Watersheds West: Running Dry
This 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 shifted and must cont...
24 Feb 34min
Watersheds West: The Mighty Snake
The 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 historical and contemporar...
17 Feb 42min
Watersheds West: Trouble at Glen Canyon
The 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 community, as well as the...
10 Feb 48min
Watersheds West: Freeing the Klamath
The 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 shares histories of Native...
3 Feb 36min
Watersheds West: Adaptation and Repair
The 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 on pre-colonial times...
27 Jan 20min
Watersheds West: Gather at the River
In 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 Indigenous cosmologies t...
20 Jan 35min
Watersheds West: Prologue
The 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 power, hope and disapp...
2 Dec 20256min
Hidden Pasadena: The Children of the Liberator
After 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 Pasadena. This episode sh...
8 Okt 202426min
