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Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West @huscicw.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

🧵 Los Angeles just renamed Pershing Square in honor of Biddy Mason, who was born into slavery but won her freedom and went on to become a prominent landowner, philanthropist, and community leader. Learn more about her extraordinary life with Kevin Waite about his new biography: bit.ly/icwSept24

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Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West @huscicw.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🧵 Take a look inside Daniel Lynch's new book, Dancing with Manifest Destiny! Daniel joins Bill Deverell to discuss Dancing with Manifest Destiny: Elite Men of Color and the Making of Los Angeles September 17, 2026, 12:00 – 1:00pm PT bit.ly/icwSept17

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Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West @huscicw.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

🧵 Take a look inside David Igler’s new book, All Species of Knowledge! David joins Bill Deverell to discuss All Species of Knowledge: A Voyage of Discovery, Failure, and Natural History in the Pacific Ocean (@oxunipress). September 10, 2026, 12:00 – 1:00pm PT bit.ly/ICWSept10th

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Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West @huscicw.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

ICW’s Bill Deverell co-authored an essay for Zócalo Public Square in defense of public history and the work of Anthea Hartig, the director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (NMAH). Read the full story👇 or follow 🧵 for excerpts: www.zocalopublicsquare.org/in-defense-o...

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In Defense of Public History | Essay

Four Scholars Refute the Attacks on the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Director Anthea Hartig

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Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West @huscicw.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Thibaut Clément, associate professor at the Sorbonne, joined us as a Fulbright scholar this year. He recently joined ICW co-director Bill Deverell for a conversation about his innovative research on ethnic shopping malls in Los Angeles. 🎧 to the full conversation! vimeo.com/1208557810?s...

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Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West @huscicw.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Join ICW's Bill Deverell in conversation with Alice Baumgartner about her book, South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War on July 14. Tickets: event.pasadenaplayhouse.org/WcNANa

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Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West @huscicw.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Historian James Buckley offers insights on his new book, City of Wood Check out the full webinar recording on our website or Vimeo channel: dornsife.usc.edu/icw/2026-eve... Dive into our archived programming this summer! 😎⛱️☀️

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Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West @huscicw.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Chiara Barzini offers insights on her new book, Aqua: Check out the full webinar recording on our website or Vimeo channel: dornsife.usc.edu/icw/2026-eve... Dive into our archived programming this summer! 😎⛱️☀️ #cahistory #westernhistory #skystorians

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Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West @huscicw.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

David-James Gonzalez offers insights on his new book, Breaking Down the Walls of Segregation. Check out the full webinar recording on our website or Vimeo channel: dornsife.usc.edu/icw/2026-eve... Dive into our archived programming this summer! 😎⛱️☀️ #cahistory #westernhistory #skystorians

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Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West @huscicw.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

In honor of #Juneteenth, we put together a list of some of our favorite books on the history of slavery, freedom, and the African American experience in California and the West. Do you have additional favorites or suggestions? Drop them in the comments! #skystorians #westernhistory #cahistory

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Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West @huscicw.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Marla A. Ramírez shared some historic images with us from her award-winning new book. Follow🧵 for photos from Banished Citizens: The Mexican American Women Who Endured Repatriation. Marla Ramírez in conversation with Natalia Molina June 11, 2026 12pm PST RSVP: bit.ly/banishedcitizens #skystorians

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Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West @huscicw.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

David-James Gonzalez shared some historic images with us from his pathbreaking new book. Follow🧵 for photos from his research on the Mexican American civil rights movement and its roots in Orange County. David-James in conversation with Natalia Molina May 21, 2026 12pm PST RSVP: bit.ly/DJGonzales

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Oregon State University Press @osupress.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

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Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West @huscicw.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Join us for a conversation with @jdaldern.bsky.social and Theresa Gregor celebrating the release of their new book, Landkeeping: Restoring Indigenous Fire Stewardship and Ecological Partnerships, published by @osupress.bsky.social. Thursday, April 30, 2026, 12-1 pm PST RSVP: bit.ly/landkeeping

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Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West @huscicw.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

We're absolutely delighted to share good news this week! Please join us in congratulating Julia Brown-Bernstein on her new position as an assistant professor of U.S. history at Scripps College. Julia completed her dissertation with ICW at USC before going on to a postdoctoral fellowship at Yale.

