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Interviews with Scholars of the American West about their New Books
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Ecodefense: Dave Foreman and Earth First!’s Deep Ecology
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Mark Archuleta, "The Reel Thrilling Events of Bank Robber Henry Starr: From Gentleman Bandit to Movie Star and Back Again" (U North Texas Press, 2025)
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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Rebecca Nagle, "By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land" (Harper, 2024)
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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Daniel Horowitz, "Bear With Me: A Cultural History of Famous Bears in America" (Duke UP, 2025)
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Flannery Burke, "Back East: How Westerners Invented a Region" (U Washington Press, 2025)
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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Wade Davies, "Native Hoops: The Rise of American Indian Basketball, 1895-1970" (UP of Kansas, 2020)
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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Joshua Specht, "Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Aug 31, 2025 |
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Andrew Fialka, "Hope Never to See It: A Graphic History of Guerrilla Violence during the American Civil War" (U Georgia Press, 2025)
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Aug 30, 2025 |
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Amy Von Lintel and Bonnie Roos, "Three Women Artists: Expanding Abstract Expressionism in the American West" (Texas A&M UP, 2022)
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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Vanessa Diaz, "Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood" (Duke UP, 2020)
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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Raymond Jonas, "Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire" (Harvard UP, 2024)
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Aug 23, 2025 |
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Michael Hiltzik, "Golden State: The Making of California" (Mariner, 2025)
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Aug 16, 2025 |
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Jennifer Bess, "Where the Red-Winged Blackbirds Sing: The Akimel O'odham and Cycles of Agricultural Transformation in the Phoenix Basin" (U Colorado Press, 2021)
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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Arianne Edmonds, "We Now Belong to Ourselves: J. L. Edmonds, the Black Press, and Black Citizenship in America" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Daniel Morales, "Between Here and There: The Political Economy of Transnational Mexican Migration, 1900-1942" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Shani Adia Evans, "We Belong Here: Gentrification, White Spacemaking, and a Black Sense of Place" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Kelly A. Spring, "SPAM: A Global History" (Reaktion, 2025)
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Paul R. Beckett, "An Anatomy of Tax Havens: Europe, the Caribbean and the United States of America" (de Gruyter, 2023)
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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Char Miller, "Burn Scars: A Documentary History of Fire Suppression, from Colonial Origins to the Resurgence of Cultural Burning" (Oregon State UP, 2024)
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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John Trafton, "Movie-Made Los Angeles" (Wayne State UP, 2023)
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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Jessica Vasquez-Tokos, "Burdens of Belonging: Race in an Unequal Nation" (NYU Press, 2025)
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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Samuel Western, "The Spirit of 1889: Restoring the Lost Promise of the High Plains and Northern Rockies" (UP of Kansas)
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May 27, 2025 |
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Janine Schipper, "Conservation Is Not Enough: Rethinking Relationships with Water in the Arid Southwest" ((U Wyoming Press, 2025)
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May 23, 2025 |
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Pollyanna Rhee, "Natural Attachments: The Domestication of American Environmentalism, 1920–1970" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
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May 13, 2025 |
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Elyssa Ford and Rebecca Scofield, "Slapping Leather: Queer Cowfolx at the Gay Rodeo" (U Washington Press, 2023)
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May 11, 2025 |
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Nolan L. Cabrera and Robert S. Chang, "Banned: The Fight for Mexican American Studies in the Streets and in the Courts" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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May 07, 2025 |
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Lynn Downey, "American Dude Ranch: A Touch of the Cowboy and the Thrill of the West" (U Oklahoma Press, 2022)
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Melissa Villa-Nicholas, "Data Borders: How Silicon Valley Is Building an Industry Around Immigrants" (U California Press, 2023)
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Apr 26, 2025 |
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William Kiser, "The Business of Killing Indians: Scalp Warfare and the Violent Conquest of North America" (Yale UP, 2025)
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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Martha A. Sandweiss, "The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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Ieva Jusionyte on American Guns in Mexico: Exit Wounds (EF, JP)
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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Jason L. Newton, "Cutover Capitalism: The Industrialization of the Northern Forest" (West Virginia UP, 2024)
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Mar 29, 2025 |
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Tom Lynch, "Outback and Out West: The Settler-Colonial Environmental Imaginary" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Lincoln A. Mitchell, "Three Years Our Mayor: George Moscone and the Making of Modern San Francisco" (U Nevada Press, 2025)
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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James Tejani, "A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles and America" (Norton, 2024)
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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Andrew C. Isenberg, "The Age of the Borderlands: Indians, Slaves, and the Limits of Manifest Destiny, 1790-1850" (UNC Press, 2025)
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Mar 09, 2025 |
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Lina-Maria Murillo, "Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the US-Mexico Borderlands" (UNC Press, 2025)
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Mar 09, 2025 |
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Gary Griggs, "California Catastrophes: The Natural Disaster History of the Golden State" (U California Press, 2024)
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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Kate Fortmueller and Luci Marzola, "Hollywood Unions" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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Laureen D. Hom, "The Power of Chinatown: Searching for Spatial Justice in Los Angeles" (U California Press, 2024)
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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Benjamin Heber Johnson, "Texas: An American History" (Yale UP, 2025)
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Feb 23, 2025 |
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Hunter Price, "Sacred Capital: Methodism and Settler Colonialism in the Empire of Liberty" (U Virginia Press, 2024)
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Feb 16, 2025 |
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Hiroshi Motomura, "Borders and Belonging: Toward a Fair, Realistic, and Sustainable Immigration Policy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Feb 08, 2025 |
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William A. Selby, "The California Sky Watcher: Understanding Weather Patterns and What Comes Next" (Heyday Books, 2024)
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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Ryan Tan Wander, "Settler Tenses: Queer Time and Literatures of the American West" (Texas Tech UP, 2024)
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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James Michael Buckley, "City of Wood: San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry" (U Texas Press, 2024)
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Jan 18, 2025 |
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Victor M. Valle, "The Poetics of Fire: Metaphors of Chile Eating in the Borderlands" (U New Mexico Press, 2023)
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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Robert Wright, "Indigenous Autonomy at La Junta de Los Rios: Traders, Allies, and Migrants on New Spain's Northern Frontier" (Texas Tech UP, 2023)
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Jan 12, 2025 |
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Adrian de Leon, "Bundok: A Hinterland History of Filipino America" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Jan 11, 2025 |
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Farina King, "Diné dóó Gáamalii: Navajo Latter-day Saint Experiences in the Twentieth Century" (UP of Kansas, 2023)
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Dec 26, 2024 |
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Linda M. Clemmons, "Unrepentant Dakota Woman: Angelique Renville & the Struggle for Indigenous Identity, 1845-1876" (SDHS Press, 2023)
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Dec 22, 2024 |
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Scott Huver, "Beverly Hills Noir: Crime, Sin, & Scandal in 90210" (Post Hill Press, 2024)
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Dec 22, 2024 |
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Justin Tse, "Sheets of Scattered Sand: Cantonese Protestants and the Secular Dream of the Pacific Rim" (U Notre Dame Press, 2024)
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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Tom Clavin, "Bandit Heaven: The Hole-in-the-Wall Gangs and the Final Chapter of the Wild West" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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Oliver Rosales, "Civil Rights in Bakersfield: Segregation and Multiracial Activism in the Central Valley" (U Texas Press, 2024)
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Dec 14, 2024 |
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Holly M. Karibo, "Rehab on the Range: A History of Addiction and Incarceration in the American West" (U Texas Press, 2024)
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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Matthew Gardner Kelly, "Dividing the Public: School Finance and the Creation of Structural Inequity" (Cornell UP, 2024)
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Olivia Chilcote, "Unrecognized in California: Federal Acknowledgment and the San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians" (U Washington Press, 2024)
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Nov 30, 2024 |
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Maria Angela Diaz, "A Continuous State of War: Empire Building and Race Making in the Civil War–Era Gulf South" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
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Nov 30, 2024 |
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Disabled Ecologies: Lessons From a Wounded Desert
