New ep. w/ historian @brentrogers2121 & his new Bison Books book, "Buffalo Bill and the Mormons." Listen & learn why "Buffalo Bill was the Taylor Swift of the late-19th Century." 🤔 50% off promo code 6BB24 good until Oct 31 on the Univ Nebraska Press site. writingwestwardpodcast.podbean.com/e/067-brent-m-…

🚨New Episode Alert🚨 For Native American Heritage Month we offer this conversation with Prof. @hollyguise (Univ. of New Mexico) about her 2024 University of Washington Press book, "Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II." writingwestwardpodcast.podbean.com/e/068-holly-mi… #NativeHistory #WWII #AmWest #AuthorInterview

🚨CALL FOR PAPERS🚨 Announcing the next Charles Redd Center (@BYUReddCenter.bsky.social) seminar - "Outdoor Recreation History in the North American West." The seminar will take place on August 7-8, 2025. Proposals are due January 15, 2025. Please help us spread the word! reddcenter.byu.edu/Blogs/redd-cen… #CFP

🚨New Episode Alert🚨 A conversation with Prof. James Tejani (Cal Poly College of Liberal Arts Dept. of History) about his new book, "A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles—and America" (W. W. Norton & Company, 2024). writingwestwardpodcast.podbean.com/e/069-james-te… #AmWest

Step 1: Apply Step 2: Share the CFP on all your feeds Step 3: Message your friends and colleagues to apply Step 4: Kick back and wait for the resulting fame and fortune

ONE WEEK left to apply for our August 6-8 seminar/workshop (and subsequent edited volume) on Outdoor Recreation History in the North American West. Deadline is Jan 15. #cfp reddcenter.byu.edu/Blogs/redd-cen…

🚨New Episode🚨 We're starting off 2025 with our 70th (!!!) episode, a conversation w/ journalist, author, & poet Samuel Western about his book "The Spirit of 1889: Restoring the Lost Promise of the High Plains and Northern Rockies" (Univ Press of Kansas 2024). podbean.com/ew/pb-n34s5-17…

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Psst. You should follow us on the other place too. bsky.app/profile/writin…

🚨New Episode🚨 We chat w/ historian John Nelson (Texas Tech University) about Native history, the environment, & more via his multiple award-winning 2023 book, "Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago's Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent" (UNC Press). podbean.com/eas/pb-e5vjr-1…

🚨New Episode Alert🚨 Bite into some delicious history with professor Amanda Van Lanen (Lewis-Clark State College) and her book "The Washington Apple: Orchards and the Development of Industrial Agriculture" (OU Press 2022). writingwestwardpodcast.podbean.com/e/072-amanda-v…

Applications for our annual funding season are due in 4 DAYS! March 15th. Please help spread the word (and apply yourself)!

🚨New episode w/ urban planner & architectural historian James Buckley & his book, "City of Wood: San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry" (University of Texas Press 2024). Learn how logging linked distant urban & remote landscapes together. podbean.com/eas/pb-cgwdk-1…

Congrats to our 2025 award winners and funding recipients! It is thrilling to see how much good work is being done in so many disciplines on the Intermountain West! Please share & tag your friends & colleagues to congratulate them! reddcenter.byu.edu/Blogs/redd-cen…

🚨New Episode Alert🚨 This month we chat with Will Grady about his book "Redrawing the Western: A History of American Comics and the Mythic West" (University of Texas Press 2024). #USWest #AmericanWest #ComicsStudies #Comicbooks writingwestwardpodcast.podbean.com/e/074-william-…

🚨New Episode Alert🚨 This month we talk w/ historian Coll Thrush about his new book "Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific" (University of Washington Press 2025) - one of the best books I've read in a long while, I read a lot of books! podbean.com/ew/pb-e8h3e-18…

🚨New Episode Alert🚨 This month we chat with digital, environmental, & urban historian, Dr. Jason Heppler (Senior Developer, RRCHNM George Mason University), about his book "Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism" (OU Press, 2024). podbean.com/eas/pb-wmhpv-1…

🚨New Episode Alert🚨 This month we talk about 19th-century photography & re-envisioning the West w/ Robert Sullivan & his book "Double Exposure: Resurveying the West with Timothy O'Sullivan, America's Most Mysterious War Photographer" (Farrar,Straus&Giroux 2024). podbean.com/eas/pb-38yuk-1…

🚨New Episode Alert🚨 An exceptional conversation with historian & writer Adam M. Sowards (@adamsowards.net) about writing for western public audiences. LOTS to consider here for academic writers, grad students, and others. writingwestwardpodcast.podbean.com/e/078-adam-sow…

🚨New Episode Alert🚨 We're celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month via a conversation with Prof. Ernesto Sagás (Colorado State University, Ethnic Studies) about his new book, "Latino Colorado: The Struggle for Equality in the Centennial State" (University Press of Colorado Consortium, 2025). writingwestwardpodcast.podbean.com/e/079-ernesto-…