<description>&lt;p&gt;Denver, Colorado has seen highly public reckonings with historical markers referencing moments or people from the frontier past. Some actions seemed spontaneous and episodic: a statue of a Union soldier came down for its ties to a notorious massacre of Native peoples. Following the removal of another monument, the city&amp;apos;s mayor publicly acknowledged and apologized for Denver&amp;apos;s history of anti-Chinese violence.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;To see images related to this episode, please visit &lt;a href='https://dornsife.usc.edu/icw/'&gt;dornsife.usc.edu/icw&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Western Edition is hosted by William Deverell and produced by Avishay Artsy, Katie Dunham, Jessica Kim, Elizabeth Logan, and Stephanie Yi. Western Edition is a production of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Western Edition

William Deverell

Memorializing the West: Reckoning with Denver’s Memorials

MAY 30, 202340 MIN
Western Edition

Memorializing the West: Reckoning with Denver’s Memorials

MAY 30, 202340 MIN

Description

Denver, Colorado has seen highly public reckonings with historical markers referencing moments or people from the frontier past. Some actions seemed spontaneous and episodic: a statue of a Union soldier came down for its ties to a notorious massacre of Native peoples. Following the removal of another monument, the city's mayor publicly acknowledged and apologized for Denver's history of anti-Chinese violence.

To see images related to this episode, please visit dornsife.usc.edu/icw.

Western Edition is hosted by William Deverell and produced by Avishay Artsy, Katie Dunham, Jessica Kim, Elizabeth Logan, and Stephanie Yi. Western Edition is a production of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West.