Watersheds West: Running Dry
This final episode of the season considers the future of the Colorado River and how our predictions and priorities for water management, spe...
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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...
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Listen to Western Edition, a Society & Culture podcast by William Deverell. Stream 38 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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Watersheds West: The Mighty Snake
The Snake, a one-thousand mile long river and watershed of great beauty, captured the heart of host William Deverell decades ago. The comple...
Watersheds West: Trouble at Glen Canyon
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...
Watersheds West: Freeing the Klamath
The history of a dammed Klamath River is part of the broader history of settler colonialism, resource extraction, and the control of water i...
Watersheds West: Adaptation and Repair
The relationship between watersheds in the American West and the people who live alongside them is complex. When the stories turn to Indigen...
Watersheds West: Gather at the River
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...
Watersheds West: Prologue
The infrastructure of water control looms large across the history of the American West. Western rivers and watersheds have long been and re...
Hidden Pasadena: The Children of the Liberator
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...
Hidden Pasadena: Shōya House
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...
Hidden Pasadena: Vroman’s Bookstore
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...
Hidden Pasadena: John Birch Society
Thriving in Pasadena in the 1960s and 1970s, members of the John Birch Society identified as anti-communists, opposed the civil rights movem...
Hidden Pasadena: St. Barnabas and All Saints
This is the story of two churches: St. Barnabas, the historically all-black Episcopal Church still standing on Fair Oaks Drive in Northwest...
Hidden Pasadena: Simons Brickyard
Now an upscale, residential neighborhood in the heart of Pasadena, Madison Heights used to be home to Simons Brickyard, once the largest bri...
Hidden Pasadena: Prologue
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...
[BONUS EPISODE] Memorializing the West: 1871 Memorial
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...
Memorializing the West: Digital Rediscoveries in San Antonio
Moving from removal to renewal, many communities are not just calling for dismantling problematic monuments but also creating new layers of...
Memorializing the West: Reckoning with Denver’s Memorials
Denver, Colorado has seen highly public reckonings with historical markers referencing moments or people from the frontier past. Some action...
Memorializing the West: ONE Archives as Memorial
Not far from the USC campus sits the home of the ONE Archives, one of the world's greatest repositories of historical material pertaini...
Memorializing the West: Settling Jackson Hole
Additional histories are hidden behind the laconic language etched into markers across the West. The Daughters of Utah Pioneers Marker 123 i...
Memorializing the West: Remembering a Northern California Duel
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...
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