Glenna Matthews received her Ph.D. from Stanford University. Among her major publications are “Just a Housewife”: The Rise and Fall of Domesticity in America, The Rise of Public Woman: Woman’s Power and Woman’s Place, 1630–1970, and, most recently, The Golden State in the Civil War: Thomas Starr King, the Republican Party, and the Birth of Modern California, which is the focus of this conversation. She has been associate professor at Oklahoma State University and a visiting associate professor at Stanford and the University of California at Berkeley and at Los Angeles.
In this episode, we continue our series by discussing Whigs and Republicans in California.
Today, we have author and historian Ann Vileisis on the show. Ann is the author of a number of books and the focus of...
In this episode, we talk about the forces driving toward the eventual conflict with Mexico.