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History of California Podcast — 101 episodes
180 - Kevin Ferguson, The Gemello Winery and A History of California Wine
179 - Dr. Peter Richardson, Brand New Beat: The Wild Rise of Rolling Stone Magazine
178 - Dr. Julia Ornelas-Higdon, The Grapes of Conquest: Race, Labor, and the Industrialization of California Wine
177 - Ann Carlson, Smog and Sunshine: The Surprising Story of How Los Angeles Cleaned Up Its Air
176 - Jenny Chan, Founder of the Pacific Atrocities Education Program
175 - The History of the Academy Awards with Dr. Monica Sandler
174 - Chinese in California History, Part III
173 - John Boessenecker, Bring Me the Head of Joaquin Murrieta: The Bandit Chief Who Terrorized California and Launched the Legend of Zorro
172 - Dr. Laureen Hom, The Power of Chinatown: Searching for Spatial Justice in Los Angeles
171 - Steinbeck Book Club: Tortilla Flat with Dr. Michael Zeitler
170 - Amy Bowers Cordalis, The Yurok People, California History, and The Art of Dam Removal
169 - John Doll, St. James Park and The 1933 San Jose Lynching
168 - Chinese in California History, Part II
167 - Dr. Jennifer Holland, Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement
166 - Shelley Blanton-Stroud, An Unlikely Prospect, A WWII Novel Set in 1940s San Francisco
165 - Lara Gabrielle, Captain of Her Soul: The Life of Marion Davies
164 - Katherine Nichols, Deep Water and the Coronado Surfer Drug Ring
163 - Taylor Kiland, An Unsolved Murder on Coronado Island
162 - Michael Hiltzik, Golden State: The Making of California
161 - Steinbeck Book Club, Dr. Michael Boyden on To a God Unknown
160 - Steinbeck Book Club: Dr. Daniel Rivers on To a God Unknown
159 - Elaine Chukan Brown, The Wines of California
158 - Dr. James Buckley, City of Wood: San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry
157 - Tony Platt, The Scandal of Cal: Land Grabs, White Supremacy, and Miseducation at UC Berkeley
156 - Chinese in California History, Part I
155 - Gary Krist, Trespassers at the Golden Gate: A True Account of Love, Murder, and Madness in Gilded-Age San Francisco
154 - Jack Gedney, The Birds in the Oaks: Secret Voices of the Western Woods
153 - Dr. William Deverell, Broad Themes of California History
152 - Dr. James Tejani, A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles and America
151 - Steinbeck Book Club: The Pastures of Heaven with Dr. Susan Shillinglaw
150 - Dr. Brittany Friedman, Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons
149 - Rob Crisell, California Avocados: A Delicious History
148 - Railroads and California, Part III
147 - Rebecca John, Deceptive PR Strategy Pioneered in 1950s California to Hide Climate Change Risk
146 - Dr. Maxwell Johnson, A Connected Metropolis: Los Angeles Elites and the Making of a Modern City, 1890–1965
145 - Naomi Hirahara, Novelist and Historian of California and Asian American History
144 - Dr. Oliver A. Rosales, Civil Rights in Bakersfield: Segregation and Multiracial Activism in the Central Valley
143 - Dr. Tore Olsson, Red Dead’s History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America’s Violent Past
142 - The Melba Liston Research Collective
141 - Railroads and California, Part II
140 - Dr. Sandra Bonura, San Diego History and the Sugar King
139 - Dr. Richard J. Goodrich, LA Birdmen: A Gripping History of Early Aviation on America's West Coast
138 - Paul Haddad, Inventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles
137 - Railroads and California, Part I
136 - Alex Brown, Librarian, Critic, and Historian
135 - Matthew J. Davenport, The Longest Minute: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906
134 - Dr. Eric Porter, A People's History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport
133 - Leland Stanford Part II
132 - Langdon Moss, The Savage West
131 - Dr. Natalia Molina, A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community
130 - Leland Stanford, Part I
129 - Dorothy Lazard, Writer, Librarian, Public Historian, and the Author of What You Don't Know Will Make a Whole New World
128 - Benno Herz, Program Director at the Thomas Mann House and Editor of Thomas Mann’s Los Angeles: Stories from Exile 1940–1952
127 - Randy Dotinga, Tales of San Diego Past and Present
126 - Dr. Donna J. Nicol, Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action
125 - Andrew Alden, The Geology of Oakland
124 - CA and the Civil Part VII
123 - Mas Masumoto, Farming and Memory in the Central Valley
122 - California and the Civil War Part VI
121 - Maggie Paul, California Poetry
120 - California and the Civil War: Part V
119 - Chris McGilvray, New Documentary Film "Eden"
118 - Ann Wolfe, Sagebrush and Solitude: Maynard Dixon in Nevada
117 - Alexander Hamilton Cherin, The Mighty 690
116 - California and Civil War Part IV
115 - Dr. Andrew Shanken, Architectural History in California
114 - Tom Moon, The History of In-N-Out Burger
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113, Ann Vileisis - Abalone's Past and Uncertain Future on the California Coast
112 - Dr. Patrick Allitt, The West and Public History
111 - Interview with Hosts of Water Talk
110 - CA and the Civil War Part III
109 - Sherry Monohan, Food and History
108 - Civil War and California Part II
107 - Eric Nusbaum, Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between
106 - Craig Walsh, Bill Walsh and The Score Takes Care of Itself
105 - California and the Civil War Part I
104 - Kolin Perry, End of the Range: Charlotte Skinner in the Eastern Sierra
103 - Paul Carter, Richard Nixon: California's Native Son
102 - Chiura Obata, Part III
101 - Malcolm Harris, Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
100 - Katherine Blunt, California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric and What it Means for America’s Power Grid
99 - Dr. James Zarsadiaz, Resisting Change in Suburbia: Asian Immigrants and Frontier Nostalgia in L.A.
98 - Chiura Obata Part II
97 - Dr. Mitchell Schwarzer, Hella Town: Oakland’s History of Development and Disruption
96 - Chiura Obata Part I
95 - Dr. Virginia Scharff, Women and the West
94 - The Story of Mary Ellen Pleasant
93 - Dean King, Guardians of the Valley John Muir and the Friendship that Saved Yosemite
92 - Politics in California in the 1850's Part V
91 - Dr. Jenni Sorkin, History of Art in California
90 - Politics in California in the 1850s Part IV
89 - Dr. Kim Bancroft, Author of Writing Themselves into History: Emily and Matilda Bancroft in Journals and Letters
88 - Dr. Donald Worster, Environmental History and the West
87 - Dr. Elliott West, Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion
86 - Politics in the 1850's in CA Part III
85 - Apsara DiQuinzio, the Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Nevada Museum of Art: Adaline Kent: The Click of Authenticity
84 - Politics in California in the 1850's (Part II)
83 - Dr. Joshua Paddison, Author of American Heathens Religion, Race, and Reconstruction in California
82 - Politics in California in the 1850's (Part I)
81 - Dr. Glenna Matthews, Thomas Starr King and the Civil War