The Mellema Program in Western American Studies was endowed by Dirk and JoAnn Mellema in 1993. Calvin University hired William Katerberg as its director in 1999. The program is housed in the ...

The Western History Association was organized in 1961 at Santa Fe, New Mexico. The mission of the WHA is the following: "The Western History Association strives to be a congenial home for the study ...

Paul Andrew Hutton’s “Undiscovered Country: Triumph, Tragedy and the Shaping of the American West” is a sweeping history covering centuries and thousands of miles, starting before the American ...

Thomas Andrews, University of Colorado Boulder professor of history, has been appointed faculty director of the Center of the American West. His appointment became effective in July. Andrews’ research ...

The following internship listings are not sponsored by the CU Boulder Department of History. Please refer questions directly to the Center of the American West. The Center of the American West ...

Three years after Connecticut became the third state to require Asian American and Pacific Islander history in K-12 education, a developed curriculum is being put into motion. For now, instruction is ...

Last week saw the publication of the first volume of a massive and extraordinarily impressive undertaking by two of the country’s most distinguished historians, Allen C. Guelzo and James Hankins.

I belong to the last generation of Americans that grew up with Western heroes. Yet by the 1970s, all that had slipped away. After the Kennedy assassination and the Vietnam War, it was hard to admire ...