History of California Podcast
By Jordan Mattox
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The History of California Podcast is hosted by Jordan Mattox and explores the history of the state through narrative histories and in-depth conversations with experts.
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161 - Steinbeck Book Club, Dr. Michael Boyden on To a God Unknown
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May 29, 2025 |
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160 - Steinbeck Book Club: Dr. Daniel Rivers on To a God Unknown
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May 29, 2025 |
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159 - Elaine Chukan Brown, The Wines of California
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May 12, 2025 |
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158 - Dr. James Buckley, City of Wood: San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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157 - Tony Platt, The Scandal of Cal: Land Grabs, White Supremacy, and Miseducation at UC Berkeley
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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156 - Chinese in California History, Part I
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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155 - Gary Krist, Trespassers at the Golden Gate: A True Account of Love, Murder, and Madness in Gilded-Age San Francisco
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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154 - Jack Gedney, The Birds in the Oaks: Secret Voices of the Western Woods
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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153 - Dr. William Deverell, Broad Themes of California History
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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152 - Dr. James Tejani, A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles and America
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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151 - Steinbeck Book Club: The Pastures of Heaven with Dr. Susan Shillinglaw
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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150 - Dr. Brittany Friedman, Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons
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Feb 22, 2025 |
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149 - Rob Crisell, California Avocados: A Delicious History
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Feb 16, 2025 |
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148 - Railroads and California, Part III
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Feb 15, 2025 |
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147 - Rebecca John, Deceptive PR Strategy Pioneered in 1950s California to Hide Climate Change Risk
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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146 - Dr. Maxwell Johnson, A Connected Metropolis: Los Angeles Elites and the Making of a Modern City, 1890–1965
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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145 - Naomi Hirahara, Novelist and Historian of California and Asian American History
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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144 - Dr. Oliver A. Rosales, Civil Rights in Bakersfield: Segregation and Multiracial Activism in the Central Valley
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Dec 15, 2024 |
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143 - Dr. Tore Olsson, Red Dead’s History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America’s Violent Past
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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142 - The Melba Liston Research Collective
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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141 - Railroads and California, Part II
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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140 - Dr. Sandra Bonura, San Diego History and the Sugar King
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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139 - Dr. Richard J. Goodrich, LA Birdmen: A Gripping History of Early Aviation on America's West Coast
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Sep 28, 2024 |
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138 - Paul Haddad, Inventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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137 - Railroads and California, Part I
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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136 - Alex Brown, Librarian, Critic, and Historian
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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135 - Matthew J. Davenport, The Longest Minute: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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134 - Dr. Eric Porter, A People's History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport
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Aug 11, 2024 |
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133 - Leland Stanford Part II
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Aug 10, 2024 |
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132 - Langdon Moss, The Savage West
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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131 - Dr. Natalia Molina, A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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130 - Leland Stanford, Part I
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Jul 14, 2024 |
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129 - Dorothy Lazard, Writer, Librarian, Public Historian, and the Author of What You Don't Know Will Make a Whole New World
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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128 - Benno Herz, Program Director at the Thomas Mann House and Editor of Thomas Mann’s Los Angeles: Stories from Exile 1940–1952
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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127 - Randy Dotinga, Tales of San Diego Past and Present
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May 30, 2024 |
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126 - Dr. Donna J. Nicol, Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action
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May 17, 2024 |
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125 - Andrew Alden, The Geology of Oakland
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May 10, 2024 |
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124 - CA and the Civil Part VII
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May 06, 2024 |
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123 - Mas Masumoto, Farming and Memory in the Central Valley
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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122 - California and the Civil War Part VI
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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121 - Maggie Paul, California Poetry
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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120 - California and the Civil War: Part V
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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119 - Chris McGilvray, New Documentary Film "Eden"
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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118 - Ann Wolfe, Sagebrush and Solitude: Maynard Dixon in Nevada
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Mar 02, 2024 |
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117 - Alexander Hamilton Cherin, The Mighty 690
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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116 - California and Civil War Part IV
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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115 - Dr. Andrew Shanken, Architectural History in California
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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114 - Tom Moon, The History of In-N-Out Burger
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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Podcast Update
