Today, we have an episode with four amazing scholars, Dr. Lisa Barg, Dr. Tammy Kernodle, Dr. Dee Spencer and Dr. Sherrie Tucker, to discuss the life, signficance, and legacy of the Melba Liston, a pioneering jazz instrumentalist, composer, and arranger.
Here's a link to the introduction to the Melba Liston Research Collective
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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...
In this episode, we continue our story of California and the Civil War by introducing the major conflict in the southwestern theater: Union Forces...