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About Stephen Hausmann
Dr. Stephen R. Hausmann is a Mellon Fellow with the National Park Service working for Mount Rushmore National Monument, is the Acting Executive Director of the American Society for Environmental History. Starting in 2025, he will begin teaching as an assistant professor of American environmental history at Appalachian State University.
NBN Episodes hosted by Stephen:
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…
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…
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 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 …
April 27, 2024
Conquering the Pacific
The Pacific Ocean is twice the size of the Atlantic, and while humans have been traversing its current-driven maritime highways for thousands of years…
April 26, 2024
Strong Winds and Widow Makers
Imagine an environmentalist. Are you picturing a Birkenstock-clad hippie? An office worker who hikes on weekends? A political lobbyist? What about a m…
March 23, 2024
Muddy Ground
The birchbark canoe is among the most remarkable Indigenous technologies in North America, facilitating mobility throughout the watery world of the Gr…
March 20, 2024
National Parks, Native Sovereignty
The history of Native people and the National Park Service in the United States is fraught. Dispossession, cultural insensitivity, and outright erasur…
February 25, 2024
American Burial Ground
The Overland Trail into the American West is one of the most culturally recognizable symbols of the American past: white covered wagons traversing the…
February 2, 2024
Washington State Rising
In the late 1960s, as the United States was wracked by protests, assassinations, and political unrest, students in Washington State seized the moment.…
January 30, 2024
A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other
Food is at the center of everything, writes University of Washington professor of American Indian Studies Charlotte Coté. In A Drum in One Hand, A Soc…
January 10, 2024
People of the Ecotone
By putting the Midwest at the center of Vast Early America, University of Illinois historian Robert Morrissey reconfigures the power dynamics in the s…
December 15, 2023
Savage Journey
Hunter S. Thompson was never a hippie, but his writing nonetheless helped define the counterculture and the San Francisco scene of the 1960s and early…
December 10, 2023
Urban Homelands
What do Tulsa, Santa Fe, and New Orleans have in common? When viewed from the perspective of Indigenous arts and culture, the answer is quite a bit. I…
November 24, 2023
Black Rodeo
Did you know Sidney Poitier was a western icon? In a genre best known for John Wayne and Clint Eastwood, African American actors and directors have pl…
November 23, 2023
Illusions of Empire
The 19th-century Mexican-American borderlands were a complicated place. By the 1860s, Confederates, Americans, Mexicans, French, and various Native so…
October 22, 2023
Big Bend National Park
National Parks are sites where politics, cultures, and ecology converge. University of Northern Colorado historian Michael Welsh argues that, at Big B…
October 11, 2023
Both Sides Now
Are borders real? This is the question at the center of Both Sides Now: Writing the Edges of the North American West (Texas A&M UP, 2022) by Lethbridg…
September 26, 2023
Cow Talk
How did ranching become an identity? University of Arizona historian Michelle Berry explains in Cow Talk: Work, Ecology, and Western Ranchers in the P…
September 11, 2023
Oriental, Black, and White
The history of race in American theater is more complicated than you might think, writes Dr. Josephine Lee in Oriental, Black, and White: The Formatio…
August 18, 2023
Peace and Friendship
The history of the American West has typically been told in one of two ways: as triumph, or as tragedy. Stephen Aron, accomplished scholar of the West…
August 6, 2023
The Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam
The Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River provides electricity for some forty million people, and is one of the largest sources of water in the Americ…
July 24, 2023
The Mobilized American West, 1940-2000
At the end of the 1930s, the West was in peril. A cultural and economic backwater, the Great Depression had all-but wiped out the extractive industrie…