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About Stephen Hausmann
Dr. Stephen R. Hausmann is an assistant professor of history at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota.
NBN Episodes hosted by Stephen:
American West
February 24, 2021
Cinematic Settlers
The Settler Colonial World in Film
Janne Lahti and Rebecca Weaver-Hightower
Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
The medium of cinema emerged during the height of Victorian-era European empires, and as a result, settler colonial imperialism has thematically suffused film for well over a century. In Cinematic …
American West
February 23, 2021
This Land Is My Land
Rebellion in the West
James R. Skillen
Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
On January 6th, 2021, when right wing supporters of Donald Trump staged an insurrection at the US Capitol building, they were participating in a long tradition of conservative rebellion with …
American West
October 26, 2020
To Live and Defy in LA
How Gangsta Rap Changed America
Felicia Angeja Viator
Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
In 1985, Greg Mack, a DJ working for Los Angeles radio station KDAY, played a song that sounded like nothing else on West Coast airwaves: Toddy Tee’s “The Batteram,” a …
American Studies
September 30, 2020
The Destruction of the Bison
An Environmental History, 1750-1920
Andrew C. Isenberg
Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
In 1800, tens of millions of bison roamed the North American Great Plains. By 1900, fewer than 1,000 remained. In The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920 (Cambridge …
American West
September 11, 2020
A Bad Peace and A Good War
Spain and the Mescalero Apache Uprising of 1795-1799
Mark Santiago
Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
In August 1795, Apaches wiped out two Spanish patrols In the desert borderlands of the what is today the American Southwest and Mexican north. This attack ended what had bene …
American Studies
August 19, 2020
Unfair Labor?
American Indians and the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago
David R. M. Beck
Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
The 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition was in many ways the crowning event of the nineteenth century United States. Held in Chicago, the metropolis of the West, and visited by tens …
American Studies
August 5, 2020
Breakaway Americas
The Unmanifest Future of Jacksonian America
Thomas Richards Jr.
Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
In Breakaway Americas: The Unmanifest Future of Jacksonian America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020), Thomas Richards Jr., a history teacher at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy, argues that the map of …
American Studies
March 9, 2020
Color Coded
Party Politics in the American West, 1950–2016
Walter Nugent
Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
The political West is far from monochrome, writes Walter Nugent in Color Coded: Party Politics in the American West, 1950–2016 (University of Oklahoma Press, 2018). Over the last half century …
African American Studies
December 19, 2019
Untangling a Red, White, and Black Heritage
A Personal History of the Allotment Era
Darnella Davis
Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
In Untangling a Red, White, and Black Heritage: A Personal History of the Allotment Era (U New Mexico Press, 2018), Darnella Davis combines the personal with the national in telling …
American Studies
November 25, 2019
Outriders
Rodeo at the Fringes of the American West
Rebecca Scofield
Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
Rodeo is one of the indelible images of culture in the American West. The John Wayne-like cowboy tenaciously hanging on to the bucking bronc is a classic vision of what …
American West
November 21, 2019
San Francisco Year Zero
Political Upheaval, Punk Rock and a Third-Place Baseball Team
Lincoln A. Mitchell
Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
1978 was the year that changed San Francisco forever, writes Lincoln A. Mitchell in San Francisco Year Zero: Political Upheaval, Punk Rock and a Third-Place Baseball Team (Rutgers University Press …
American Studies
August 23, 2019
America's West
A History, 1890-1950
David M. Wrobel
Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
In America's West: A History, 1890-1950 (Cambridge University Press, 2017), David M. Wrobel describes a sixty year period of remarkable change for the vast region. By focusing on politics, demography …
American Studies
July 29, 2019
The Injustice Never Leaves You
Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas
Monica Muñoz Martinez
Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
On January 28, 1918, just outside of town of Porvenir, Texas, US Army servicemen, Texas Rangers, and civilians murdered 15 unarmed Mexican men and boys. This massacre was not an …
African American Studies
July 24, 2019
Seeds of Empire
Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850
Andrew Torget
Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
The secession of Texas from Mexico was a dry run for the slaveholder’s republic of the Confederate States of America, argues Andrew Torget in Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and …
American Studies
July 1, 2019
Charros
How Mexican Cowboys Are Remapping Race and American Identity
Laura R. Barraclough
Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
In Charros: How Mexican Cowboys Are Remapping Race and American Identity (University of California Press, 2019), Dr. Laura R. Barraclough tells a surprising story about the urban American West. Barraclough …
American Studies
June 28, 2019
Prairie Power
Student Activism, Counterculture, and Backlash in Oklahoma, 1962–1972
Sarah Eppler Janda
Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
The sixties happened in Oklahoma too, argued Sarah Eppler Janda in Prairie Power: Student Activism, Counterculture, and Backlash in Oklahoma, 1962–1972 (University of Oklahoma Press, 2018). While not a hub …
American Studies
June 7, 2019
The Dead March
A History of the Mexican-American War
Peter Guardino
Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
The Mexican-American War was one of the pivotal moments in 19th-century American history. It bridged the Jacksonian period and the Civil War era and was a highly controversial and politically …
American West
May 16, 2019
Invisible Reality
Storytellers, Storytakers, and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet
Rosalyn LaPier
Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
In Invisible Reality: Storytellers, Storytakers, and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet (University of Nebraska Press, 2017), author Rosalyn LaPier, an associate professor in environmental studies at the University of …
American Studies
April 22, 2019
The Heartland
An American History
Kristin L. Hoganson
Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
The Great West. Middle America. Flyover Country. The expanse of plains, lakes, forests, and farms, between the Appalachian and Rocky Mountains has carried many names. Beginning in the twentieth century …
American Studies
April 11, 2019
Baseball Goes West
The Dodgers, the Giants, and the Shaping of the Major Leagues
Lincoln A. Mitchell
Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
Ask a Brooklynite over the age of fifty and they’ll likely tell you that baseball’s golden age ended the day the Dodgers and Giants packed up and headed for the …
American Studies
April 4, 2019
Gold Rush Manliness
Race and Gender on the Pacific Slope
Christopher Herbert
Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
Not all gold rushes are created equal, argues Christopher Herbert, Associate Professor of History at Columbia Basin College. Dr. Herbert’s new book, Gold Rush Manliness: Race and Gender on the …
American Studies
March 15, 2019
A Journey to Freedom
Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and Red Power
Kent Blansett
Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
Richard Oakes was a natural born leader whom people followed seemingly on instinct. Thus when he dove into the icy San Francisco Bay in the fall of 1969 on his …
American Studies
February 20, 2019
The American West and the World
Transnational and Comparative Perspectives
Janne Lahti
Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
One of the enduring questions in American historiography is: just where exactly is the West? In The American West and the World: Transnational and Comparative Perspectives (Routledge, 2019), Dr. Janne …
American Studies
January 25, 2019
The Earth Memory Compass
Diné Landscapes and Education in the Twentieth Century
Farina King
Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
When the young Diné boy Hopi-Hopi ran away from the Santa Fe Indian Boarding School in the early years of the twentieth century, he carried with him no paper map …
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