Andy Kirk (Reid Public History Institute) recently presented at the Western History Association Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon. There, a group of distinguished historians of the west gathered for the third meeting to finalize planning for, The Material World of the Modern American West, an innovative book project sponsored by the institute.…

Andy Kirk (Reid Public History Institute) presented the 2025 Hansen Lectures at the California State University Fullerton Lawrence de Graaf Center for Oral and Public History. The lectures, "Visualizing Oral History," highlighted twenty years of innovative oral history and visual history research conducted at UNLV and around the American West and…

Andy Kirk (History; Reid Public History Institute) presented his paper, "Bringing the Theory & Method of Environmental History to the Practice of Cultural Resource Management — Researching The California Surfing History Multiple Property Documentation," at the World Congress of Environmental History at Oulu University in Oulu Finland. The…