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About Stephen Hausmann
Dr. Stephen R. Hausmann has been hosting New Books Network podcasts since 2017. Currently, he is a an assistant professor of American environmental history at Appalachian State University. He can be reached at hausmannsr@appstate.edu
NBN Episodes hosted by Stephen:
March 7, 2026
Mexico
Mexico is among the most unique nations in the world, writes Northwestern University historian Paul Gillingham in Mexico: A 500-Year History (Atlantic…
February 13, 2026
The War on Illahee
The War on Illahee: Genocide, Complicity, and Cover-Ups in the Pioneer Northwest (Yale UP, 2025) by Marc James Carpenter is a history book about histo…
January 18, 2026
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…
January 4, 2026
A Biography of a Mountain
Mount Rushmore is something of an American Rorschach test. Some look at the monument and see American patriotic ideals carved into a mountainside. Oth…
December 18, 2025
The Conservative Frontier
American conservatism as we know it today is a West Texas export, argues College of Wooster professor Jeff Roche in The Conservative Frontier: Texas a…
November 26, 2025
Torn Asunder
Between the late 1840s and the late 1860s, the United States and Mexico had quite a bit in common. Both suffered from reactionary succession movements…
September 16, 2025
By the Fire We Carry
In 2020, the US Supreme Court ruled, in a surprise decision, that treaties still on the books as US law meant that the Muscogee people of Oklahoma mai…
August 23, 2025
Habsburgs on the Rio Grande
For a few years in the middle of the nineteenth century, Mexico was ruled by an Austrian and defended by a French army. This often neglected story is …
July 31, 2025
Where the Red-Winged Blackbirds Sing
Where the Red-Winged Blackbirds Sing: The Akimel O'odham and Cycles of Agricultural Transformation in the Phoenix Basin (UP of Colorado, 2021) is not …
June 27, 2025
Burn Scars
Fire is a means of control and has been deployed or constrained to levy power over individuals, societies, and ecologies. In Burn Scars: A Documentary…
May 27, 2025
The Spirit of 1889
When did the West lose its way? In 1889, when the US government carved five states out of the spawling Dakota Territory, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, and …
May 11, 2025
Slapping Leather
What would a rodeo open to anyone and everyone look like? In their new book, Slapping Leather: Queer Cowfolx at the Gay Rodeo (U Washington, 2023), hi…
April 26, 2025
Data Borders
Uncle Sam is watching, whether you like it or not. And the surveillance program the United States is building has as its foundation immigrants who hav…
April 25, 2025
The Business of Killing Indians
In Cormac McCarthy's 1985 Western, Blood Meridian, the story follows infamous scalp hunter John Joel Glanton through the Mexican borderlands in the mi…
March 28, 2025
Outback and Out West
People make sense of the world through stories, and stories about places inevitably shape how we treat, live on, and use those places. In Outback and …
March 9, 2025
The Age of the Borderlands
Most US history textbooks contain a familiar map: shaded colors stretch across North America, clearly and neatly demarcating the extent of US expansio…
February 27, 2025
The Power of Chinatown
Chinatown neighborhoods in the United States are about more than restaurants, shops, and architecture, argues San Jose State urban studies associate p…
February 23, 2025
Texas
There's more to Texas than hats, oil, and BBQ, writes Benjamin Johnson in his sweeping new synthesis, Texas: An American History (Yale UP: 2025) - tho…
January 17, 2025
The Poetics of Fire
Chile is more than just spice, writes Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and Cal Poly Ethnic Studies professor Victor Valle in The Poetics of Fire: Met…
January 11, 2025
Bundok
In a book that pulls together both sides of the Pacific, Bundok: A Hinterland History of Filipino America (UNC Press, 2023) asks the question: what if…
December 26, 2024
Diné dóó Gáamalii
In this deeply personal account, University of Oklahoma associate professor of Native American Studies Dr. Farina King describes the history and prese…
December 22, 2024
Unrepentant Dakota Woman
For much of her life, Angelique Renville had decisions made for her. Where to live, who to live with, where to attend school, what to do with her land…
November 30, 2024
Unrecognized in California
California has more unrecognized Native tribes than any other state - what led to this strange state of affairs, and what does this mean in practice? …
November 22, 2024
Blackdom, New Mexico
By most accounts, Blackdom, New Mexico existed from 1900-1930. However, as historian and artist Dr. Timothy Nelson argues in his new book, the Black c…