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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
August 10, 2022
Visions of Nature
How Landscape Photography Shaped Settler Colonialism
Jarrod Hore
Hosted by
Stephen Hausmann
During the early years of photography, settlers around the Pacific World were fascinated with the landscapes of the places they conquered. According to Dr. Jarrod Hore, a postdoctoral researcher and …
American West
July 20, 2022
Pioneering Death
The Violence of Boyhood in Turn-Of-the-Century Oregon
Peter Boag
Hosted by
Stephen Hausmann
On November 19, 1895, eighteen year old Lloyd Montgomery murdered his parents and their neighbor at his home in rural Linn County, Oregon. In Pioneering Death: The Violence of Boyhood in Turn-of-the-Century …
American West
July 4, 2022
The Chinese Question
The Gold Rushes, Chinese Migration, and Global Politics
Mae Ngai
Hosted by
Stephen Hausmann
Between 1848 and 1899, miners extracted more gold from the earth than in the previous 3,000 years of human history combined. Each gold rush in this period, from the Sierra …
American West
June 14, 2022
Refusing Death
Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA
Nadia Y. Kim
Hosted by
Stephen Hausmann
The air in Los Angeles can be lethal, and nobody knows this better than the city’s Latinx and Asian immigrants, argues Dr. Nadia Kim in Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and …
American West
June 13, 2022
Making a Modern U.S. West
The Contested Terrain of a Region and Its Borders, 1898-1940
Sarah Deutsch
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Stephen Hausmann
In less than half a century, the American West changed dramatically from a region of dynamic borders, politics, and identities to a more fixed zone of borders and demarcations …
American West
May 30, 2022
A Failed Vision of Empire
The Collapse of Manifest Destiny, 1845-1872
Daniel J. Burge
Hosted by
Stephen Hausmann
Ask you average high school student or undergraduate about nineteenth century US history and if nothing else, they likely know the phrase "manifest destiny." The idea that the United States was destined …
American West
May 12, 2022
Beneath the Backbone of the World
Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands, 1720-1877
Ryan Hall
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Stephen Hausmann
No matter what people call them today the northwestern Great Plains have been and continue to be Blackfoot country, argues Colgate University assistant professor Ryan Hall in Beneath the Backbone of …
American West
April 25, 2022
The Closet and the Cul-de-Sac
The Politics of Sexual Privacy in Northern California
Clayton Howard
Hosted by
Stephen Hausmann
"I don't care what people do in their bedroom, but do they need to flaunt it?" This sentiment is a common refrain in American culture and politics when talking about …
American West
April 22, 2022
Rodeo
An Animal History
Susan Nance
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Stephen Hausmann
Animals are both the focus of rodeo and its most invisible participants, argues University of Guelph history professor Susan Nance in Rodeo: An Animal History (U Oklahoma, 2020). Nance flips the usual …
American West
March 23, 2022
Emerald Street
A History of Hip Hop in Seattle
Daudi Abe
Hosted by
Stephen Hausmann
West Coast hip hop means much more than LA, argues Dr. Daudi Abe, a professor of humanities at Seattle Central College. In Emerald Street: A History of Hip Hop in Seattle (University of Washington Press …
American West
March 7, 2022
Thunder in the West
The Life and Legends of Billy the Kid
Richard W. Etulain
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Stephen Hausmann
Henry McCarty, aka William H. Bonney, aka Billy the Kid, is one of the most well known figures from the American West. His short life made an outsized impact on American …
American West
February 17, 2022
The People's Revolt
Texas Populists and the Roots of American Liberalism
Gregg Cantrell
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Stephen Hausmann
Pundits, politicians, and scholars often use words like "liberalism" and "populism" uncritically. Dr. Gregg Cantrell, professor of history at Texas Christian University, argues that not only do these terms have …
American West
January 19, 2022
The Settler Sea
California's Salton Sea and the Consequences of Colonialism
Traci Brynne Voyles
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Stephen Hausmann
The Salton Sea is a kaleidoscope. To some people, it's a waste land, a place of death only suitable for a dumping ground. For others, it's a clarion call, a …
American West
January 10, 2022
Becoming Mary Sully
Toward an American Indian Abstract
Philip J. Deloria
Hosted by
Stephen Hausmann
Mary Sully was many things: a Dakota woman, an artist, and an American living through a heyday of early celebrity culture in the United States. All of these facets of her …
American West
November 17, 2021
The Archaeology of Burning Man
The Rise and Fall of Black Rock City
Carolyn L. White
Hosted by
Stephen Hausmann
How do you do archaeological research on a place that exists for only one week per year, in the middle of the Nevada desert, and is based on the ethos …
American West
October 21, 2021
South to Freedom
Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War
Alice L Baumgartner
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Stephen Hausmann
For some enslaved Americans, the path to freedom led not north, but south, argues Dr. Alice Baumgardner, an assistant professor of history at the University of Southern California. In South to …
American West
October 14, 2021
Imperial Metropolis
Los Angeles, Mexico, and the Borderlands of American Empire, 1865–1941
Jessica M. Kim
Hosted by
Stephen Hausmann
Between 1865 and 1900, the population of Los Angeles grew from around 5,000 people to over 100,000. With population growth that explosive came the opportunity for vast riches to be …
American West
September 17, 2021
Black Towns, Black Futures
The Enduring Allure of a Black Place in the American West
Karla Slocum
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Stephen Hausmann
Oklahoma's Black towns aren't just places of the past - they maintain an enduring allure, and look toward the future, argues Karla Slocum in her new book, Black Towns, Black Futures: The …
American West
September 15, 2021
Facilitating Injustice
The Complicity of Social Workers in the Forced Removal and Incarceration of Japanese Americans, 1941-1946
Yoosun Park
Hosted by
Stephen Hausmann
Between 1942 and 1945, the United States government forcibly removed approximately 120,000 people "of Japanese ancestry" from their homes and into self-proclaimed concentration camps across the American West and South …
American West
August 27, 2021
Basque Immigrants and Nevada's Sheep Industry
Geopolitics and the Making of an Agricultural Workforce, 1880-1954
Iker Saitua
Hosted by
Stephen Hausmann
Ranching in the West meant more than cowboys and cattle drives, writes Dr. Iker Saitua, and assistant professor of public policy and economic history at the University of the Basque …
American West
August 9, 2021
Living the California Dream
African American Leisure Sites during the Jim Crow Era
Alison Rose Jefferson
Hosted by
Stephen Hausmann
Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites During the Jim Crow Era (Nebraska, 2020) is about the places where the past and future meet. Throughout the early twentieth century …
American West
July 21, 2021
West of Slavery
The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire
Kevin Waite
Hosted by
Stephen Hausmann
The geography of American slavery was continental, argues Dr. Kevin Waite, an assistant professor at Durham University, in West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire (UNC Press, 2021). Rather …
American West
July 9, 2021
Flood on the Tracks
Living, Dying, and the Nature of Disaster in the Elkhorn River Basin
Todd M. Kerstetter
Hosted by
Stephen Hausmann
If floods are inevitable, why do humans insist on building alongside riverbanks? Todd Kerstetter, professor of history at Texas Christian University, tries to answer that question in Flood on the Tracks: Living …
American West
June 16, 2021
We Are the Land
A History of Native California
Damon B. Akins and William J. Bauer
Hosted by
Stephen Hausmann
California is often used as a synecdoche for the United States itself - America in microcosm. Yet, California was, is, and will always be, Native space. This fact is forcefully argued …
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