Memorializing the West: Reckoning with Denver’s Memorials
Denver, Colorado has seen highly public reckonings with historical markers referencing moments or people from the frontier past. Some actions seemed spontaneous and episodic: a statue of a Union soldi...
30 Maj 202340min
Memorializing the West: ONE Archives as Memorial
Not 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 mid-century building onc...
23 Maj 202341min
Memorializing the West: Settling Jackson Hole
Additional 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 celebrates the arrival of M...
16 Maj 202338min
Memorializing the West: Remembering a Northern California Duel
There 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 Broderick-Terry monumen...
9 Maj 202337min
Memorializing the West: Catalina Barracks
Starting on Catalina Island, just off the coast of Southern California, this episode of Western Edition zeroes in on a Civil War barracks that is now a private yacht club. The site played a curious ro...
2 Maj 202332min
Memorializing the West: Prologue
Given the nation’s widespread and often heated reckoning with sites of memorialization and commemoration in recent years, the new season of Western Edition – the podcast from the Huntington-USC Instit...
25 Apr 20234min
L.A. Chinatown: Today and Tomorrow
What’s next for Chinatown? What challenges does the community face in the era of Covid, of the Stop Asian Hate movement, of gentrification, and the ever-rising cost of living in Los Angeles? Western ...
28 Juni 202228min
L.A. Chinatown: The Long L.A. History of the See Family
Spanning multiple generations across Los Angeles history, the See family takes focus in episode five. Novelist and historian Lisa See narrates her family’s rich history, as does Leslee See Leong, whos...
21 Juni 202228min
