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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...
184 - Joseph Ogilvy, Tin Can Coast: A History of Industry, Greed, and Fishing in the Golden State
In this episode of the History of California Podcast, host Jordan Mattox sits down with writer and chef Joseph Ogilvy to discuss his first...
183 - Dr. Jon Dawson, In Dubious Battle
John Steinbeck's In Dubious Battle (1936) is the coldest and most clinical of his California labor novels — the story of a fruit strike...
182 - John Langellier: Bastion by the Bay: The Many Lives of the Presidio of San Francisco
Founded in 1776, the Presidio of San Francisco has served three nations, guarded the "harbor of harbors" for nearly 250 years, and evolved from...
181 - Dr. Daniel Rivers, California Futures: Haunted Ecologies, Decolonial Relations
The grizzly on California's flag has been gone for a century — hunted to extinction in the very state that made it a symbol....
180 - Kevin Ferguson, The Gemello Winery and A History of California Wine
California had 1,000 wineries in 1910. By 1965, it had 225. The story of how the industry collapsed, came back, and quadrupled past 4,800...