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 actions seemed spontaneous and episodic: a statue of a Union soldier came down for its ties to a notorious massacre of Native peoples. Following the removal of another monument, the city's mayor publicly acknowledged and apologized for Denver's history of anti-Chinese violence. To see images related to this episode, please visit dornsife.usc.edu/icw . Western Edition is hosted by William Deverell and produced by Avishay Artsy, Katie Dunham, Jessica Kim, Elizabeth Logan, and Stephanie Yi. Western Edition is a production of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West.

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Memorializing the West: Reckoning with Denver’s Memorials is an episode from Western Edition by William Deverell.

This episode is 40:50 long.

This episode was published on May 30, 2023.

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