New Books in the American West

410 Episodes

1. Susanna Phillips Newbury, "The Speculative City: Art, Real Estate, and the Making of Global Los Angeles" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)

   Published: 1/4/2024
2. Brown and Gay in LA and the Craft of Writing Nonfiction

   Published: 12/28/2023
3. Meredith Oda, "The Gateway to the Pacific: Japanese Americans and the Remaking of San Francisco" (U Chicago Press, 2019)

   Published: 12/25/2023
4. Peter Richardson, "Savage Journey: Hunter S. Thompson and the Weird Road to Gonzo" (U California Press, 2022)

   Published: 12/15/2023
5. Lindsey Claire Smith, "Urban Homelands: Writing the Native City from Oklahoma" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

   Published: 12/10/2023
6. Tracy E. Perkins, "Evolution of a Movement: Four Decades of California Environmental Justice Activism" (U California Press, 2022)

   Published: 12/3/2023
7. Edward L. Ayers, "American Visions: The United States, 1800-1860" (Norton, 2023)

   Published: 11/25/2023
8. Mia Mask, "Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western" (U Illinois Press, 2023)

   Published: 11/24/2023
9. Leontina Hormel, "Trailer Park America: Reimagining Working-Class Communities" (Rutgers UP, 2023)

   Published: 11/24/2023
10. William S. Kiser, "Illusions of Empire: The Civil War and Reconstruction in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)

    Published: 11/23/2023
11. Kristofer Ray and Brady DeSanti, "Understanding and Teaching Native American History" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)

    Published: 11/14/2023
12. Greg Glasgow and Kathryn Mayer, "Disneyland on the Mountain: Walt, the Environmentalists, and the Ski Resort That Never Was" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)

    Published: 10/25/2023
13. Michael Welsh, "Big Bend National Park: Mexico, the United States, and a Borderland Ecosystem" (U Nevada Press, 2021)

    Published: 10/22/2023
14. Stephen Robert Miller, "Over the Seawall: Tsunamis, Cyclones, Drought, and the Delusion of Controlling Nature" (Island Press, 2023)

    Published: 10/20/2023
15. Peter Stark, "Gallop Toward the Sun: Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison's Struggle for the Destiny of a Nation" (Random House, 2023)

    Published: 10/14/2023
16. Sheila McManus, "Both Sides Now: Writing the Edges of the North American West" (Texas A&M UP, 2022)

    Published: 10/11/2023
17. Tariq D. Khan, "The Republic Shall be Kept Clean: How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression" (U Illinois Press, 2023)

    Published: 10/9/2023
18. Oil Beach - How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life: A Conversation with Christina Dunbar-Hester

    Published: 10/9/2023
19. Chrissy Yee Lau, "New Women of Empire: Gendered Politics and Racial Uplift in Interwar Japanese America" (U Washington Press, 2022)

    Published: 10/8/2023
20. Michelle K. Berry, "Cow Talk: Work, Ecology, and Range Cattle Ranchers in the Postwar Mountain West" (U Oklahoma Press, 2023)

    Published: 9/26/2023