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 examine the contigencies of the formation of San Francisco.
In this episode, we prepare for the arrival permanent settlements in California by looking at the events leading up to the Portola Expedition.
Today, we have Paul Carter on the show. Carter is an attorney with more than twenty years of experience in investigation and trial work...