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83 - Dr. Joshua Paddison, Author of American Heathens Religion, Race, and Reconstruction in California
Today, we have an interview with Dr. Joshua Paddison. Dr. Paddison teaches at Texas State San Marcus and is the author of, among other...
82 - Politics in California in the 1850's (Part I)
In this first episode in a three-part series, we will look politics in California by setting first some context before digging into the Know...
81 - Dr. Glenna Matthews, Thomas Starr King and the Civil War
Glenna Matthews received her Ph.D. from Stanford University. Among her major publications are “Just a Housewife”: The Rise and Fall of Domesticity in America,...
80 - An Overview of California and the Civil War
In this episode, we review the basic series of events and context of California's relationship to and involvement with the US Civil War in...
79 - Tom Chaffin, Author of Pathfinder: John Charles Frémont and the Course of American Empire
Tom Chaffin was born and grew up in Atlanta and spent his early professional years in journalism, living in, among other places, Savannah, New...
78 - Dr. Tamara Venit Shelton, Author of Squatter's Republic and Herbs and Roots
Tamara Venit Shelton is associate professor of history at Claremont McKenna College and author of Herbs and Roots: A History of Chinese Doctors in...