📖 🔊We have your weekend reading (and listening)!
The new season of our podcast is accompanied by a series of pieces published in partnership with KCET.
Today's is by Amy Bowers Cordalis, a Yurok tribal leader and recipient of the UN’s highest environmental honor.
www.pbssocal.org/from-the-wat...
We are seeking applications for a one-year postdoctoral research position in the history of the American West! The position runs from July 1, 2026 to June 30, 2027.
Details and to apply:
🎧🎤 The season finale of Western Edition Season 5 is live!
Our last episode considers the future of the Colorado River and how our predictions and priorities for water management, specifically in Southern California, must shift in an era of climate change.
www.buzzsprout.com/1837352/epis...
📖 🔊We have your weekend reading (and listening)!
The new season of our podcast is accompanied by a series of pieces published in partnership with KCET.
The first is by journalist Jacques Leslie, who has written for years about the Klamath River:
www.pbssocal.org/the-endanger...
🎧🎤 Episode 5 of Western Edition Season 5 is live!
Watersheds West: The Mighty Snake
www.buzzsprout.com/1837352/epis...
The Snake captured the heart of host William Deverell decades ago. He explores the river's historical and contemporary complexities as it flows into an uncertain future.
We were proud to report this news and are grateful not only for this generous pledge, but also for ICW's terrific work!
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The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West by Martha A. Sandweiss
Martha A. Sandweiss
Tomorrow (Feb 12) at 12:00pm PST, join @huscicw.bsky.social for a virtual event with Martha Sandweiss! With Bill Deverell, she'll discuss her work, The Girl in the Middle, exploring a haunting image of an unnamed Native child and a recovered story of the American West
Register here: buff.ly/xdurSrk
“From the get-go, California provided an example of bilingual governance.” In 2017, @rosinalozano.bsky.social gave a talk at USC about her research on the history of #Spanish in the US.
@huscicw.bsky.social audio -> soundcloud.com/husc-icw/11-... #skystorians #AcademicSky
We’re so honored to share that we just received a $4 million pledge toward our $10 million endowment campaign from a friend of the institute who wishes to remain anonymous. The gift will support our mission to create “new understandings of the past to inform public dialogue in the American West.”
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🎧🎤 Episode 4 of Western Edition Season 5 is live!
Watersheds West: Trouble at Glen Canyon
www.buzzsprout.com/1837352/epis...
We explore how Glen Canyon is tied to colonialism and Western settlement, water use and management, and the future of water across the American Southwest.
The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West by Martha A. Sandweiss
Martha A. Sandweiss
Next week, Feb 12 at 12:00pm PST, join @huscicw.bsky.social for a virtual event with Martha Sandweiss! With Bill Deverell, she'll discuss her work, The Girl in the Middle, exploring a haunting image of an unnamed Native child and a recovered story of the American West
Register here: buff.ly/xdurSrk
🎧🎤 Episode 3 of Western Edition Season 5 is live!
Watersheds West: Freeing the Klamath
www.buzzsprout.com/1837352/epis...
This episode shares histories of Native resistance and the movement to bring a century-old system of dams down, free the Klamath, and feed its lakes and wetlands.
🎧🎤 Episode 2 of Western Edition Season 5 is live!
Watersheds West: Adaptation and Repair
www.buzzsprout.com/1837352/epis...
We talk with Dr. Karletta Chief about engaging with Indigenous communities in addressing environmental disasters and a future shaped by climate change.
🎧🎤 The first episode of Western Edition Season 5 is live!
This episode orients us to a region defined by its aridity and considers how humans have interacted with water over the past two centuries, from Indigenous cosmologies to American conquest.
www.buzzsprout.com/1837352/epis...
And a great postdoc opportunity:
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Study of Guns and Society
bit.ly/4aTRqht
Fantastic job opportunity for Western historians!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05229
"Managing fire risk is about more than construction practices, regulations and rules. It is also about people and neighborliness – the ethos and practice of caring for those in your community, including making choices and taking steps on your own property to help keep the people around you safe."
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ICW co-directors Bill Deverell and Elizabeth Logan reflect on the importance of collective care in the face of wildfire threats @us.theconversation.com.
theconversation.com/la-fires-sho...
We remain immensely grateful that we can do this work because of the support we receive from USC, from The Huntington, and from all of you.
Please join us at any – or all! – of our programs. If you can help us with a financial gift, we would be so grateful.
dornsife.usc.edu/icw/give-now/
We're excited to co-host, along with our partners @thehuntington.bsky.social, a special event with Dr. Naomi Fraga.
December 12, 2025, 2:00 – 3:00pm
Zoom Passcode: 041228. (No Pre-Registration Needed!)
Dr. Naomi Fraga is Director of Conservation Programs at California Botanic Garden in Claremont
🎧 🎤 Season Five of our podcast is almost here!
🔊Sound on to hear the trailer.
Western Edition: Watersheds West launches January 2026, wherever you find podcasts.
Listen to the full prologue: westernedition.buzzsprout.com
The Cultural Landscape Foundation will be hosting a conference, Soak it Up: Los Angeles, on design and urban flooding in Southern California, including comment from ICW's own Bill Deverell!
For info and to register: www.tclf.org/soak-it-los-...
Read the full piece, which is free and accessible to the public. Visit the PHR at: online.ucpress.edu/phr/article/...
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Together with white allies and Chinese across the Pacific, Chinese denizens of the United States formed one of the largest civil disobedience movements of their century. At stake was the future of exclusion and the avenues of belonging for Chinese in America.
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In 1892, the Geary Act dramatically expanded Chinese exclusion by requiring all Chinese immigrants in the United States to register, under threat of deportation. This article unearths the transpacific networks of people and ideas that are revealed by, and mobilized against, the Geary Act.
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🧵 New, noteworthy, and open-access Western scholarship!
Our partners at Pacific Historical Review @ucpress have made a piece from their new issue open to our readers and the public: “’No Chinese Should Obey It’: A Transpacific History of the Geary Act” by Alexander Jin.
Every year students in our high school program work a shift at the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank. We’ve witnessed firsthand how they provide crucial resources for families facing food insecurity.
If you can, please consider supporting the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank: lafoodbank.org
Really important project from Million Dollar Hoods and @uclacilp.bsky.social explaining the history of race, immigration, and deportations in the US. It's an excellent teaching tool!
mappingdeportations.com
Powerful piece from our partners at The Huntington on the importance of the humanities, now more than ever.
“The humanities are civic infrastructure. They’re the systems of thought and imagination that hold a community together. There has never been a more important time to invest in them.”
Join our friends and colleagues at The Huntington for this year's Billington Lecture!
Professor Dustin Tahmahkera
"Archival Captivity Narratives: Who's Capturing Whom in Comanche Archives?"
6:00-7:00 pm
Nov. 6, 2025
Rothenberg Hall
www.huntington.org/event/archiv...
