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
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 today’s episode, we take a look at some people connected to the consular service who are worthy of notice: the women. We’re telling the
Don’t forget to enter our TWO book giveaways! To win Alexandra Kelly’s book Consuming Ivory: Mercantile Legacies of East Africa and New England, just take
In this episode, we travel to Havana, Cuba to meet the consul Nicholas Trist, as he struggles between the dilemma of morals and money. We
In our first episode of Consolation Prize, we go to Mexico to investigate how Americans tried to maintain their rights as Americans while sometimes subverting