dr. William Deverell, Broad Themes of California History
Today we have Dr. William Deverell on the show. Dr. Deverell is a professor of History, Spatial Sciences, and Environmental Studies at USC. He's...