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de William Deverell
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Watersheds West: Running Dry
Watersheds West: Running Dry
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Western Edition -- a 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 Angelenos, Californians, and Westerners as critical thinkers, conscious consumers, and informed community members. The podcast tells the fascinating stories of the people and communities of our region, connecting the past to the present, and demonstrating the tightly woven fabric of history.
The forth season, Hidden Pasadena, digs deep into the “Crown City” of the San Gabriel Valley.
The third season, Memorializing the West, explored historical memory, commemoration, and memorialization across the American West.
The second season, L.A. Chinatown, examined the past, present, and future of one of L.A.’s oldest neighborhoods and one of the first Chinese American cultural centers in the U.S. The first season, The West on Fire, looked at the West’s relationship with fire.
Western Edition is produced by Avishay Artsy, Katie Dunham, Jessica Kim, Elizabeth Logan, and Eryn Hoffman. Western Edition is a production of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West.
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- Watersheds West: Running Dry · 35 min · Sezonul 5 Episodul 6This final episode of the season considers the future of the Colorado River and how our predictions and priorities for water management, specifically in Southern California, have…
- Watersheds West: The Mighty Snake · 42 min · Sezonul 5 Episodul 5The Snake, a one-thousand mile long river and watershed of great beauty, captured the heart of host William Deverell decades ago. The complexity of this watershed is at once…
- Watersheds West: Trouble at Glen Canyon · 48 min · Sezonul 5 Episodul 4The history of Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River is one of Navajo connections to the river and canyon, colonial aspirations of a Civil War veteran and a Latter-Day Saints…
- Watersheds West: Freeing the Klamath · 37 min · Sezonul 5 Episodul 3The history of a dammed Klamath River is part of the broader history of settler colonialism, resource extraction, and the control of water in the American West. This episode…
- Watersheds West: Adaptation and Repair · 20 min · Sezonul 5 Episodul 2The relationship between watersheds in the American West and the people who live alongside them is complex. When the stories turn to Indigenous westerners, too often the focus is…
- Watersheds West: Gather at the River · 35 min · Sezonul 5 Episodul 1In 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 water over the past two centuries, from…
- Watersheds West: Prologue · 7 min · Sezonul 5The infrastructure of water control looms large across the history of the American West. Western rivers and watersheds have long been and remain fundamental sites of contest and…
- Hidden Pasadena: The Children of the Liberator · 26 min · Sezonul 4 Episodul 6After the Civil War, many of the children of the anti-slavery crusader who attempted to raid Harper’s Ferry, John Brown, sought new lives and peace in the far West, including…
- Hidden Pasadena: Shōya House · 41 min · Sezonul 4 Episodul 5What 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 a 6,000 mile journey from Japan to…
- Hidden Pasadena: Vroman’s Bookstore · 25 min · Sezonul 4 Episodul 4What can we learn from a bookstore? Adam Clark Vroman opened the AC Vroman Bookstore in 1894 and it has symbolized an important piece of Pasadena’s intellectual community ever…
- Hidden Pasadena: John Birch Society · 28 min · Sezonul 4 Episodul 3Thriving in Pasadena in the 1960s and 1970s, members of the John Birch Society identified as anti-communists, opposed the civil rights movement and racial desegregation, deeply…
- Hidden Pasadena: St. Barnabas and All Saints · 18 min · Sezonul 4 Episodul 2This is the story of two churches: St. Barnabas, the historically all-black Episcopal Church still standing on Fair Oaks Drive in Northwest Pasadena, and the mainly-white All…
- Hidden Pasadena: Simons Brickyard · 33 min · Sezonul 4 Episodul 1Now an upscale, residential neighborhood in the heart of Pasadena, Madison Heights used to be home to Simons Brickyard, once the largest brickyard in the world. The Simons Brick…
- Hidden Pasadena: Prologue · 5 min · Sezonul 4More than 50 million viewers begin each new year looking to Pasadena, tuning into the Rose Parade to see flower and seed-coated floats cruise slowly down Colorado Boulevard. But…
- [BONUS EPISODE] Memorializing the West: 1871 Memorial · 19 min · Sezonul 3A year ago, the second season of Western Edition focused on the past, present, and future of Los Angeles Chinatown. As part of that fascinating exploration, we investigated the…
- Memorializing the West: Digital Rediscoveries in San Antonio · 40 min · Sezonul 3Moving from removal to renewal, many communities are not just calling for dismantling problematic monuments but also creating new layers of historical memory. This episode…
- Memorializing the West: Reckoning with Denver’s Memorials · 41 min · Sezonul 3Denver, Colorado has seen highly public reckonings with historical markers referencing moments or people from the frontier past. Some actions seemed spontaneous and episodic: a…
- Memorializing the West: ONE Archives as Memorial · 42 min · Sezonul 3Not far from the USC campus sits the home of the ONE Archives, one of the world's greatest repositories of historical material pertaining to LGBTQ people and institutions. The…
- Memorializing the West: Settling Jackson Hole · 39 min · Sezonul 3Additional histories are hidden behind the laconic language etched into markers across the West. The Daughters of Utah Pioneers Marker 123 in the center of Jackson, Wyoming…
- Memorializing the West: Remembering a Northern California Duel · 38 min · Sezonul 3There 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't, they should. Take, for example, the…
