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 prepare for the arrival permanent settlements in California by looking at the events leading up to the Portola Expedition.
Today, we have Gary Krist on the show. Gary has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Esquire, the Wall Street Journal,...
In this episode, we begin to look at Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, the first European to explore what is present-day California.