California Frontier - A History Podcast
Hosted by unknown and Damian Bacich · Damian Bacich, Ph.D.
4.9from 40 ratings
- 149
- Episodes
- 3
- Transcribed
- 40
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2017
- First episode
- 25K
- YouTube views
About California Frontier - A History Podcast
Prof. Damian Bacich shares the history you didn't learn in school. Each episode is a deep dive into the fascinating early history of California and the West. Listen to stories and interviews with scholars, experts, and people who are passionate about a time when California was the frontier of empire and imagination.
- Publisher
- Damian Bacich, Ph.D.
- Category
- education · history · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 27 Mar 2017
- Latest episode
- 22 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
3 of 149 episodes have a transcript.
22 Sept 2026
098: Outlaw Joaquín Murrieta with author John Boessenecker
13 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
097: Bastion by the Bay with author Dr. John Langelier
4 Aug 2026
096: San Francisco Presidio with Archaeologist Kari Jones and Historian Rob Thomson Part 2
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097: Bastion by the Bay with author Dr. John Langelier
Published 13 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So that was somewhat of a shocking question, but still one I think the Presidio is a quintessential microcosm of the history of the Trans-Mississippi West, bridging everything from pre-contact because, of course, California's rich heritage is going back who knows how long with First Nations, Native peoples, with their very diverse cultures, languages, customs, and such. Through the Spanish, through the Mexican period, literally all the way through every major conflict that the country had had from World War to One, Spanish-American War, the Pacific adventures in the Philippines and the expansion from a small kind of constabulary force to an international power to ultimately the Cold War and with the end of the so-called Cold War, the end of the Presidio's necessity and its conversion by happenstance, chipping away from Angel Island with the state parks to what became the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, essentially starting with Fort Point. one of the magnificent urban parks. […]
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- John Boessenecker
- John Langelier
- Rob Thomson
- Kari Jones
- Dr Cameron Jones
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- YouTube views
- 24,901
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 28 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 12 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 74 / 100
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- Quality
- 83
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 76
- Engagement
- 85
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