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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113, Ann Vileisis - Abalone's Past and Uncertain Future on the California Coast
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Dec 30, 2023 |
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112 - Dr. Patrick Allitt, The West and Public History
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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111 - Interview with Hosts of Water Talk
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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110 - CA and the Civil War Part III
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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109 - Sherry Monohan, Food and History
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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108 - Civil War and California Part II
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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107 - Eric Nusbaum, Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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106 - Craig Walsh, Bill Walsh and The Score Takes Care of Itself
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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105 - California and the Civil War Part I
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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104 - Kolin Perry, End of the Range: Charlotte Skinner in the Eastern Sierra
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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103 - Paul Carter, Richard Nixon: California's Native Son
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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102 - Chiura Obata, Part III
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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101 - Malcolm Harris, Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
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Sep 17, 2023 |
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100 - Katherine Blunt, California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric and What it Means for America’s Power Grid
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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99 - Dr. James Zarsadiaz, Resisting Change in Suburbia: Asian Immigrants and Frontier Nostalgia in L.A.
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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98 - Chiura Obata Part II
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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97 - Dr. Mitchell Schwarzer, Hella Town: Oakland’s History of Development and Disruption
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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96 - Chiura Obata Part I
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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95 - Dr. Virginia Scharff, Women and the West
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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94 - The Story of Mary Ellen Pleasant
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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93 - Dean King, Guardians of the Valley John Muir and the Friendship that Saved Yosemite
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May 31, 2023 |
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92 - Politics in California in the 1850's Part V
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May 25, 2023 |
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91 - Dr. Jenni Sorkin, History of Art in California
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May 16, 2023 |
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90 - Politics in California in the 1850s Part IV
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May 10, 2023 |
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89 - Dr. Kim Bancroft, Author of Writing Themselves into History: Emily and Matilda Bancroft in Journals and Letters
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May 08, 2023 |
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88 - Dr. Donald Worster, Environmental History and the West
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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87 - Dr. Elliott West, Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion
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Apr 08, 2023 |
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86 - Politics in the 1850's in CA Part III
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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85 - Apsara DiQuinzio, the Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Nevada Museum of Art: Adaline Kent: The Click of Authenticity
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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84 - Politics in California in the 1850's (Part II)
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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83 - Dr. Joshua Paddison, Author of American Heathens Religion, Race, and Reconstruction in California
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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82 - Politics in California in the 1850's (Part I)
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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81 - Dr. Glenna Matthews, Thomas Starr King and the Civil War
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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80 - An Overview of California and the Civil War
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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79 - Tom Chaffin, Author of Pathfinder: John Charles Frémont and the Course of American Empire
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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78 - Dr. Tamara Venit Shelton, Author of Squatter's Republic and Herbs and Roots
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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77 - Galen Clark, Part III
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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76 - Dr. Ben Madley, Author of An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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75 - Galen Clark, Part II
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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74 - Dr. Kevin Waite, Author of West of Slavery
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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73 - Boris Dralyuk, Russians in Los Angeles
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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72 - Galen Clark, Guardian of Yosemite, Part I
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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71 - Dr. Andrea McDowell, We the Miners: Self-Government in the California Gold Rush
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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70 - John Mack Faragher, California: An American History
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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69 - Dr. Richard White, Who Murdered Jane Stanford?
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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68 - Interview with George Miles, Curator of the Western Americana Collection at Yale
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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67 - The Indian Wars: Jim Savage and The Mariposa War
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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66 - Dr. Albert Hurtado, Survival, Change, and Power in CA History
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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65 - Joaquin Murrieta
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May 23, 2022 |
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64 - Dr. Stephen Aron, President and CEO of the Autry Museum of the American West
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Apr 17, 2022 |
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63 - The Art of the Gold Rush Part II
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Mar 31, 2022 |