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Event Date: Nov 12, 2009 Event Time: 7:00 p.m. Location: Eaton Humanities, Room 250 The Center celebrated the release of its newest book, Remedies for a New West: Healing Landscapes, Histories, and Cultures . Published by the University of Arizona Press, this exciting new collaborative volume, coedited by Patty Limerick,...

An Interview with Thomas Jefferson, as portrayed by Clay Jenkinson Event Date: Feb 24, 2010 Event Time: 7:00 p.m. Location: Wittemyer Courtroom, Wolf Law School Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the United States, an avid inventor, and principal author of the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson and Theodore...

An Interview with Theodore Roosevelt, as portrayed by Clay Jenkinson Event Date: Feb 25, 2010 Event Time: 7:00 p.m. Location: Denver Museum of Nature & Science Theodore Roosevelt was the twenty-sixth President of the United States and is remembered for his leadership of the Progressive Movement as well as his...

How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World Event Date: Mar 04, 2010 Event Time: 7:00 p.m. Location: Eaton Humanities, Room 150 CU-Boulder Professor, award-winning journalist, and aquatic ecologist Anders Halverson celebrated the release of his newest book, An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran...

10th Anniversary Celebration of the National Landscape Conservation System (NLCS) Event Date: Apr 14, 2010 Location: Old Main The Bureau of Land Management’s National Landscape Conservation System – an extraordinary, but under-recognized, collection of treasured public lands – is celebrating its tenth birthday with a signature event at the University...

Living with Energy Event Date: Apr 15, 2010 Event Time: 7:30 p.m. Location: Rocky Mountain PBS, Channel 6 Following up on the success of the Center of the American West report, What Every Westerner Should Know About Energy Efficiency and Conservation , this film emphasizes the sexiness of our nation’s...

2010 Wallace Stegner Award Recipient Event Date: Sep 28, 2010 Event Time: 9:00 a.m. Location: Wittemyer Courtroom, Wolf Law Building Patty Limerick interviewed the 2010 Stegner Award recipient, Ted Turner, for a morning of engaging discussion. Each year, the Center celebrates the life and achievements of an individual who has...

Event Date: Oct 21, 2010 Event Time: 7:00 p.m. Location: Benson Earth Sciences, Room 180 Join us as Center of the American West affiliate and local historian, Buzzy Jackson, releases her newest book, Shaking the Family Tree: Blue Bloods, Black Sheep, and Other Obsessions of an Accidental Genealogist . “Who...

Modern Indian Identity Event Date: Dec 02, 2010 Event Time: 7:00 p.m. Location: Benson Earth Sciences, Room 180 “In the Courts of the Conqueror: A Native American Experience” We are pleased to announce Walter Echo-Hawk, a lawyer, tribal judge, scholar, and activist, as the eighth guest in our Modern Indian...

Book Release Event Date: Jan 27, 2011 Event Time: 7:00 p.m. Location: Old Main Chapel Charles Wilkinson is Distinguished Professor and Moses Lasky Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School. He is also the co-founder of the Center of the American West. In his remarkable new book, The People...