Before we begin our next major thematic section of the podcast on railroads, we will be looking at the life of Leland Stanford who serves a bridge between the Gold Rush era, the Civil War Era in California government, and the Transcontinental Railroad.
In this episode, we continue our story of California and the Civil War by introducing the major conflict in the southwestern theater: Union Forces...
Today we have Dana Gioia on the show. Gioia is an internationally acclaimed poet and writer. Former California Poet laureate and Chairman of the...
In this episode, we talk about the forces driving toward the eventual conflict with Mexico.