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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W. Paul Reeve, et al., "This Abominable Slavery: Race, Religion, and the Battle over Human Bondage in Antebellum Utah" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Timothy E. Nelson, "Blackdom, New Mexico: The Significance of the Afro-Frontier, 1900-1930" (Texas Tech UP, 2023)
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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Without Parents or Papers: A Discussion with Stephanie L. Canizales
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Andrew Stone Higgins, "Higher Education for All: Racial Inequality, Cold War Liberalism, and the California Master Plan" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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Michael J. Alarid, "Hispano Bastion: New Mexican Power in the Age of Manifest Destiny, 1837-1860" (U New Mexico Press, 2022)
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Oct 19, 2024 |
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Reunited: Family Separation and Central American Youth Migration
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Elizabeth Korver-Glenn and Sarah Mayorga, "A Good Reputation: How Residents Fight for an American Barrio" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Oct 13, 2024 |
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Chris Benner and Manuel Pastor, "Charging Forward: Lithium Valley, Electric Vehicles, and a Just Future" (The New Press, 2024)
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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Yolonda Youngs, "Framing Nature: The Creation of an American Icon at the Grand Canyon" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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Iris Jamahl Dunkle, "Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb" (U California Press, 2024)
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Oct 06, 2024 |
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Israel G. Solares, "Underground Leviathan: Corporate Sovereignty and Mining in the Americas" (U Nevada Press, 2024)
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Oct 05, 2024 |
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Eric Steven Zimmer, "Red Earth Nation: A History of the Meskwaki Settlement" (U Oklahoma Press, 2024)
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Oct 05, 2024 |
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Emily Carman, "Independent Stardom: Freelance Women in the Hollywood Studio System" (U Texas Press, 2016)
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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Amir Alexander, "Liberty's Grid: A Founding Father, a Mathematical Dreamland, and the Shaping of America" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Sep 21, 2024 |
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Immigration Realities: Challenging Common Misperceptions
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Paul Peart-Smith, "Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States: A Graphic Interpretation" (Beacon Press, 2024)
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Sep 15, 2024 |
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Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, "When a Dream Dies: Agriculture, Iowa, and the Farm Crisis of the 1980s" (UP of Kansas, 2022)
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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Jess Whatcott, "Menace to the Future: A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics" (Duke UP, 2024)
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Sep 07, 2024 |
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Sarah Miller-Davenport, "Gateway State: Hawai’i and the Cultural Transformation of American Empire" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Sep 01, 2024 |
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Steven Watts, "Citizen Cowboy: Will Rogers and the American People" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Aug 31, 2024 |
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Holly Miowak Guise, "Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II" (U Washington Press, 2024)
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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James Barrera, "'We Want Better Education!': The 1960s Chicano Student Movement, School Walkouts, and the Quest for Educational Reform in South Texas" (Texas A&M UP, 2023)
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Aug 25, 2024 |
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Douglas K. Miller, "Indians on the Move: Native American Mobility and Urbanization in the Twentieth Century" (UNC Press, 2019)
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Aug 25, 2024 |
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Damaging Rationality: Exxon-Funded Legal Research and the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
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Aug 25, 2024 |
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Wesley G. Phelps, "Before Lawrence v. Texas: The Making of a Queer Social Movement" (U Texas Press, 2023)
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Aug 24, 2024 |
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Stephanie L Canizales, "Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States" (U California Press, 2024)
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Aug 18, 2024 |
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12 Angry Alaskans: Re-Examining the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Case
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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Alonso Duralde, "Hollywood Pride: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Representation and Perseverance in Film" (Running Press Adult, 2024)
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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Ana Raquel Minian, “Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration” (Harvard UP, 2018)
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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Zoë Bossiere, "Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir" (Abrams Press, 2024)
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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Eric Hoyt, "Ink-Stained Hollywood: The Triumph of American Cinema’s Trade Press" (U California Press, 2022)
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Aug 11, 2024 |
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Tore C. Olsson, "Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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Yiman Wang, "To Be an Actress: Labor and Performance in Anna May Wong's Cross-Media World" (U California Press, 2024)
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Aug 04, 2024 |
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Stephen J. Pyne, "Pyrocene Park: A Journey Into the Fire History of Yosemite National Park" (U Arizona Press, 2023)
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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Justin B. Stein, "Alternate Currents: Reiki’s Circulation in the Twentieth-Century North Pacific" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)
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Jul 27, 2024 |
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Derek Taira, "Forward without Fear: Native Hawaiians and American Education in Territorial Hawai'i, 1900-1941" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
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Jul 27, 2024 |
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Steven Powell, "Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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Pekka Hämäläinen, "Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power" (Yale UP, 2019)
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Jul 20, 2024 |
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Jacob Lee, "Masters of the Middle Waters: Indian Nations and Colonial Ambitions Along the Mississippi" (Harvard UP, 2019)
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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James Mallery, "City of Vice: Transience and San Francisco's Urban History, 1848-1917" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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Alfred Peredo Flores, "Tip of the Spear: Land, Labor, and US Settler Militarism in Guåhan, 1944–1962" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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Jul 14, 2024 |
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William Gow, "Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making of a Chinese American Community" (Stanford UP, 2024)
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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Jake Johnson, "The Possibility Machine: Music and Myth in Las Vegas" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
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Jul 07, 2024 |
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Sigrid Schönfelder, "'Gold Fever' and Women: Transformations in Lives, Health Care and Medicine in the 19th Century American West" (Transcript, 2023)
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Felicia Arriaga, "Behind Crimmigration: ICE, Law Enforcement, and Resistance in America" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Jun 30, 2024 |
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David H. Wilson, "Northern Paiutes of the Malheur: High Desert Reckoning in Oregon Country" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
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Jun 29, 2024 |
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Elsa Devienne, "Sand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Jun 23, 2024 |
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Kathleen DuVal, "Native Nations: A Millennium in North America" (Random House, 2024)
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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Alex V. Barnard, "Conservatorship: Inside California's System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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Timothy G. Anderson and Brian Schoen, "Settling Ohio: First Peoples and Beyond" (Ohio UP, 2023)
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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Tara López, "Chuco Punk: Sonic Insurgency in El Paso" (U Texas Press, 2024)
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans, "The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels" (Crown, 2024)
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May 26, 2024 |
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Omar Valerio-Jiménez, "Remembering Conquest: Mexican Americans, Memory, and Citizenship" (UNC Press, 2024)
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May 22, 2024 |
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Danielle R. Olden, "Racial Uncertainties: Mexican Americans, School Desegregation, and the Making of Race in Post–Civil Rights America" (U California Press, 2022)
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May 22, 2024 |
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Sunaura Taylor, "Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert" (U California Press, 2024)
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May 21, 2024 |
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Daniel P. Ott, "Harvesting History: McCormick's Reaper, Heritage Branding, and Historical Forgery" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
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May 20, 2024 |
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Sydney Stern, "The Brothers Mankiewicz: Hope, Heartbreak, and Hollywood Classics" (U Mississippi Press, 2019)
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May 05, 2024 |
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Julia G. Young, "Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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May 05, 2024 |
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Katie Gee Salisbury, "Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong" (Dutton, 2024)
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May 02, 2024 |
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Andrés Reséndez, "Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery" (Mariner Books, 2022)
