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 look at the secularization law of 1833 in the new republic of Mexico and its effect on Native people specifically....
In today's episode, we explore the first few major battles in the Mexican American War in the Alta California theater. Our Patreon Page: www.patreon.com/historyofcalifornia...
In this episode, we meet Arcadia Bandini de Stearns Baker, an important early resident of Santa Monica.