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189 - Matthew Crafton, President of Chateau Montelena on the 50th Anniversary on the Judgement of Paris
Fifty years ago, a blind tasting in Paris put a 1973 Chardonnay from Chateau Montelena ahead of the best white Burgundies in France. Overnight,...
188 - Lee Panich and Gustavo Flores, We Will Receive Justice: Native Histories of the Collapse of California Missions
Most histories of California treat the end of the missions as an epilogue. The padres leave, secularization happens, and the story skips ahead to...
The History of California Podcast: Where This Podcast Has Been and Where It’s Going
I’ve been making this show for almost ten years. In this episode I look back at how it’s changed and talk about what’s coming...
187 - Nathaniel Philbrick, The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World
Nathaniel Philbrick is one of the most widely read narrative historians in the country. He grew up in Pittsburgh, the son of an English...
186 - Dr. Kevin Waite, The Boundless Biddy Mason
Historian Kevin Waite returns to the show to discuss his new biography, The Boundless Biddy Mason: An Odyssey from Slavery to Freedom Across the...
185 - Podcast Updates and Dr. Iris Engstrand
Today I'm doing something a little different. I'm re-releasing a conversation I recorded back in 2021 with Dr. Iris Engstrand, one of the great...