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Original article can be found at The New York Times Originally published on January 5, 2016 By Quoctrung Bui and Margot Sanger-Katz The United States government owns 47 percent of all land in the West. In some states, including Oregon, Utah and Nevada, the majority of land is owned by...

Original article can be found at Marketplace Originally published on January 4, 2016 By Mitchell Hartman The federal government owns 28 percent of all land in the United States. But those lands are concentrated in 11 Western states: in those states, roughly half of the land is under federal ownership...

Original article can be found at The Denver Post Originally published on December 18, 2015 By Patty Limerick Thirty years ago, designing and conducting an innovative research project, I established myself as a founder and pacesetter in the field of Jerk Studies, an area of expertise that gains relevance every...

Original article can be found at The Seattle Times Originally published on December 2, 2015 By Jerry Large Filling in neglected parts of history is ongoing and necessary work. Patricia Limerick helped start a revolution in how historians think and write about the American West. In Seattle Tuesday, she said...

Original article can be found at The Denver Post Originally published on November 13, 2015 By Patty Limerick The University of Colorado at Boulder has given an honorary Ph.D. to a contentious public figure with a habit of using words like “stupidity,” “idiocy,” and “imbecility” to characterize his opponents’ positions...

Original article can be found at The Denver Post Originally published on October 16, 2015 By Patty Limerick Even though time travel is impossible, we are sometimes picked up and abruptly deposited in the past. “Nearly all of the Indians in this area,” a well-intentioned guide informed our group, “died...

Original article can be found at Montana State University News Originally published on October 15, 2015 By Jody Sanford Patricia Limerick, an award-winning author, teacher and researcher who is considered to be one of the leading historians about the American West, will speak at 6 p.m. Oct. 16 as the...

Original article can be found at Daily Camera Originally published on October 13, 2015 By Charlie Brennan A politician walks into the bar. No, scratch that. Better make it a horse. Too often, politics and humor have been like oil and water, uneasy partners except perhaps in unscripted moments such...

Original article can be found at University of Denver Magazine Originally published on September 20, 2015 By Theresa Ahrens The University of Denver on Friday welcomed more than a dozen leaders from higher education institutions across the state of Colorado — both public and private, serving traditional and non-traditional students...

Original article can be found at The Denver Post Originally published on September 18, 2015 By Patty Limerick Is our nation approaching an ungovernable state, paralyzed by polarization and pettiness? Is there an out-of-the-box remedy we should try? How about a friendly amendment to the Declaration of Independence? Originalists and...