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American West
Interviews with scholars of the American West about their new books.
August 31, 2026
Los Angeles and Film
It is impossible to talk about the City of Angels without talking about its movie business. The history of American cinema is so intertwined with Los …
August 31, 2026
Inside Chinese Theater
The first large number of Chinese immigrants began arriving in the United States in the 1840s, and Chinese opera troupes were not far behind. In Insid…
August 26, 2026
Forest of the Sea
In a matter of decades, a spectacular cold-water paradise thirty million years in the making is succumbing to warming oceans. Kelp forests are lar…
August 14, 2026
American Pogroms
Amidst heightened rhetoric and increasing polarization in the United States, American Pogroms: How Forgotten Massacres Shape America (Oxford Universit…
August 9, 2026
Becoming Utopia
Becoming Utopia: History, Heritage, and Sustainability in the American Midwest (U Nebraska Press, 2026) centers on the tiny community of Bishop Hill,…
August 7, 2026
Wakara's America
In the mid-19th century, anyone who was anyone in the American West had heard of the Ute leader Wakara. Yet, by the early twenty first century, his st…
August 3, 2026
Seeking Freedom in Indian Country
Dr. Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel’s Seeking Freedom in Indian Country: Slavery, Sovereignty, and Resistance within the Five Tribes, 1790–1861 (LSU Press, 2…
July 17, 2026
San Francisco Seafood
For early San Franciscans, seafood was an important source of nutrition and a feature of social life, inspiring culinary developments that remain comp…
July 11, 2026
Deadly Divide
As many as ten thousand people attempt to illegally cross the border between the US and Mexico each month, braving deserts, rivers, and other environm…
July 4, 2026
Chai Noon
Only a few Westerns contain explicitly Jewish stories or themes, and very rarely do Old West tales involve identifiably Jewish characters. Yet Jewish …
June 30, 2026
Doom Town, USA
In March 1953 and May 1955, government officials—including the Federal Civil Defense Administration (FCDA), the US Department of Defense, and the Atom…
June 18, 2026
173* Novel Dialogue Crossover: Aaron Gwyn goes West (Sean McCann, JP)
RTB's sister podcast, Novel Dialogue, spoke recently with Aaron Gwyn. He is the author of four novels: The World Beneath, Wynne’s War, and, most rece…
June 16, 2026
The Hobo
From the mid-nineteenth century through the dust bowl years of the Great Depression, a new kind of migrant worker became a familiar sight in communiti…
June 8, 2026
Explosivity
Offering a novel approach to contemporary landscape studies, Explosivity: Following What Remains (U Minnesota Press, 2025) unearths the hidden leg…
June 7, 2026
Deep Time in the Mono Lake Basin
"Deep Time," a way of understanding the distant past popularized in the late 20th century by the writer John McPhee, changes our perspective on histor…
June 7, 2026
Policing the Progressive City
Kristian Williams, longtime activist and writer, joins Michael Stauch to discuss his new book Policing the Progressive City: Portland, Oregon, from S…
June 6, 2026
Smog and Sunshine
Los Angeles and smog have been synonymous for decades. From the 1940s through the 1980s, children breathed air so heavy with lead that their blood…
June 3, 2026
A Divine Comedy
Here in Episode 9 of Season 5, I interview Mr. Rob Long. A longtime Hollywood professional, he was a writer and producer for the classic sitcom Cheers…
May 31, 2026
This Vast Enterprise
In 1806, when Meriwether Lewis and William Clark return from their journey—having led the Corps of Discovery across eight thousand miles of rapids, mo…
May 6, 2026
Frontier Films for America250
Here in Episode 7 of Season 5, I interview Dr. Matthew J. Franck. A senior contributing fellow at Public Discourse, a visiting lecturer in the Departm…