81 - Dr. Glenna Matthews, Thomas Starr King and the Civil War

February 21, 2023 00:49:35
81 - Dr. Glenna Matthews, Thomas Starr King and the Civil War
History of California Podcast
81 - Dr. Glenna Matthews, Thomas Starr King and the Civil War

Feb 21 2023 | 00:49:35

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Show Notes

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.

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