The Center of the American West takes as its mission the creation of forums for the respectful exchange of ideas and perspectives in the pursuit of solutions to the region's difficulties. We at the Center believe that an understanding of the historical origins of the West's problems, an emphasis on the common interests of all parties, and a dose of good humor are essential to constructive public discussion.
University of Colorado President Mark Kennedy and University of Massachusetts President Marty Meehan who served in the U.S. House of Representatives together, joined us for a public conversation on April 15th. Kennedy as a Republican from Minnesota and Meehan as a Democrat from Massachusetts worked across the aisle on a range of issues, and in the process, they…
Jenny Price is a public writer, artist, historian, and author of Stop Saving the Planet!: An Environmentalist Manifesto. Co-creator of the Our Malibu Beaches mobile-phone app. “When I finished graduate school in 1998 and moved to L.A. to pursue a nonfiction writing career, I planned to write one 250-page book after another. I just finished…
Back on November 20, when Patty Limerick, director of the Center of American West, and Jennifer Ho, director of the Center for Humanities & the Arts, held their first Zoom public program to discuss the divisiveness splintering US society, neither of them said, “Get braced. It’s going to get worse.” Unable to predict the future,…
