Today, I have an interview for you with George Miles, curator of the Western American Collection at the Beinecke Library at Yale. We spend a lot of time talking with and about the work of historians, but ungirding that work is the work of librarians and archivists who diligently assemble collections that scholars can draw on to original research. Miles has a wealth of knowledge to share about the historiography of the west, the relationship between photography and the creation of the myth of the west, curating archives to be more inclusive, and much more.
In this episode, we begin a series on the Indian Wars that decimated the native population in the US and specifically California as well.
In this episode, we begin to look at the interim government of California before it was added to the United States as a state...
Today, we welcome Dr. Maxwell Johnson on to the program. He is the author of A Connected Metropolis: Los Angeles Elites and the Making...