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Apr 27, 2024 |
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Steven C. Beda, "Strong Winds and Widow Makers: Workers, Nature, and Environmental Conflict in Pacific Northwest Timber Country" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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Héctor Beltrán, "Code Work: Hacking Across the US/México Techno-Borderlands" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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Amanda Mei Kim, "California Obscura," The Common magazine (2023)
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Ieva Jusionyte, "Exit Wounds: How America's Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border" (U California Press, 2024)
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Paul Carter, "Richard Nixon: California's Native Son" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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Brent M. Rogers, "Buffalo Bill and the Mormons" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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John William Nelson, "Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago's Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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Amy Absher, "Fritzie: The Invented Life and Violent Murder of a Flapper" (U Oklahoma Press, 2023)
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Looking into the Heart of Arizona: A Discussion with Author Tom Zoellner
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Christina Gish Hill et al., "National Parks, Native Sovereignty: Experiments in Collaboration" (U Oklahoma Press, 2024)
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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Lisa Messeri, "In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles" (Duke UP, 2024)
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Mar 16, 2024 |
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Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Sarah Keyes, "American Burial Ground: A New History of the Overland Trail" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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Laurence Ralph, "Sito: An American Teenager and the City That Failed Him" (Grand Central Publishing, 2023)
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Matthew C. Ward, "Making the Frontier Man: Violence, White Manhood, and Authority in the Early Western Backcountry" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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William L. Bird, "In the Arms of Saguaros: Iconography of the Giant Cactus" (U Arizona Press, 2023)
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Feb 03, 2024 |
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Julia Ornelas-Higdon, "The Grapes of Conquest: Race, Labor, and the Industrialization of California Wine, 1769–1920" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
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Feb 03, 2024 |
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Marc Arsell Robinson, "Washington State Rising: Black Power on Campus in the Pacific Northwest" (NYU Press, 2023)
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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Maryam Kashani, "Medina by the Bay: Scenes of Muslim Study and Survival" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Charlotte Coté, "A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other: Stories of Indigenous Food Sovereignty from the Northwest Coast" (U Washington Press, 2022)
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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Paul Franke, "Feeling Lucky: The Production of Gambling Experiences in Monte Carlo and Las Vegas" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Damon Scott, "The City Aroused: Queer Places and Urban Redevelopment in Postwar San Francisco" (U Texas Press, 2024)
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Darnise C. Martin, "Beyond Christianity: African Americans in a New Thought Church" (NYU Press, 2005)
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Robert Michael Morrissey, "People of the Ecotone: Environment and Indigenous Power at the Center of Early America" (U Washington Press, 2022)
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Susanna Phillips Newbury, "The Speculative City: Art, Real Estate, and the Making of Global Los Angeles" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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Brown and Gay in LA and the Craft of Writing Nonfiction
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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Meredith Oda, "The Gateway to the Pacific: Japanese Americans and the Remaking of San Francisco" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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Peter Richardson, "Savage Journey: Hunter S. Thompson and the Weird Road to Gonzo" (U California Press, 2022)
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Lindsey Claire Smith, "Urban Homelands: Writing the Native City from Oklahoma" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
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Dec 10, 2023 |
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Tracy E. Perkins, "Evolution of a Movement: Four Decades of California Environmental Justice Activism" (U California Press, 2022)
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Dec 03, 2023 |
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Edward L. Ayers, "American Visions: The United States, 1800-1860" (Norton, 2023)
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Nov 25, 2023 |
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Leontina Hormel, "Trailer Park America: Reimagining Working-Class Communities" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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Mia Mask, "Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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William S. Kiser, "Illusions of Empire: The Civil War and Reconstruction in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Kristofer Ray and Brady DeSanti, "Understanding and Teaching Native American History" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Greg Glasgow and Kathryn Mayer, "Disneyland on the Mountain: Walt, the Environmentalists, and the Ski Resort That Never Was" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Michael Welsh, "Big Bend National Park: Mexico, the United States, and a Borderland Ecosystem" (U Nevada Press, 2021)
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Oct 22, 2023 |
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Stephen Robert Miller, "Over the Seawall: Tsunamis, Cyclones, Drought, and the Delusion of Controlling Nature" (Island Press, 2023)
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Peter Stark, "Gallop Toward the Sun: Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison's Struggle for the Destiny of a Nation" (Random House, 2023)
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Oct 14, 2023 |
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Sheila McManus, "Both Sides Now: Writing the Edges of the North American West" (Texas A&M UP, 2022)
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Tariq D. Khan, "The Republic Shall be Kept Clean: How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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Oil Beach - How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life: A Conversation with Christina Dunbar-Hester
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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Chrissy Yee Lau, "New Women of Empire: Gendered Politics and Racial Uplift in Interwar Japanese America" (U Washington Press, 2022)
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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Michelle K. Berry, "Cow Talk: Work, Ecology, and Range Cattle Ranchers in the Postwar Mountain West" (U Oklahoma Press, 2023)
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Christopher F. Zurn, "Splitsville USA: A Democratic Argument for Breaking Up the United States" (Routledge, 2023)
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Sep 16, 2023 |
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A Better Way to Buy Books
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Josephine Lee, "Oriental, Black, and White: The Formation of Racial Habits in American Theater" (UNC Press, 2022)
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Chris Yogerst, "The Warner Brothers" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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Christian O. Paiz, "The Strikers of Coachella: A Rank-And-File History of the UFW Movement" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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Erik Sherman, "Daybreak at Chavez Ravine: Fernandomania and the Remaking of the Los Angeles Dodgers" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Asad L. Asad, "Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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Juliana Hu Pegues, "Space-Time Colonialism: Alaska's Indigenous and Asian Entanglements" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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Janiece Johnson, "Convicting the Mormons: The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American Culture" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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Lyndsie Bourgon, "Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods" (Little, Brown Spark, 2023)
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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Michael R. Jin, "Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless: A Japanese American Diaspora in the Pacific" (Stanford UP, 2021)
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Aug 19, 2023 |
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Stephen Aron, "Peace and Friendship: An Alternative History of the American West" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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Erika Marie Bsumek, "The Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam: Infrastructures of Dispossession on the Colorado Plateau" (U Texas Press, 2023)
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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Michelle Dowd, "Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult--A Memoir" (Algonquin, 2023)
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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John M. Findlay, "The Mobilized American West, 1940-2000" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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Scott A. Mitchell, "The Making of American Buddhism" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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William Wei, "Becoming Colorado: The Centennial State in 100 Objects" (UP of Colorado, 2021)
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Julie Carr, "Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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Palo Alto: A Conversation with Malcolm Harris
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Jason Chang et al., "The Cargo Rebellion: Those Who Chose Freedom" (PM Press, 2022)
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Jul 09, 2023 |
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William Perrine, "Alien Territory: Radical, Experimental, & Irrelevant Music in 1970s San Diego" (Billingsgate Media, 2023)
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Jul 09, 2023 |
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Studying the Pipeline to Politics for Women
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Eileen V. Wallis, "California and the Politics of Disability, 1850–1970" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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James Zarsadiaz, "Resisting Change in Suburbia: Asian Immigrants and Frontier Nostalgia in L.A." (U California Press, 2022)
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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Jean Pfaelzer, "California, a Slave State" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Rani-Henrik Andersson and Janne Lahti, "Finnish Settler Colonialism in North America: Rethinking Finnish Experiences in Transnational Spaces" (Helsinki UP, 2022)
