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Wallace Stegner as a White guy, circa 1945

Stephen Trimble
Stegner 100 Blog Entry
November 17, 2008

At the end of World War II, Look Magazine commissioned Wally to write a series of articles on racism. He spent a year and a half traveling the nation with Look photographers, visiting minority communities from Boston to Los Angeles, covering Filipinos, Jews, Blacks, American Indians, and a half-dozen other oppressed peoples. In the end, Look grew too timid to publish what he wrote, and he gathered the essays, with dozens of photographs, in a Family of Man-style picture book published in 1945 called One Nation. (Read on …)

Dr. John Hajduk Dillon was out catching a film and saw Appaloosa. In his analysis, he uses a quote from Patty’s book, Legacy of Conquest. If you’re interested in the way the American Western is headed in current cinema, check out his blog.

Center of the American West examines literary diversity

Conor Doyle
The Campus Press Article
Issue date: 11/13/08

The Center for the American West is promoting a new way of getting the experience of American immigrants across to a large audience.

Members of the CU and Boulder community gathered in Old Main Chapel on Wednesday night and listened to speakers present tales of immigration for the center’s 12th annual Words to Stir the Soul event. (Read on …)

By Susan Greene
Denver Post Article
Article Last Updated: 11/10/2008 09:46:48 PM MST

Last week’s election may have boosted gun sales for some Coloradans, but it’s flags that others are rushing to stockpile.

Hardware stores are reporting increased sales of American flags since Barack Obama’s win on Tuesday.

In some areas not exactly known for flag-waving, Old Glory is flying off the shelves. (Read on …)

Each year, Words to Stir the Soul brings together an amazing and diverse group of people to read pieces of Western literature to audiences in CU’s Old Main auditorium. This year, with the theme of Western Immigration in mind, readers delighted us with a myriad of pieces from authors such as Thomas Andrews, Luis Alberto Urrea, John Okada, Luis Martinez, Janet Liebman Jacobs, and many more. If you missed it, a podcast will be posted soon on our new podcast page or you can check out a reader’s point of view as reader Manuel Ramos wrote about his experience in his shared blog at labloga.blogspot.com.

BOULDER - Immigration is the subject of the 12th annual Words to Stir the Soul event to be presented by the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Nov. 12.

Among the readers will be Manuel Ramos (left), author of Chicano literature and director of advocacy for Colorado Legal Services, reporter Bruce Finley (right) of The Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News columnist Tina Griego (center). In all, about a dozen people will read at the event. (Read on …)

CU News Center Article
Event Details
November 4, 2008

Immigration is the subject of the 12th annual Words to Stir the Soul event to be presented by the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Nov. 12 at 7 p.m. in Old Main Chapel.

The event presents readers from all walks of life reading aloud from great works of Western literature. This year readers will select readings that reveal the people and stories of immigration in the West rather than familiar and polarized disputes over policies. Patty Limerick, professor of history and director of CAW, will emcee the evening’s events and also will participate. (Read on …)

CU is about more than just science and tech

By G.P. “Bud” Peterson
Colorado Daily Article
Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Four Nobel Laureates, seven MacArthur Fellows, No. 1 in NASA research funding — clearly, the University of Colorado at Boulder is a national leader in the natural sciences and engineering research.

As a comprehensive national university, however, our responsibilities extend well beyond science and technology. (Read on …)

By Carol Berry, Today correspondent
Indian Country Today Article
Story Published: Oct 26, 2008
Story Updated: Oct 24, 2008

DENVER – For Native people, tribal homelands beckon. We are the places of our origins.

For acclaimed Chickasaw writer Linda Hogan, returning to her Oklahoma roots was a discovery of connectedness that defies years lived in other places.

She is the author of “People of the Whale,” a recently released novel chronicling conflicted lives and the complexity of indigenous heritage, and herself was called a writer of “unparalleled gifts for truth and magic” by Barbara Kingsolver. (Read on …)

Gift will help fund vaccine lab

By Brittany Anas
Daily Camera Article
Monday, October 20, 2008

A Boulder couple has pledged $2 million to a new University of Colorado biotechnology building, with the money going toward a laboratory where researchers will study and develop vaccines.

Jeannie and Jack Thompson — who met at The Sink on University Hill when they were University of Colorado students in the 1960s — are longtime donors to CU. Their latest gift coincides with Jeannie Thompson’s election as chairwoman of the CU Foundation’s Board of Directors, an appointment that the fundraising arm announced Monday. (Read on …)