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Western Edition

William Deverell

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: 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...

34:54Feb 24, 2026

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...

42:18Feb 17, 2026

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...

48:16Feb 10, 2026

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...

36:54Feb 3, 2026

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...

20:14Jan 27, 2026

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...

35:02Jan 20, 2026

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...

6:46Dec 2, 2025

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...

40:54Oct 1, 2024

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...

25:24Sep 24, 2024

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...

27:55Sep 17, 2024

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...

32:34Sep 3, 2024

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...

4:38Aug 27, 2024