Tamara Venit Shelton is associate professor of history at Claremont McKenna College and author of Herbs and Roots: A History of Chinese Doctors in the American Medical Marketplace and A Squatter’s Republic: Land and the Politics of Monopoly in California, 1850–1900.
In this episode, we explore land rights and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
In the second episode in this series, we wrap up our discussion of the Know Nothing party's influence in California.
In this final episode on Junipero Serra, we look at his death and legacy.