📖 🔊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 Erika Bsumek at UT Austin about the work of botanist and suffragist Ellen Powell Thompson. www.pbssocal.org/ellen-powell...

New article from IEHS member Laura Gutierrez: "From Deportees to Coerced Workers: Managing Labor and Migration Within Mexico After the Bracero Program,” in the Hispanic American Historical Review read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article...

📖 🔊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!

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.”

🎧🎤 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.

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

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-...

🧵 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...

🧵Check out this new and award-winning piece from our friends at Pacific Historical Review by Iker Saitua at Univ of the Basque Country—”‘Labor Freezing’: Spanish-Basque Immigrants, Mexican Labor, and the Sheepherder Shortage in the American West during the Second World War.” online.ucpress.edu/phr

Join ICW co-directors Bill Deverell and Elizabeth Logan for tomorrow's @dornsife.usc.edu Dialogues! From Gold Rush to Gigabytes: California’s 175 Years of Change and Reinvention Oct. 23, 2025 at 12:00 pm PT RSVP: dornsife.usc.edu/dornsife-alu...

Our friends at USC Libraries have two new fascinating archival collections about Southern California religious and cultural history! Learn more about the Caspary and McKenna papers: libraries.usc.edu/article/two-...

Next week's @dornsife.usc.edu Dialogues will be hosted by ICW's very own co-directors, Bill Deverell and Elizabeth Logan! From Gold Rush to Gigabytes: California’s 175 Years of Change and Reinvention Oct. 23, 2025 at 12:00 pm PT RSVP: dornsife.usc.edu/dornsife-alu...

🚨 U.S. historians! Our colleagues at Washington State University are hiring: Assistant/Associate Professor in Public History - Tenure Track wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WSU_Jo...

🚨 U.S. historians! Our colleagues at UC Davis are hiring: Associate/Full Professor of Native American Studies: Indigenous North American Perspectives recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07317

UC Press is looking for a Publicist! Help amplify authors, pitch stories that spark conversation, & champion bold, field-defining books. Apply here. Or spread the word! careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psc/ucop/EMP...

🧵1/ To accompany his recent piece for our blog, author Wade Graham sat down for a conversation with ICW co-director Bill Deverell. They talked about the long history and future of fire in Malibu. Hear all of their conversation and read Wade’s recent piece: dornsife.usc.edu/icw/west-on-fire.

In Conversation with William Schultz Thursday, October 2, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00 pm PST Join us for a conversation with Dr. William Schultz about his forthcoming book, Jesus Springs: Evangelical Capitalism and the Fate of an American City. Register Now: bit.ly/willschultz

🚨 U.S. historians! Our colleagues at Occidental College are hiring: Ray Allen Billington Visiting Professorship in U.S. History/The Americas www.oxy.edu/working-oxy/...

🧵 1/7 Author Claire Hoffman gave us an inside look at some of the incredible historic images in her new biography of Aimee Semple-McPherson, ‘Sister Sinner.’ Join us: In Conversation with Claire Hoffman Thursday, Sep 18, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00 PST Register Now: bit.ly/sistersinner

Christian Nationalism: In Conversation with Bradley Onishi Thursday, September 11, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00pm PST Join ICW for a conversation with Dr. Bradley Onishi and ICW Co-Director Dr. Elizabeth Logan, part of our Fall 2025 Series Worshiping in the American West. Register: bit.ly/bradleyonishi

📣 Announcing our fall webinar series, Worshiping in the West! We'll be in conversation with leading scholars on religion in the American West. Their new books cover a wide range of topics, from Christian nationalism to multiracial Pentecostalism. RSVP: dornsife.usc.edu/icw/upcoming/

Postdoc opportunity @wesleyanuniversity.bsky.social's Center for the Study of Guns and Society: wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

We have something whimsical for you to read this weekend! PhD student Basak Karaca writes about discovering the US West via the cartoon Lucky Luke while growing up in Turkey. How did this popular Belgian cartoon shape perceptions of the West around the world? icwblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/03/l...

We’re highlighting some of our favorite works on histories of immigration and immigrant communities in the American West as we believe they help us better understand the historical roots of systems of racism, nativism, and xenophobia, and how to confront them now.

"National authoritarians tend to attack their most successful and independent cities—from Istanbul to Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York City. Do the people of besieged cities have any chance of defeating the authoritarian nation-states that scapegoat and oppress them? Yes. But it won’t be easy."

We know you’ve been waiting for it! Season 5 of our podcast, Western Edition, drops this fall. Season 5 is taking us across the West and we’re sharing a few behind-the-scenes shots. Can you guess where we are and what we’re talking about? 🎧🎧🎧 Stay tuned!

Another postdoc opportunity! This one with UCI's Center for Liberation, Anti-Racism, and Belonging. Two-year position to support “The Historic Origins Project investigating Economic inequality in Orange County (HOPE-OC).” recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09684

Interested in the public humanities? Our friends at the American Conservation Experience are hiring! ACE Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow, "The Fallout of Fallout – Documenting and Contextualizing the Downwinders Experience in rural Nevada and Utah" www.usaconservation.org/ace-staff-jo...

"Matters were hardly any less tense in Southern California. People lined the streets of downtown Los Angeles [in 1894], chanting and cheering for the strikers, many of whom wore American flag lapels," #historian William Deverell. @huscicw.bsky.social #CAhistory #CaliforniaHistory

ICW’s co-director Bill Deverell offers historical context on the Los Angeles protests and federal response in today’s LA Times: “We have been here before, and we would be wise to heed history’s caution." www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...