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American West
Interviews with scholars of the American West about their new books.
July 25, 2024
Love Me Fierce In Danger
Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy (Bloomsbury, 2023) is the story of James Ellroy, one of the most provocative and singular figures i…
July 20, 2024
Lakota America
The names of Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, and Crazy Horse are often readily recognized among many Americans. Yet the longer, dynamic history of the Lakota…
July 16, 2024
Masters of the Middle Waters
America’s waterways were once the superhighways of travel and communication. Coursing through a central line across the landscape, with tributaries co…
July 16, 2024
City of Vice
San Francisco began its American life as a city largely made up of transient men, arriving from afar to participate in the gold rush and various atten…
July 14, 2024
Tip of the Spear
In Tip of the Spear: Land, Labor, and US Settler Militarism in Guåhan, 1944–1962 (Cornell University Press, 2023), Dr. Alfred Peredo Flores argues th…
July 10, 2024
Performing Chinatown
This episode features a conversation with Dr. William Gow on his recently published book, Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making of …
July 7, 2024
The Possibility Machine
Las Vegas is a place the American dream made; a city built in the middle of desert visited by millions of people every year hoping to make their dream…
July 3, 2024
'Gold Fever' and Women
Throughout its history, the American West symbolized a place of hope and new beginnings, where anything was possible, especially for men. However, th…
June 30, 2024
Behind Crimmigration
In recent years, dozens of counties in North Carolina have partnered with federal law enforcement in the criminalization of immigration--what many hav…
June 29, 2024
Northern Paiutes of the Malheur
Between the mid-19th century and the start of the twentieth century, the Northern Paiute people of the Great Basin went from a self-sufficient tribe w…
June 20, 2024
Native Nations
In this sweeping new history, esteemed University of North Carolina historian Kathleen DuVal makes the case for the ongoing, ancient, and dynamic hist…
June 18, 2024
Conservatorship
Is involuntary psychiatric treatment the solution to the intertwined crises of untreated mental illness, homelessness, and addiction? In recent years,…
June 17, 2024
Settling Ohio
Scholars working in archaeology, education, history, geography, and politics tell a nuanced story about the people and dynamics that reshaped this reg…
June 12, 2024
The Olympics that Never Happened
If you don't recall the 1976 Denver Olympic Games, it's because they never happened. The Mile-High City won the right to host the winter games and the…
June 4, 2024
Chuco Punk
Tara López's Chuco Punk: Sonic Insurgency in El Paso (University of Texas Press, 2024), is an immersive study of the influential and predominantly Chi…
May 26, 2024
The Unclaimed
For centuries, people who died destitute or alone were buried in potters’ fields—a Dickensian end that even the most hard-pressed families tried to av…
May 22, 2024
Racial Uncertainties
Mexican Americans have often fit uncertainly into the white/non-white binary that has goverens much of American history. After Colorado, and much of t…
May 22, 2024
Remembering Conquest
Omar Valerio-Jiménez's book Remembering Conquest: Mexican Americans, Memory, and Citizenship (UNC Press, 2024) analyzes the ways collective memories o…
May 21, 2024
Disabled Ecologies
A powerful analysis and call to action that reveals disability as one of the defining features of environmental devastation and resistance. Deep belo…
May 20, 2024
Harvesting History
Cyrus McCormick invented the revolutionary mechanical reaper in 1831...right? At least, that's how the story has been told for decades. In Harvesting …