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Oregon State University Press @osupress.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Save the date! April 30, 2026 12:00 pm PT. Landkeeping: In Conversation Online Event with Jared Aldern and Theresa Gregor. Registration is now open!

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Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West @huscicw.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Join Natalia Molina, ICW, and Third LA for two dynamic conversations! D.J. Gonzales (Brigham Young University) and Marla Ramirez (University of Wisconsin, Madison) join us to discuss their new books. RSVP: bit.ly/usc-icw-events

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Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West @huscicw.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

We’re excited to announce our spring webinar series—Wood, Water, Land. Join us to consider how human interactions with wood, water, and land transformed and continue to impact the American West. It launches in April, just in time for Earth Month 🌎🌱 RSVP: dornsife.usc.edu/icw/upcoming/

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Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West @huscicw.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

📖 🔊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...

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Ellen Powell Thompson: How Women’s Suffrage Benefitted from the Work of a Botanist in the Nineteenth-Century American West

Ellen Powell Thompson’s life illustrates how environmental exploration and women’s reform were deeply interconnected.

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

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...

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From Deportees to Coerced Workers: Managing Labor and Migration Within Mexico After the Bracero Program

Abstract. In 1971, agents from Mexico's secret intelligence agency began to report that hundreds to thousands of Mexican men recently detained in the United States were being taken every night from Me...

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Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West @huscicw.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

📖 🔊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...

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From 'The Water Remembers: My Indigenous Family’s Fight to Save a River and a Way of Life'

An excerpt from the book "The Water Remembers" by Amy Bowers Cordalis, member and former General Counsel of the Yurok Nation.

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Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West @huscicw.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

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:

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Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West @huscicw.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

🎧🎤 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...

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Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West @huscicw.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

📖 🔊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...

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Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West @huscicw.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

🎧🎤 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.

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USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences @dornsife.usc.edu · 11/02/2026

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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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

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

The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West by Martha A. Sandweiss

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@LAhistory @lahistory.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

“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

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Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West @huscicw.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

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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Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West @huscicw.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

🎧🎤 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.

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

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

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Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West @huscicw.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

🎧🎤 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.

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Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West @huscicw.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

🎧🎤 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.

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Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West @huscicw.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

🎧🎤 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...

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Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West @huscicw.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

And a great postdoc opportunity: Postdoctoral Fellow in the Study of Guns and Society bit.ly/4aTRqht

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Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West @huscicw.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

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/

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Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West @huscicw.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

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

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Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West @huscicw.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

🎧 🎤 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

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Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West @huscicw.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

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-...

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Soak it Up: Los Angeles, CA | TCLF

REGISTER NOW - In honor of the late Oberlander Prize Laureate, Kongjian Yu, global champion of the “sponge cities” concept, leading landscape architects will examine provocative solutions for urban fl...

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Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West @huscicw.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

🧵 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.

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Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West @huscicw.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

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

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Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West @huscicw.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

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

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Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West @huscicw.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

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.”

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A Haven for the Humanities | The Huntington

Research Fellows reflect on the archives, art, and gardens that have shaped our world.

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Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West @huscicw.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

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...

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Archival Captivity Narratives: Who's Capturing Whom in Comanche Archives? | The Huntington

Join Dustin Tahmahkera, professor of Native American studies at the University of Oklahoma, for a lecture on stories of Comanches in film and media.

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Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West @huscicw.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

🧵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

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Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West @huscicw.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

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...

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Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West @huscicw.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

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...

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