Robert M. Senkewicz is Professor of History at Santa Clara University. Together they have authored and edited numerous books, including "The History of Alta California: A Memoir of Mexican California";"""Lands of Promise and Despair: Chronicles of Early California, 1535 1846"; "Testimonios: Early California through the Eyes of Women, 1815 1848"; and " To Toil in That Vineyard of the Lord: Contemporary Scholarship on Junipero Serra."