Today we’re going to a domestic destination–but it wasn’t always domestic. The history of Monterey goes back hundreds of years, and it shows how empires
As Americans moved into California, the U.S. government wanted to provide them with an official representative. But the government also wanted California for the United
In our first Beyond the Consul episode, we’re talking to Patty O’Brien about Tahiti. We talk about the power structures present in Tahiti when Europeans
When the United States began to establish official commercial relations with Tahiti, the government and the sailors who visited there thought that the U.S. consuls
Manifest Destiny is a term you hear a lot when you’re learning about the history of the United States in the nineteenth century. But what
In this second installment of our summer series on food and consuls, we shift our gaze to look at food ways from the bottom-up. Producers
In this bonus episode, we look back on the stories from season one with an eye for food. Alongside a cast of guest taste-testers, producers
We’ve been to Mexico a few times this season, but we promised in the first episode that we’d return one last time, to talk about
In Episode 11, we explore the complicated, and sometimes tragic, life of Richard Greener, the first Black consul to a predominantly white post. Before Greener
In this bonus episode, we learn about the much more recent history of women in the consular service, as Abby interviews Maura Harty, a career
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