California Water Wars - Los Angeles and the Future of Water | 6
UCLA environmental historian Jon Christensen discusses Los Angeles, its never-quenched thirst for water, and what that means for the future.Support us by supporting our sponsors!See Privacy Policy at ...
26 Feb 202040min
California Water Wars - Collapse | 5
With the failure of the Watterson brothers’ banks, the Owens Valley community was forced to abandon its fight for water rights against the city of Los Angeles. William Mulholland, the Los Angeles wate...
19 Feb 202037min
California Water Wars - We Who Are About to Die Salute You | 4
After years of letting their water be used by the city of Los Angeles, the farmers and ranchers of the Owens River Valley decided to fight back. What would come to be known as California’s Civil War w...
12 Feb 202037min
California Water Wars - “There It Is—Take It” | 3
By 1912, the Los Angeles aqueduct project was nearing completion. But as it approached the finish line, fears were growing among the public of a vast conspiracy, fanned by socialist Job Harriman. With...
5 Feb 202037min
California Water Wars - Building the Dream | 2
By 1907, the city of Los Angeles had found a solution to its water problem. Two hundred miles north in the Owens River Valley was a never-ending source of water. Los Angeles Water Department superinte...
29 Jan 202037min
California Water Wars - A River in the Desert | 1
By the turn of the twentieth century, Los Angeles had grown from a dusty, crime-ridden pueblo into a thriving metropolis. The only problem was that it was growing too fast. With no consistently reliab...
22 Jan 202036min
Kentucky Blood Feud - The Revenge of Bad Tom Baker | 2
The Civil War forced the warring families of Clay County into an uneasy truce. The Garrards, Whites, Howards, and Bakers found themselves allied as they fought for the Union. But the war brought new c...
18 Dec 201937min
Kentucky Blood Feud - The Murder of Daniel Bates | 1
The longest and bloodiest feud in American history erupted in the 1840s in Clay County, Kentucky — where it raged for nearly a century and ultimately claimed more than 150 lives. The Clay County War, ...
11 Dec 201934min
