
Busted: Brash New Stories from Texas and New Mexico
Busted: Brash New Stories from Texas and New Mexico
Join authors Bryan Mealer and Joshua Wheeler in a discussion about hardscrabble times, places, and people in Texas and N... Read more
8 Mar 2019
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The Landscape Designs of Ralph Cornell
The Landscape Designs of Ralph Cornell
Among the first generation of landscape architects in Southern California, Ralph Cornell (1890–1972) is considered the m... Read more
17 Nov 2017
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The Art of Farming: How a Farmer Sees the Future
The Art of Farming: How a Farmer Sees the Future
David Mas Masumoto, organic farmer and acclaimed author of Epitaph for a Peach and Harvest Son, is joined by his wife, M... Read more
7 May 2017
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The St. Francis Dam Collapse of 1928
The St. Francis Dam Collapse of 1928
Considered the worst civil engineering failure in the history of California and the state’s second-worst disaster in ter... Read more
20 May 2016
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The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics
The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics
Mae Ngai, Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and professor of history at Columbia University, discusses the... Read more
15 May 2016
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Ruth Patricia Shellhorn: Mid-Century Landscape Architecture & the Southern California Look
Ruth Patricia Shellhorn: Mid-Century Landscape Architecture & the Southern California Look
Landscape architect Kelly Comras, author of the biography Ruth Shellhorn, examines Shellhorn’s legacy in a lecture and s... Read more
21 Apr 2016
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In Conversation with Liz Goldwyn
In Conversation with Liz Goldwyn
Author and filmmaker Liz Goldwyn discusses her book "Sporting Guide", a series of interlinked stories that evoke a lost ... Read more
15 Oct 2015
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Motoring West
Motoring West
Peter Blodgett,discusses his book, Motoring West: Automobile Pioneers, 1900–1909. Travel back in time to the the turn of... Read more
9 Aug 2015
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Game Day at the Coliseum
Game Day at the Coliseum
Frank Guridy, associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin and the Ray A. Billington Visiting Pro... Read more
29 Jan 2015
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Beyond the Wild West: Violence and Death in the Pacific Ocean (Billington Lecture)
Beyond the Wild West: Violence and Death in the Pacific Ocean (Billington Lecture)
David Igler, author of “The Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush,” reflects on the causes of w... Read more
17 Apr 2014
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