In a time when many friendships have crashed on the rocks of political division, Dick Wadhams, former chair of the Colorado Republican Party, and Patty Limerick, Faculty Director of the Center of the American West, have maintained a steady tie

Historians Imagine: Celebrating Creativity in the Craft with Ari Kelman, UC Davis

Feb 19th, 2021 1h 2m

Ari Kelman is a historian of the Civil War and Reconstruction, the politics of memory, and Native American history. Author of Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War andA Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek.

What It Means to Disagree, Admit a Degree of Uncertainty, and Maintain a Robust Friendship: A Dialogue

Nov 25th, 2020 1h 1m

Patty Limerick, director of the Center of the American West, and Jennifer Ho, director of the Center for Humanities & the Arts, talked about what it means to disagree. The partisan politics and extreme divisiveness of our current society have

The Party of Practicality: An Innovative and Pragmatic Conversation on Immigration, Part II

Nov 25th, 2020 1h 32m

The Center of the American West has teamed up with the CU Latinx Law Students to orchestrate a virtual event, bringing two noted scholars of immigration into a consequential conversation with Congressman Joe Neguse, representing Colorado's Sec

The Party of Practicality: An Innovative and Pragmatic Conversation on Immigration, Part I

Oct 9th, 2020 1h 57m

Why are we stuck on dealing with climate change and how do we get ‘unstuck’?

Feb 28th, 2020 1h 46m

Event Date: Feb 06, 2020 Event Time: 6:30PM Location: CASE Auditorium, CU Boulder Moderated by the Faculty Director of the Center of the American West, Patty Limerick, this panel featured speakers with backgrounds in politics, energy, advocacy

Transcontinental Railroad - Art and the Transcontinental Railroad

Dec 11th, 2019 44m 17s

Event Date: Oct 30, 2019 Event Time: 1:00-6:30 pm Location: Norlin Library, British Studies Room The year 2019 is the sesquicentennial of the completion of the United States first transcontinental railroad. The history of the Central Pacific a

Transcontinental Railroad - Empire, Infrastructure, and Labor

Dec 11th, 2019 1h 3m

Redemption and Reconciliation: The West in Words and Images

Nov 4th, 2019 1h 9m

Last month, the Center of the American West presented a public conversation with the accomplished Western landscape photographer Peter Goin, exploring his bravery and enterprise in taking on topics ranging from the West's nuclear landscapes to

Second Annual Lucile Berkeley Buchanan Lecture Featuring Professor Quintard Taylor

May 1st, 2019 1h 4m

From the Pages of BlackPast.org: Six African American Women You have Never Heard of Who Changed the West (and the World) In this lecture, Professor Taylor examined six little-known black women whose experiences helped challenge and redefine th

Special Stegner Award & Humor Initiative event with Sheriff Dave Ward

May 1st, 2019 1h 26m

The Center of the American West is proud to present a special Stegner Award & Humor Initiative event honoring Sheriff Dave Ward.Sheriff Ward did everything imaginable to hold his community together during the 2016 Bundy-led armed occupation o

H.W. Brands - The West & the Growing Pains of Democracy

Apr 1st, 2019 1h 1m

CU Boulders Center of the American West and National History Day in Colorado, University of Colorado Denver were proud to present noted historian and author, H. W. Brands for his talk: The West & The Growing Pains of Democracy. The early explo

An Evening with Ken Burns

Apr 1st, 2019 1h 22m

Every year, the Center of the American West presents the Wallace Stegner Award to an individual who has made a sustained contribution to the cultural identity of the West through literature, art, history, lore, or an understanding of the West.

Remembering Lucile

Dec 10th, 2018 1h 23m

A Virginia Family's Rise from Slavery and a Legacy Forged a Mile High Event Date: Apr 04, 2018 Event Time: 6:30pm Location: Old Main Chapel In 1918 Lucile Berkeley Buchanan Jones received her bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado,

Voices from Bears Ears

Nov 30th, 2018 51m 29s

In late 2016, President Barack Obama designated 1.35 million acres of public lands in southeastern Utah as Bears Ears National Monument. On December 4, 2017, President Donald Trump shrank the monument by 85 percent. A land rich in human histor

An Evening of Conversation With Jon Peede NEH Chairman

Oct 22nd, 2018 1h 20m

An Evening of Conversation with the Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Jon Parrish Peede. Event Date: Sep 18, 2018 Event Time: 6:30pm Location: Hale 270 On April 26, 2018, the U.S. Senate confirmed Jon Parrish Peede as the 11t

The New Normal: Conflict, Polarization, and Incivility

May 10th, 2018 1h 38m

Eric Sondermann is a high-profile, Denver-based political commentator, writer, pundit, civic leader, entrepreneur, and consultant who is regularly called upon as a go-to source of independent political insight by a laundry list of media outlets

Alan, Ann, Pete, and Lynne Simpson Wallace Stegner and Fools for a Day Awards Recipients

Dec 13th, 2017 1h 29m

The University of Colorado Boulder’s Center of the American West is proud to present the Wallace Stegner and the Humor Initiative’s Fools for a Day Awards to Senator Alan Simpson, Pete Simpson and their wives Ann and Lynne.The Center has com

Puzzled and Perplexed by Populism? An Evening of Expert Guidance and Conversation

Sep 22nd, 2017 1h 20m

For anyone trying to figure out the temper (literally!) of our times, the term “populism” is omnipresent, seeming to adopt a different meaning at every appearance.The Center of the American West presents the influential and accomplished Ame

Comradeship, Moral Injury, and the Legacy of the Vietnam War: The Need for the Humanities to Close the Gap between the Veterans and their Nation

Sep 8th, 2017 1h

On September 7, 2017, in the fourth public program in CU’s Vietnam War Commemoration lecture series, Vietnam Veteran, Senior Fellow at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and former Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities William Adams

Fools for a Day Award: Ian and Cora Frazier

Apr 5th, 2017 1h 13m

Father and Daughter duo Ian Frazier and Cora Frazier, both humorists who write for The New Yorker magazine as well as a host of other prominent publications, will join Patty Limerick for a discussion—and many demonstrations!—of techniques for

Fools for a Day: Shane Mauss, Adam Bradley, and Peter McGraw - Rock, Rap, and Laughter

Mar 9th, 2017 1h 37m

So a stand-up comic, a literary scholar, and a behavioral scientist walk into a lecture hall, and a Western American historian hands them the question, "What’s so funny about pop music?" Join comic Shane Mauss (From Conan, Jimmy Kimmel, Show

Book Release – The Morenci Marines: A Tale of Small Town America and the Vietnam War

Oct 5th, 2016 1h 24m

In 1966, nine young men left the Arizona desert mining camp of Morenci to serve their country in the far-flung jungles of Vietnam. Ultimately, only three survived. Each battled survivor’s guilt, difficult re-entries into civilian life, and tra

Modern Indian Identity: Featuring Burns Paiute Former Chairwoman Charlotte Roderique

Oct 5th, 2016 1h 12m

“The 2016 Oregon Wildlife Refuge Takeover: A Tribal Response”A year ago, Former Chairwoman Charlotte Roderique of the Burns Paiute Tribe in Eastern Oregon came to national attention during the armed takeover, led by Ammon and Ryan Bundy, of

Tim Egan: 2016 Wallace Stegner Recipient

Apr 14th, 2016 1h 17m

Each year, the Center of the American West presents the Wallace Stegner Award to an individual who has made a sustained contribution to the cultural identity of the West through literature, art, history, lore, or an understanding of the West.