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 continue our series by discussing Whigs and Republicans in California.
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 look at a few versions of the myth of Joaquin Murrieta.