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Dams, Heroic and Doomed:
Paintings by Judith Belzer

February 11, 2019

Skip to Galleries Introduction by Judith Belzer It’s no accident that sometime around the 2016 elections I began to think about dams... Read More...

Auricle Canyon
by Will Cordeiro

February 7, 2019

Nonfiction

Eight-thousand feet up in the Abajo Mountains of southeast Utah, the late September air gave a wicked chill. I bundled on my blue wool-lined j... Read More...

Thomas Jefferson’s Monster
by B.J. Hollars

January 6, 2019

Nonfiction

In April of 1796—nearly three years after resigning his post as Secretary of State—Thomas Jefferson received an unexpected package from Colone... Read More...

Two Poems
by Juan Morales

June 17, 2017

Poetry

Click button above to hear Juan Morales read this poem, or click here to download the poem in .mp3 format. Alone on the Oregon Trail ... Read More...

Westward Ho!
by Courtney White

June 29, 2015

Nonfiction

Manifest Destiny, Exceptionalism, and One Family's Settling of Phoenix, Arizona This is a personal story about manifest destiny.  In 1966, ... Read More...

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