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.
Dorothy Lazard is an American writer, librarian, and public historian based in Northern California. Her new book is What You Don't Know Will Make...
In my first narrative podcast after a brief hiatus, we return with an episode about a little known progenitor and protector of one our...
In this first of a two part episode, we will explore some of the famous artists of the Gold Rush.