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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Make it New: A History of Silicon Valley Design
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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Lloyd Daniel Barba, "Sowing the Sacred: Mexican Pentecostal Farmworkers in California" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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Moon-Ho Jung, "Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State" (U California Press, 2022)
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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Amanda L. Van Lanen, "The Washington Apple: Orchards and the Development of Industrial Agriculture" (U Oklahoma Press, 2022)
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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Tazeen M. Ali, "The Women’s Mosque of America: Authority and Community in US Islam" (NYU Press, 2022)
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May 28, 2023 |
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James Zarsadiaz, "Resisting Change in Suburbia: Asian Immigrants and Frontier Nostalgia in L.A." (U California Press, 2022)
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May 23, 2023 |
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Natalie Koch, "Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia" (Verso, 2023)
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May 22, 2023 |
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Alicia Gutierrez-Romine, "From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
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May 21, 2023 |
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Anne Marie Todd, "Valley of Heart's Delight: Environment and Sense of Place in the Santa Clara Valley" (U California Press, 2022)
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May 02, 2023 |
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Christen T. Sasaki, "Pacific Confluence: Fighting Over the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Hawai'i" (U California Press, 2022)
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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Christina Dunbar-Hester, "Oil Beach: How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life in the Ports of Los Angeles and Beyond" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Will York, "Who Cares Anyway: Post-Punk San Francisco and the End of the Analog Age" (Headpress, 2023)
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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Elliott West, "Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
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Apr 23, 2023 |
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Benjamin E. Park, "Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier" (Liveright, 2020)
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Michael K. Johnson, "Speculative Wests: Popular Representations of a Region and Genre" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Susan Burch, "Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and Beyond Institutions" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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Andrew Curley, "Carbon Sovereignty: Coal, Development, and Energy Transition in the Navajo Nation" (U Arizona Press, 2023)
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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Julia H. Lee, "The Racial Railroad" (NYU Press, 2022)
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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E. Cram, "Violent Inheritance: Sexuality, Land, and Energy in Making the North American West" (U California Press, 2022)
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Mar 25, 2023 |
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Rani-Henrik Andersson and David C. Posthumus, "Lakhota: An Indigenous History" (U Oklahoma Press, 2022)
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Mar 25, 2023 |
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Adam Sowards, "Making America's Public Lands: The Contested History of Conservation on Federal Lands" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Tom Zoellner, "Rim to River: Looking Into the Heart of Arizona" (U Arizona Press, 2023)
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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Alvin Hall, "Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance" (HarperOne, 2023)
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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Felicity Hwee-Hwa Chan, "Tensions in Diversity: Spaces for Collective Life in Los Angeles" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
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Mar 18, 2023 |
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Eric Porter, "A People's History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport" (U California Press, 2023)
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Alberto García, "Abandoning Their Beloved Land: The Politics of Bracero Migration in Mexico" (U California Press, 2023)
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Mar 11, 2023 |
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Radio Broadcasting Along Mexico's Northern Border, 1930-1950
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Damien M. Sojoyner, "Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums" (U California Press, 2022)
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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What a City Is for: Remaking the Politics of Displacement
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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Mitchell Schwarzer, "Hella Town: Oakland's History of Development and Disruption" (U California Press, 2022)
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Feb 26, 2023 |
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Ian C. Hartman and David Reamer, "Black Lives in Alaska: A History of African Americans in the Far Northwest" ( U Washington Press, 2022)
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Deborah Holt Larkin, "A Lovely Girl: The Tragedy of Olga Duncan and the Trial of California's Most Notorious Killer" (Pegasus Crime, 2022)
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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Joseph Plaster, "Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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Andrea G. McDowell, "We the Miners: Self-Government in the California Gold Rush" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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Malcolm Harris, "Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World" (Little, Brown, 2023)
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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Leigh Campbell-Hale, "Remembering Ludlow But Forgetting the Columbine: The 1927-1928 Colorado Coal Strike" (U Colorado Press, 2023)
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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How a California Electricity Utility Caused Deadly Wildfires
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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“Tech” Journalism and the Many Lives of Stewart Brand
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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Yu Tokunaga, "Transborder Los Angeles: An Unknown Transpacific History of Japanese-Mexican Relations" (U California Press, 2022)
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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Elizabeth Farfán-Santos, "Undocumented Motherhood: Conversations on Love, Trauma, and Border Crossing" (U Texas Press, 2022)
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Amy Kohout, "Taking the Field: Soldiers, Nature, and Empire on American Frontiers" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
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Jan 22, 2023 |
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The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Amanda Hendrix-Komoto, "Imperial Zions: Religion, Race, and Family in the American West and the Pacific" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Finis Dunaway. "Defending the Arctic Refuge: A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Brenden W. Rensink, "The North American West in the Twenty-First Century" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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Michael Weeks, "Cattle Beet Capital: Making Industrial Agriculture in Northern Colorado" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
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Dec 17, 2022 |
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Cynthia Radding, "Bountiful Deserts: Sustaining Indigenous Worlds in Northern New Spain" (U Arizona Press, 2022)
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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Samuel J. Redman, "Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Jake S. Friedman, "The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Age" (Chicago Review Press, 2022)
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Dec 10, 2022 |
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Ted Conover, "Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge" (Knopf, 2022)
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Char Miller, "West Side Rising: How San Antonio's 1921 Flood Devastated a City and Sparked a Latino Environmental Justice Movement" (Maverick Books, 2022)
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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Paul Barba, "Country of the Cursed and the Driven: Slavery and the Texas Borderlands" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Lyndsie Bourgon, "Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods" (Little, Brown Spark, 2022)
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Heart of All: Oral Histories of Oglala Lakota People on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Megan Asaka, "Seattle from the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City" (U Washington Press, 2022)
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Bradley Onishi, "Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism--And What Comes Next" (Broadleaf Books, 2023)
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Katie Hickman, "Brave Hearted: The Women of the American West" (Spiegel & Grau, 2022)
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Sam W. Haynes, "Unsettled Land: From Revolution to Republic, the Struggle for Texas" (Basic Books, 2022)
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Lynn M. Hudson, "West of Jim Crow: The Fight Against California's Color Line" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Ahmed White, "Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers" (U California Press, 2022)
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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John Suval, "Dangerous Ground: Squatters, Statesmen, and the Antebellum Rupture of American Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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John Briscoe, "Crush: The Triumph of California Wine" (U Nevada Press, 2018)
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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A Region of the Mind: U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Serin D. Houston, "Imagining Seattle: Social Values in Urban Governance" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Timothy Paul Bowman, "You Will Never Be One of Us: A Teacher, a Texas Town, and the Rural Roots of Radical Conservatism" (U of Oklahoma Press, 2022)
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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Mark T. Johnson, "The Middle Kingdom Under the Big Sky: A History of the Chinese Experience in Montana" (U of Nebraska Press, 2022)
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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Allyson P. Brantley, "Brewing a Boycott: How a Grassroots Coalition Fought Coors and Remade American Consumer Activism" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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Anthony Christian Ocampo, "Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons" (NYU Press, 2022)
