Nathaniel Philbrick Interview | The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War & America
What does the California Gold Rush have to do with the making of modern America—and the road to the Civil War?
On this episode of Speaking of Writers, Steve Richards sits down with acclaimed historian Nathaniel Philbrick to discuss The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World.
The discovery of gold in 1848 unleashed a global migration and transformed California into a testing ground for wealth, technological innovation, political power, and competing ideas of freedom. But beneath the promise of instant riches lay racial injustice, violence, dispossession, and a…
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