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 my first narrative podcast after a brief hiatus, we return with an episode about a little known progenitor and protector of one our...
In this episode, we continue Obata's story as he journeys to Yosemite and ventures into the High Sierra.
In this episode, host Jordan Mattox sits down with Dr. Michael Zeitler for an expansive conversation about John Steinbeck’s Tortilla Flat — its mythic...