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History of California Podcast — 189 episodes
184 - Joseph Ogilvy, Tin Can Coast: A History of Industry, Greed, and Fishing in the Golden State
183 - Dr. Jon Dawson, In Dubious Battle
182 - John Langellier: Bastion by the Bay: The Many Lives of the Presidio of San Francisco
181 - Dr. Daniel Rivers, California Futures: Haunted Ecologies, Decolonial Relations
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
Podcast Update
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
80 - An Overview of California and the Civil War
79 - Tom Chaffin, Author of Pathfinder: John Charles Frémont and the Course of American Empire
78 - Dr. Tamara Venit Shelton, Author of Squatter's Republic and Herbs and Roots
77 - Galen Clark, Part III
76 - Dr. Ben Madley, Author of An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873
75 - Galen Clark, Part II
74 - Dr. Kevin Waite, Author of West of Slavery
73 - Boris Dralyuk, Russians in Los Angeles
72 - Galen Clark, Guardian of Yosemite, Part I
71 - Dr. Andrea McDowell, We the Miners: Self-Government in the California Gold Rush
70 - John Mack Faragher, California: An American History
69 - Dr. Richard White, Who Murdered Jane Stanford?
68 - Interview with George Miles, Curator of the Western Americana Collection at Yale
67 - The Indian Wars: Jim Savage and The Mariposa War
66 - Dr. Albert Hurtado, Survival, Change, and Power in CA History
65 - Joaquin Murrieta
64 - Dr. Stephen Aron, President and CEO of the Autry Museum of the American West
63 - The Art of the Gold Rush Part II
62 - The Art of the Gold Rush Part I
61 - Dana Gioia, History of California Poetry
A New Year and Podcast Update
60 - Interview with Dr. Matt Seybold, Mark Twain in California
59 - The Making of SF and the Gold Rush
58 - Jim Delgado, Maritime Archaeologist, Preservationist, and Writer
57 - Arts in California History: Joaquin Miller
Podcast Updates and New Series and Shows
56 - Interview with the authors of We Are the Land: A History of Native California
55 - Mining Communities
54 - Interview with Dr. Sarah D. Wald on the History of Ag. Labor in CA
53 - California's First Constitution
52 - An Interview with Dr. Iris Engstrand
51 - Mining for Gold in CA
50 - H.W. Brands, California, the Gold Rush, and the West
49 - Immigration and the Gold Rush
48 - Interview with Susan Lee Johnson on the Gold Rush, Western History, and Kit Carson
47 - Introduction to the Gold Rush
46 - An Interview with Professor Matt O'Hara on Colonial Mexico, Race and Caste, and Future-making
45 - Interim Military Government of California Part II
44 - Interview with Rob Fitts on Japanese Baseball in California
43 - California's Military Interim Government
42 - Land and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
41 - Interview with Professor Brendan Lindsay
40 - Interview with Gary Young
39 - The End of the War in California
38 - The Final Battles of the War in California
37 - An Interview with Amy S. Greenberg
36 - The Siege of Los Angeles
35 - An Interview with Alan Taylor
34 - Pio Pico, Last Mexican Governor of California
33 - California Conquests, An Interview With Miroslava Chávez García
32 - The Bear Flag Revolt
31 - Interview With Professor Brian DeLay
30 - Interview With Nick Neely, author of Alta California
29 - The Lead Up To The Mexican American War
28 - Secularization Of The Missions
27 - Jedediah Smith
26 - The Treaty of Limits
25 - Fort Ross
24 - The Mission System's Violent History - An Interview with Alan Salazar
23 - Arcadia Bandini de Stearns Baker
22 - Abel Stearns
21 - The Mexican War For Independence With Dr. Damian Bacich
20 - The Ranchos
19 - The Road to Delano - An Interview with John DeSimone
18 - Santa Barbara Mission
17 - San Juan Capistrano Mission
16 - Carmel Mission
15 - The Anza Expeditions
14 - Junipero Serra Part IV
13 - Junipero Serra Part III
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12 - Junipero Serra Part II
11 - Junipero Serra Part I
10 - Spanish Exploration into CA
9 - Sir Francis Drake
8 - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo Part II
7 - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo Part I
6 - The Kumeyaay
5 - The Yokuts
4 - The Achomawi and Atsugewi
3 - The Tolowa
2 - The Native Landscape
1 - First People
Introduction to the History of California Podcast