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In Defense of Public History: Four Scholars Refute the Attacks on the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History Director Anthea Hartig

David N. Myers, William Deverell, Stephen Aron and Justin Jampol

July 22, 2026

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Building a Collaboration between ICW and the Center for the Study of Guns and Society (CSGS) at Wesleyan University

Gary Stein

April 1, 2026

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Floods, Federal Work, and Suburban Growth: New Deal Flood Control in North Los Angeles

Lauren Davies

February 24, 2026

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Water and Southern California: Past, Present, and Future

Jeffrey Kightlinger

February 24, 2026

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Thinking Like a Watershed

Jennifer Sahn

February 17, 2026

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

Erika Bsumek

February 9, 2026

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

Amy Bowers Cordalis

February 2, 2026

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The Endangered Species Act Meets the Klamath River Basin

Jacques Leslie

January 20, 2026

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Lucky Luke: A Lonely Cowboy in the American West

Yagmur Karaca

July 3, 2025

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