History In Ten

We grew up studying major US and world historical events, learning about what happened in our own backyards, but did we ever learn much about other cities and states in the country? Sure we learned about the Boston Tea Party, Chicago's meat packing industry from Upton Sinclair, and Gettysburg from the Civil War, but do we really know the history of some of the other major US cities? Or the smaller cities and towns we rarely, if ever, visit? This is part one of the history of Los Angeles, a town I've lived in for three and a half years but knew absolutely nothing about. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/history-in-ten/support