ICW: California & The West
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A teaching, research, and service initiative focused on the history and culture of the modern American West. High school program: @LASA_ICW
Los Angeles, CA
Joined July 2014
In celebration of ICW’s 20th anniversary, join us for a deep dive into the past, present, and future of dams in the American West. We’ll explore the historical impact of dams on western environments, communities, and water resources. And we’ll discuss the contemporary movement
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👋 Hi friends! We're going to be here a little less and over on some of our other social media channels a little more. See you there!
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Join ICW for a webinar conversation about the history of Los Angeles transit and a community-based response to the Los Angeles Aerial Rapid Transit proposal for a gondola to Dodger Stadium. Panelists will include UCLA professor Eric Avila, California State Parks planner Jim
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John Conness, who last served California in the U.S. Senate back in 1869, might be the best defense we have against Donald Trump's lawless efforts to end birthright citizenship, writes @joemmathews. Read Conness' argument for the 14th Amendment: https://t.co/utgr15S71H
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John Conness still represents us. And how lucky are we for that! So what if few Californians, and not even many California scholars, have ever heard of him? Nor does it matter that Conness hasn’t...
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Applications are now open for Visual Wests An NEH Summer Institute for Higher Education Faculty The University of Oklahoma, Norman Oklahoma July 7-August 1, 2025 To apply:
visualwest1.com
Information about upcoming NEH institute for study of the West
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We're so glad to end this week with good news--a $300,000 NEH grant to continue work on our Chinatown History Project. The Chinatown History Project is an initiative that uses augmented reality to digitally reconstruct artifacts and spaces from Los Angeles’ historic Chinatown.
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You should attend our grad student Abby Gibson's upcoming lecture at UCLA for the title alone! 'Wild and Ungovernable Passions': Emotional Scripts and the Fate of the U.S. Expansion in the Vigilante Rocky Mountain West, 1864-1866 Link to the Zoom webinar:
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Important piece from our colleague Prof Joan Flores-Villalobos @USCHistory on Trump policy and the history of the Panama Canal: "By erasing the racial disparities at the center of the Panama Canal construction, Trump gives justification to his expansionist policy while ignoring
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Trump is right to lament the lives lost for the creation of the canal. They were mostly Black Caribbean migrant workers, living and dying under Jim Crow conditions that the U.S. imposed in Panama.
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📢Graduate students in Western history! The deadline for the Western History Dissertation Workshop has been extended to Feb. 7. Apply now to participate in this dynamic writing workshop and get feedback from leading scholars on your works-in-progress:
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Join us to celebrate the new anthology, 'Writing the Golden State: A New Literary Terrain' Thursday, February 13, 2025 12:00 – 1:00pm PST Join ICW for a discussion about California’s past and present with contributors Jennifer Carr, David Ulin, David Helps, and Wendy Chang.
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Rebuilding after L.A.’s wildfires isn’t just about homes and infrastructure. A USC Dornsife historian urges us to restore the social ties and shared history that make communities whole. Read Bill Deverell's op-ed in @latimes ⤵️ https://t.co/9D8f7cseud
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Marking and honoring what has been lost in the fires will help rebuild L.A.'s soft infrastructure, the network of social ties holding communities together.
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A few weeks ago, our colleague Wade Graham wrote a case study, “Malibu Burning,” as part of our West on Fire initiative. It is a powerful history of fire and human interactions with the environment in Malibu and greater Southern California over the past century. We share it now,
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Join us for our first book talk of 2025, "American Burial Ground: A New History of the Overland Trail." Historian Sarah Keyes offers her interpretation of the mid-19th century overland migration to the Pacific. Tuesday, Jan. 14 at 4:30 p.m. Register here: https://t.co/ItpvnNGLPO
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"...a reminder that we should treat citrus not as a metaphor for the California Dream but rather the fragility of it."
MY LATEST @latimes COLUMNA: Citrus in December is a SoCal tradition. Enjoy your harvest while you can. RT, porfas!
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🎉More than 23,000 people have downloaded our podcast, Western Edition! And if you haven’t listened yet, we think it makes an excellent travel companion. Take us along on your holiday travels! Season 4: Hidden Pasadena digs deep into the “Crown City” of the San Gabriel Valley
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We're so excited to be hosting, with @TheHuntington, the 19th annual Western History Dissertation Workshop! May 15-16, 2025 at The Huntington. Five advanced western history Ph.D. students will be selected to present a chapter of their work to a collegial group of 10-12 leading
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Please join us for Infrastructure and Environmental Justice in U.S. History: A Pop-up Exhibit in USC Special Collections, curated by students in ENST 499. 🗓️ Thursday, 12/5, 10am to 3pm 📍 Doheny Memorial Library, DML 206 https://t.co/IqmX3D7yds
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Please join us for Infrastructure and Environmental Justice in U.S. History: A Pop-up Exhibit in USC Special Collections, curated by students in ENST 499. On view in DML 206 on Thursday, December 5,...
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This is a wonderful program run by our friends and colleagues @USCWrigley! And they've supported the work of our PhD students in History in the past. Applications for 2025 are due Dec. 6. Details ⤵️
We're now accepting applications for the #USCWrigley Graduate Fellowship, open to @USCDornsife PhD students of all fields whose research intersects with environment and sustainability themes. Apply by 5 p.m. PT on Friday, 12/6: https://t.co/ffnGoLrf1Z
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