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 introductory episode, we complete some table setting by looking at some of the history and development of railroads before diving into California...
Tony Platt is the author of thirteen books and 150 essays and articles on race, inequality, and social justice in American history, among them...
Rob Crisell is an author, poet, actor, winemaker, and teacher in Temecula, California. For the past eight years, he has taught poetry and Shakespeare...