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.
Today, we have two of the hosts of the amazing podcast Water Talk, one of my favorite podcasts on the internet that explores all...
In the episode, we sketch a brief bio of the poet and writer Joaquin Miller and read some of his more famous poems.
California had 1,000 wineries in 1910. By 1965, it had 225. The story of how the industry collapsed, came back, and quadrupled past 4,800...