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 begin to look at Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, the first European to explore what is present-day California.
In this episode, host Jordan Mattox sits down with Dr. Michael Zeitler for an expansive conversation about John Steinbeck’s Tortilla Flat — its mythic...
In this episode, we look at the secularization law of 1833 in the new republic of Mexico and its effect on Native people specifically....