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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Julie A. Turnock, "The Empire of Effects: Industrial Light and Magic and the Rendering of Realism" (U Texas Press, 2022)
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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Monica De La Torre, "Feminista Frequencies: Community Building through Radio in the Yakima Valley" (U Washington Press, 2022)
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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Alicia Gutierrez-Romine, "From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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Cynthia E. Orozco, "Pioneer of Mexican-American Civil Rights: Alonso S. Perales" (Arte Publico Press, 2020)
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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Amy Von Lintel and Bonnie Roos, "Three Women Artists: Expanding Abstract Expressionism in the American West" (Texas A&M UP, 2022)
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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Jarrod Hore, "Visions of Nature: How Landscape Photography Shaped Settler Colonialism" (U California Press, 2022)
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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American Chernobyl, Part 2: The Most Poisonous Place in the USA
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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America's Chernobyl, Part 1: Living in a Poison Town
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Peter Boag, "Pioneering Death: The Violence of Boyhood in Turn-Of-the-Century Oregon" (U Washington Press, 2022)
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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Jonna Perrillo, "Educating the Enemy: Teaching Nazis and Mexicans in the Cold War Borderlands" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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Anthony W. Wood, "Black Montana: Settler Colonialism and the Erosion of the Racial Frontier, 1877-1930" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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Jennifer J. Hill, "Birthing the West: Mothers and Midwives in the Rockies and Plains" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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Mae Ngai, "The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes, Chinese Migration, and Global Politics" (W. W. Norton, 2022)
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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Kirstin L. Squint ed., "Conversations with LeAnne Howe" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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Teresa Palomo Acosta, "Tejanaland: A Writing Life in Four Acts" (Texas A&M UP, 2021)
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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Natalie Lira, "Laboratory of Deficiency: Sterilization and Confinement in California, 1900-1950s" (U California Press, 2021)
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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John Luther Adams, "Silences So Deep: Music, Solitude, Alaska" (FSG, 2020)
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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Carol A. Lipscomb, "The Lady Makes Boots: Enid Justin & the Nocona Boot Company" (Texas Tech UP, 2021)
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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Natalia Molina, "A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community" (U California Press, 2022)
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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Wanda M. Corn, "Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern" (Prestel Publishing, 2017)
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Nadia Y. Kim, "Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA" (Stanford UP, 2021)
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Sarah Deutsch, "Making a Modern U.S. West: The Contested Terrain of a Region and Its Borders, 1898-1940" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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Megan Kate Nelson, "Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America" (Scribner, 2022)
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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Dustin Tahmahkera, "Cinematic Comanches: The Lone Ranger in the Media Borderlands" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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Daniel J. Burge, "A Failed Vision of Empire: The Collapse of Manifest Destiny, 1845-1872" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
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May 30, 2022 |
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Sean J. Drake, "Academic Apartheid: Race and the Criminalization of Failure in an American Suburb" (U California Press, 2022)
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May 25, 2022 |
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John Markoff, "Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand" (Penguin, 2022)
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May 24, 2022 |
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Cleo Wölfle Hazard, "Underflows: Queer Trans Ecologies and River Justice" (U Washington Press, 2022)
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May 23, 2022 |
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Konden Smith Hansen, "Frontier Religion: The Mormon-American Contest for the Meaning of America, 1857-1907" (U Utah Press, 2019)
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May 19, 2022 |
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Kai Bosworth, "Pipeline Populism: Grassroots Environmentalism in the Twenty-First Century" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
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May 16, 2022 |
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Ryan Hall, "Beneath the Backbone of the World: Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands, 1720-1877" (UNC Press, 2020)
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May 12, 2022 |
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Samuel J. Redman, "Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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May 11, 2022 |
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Paul Conrad, "The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
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May 10, 2022 |
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Kelly Lytle Hernández, "Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands" (Norton, 2022)
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May 09, 2022 |
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Gary B. Fogel, "Sky Rider: Park Van Tassel and the Rise of Ballooning in the West" (U New Mexico Press, 2021)
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May 06, 2022 |
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Clayton Howard, "The Closet and the Cul-de-Sac: The Politics of Sexual Privacy in Northern California" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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Susan Nance, "Rodeo: An Animal History" (U Oklahoma Press, 2020)
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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Corey Landon Wozniak, "The Buddha at the Bellagio: (Teaching) Religion in Sin City" (Revealer, 2022)
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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Anne F. Hyde, "Born of Lakes and Plains: Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West" (Norton, 2022)
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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Anthony Shaw and Giora Goodman, "Hollywood and Israel: A History" (Columbia UP, 2022)
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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William D. Adler, "Engineering Expansion: The U.S. Army and Economic Development, 1787-1860" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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Ellen Baumler, "The Life of the Afterlife in the Big Sky State: A History of Montana's Cemeteries" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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Daudi Abe, "Emerald Street: A History of Hip Hop in Seattle" (U Washington Press, 2020)
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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Jenni Calder, "Frontier Scots" (Luath Press, 2020)
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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Thomas F. Thornton and Madonna L. Moss, "Herring and People of the North Pacific: Sustaining a Keystone Species" (U Washington Press, 2021)
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Martin Rizzo-Martinez, "We Are Not Animals: Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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Richard W. Etulain, "Thunder in the West: The Life and Legends of Billy the Kid" (U Oklahoma Press, 2020)
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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76 Land-Grab Universities with Robert Lee (Jerome Tharaud, JP)
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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Carolyn Chen, "Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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Megan Kate Nelson, "Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America" (Scribner, 2022)
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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Gregg Cantrell, "The People's Revolt: Texas Populists and the Roots of American Liberalism" (Yale UP, 2020)
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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Max Krochmal and Todd Moye, "Civil Rights in Black and Brown: Histories of Resistance and Struggle in Texas" (U Texas Press, 2021)
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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Molly P. Rozum, "Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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Traci Brynne Voyles, "The Settler Sea: California's Salton Sea and the Consequences of Colonialism" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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Philip J. Deloria, "Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract" (U Washington Press, 2019)
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Jan 10, 2022 |
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Sonia Hernández and John Morán González, "Reverberations of Racial Violence: Critical Reflections on the History of the Border" (U Texas Press, 2021)
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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John C. Putman, "Boosting a New West: Pacific Coast Expositions, 1905-1916" (Washington State UP, 2020)
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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Ethan Blue, "The Deportation Express: A History of America Through Forced Removal" (U California Press, 2021)
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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Aldona Jonaitis, "Art of the Northwest Coast," Second Edition (U Washington Press, 2021)
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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Pascale Joassart-Marcelli, "The Sixteen-Dollar Taco: Contested Geographies of Food, Ethnicity, and Gentrification" (U Washington Press, 2021)
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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Gretchen E. Minton, "Shakespeare in Montana: Big Sky Country's Love Affair with the World's Most Famous Writer" (U New Mexico Press, 2020)
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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James Bailey Blackshear and Glen Sample Ely, "Confederates and Comancheros: Skullduggery and Double-Dealing in the Texas-New Mexico Borderlands" (U Oklahoma Press, 2021)
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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Carolyn L. White, "The Archaeology of Burning Man: The Rise and Fall of Black Rock City" (U New Mexico Press, 2020)
