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
Today, we conclude by discussing the later life of Leland Stanford.
We explore in this episode how the first people arrived to California.
In this episode, we continue our story of California and the Civil War by introducing the major conflict in the southwestern theater: Union Forces...