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Western Edition -- a new podcast from Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West and hosted by its director William Deverell, historian of the American West -- seeks to engage Angel...
This final episode of the season considers the future of the Colorado River and how our predictions and priorities for water management, spe...
The Snake, a one-thousand mile long river and watershed of great beauty, captured the heart of host William Deverell decades ago. The comple...
The history of Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River is one of Navajo connections to the river and canyon, colonial aspirations of a Civil W...
The history of a dammed Klamath River is part of the broader history of settler colonialism, resource extraction, and the control of water i...
The relationship between watersheds in the American West and the people who live alongside them is complex. When the stories turn to Indigen...
In this episode we take a long view of water in the West, a region defined by its aridity, and consider how humans have interacted with wate...
The infrastructure of water control looms large across the history of the American West. Western rivers and watersheds have long been and re...
After the Civil War, many of the children of the anti-slavery crusader who attempted to raid Harper’s Ferry, John Brown, sought new lives an...
What is the oldest structure in the San Gabriel Valley? This episode shares the story of The Shoya House, a 3,000 square-foot home that made...
What can we learn from a bookstore? Adam Clark Vroman opened the AC Vroman Bookstore in 1894 and it has symbolized an important piece of Pas...
Thriving in Pasadena in the 1960s and 1970s, members of the John Birch Society identified as anti-communists, opposed the civil rights movem...
This is the story of two churches: St. Barnabas, the historically all-black Episcopal Church still standing on Fair Oaks Drive in Northwest...
Now an upscale, residential neighborhood in the heart of Pasadena, Madison Heights used to be home to Simons Brickyard, once the largest bri...
More than 50 million viewers begin each new year looking to Pasadena, tuning into the Rose Parade to see flower and seed-coated floats cruis...
A year ago, the second season of Western Edition focused on the past, present, and future of Los Angeles Chinatown. As part of that fascinat...
Moving from removal to renewal, many communities are not just calling for dismantling problematic monuments but also creating new layers of...
Denver, Colorado has seen highly public reckonings with historical markers referencing moments or people from the frontier past. Some action...
Not far from the USC campus sits the home of the ONE Archives, one of the world's greatest repositories of historical material pertaini...
Additional histories are hidden behind the laconic language etched into markers across the West. The Daughters of Utah Pioneers Marker 123 i...
There are many places and sites in California that, if we listen closely, still echo with the angst of the Civil War past. Or if they don&ap...
Starting on Catalina Island, just off the coast of Southern California, this episode of Western Edition zeroes in on a Civil War barracks th...
Given the nation’s widespread and often heated reckoning with sites of memorialization and commemoration in recent years, the new season of...
What’s next for Chinatown? What challenges does the community face in the era of Covid, of the Stop Asian Hate movement, of gentrification,...
Spanning multiple generations across Los Angeles history, the See family takes focus in episode five. Novelist and historian Lisa See narrat...
In the early 1930s, the old Chinatown of Los Angeles disappeared to make way for the new Union Station Passenger Terminal. This episode exam...
California played a fundamental role in legislating Chinese exclusion in the last decades of the 19th century. This episode explores the his...
A dark stain on Los Angeles, the horrific massacre of Chinese men and boys in Chinatown still reverberates across community and memory. A mo...
As an idea, as a place, even as a single structure, Chinatown has meant and means different things to different people at different times. T...
L.A.’s Chinatown is a bustling cultural and business hub, legendary in cinematic history and popular with tourists and locals alike. Yet bel...
For over a century, the U.S. Forest Service has posted fire lookouts at the tops of mountains and trees: men and women who gaze out at the h...
There’s a good chance that the firefighter saving you from a wildfire is actually an incarcerated person. As of summer 2021, about 1,600 wor...
Wildfire smoke can spread far beyond the fire itself, and the toxic pollutants carried in the smoke can be deadly. In this episode, we inves...
The gospel of fire safety in the Western U.S. has long been one of suppression: fires are bad and they should be avoided at all costs. But I...
Fires can be terribly destructive forces of nature, wiping out entire communities, as we’ve seen so often these past few years. But the dest...
“Remember, only you can prevent forest fires.” Generations of Americans have this fire safety adage emblazoned on their collective memory th...
Firefighters have a hard job. Whether they’re putting out housefires or battling large-scale wildfires, the work can be grueling, dangerous,...
Amidst the most catastrophic fires the North American West has ever experienced comes a new podcast from the Huntington-USC Institute on Cal...
Western Edition -- a new podcast from the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West and hosted by its director William Deverell, h...