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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Jen Corrinne Brown, "Trout Culture: How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West" (U Washington Press, 2017)
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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Ken Robison, "Cold War Montana" (History Press, 2021)
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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Alaina E. Roberts, "I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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Samantha Durbin, "Raver Girl: Coming of Age in the 90s" (She Writes Press, 2021)
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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Doing an Ethnography of Policing: In Conversation with Sarah Brayne
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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Sarah Eppler Janda and Patricia Loughlin, "This Land is Herland: Gendered Activism in Oklahoma, 1870-2010" (U Oklahoma Press, 2021)
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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Alice L Baumgartner, "South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War" (Basic Books, 2020)
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Montana Historical Society, "History of Montana in 101 Objects: Artifacts & Essays from the Montana Historical Society" (MHS Press, 2021)
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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Robert Hellyer, "Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America's Tea Cups" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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Jessica M. Kim, "Imperial Metropolis: Los Angeles, Mexico, and the Borderlands of American Empire, 1865–1941" (UNC Press, 2019)
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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Luci Marzola, "Engineering Hollywood: Technology, Technicians, and the Science of Building the Studio System" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Oct 13, 2021 |
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Jaime Lowe, "Breathing Fire: Female Inmate Firefighters on the Front Line of California's Wildfires" (MCD, 2021)
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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David B. Williams, "Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound" (U Washington Press, 2021)
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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Pamela J. Prickett, "Believing in South Central: Everyday Islam in the City of Angels" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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William Souder, "Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck" (Norton, 2020)
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Laura Paskus, "At the Precipice: New Mexico's Changing Climate" (U New Mexico Press, 2020)
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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Peter Richardson, "American Prophet: The Life and Work of Carey McWilliams" (U California Press, 2019)
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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Susanna Phillips Newbury, "The Speculative City: Art, Real Estate, and the Making of Global Los Angeles" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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Karla Slocum, "Black Towns, Black Futures: The Enduring Allure of a Black Place in the American West" (UNC Press, 2019)
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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Ann Vileisis, "Abalone: The Remarkable History and Uncertain Future of California's Iconic Shellfish" (Oregon State UP, 2020)
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Bernard F. Dick, "Engulfed: The Death of Paramount Pictures and the Birth of Corporate Hollywood" (U Kentucky Press, 2021)
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Yoosun Park, "Facilitating Injustice: The Complicity of Social Workers in the Forced Removal and Incarceration of Japanese Americans, 1941-1946" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys, "Black Snake: Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and Environmental Justice" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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Local Long-Form Journalism: An Interview with David Schmalz
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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Josephine Ensign, "Skid Road: On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in an American City" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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Iker Saitua, "Basque Immigrants and Nevada's Sheep Industry: Geopolitics and the Making of an Agricultural Workforce, 1880-1954" (U Nevada Press, 2019)
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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Jenny Stuber, "Aspen and the American Dream: How One Town Manages Inequality in the Era of Supergentrification" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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Alison Rose Jefferson, "Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites during the Jim Crow Era" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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Susan Lee Johnson, "Writing Kit Carson: Fallen Heroes in a Changing West" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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Robert Wooster, "The United States Army and the Making of America: From Confederation to Empire, 1775-1903" (UP of Kansas, 2021)
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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Kevin Waite, "West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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Mary Beth Meehan and Fred Turner, "Seeing Silicon Valley: Life Inside a Fraying America" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Jul 20, 2021 |
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Todd M. Kerstetter, "Flood on the Tracks: Living, Dying, and the Nature of Disaster in the Elkhorn River Basin" (Texas Tech UP, 2019)
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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George J. Sánchez, "Boyle Heights: How a Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American Democracy" (U California Press, 2021)
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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Damon B. Akins and William J. Bauer, "We Are the Land: A History of Native California" (U California Press, 2021)
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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Lincoln A. Mitchell, "The Giants and Their City: Major League Baseball in San Francisco, 1976-1992" (Kent State UP, 2021)
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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Ryanne Pilgeram, "Pushed Out: Contested Development and Rural Gentrification in the US West" (U Washington Press, 2021)
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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Nelson Johnson, "Darrow's Nightmare: The Forgotten Story of America's Most Famous Trial Lawyer" (Rosetta Books, 2021)
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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Jessica Ordaz, "The Shadow of El Centro: A History of Migrant Incarceration and Solidarity" (UNC Press, 2021)
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May 24, 2021 |
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Jennifer Sherman, "Dividing Paradise: Rural Inequality and the Diminishing American Dream" (U California Press, 2021)
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May 24, 2021 |
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Patrick Spero, "Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Independence in the American West, 1765-1776" (Norton, 2018)
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May 21, 2021 |
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Brian Castner, "Stampede: Gold Fever and Disaster in the Klondike" (Doubleday, 2021)
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May 12, 2021 |
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Mary Woodger and Casey Griffiths, "50 Relics of the Restoration" (Ceder Fort, 2020)
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May 12, 2021 |
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Susan Lee Johnson, "Writing Kit Carson: Fallen Heroes in a Changing West" (UNC Press, 2020)
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May 07, 2021 |
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K. Bunn-Marcuse and A. Jonaitis, "Unsettling Native Art Histories on the Northwest Coast" (U Washington Press, 2020)
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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Gordon H. Chang, "Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad" (HMH, 2019)
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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Jane Little Botkin, "The Girl Who Dared to Defy: Jane Street and the Rebel Maids of Denver" (U Oklahoma Press, 2021)
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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Richard White, "California Exposures: Envisioning Myth and History" (Norton, 2020)
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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Elyssa Ford, "Rodeo as Refuge, Rodeo as Rebellion: Race, Gender, and Identity in the American Rodeo" (UP of Kansas, 2020)
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Apr 09, 2021 |
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Lucas Bessire, "Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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Crawford Gribben, "Survival and Resistance in Evangelical America: Christian Reconstruction in the Pacific Northwest" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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Rick McIntyre, "The Reign of Wolf 21: In the Valley of the Druid King" (Greystone Books, 2020)
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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Michael P. F. Smith, "The Good Hand: A Memoir of Work, Brotherhood, and Transformation in an American Boomtown" (Viking, 2021)
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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Michael J. Pfeifer, "The Making of American Catholicism: Regional Culture and the Catholic Experience" (NYU Press, 2021
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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Karen Jones, "Calamity: The Many Lives of Calamity Jane" (Yale UP, 2020)
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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Aaron Goings, "The Port of Missing Men: Billy Gohl, Labor, and Brutal Times in the Pacific Northwest" (U Washington Press, 2020)
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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J. Lahti and R. Weaver-Hightower, "Cinematic Settlers: The Settler Colonial World in Film" (Routledge, 2020)
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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James Skillen, "This Land is My Land: Rebellion in the West" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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Sydney Stern, "The Brothers Mankiewicz: Hope, Heartbreak, and Hollywood Classics" (U Mississippi Press, 2019)
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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Richard Kreitner, "Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America's Imperfect Union" (Little Brown, 2020)
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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Bethany Maile, "Anything Will Be Easy After This: A Western Identity Crisis" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
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Dec 30, 2020 |
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Ben Tarnoff and Moira Weigel, "Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do and How They Do It" (FSG Originals, 2020)
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Dec 07, 2020 |
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Eithne Quinn, "A Piece of the Action: Race and Labor in Post–Civil Rights Hollywood" (Columbia UP, 2019)
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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Felicia Angeja Viator, "To Live and Defy in LA: How Gangsta Rap Changed America" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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Farzaneh Hemmasi, "Tehrangeles Dreaming: Intimacy and Imagination in Southern California's Iranian Pop Music" (Duke UP, 2020)
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Oct 12, 2020 |
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Laura J. Arata, "Race and the Wild West" (U Oklahoma Press, 2020)
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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Andrew C. Isenberg, "The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920" (Cambridge UP, 2000)
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Sep 30, 2020 |
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Sherry L. Smith, "Bohemians West: Free Love, Family, and Radicals in Twentieth-Century America" (Heyday Books, 2020)
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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Mark Santiago, "A Bad Peace and A Good War: Spain and the Mescalero Apache Uprising of 1795-1799" (U Oklahoma Press, 2018)
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Sep 11, 2020 |
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David R. M. Beck, "Unfair Labor?: American Indians and the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)
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Aug 19, 2020 |
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Colin Woodard, "Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood" (Viking, 2020)
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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Polly E. Bugros McLean, "Remembering Lucile: A Virginia Family's Rise from Slavery and a Legacy Forged a Mile High" (UP of Colorado, 2018)
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Aug 12, 2020 |
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Thomas Richards Jr., "Breakaway Americas: The Unmanifest Future of Jacksonian America" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
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Aug 05, 2020 |
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Jennifer L. Holland, "Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement" (U California Press, 2020)
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Jul 13, 2020 |
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Nancy Beck Young, "Two Suns of the Southwest" (U Kansas Press, 2019)
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Jul 10, 2020 |
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Romeo Guzman et al., "East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
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Jun 12, 2020 |
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Michele Wakin, "Hobo Jungle: A Homeless Community in Paradise" (Lynne Rienner, 2020)
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Jun 04, 2020 |
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Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
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Jun 02, 2020 |
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Betsy Gaines Quammen, "American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God and Public Lands in the West" (Torrey House, 2020)
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May 18, 2020 |
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Christian Wright, "Carbon County, USA: Miners for Democracy in Utah and the West" (U Utah Press, 2020)
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May 06, 2020 |
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Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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Joseph E. Taylor III, "Persistent Callings: Seasons of Work and Identity on the Oregon Coast" (Oregon State UP, 2019)
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Mar 26, 2020 |
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John Weber, "From South Texas to the Nation: The Exploitation of Mexican Labor in the Twentieth Century" (UNC Press, 2015)
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Mar 20, 2020 |
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Walter Nugent, "Color Coded: Party Politics in the American West, 1950–2016" (U Oklahoma Press, 2018)
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Mar 09, 2020 |
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Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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Phil Christman, "Midwest Futures" (Belt Publishing, 2020)
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Feb 24, 2020 |
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Kristen Millares Young, "Subduction" (Red Hen Press, 2020)
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Feb 19, 2020 |
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Megan Kate Nelson, "The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West" (Scribner, 2019)
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Feb 10, 2020 |
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K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
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Jan 30, 2020 |
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Brian Cervantez, "Amon Carter: A Lone Star Life" (U Oklahoma Press, 2019)
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Jan 21, 2020 |
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C. J. Alvarez, "Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide" (U Texas Press, 2019)
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Jan 03, 2020 |
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Jim Rossi, "Cleantech Con Artists: A True Vegas Caper" (2019)
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Dec 24, 2019 |
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Darnella Davis, "Untangling a Red, White, and Black Heritage: A Personal History of the Allotment Era" (U New Mexico Press, 2018)
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Dec 19, 2019 |
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Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
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Dec 03, 2019 |
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Rebecca Scofield, "Outriders: Rodeo at the Fringes of the American West" (U Washington, 2019)
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Nov 25, 2019 |
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Pekka Hämäläinen, "Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power" (Yale UP, 2019)
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Nov 22, 2019 |
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Roland De Wolk, "American Disruptor: The Scandalous Life of Leland Stanford" (U California Press, 2019)
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Nov 21, 2019 |
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Lincoln A. Mitchell, "San Francisco Year Zero" (Rutgers UP, 2019)
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Nov 21, 2019 |
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S. Deborah Kang, "The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954" (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Nov 11, 2019 |
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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
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Nov 03, 2019 |
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Timothy Lehman, "Up the Trail: How Texas Cowboys Herded Longhorns and Became an American Icon" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018)
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Oct 31, 2019 |
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J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
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Oct 24, 2019 |
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Jon K. Lauck, "The Lost Region: Toward a Revival of Midwestern History" (U Iowa Press, 2013)
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Oct 17, 2019 |
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David D. Vail, "Chemical Lands: Pesticides, Aerial Spraying, and Health in North America’s Grasslands since 1945" (U Alabama Press, 2019)
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Oct 15, 2019 |
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Kathryn E. O’Rourke, "O’Neil Ford on Architecture" (U Texas Press, 2019)
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Oct 04, 2019 |
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Nancy Langston, "Sustaining Lake Superior: An Extraordinary Lake in a Changing World" (Yale UP, 2017)
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Oct 01, 2019 |
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Jeffrey Ostler, "Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas" (Yale UP, 2019)
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Sep 11, 2019 |
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Erik Loomis, "Empire of Timber: Labor Unions and the Pacific Northwest Forests" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
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Aug 30, 2019 |
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David M. Wrobel, "America's West: A History, 1890-1950" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
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Aug 23, 2019 |
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Lukas Rieppel, "Assembling the Dinosaur: Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle" (Harvard UP, 2019)
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Aug 02, 2019 |
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Monica Muñoz Martinez, "The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas" (Harvard UP, 2018)
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Jul 29, 2019 |
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Andrew Torget, "Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850" (UNC Press, 2015)
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Jul 24, 2019 |
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Elaine Hampton and Cynthia Ontiveros, "Copper Stain: ASARCO’s Legacy in El Paso" (U Oklahoma Press, 2019)
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Jul 17, 2019 |
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Laura Alice Watt, "The Paradox of Preservation: Wilderness and Working Landscapes at Point Reyes National Seashore" (U California Press, 2016)
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Jul 16, 2019 |
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Douglas Sheflin, "Legacies of Dust: Land Use and Labor on the Colorado Plains" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)
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Jul 10, 2019 |
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Lynn Downey, "Levi Strauss: The Man Who Gave Blue Jeans to the World" (U Massachusetts Press, 2016)
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Jul 09, 2019 |
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Genevieve Carpio, "Collisions at the Crossroads: How Place and Mobility Make Race" (U California Press, 2019)
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Jul 08, 2019 |
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Melvin C. Johnson, "Life and Times of John Pierce Hawley: A Mormon Ulysses of the American West" (Greg Kofford Books, 2019)
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Jul 08, 2019 |
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Laura R. Barraclough, "Charros: How Mexican Cowboys Are Remapping Race and American Identity" (U California Press, 2019)
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Jul 01, 2019 |
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Sarah Eppler Janda, "Prairie Power: Student Activism, Counterculture, and Backlash in Oklahoma, 1962–1972" (U Oklahoma Press, 2018)
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Jun 28, 2019 |
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Nick Estes, "Our History is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline" (Verso, 2019)
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Jun 24, 2019 |
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Heather Mayer, "Beyond the Rebel Girl: Women and the Industrial Workers of the World in the Pacific Northwest, 1905-1924" (Oregon State UP, 2018)
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Jun 20, 2019 |
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Peter Guardino, "The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War" (Harvard UP, 2017)
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Jun 07, 2019 |
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Noam Maggor, "Brahmin Capitalism: Frontiers of Wealth and Populism in America's First Gilded Age" (Harvard UP, 2017)
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May 30, 2019 |
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Rosalyn LaPier, "Invisible Reality: Storytellers, Storytakers, and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet" (U Nebraska Press, 2017)
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May 16, 2019 |
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Jacob Lee, "Masters of the Middle Waters: Indian Nations and Colonial Ambitions Along the Mississippi" (Harvard UP, 2019)
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Apr 23, 2019 |
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On the American Heartland's Imperial and White Nationalist Roots
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Apr 22, 2019 |
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Lincoln A. Mitchell, "Baseball Goes West: The Dodgers, the Giants, and the Shaping of the Major Leagues"
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Apr 11, 2019 |
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Christopher Herbert, "Gold Rush Manliness: Race and Gender on the Pacific Slope" (U Washington Press, 2018)
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Apr 04, 2019 |
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Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
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Mar 19, 2019 |
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David A. Nichols, "Peoples of the Inland Sea: Native Americans and Newcomers in the Great Lakes Region, 1600-1870" (Ohio UP, 2018)
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Mar 18, 2019 |
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Kent Blansett, "A Journey to Freedom: Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and Red Power" (Yale UP, 2018)
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Mar 15, 2019 |
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James Schwoch, "Wired into Nature: The Telegraph and the North American Frontier" (U Illinois Press, 2018)
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Mar 06, 2019 |
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Janne Lahti, "The American West and the World: Transnational and Comparative Perspectives" (Routledge, 2019)
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Feb 20, 2019 |
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Farina King, "The Earth Memory Compass: Diné Landscapes and Education in the Twentieth Century" (UP of Kansas, 2018)
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Jan 25, 2019 |
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Joe Jackson, "Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary" (Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2016)
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Jan 11, 2019 |
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Kellie Jones, "South of Pico: African American Artists in the 1960s and 1970s" (Duke UP, 2017)
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Dec 24, 2018 |
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Joshua Reid, "The Sea is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs" (Yale UP, 2015)
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Dec 18, 2018 |
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Noenoe K. Silva, "Steel-Tipped Pen: Reconstructing Native Hawaiian Intellectual History" (Duke UP, 2017)
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Dec 10, 2018 |
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McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)
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Dec 06, 2018 |
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Connie Chiang, “Nature Behind Barbed Wire: An Environmental History of the Japanese American Incarceration” (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Oct 31, 2018 |
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Victoria Lamont, “Westerns: A Women’s History” (U Nebraska Press, 2016)
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Oct 19, 2018 |
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Andrew M. Busch, “City in a Garden: Environmental Transformations and Racial Justice in Twentieth-Century Austin, Texas” (UNC Press, 2017)
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Oct 16, 2018 |
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Christina Snyder, “Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson” (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Sep 18, 2018 |
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Louis Warren, “God’s Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America” (Basic Books, 2017)
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Aug 30, 2018 |
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Joanna Dyl, “Seismic City: An Environmental History of San Francisco’s 1906 Earthquake” (U Washington Press, 2017)
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Aug 27, 2018 |
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Kristen Epps, “Slavery on the Periphery: The Kansas-Missouri Border in the Antebellum and Civil War Eras” (U Georgia Press, 2016)
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Aug 16, 2018 |
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Christina Gish Hill, “Webs of Kinship: Family in Northern Cheyenne Nationhood” (U Oklahoma Press, 2017)
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Aug 14, 2018 |
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William S. Kiser, “Borderlands of Slavery: The Struggle Over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2017)
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Jul 30, 2018 |
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Susan Sleeper-Smith, “Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest: Indian Women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690-1792” (UNC Press, 2018)
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Jul 26, 2018 |
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Gregory Crouch, “The Bonanza King: John Mackay and the Battle Over the Greatest Riches in the American West” (Scribner, 2018)
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Jul 20, 2018 |
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Pekka Hämäläinen, “The Comanche Empire” (Yale UP, 2008)
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Jul 17, 2018 |
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Darren Speece, “Defending Giants: The Redwood Wars and the Transformation of American Environmental Politics” (U Washington Press, 2017)
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Jul 12, 2018 |
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Cary Cordova, “The Heart of the Mission: Latino Art and Politics in San Francisco” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2017)
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Jul 10, 2018 |
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Andrew Selee, “Vanishing Frontiers: The Forces Driving Mexico and the United States Together” (PublicAffairs, 2018)
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Jul 10, 2018 |
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Jerry Gonzalez, “In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills: Latino Suburbanization in Postwar Los Angeles” (Rutgers UP, 2018)
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Jul 03, 2018 |
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Nicholas Villanueva Jr., “The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands” (U New Mexico Press, 2017)
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Jun 22, 2018 |
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Brian James Leech, “The City That Ate Itself: Butte, Montana and Its Expanding Berkeley Pit” (U Nevada Press, 2018)
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Jun 15, 2018 |
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Andrew Needham, “Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest” (Princeton UP, 2016)
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Jun 14, 2018 |
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Daniel Heath Justice, “Why Indigenous Literatures Matter” (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2018)
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Jun 07, 2018 |
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Steven Hackel, “Junípero Serra: California’s Founding Father” (Hill and Wang, 2014)
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Jun 04, 2018 |
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Rosina Lozano, “An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States” (U California Press, 2018)
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May 28, 2018 |
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Jennifer Graber, “The Gods of Indian Country: Religion and the Struggle for the American West” (Oxford University Press, 2018)
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May 08, 2018 |
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David J. Silverman, “Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America” (Harvard UP, 2016)
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Apr 24, 2018 |
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Frederick L. Brown, “The City is More Than Human: An Animal History of Seattle” (U Washington Press, 2016)
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Mar 30, 2018 |
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Peter A. Kopp, “Hoptopia: A World of Agriculture and Beer in Oregon’s Willamette Valley” (U California Press, 2016)
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Mar 09, 2018 |
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Brandi Denison, “Ute Land Religion in the American West, 1879-2009” (U Nebraska Press, 2017)
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Mar 05, 2018 |
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Katrina Jagodinsky, “Legal Codes and Talking Trees” (Yale UP, 2016)
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Feb 21, 2018 |
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Robert Foxcurran, “Songs Upon the Rivers” (Baraka Books, 2016)
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Feb 07, 2018 |
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David W. Grua, “Surviving Wounded Knee: The Lakotas and the Politics of Memory” (Oxford UP, 2016)
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Feb 05, 2018 |
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Dan Flores, “Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History” (Basic Books, 2016)
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Dec 08, 2017 |
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John Ryan Fischer, “Cattle Colonialism: An Environmental History of the Conquest of California and Hawai’i” (UNC Press, 2015)
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Nov 13, 2017 |
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Benjamin Madley, “An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873” (Yale UP, 2016)
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Nov 01, 2017 |
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Deanne Stillman, “Blood Brothers: The Story of the Strange Friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill” (Simon & Schuster, 2017)
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Sep 25, 2017 |
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Sara Dant, “Losing Eden: An Environmental History of the American West” (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016)
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Sep 22, 2017 |
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John P. Langellier, “Fighting for Uncle Sam: Buffalo Soldiers in the Frontier Army” (Schiffer, 2016)
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Jun 08, 2017 |
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Richard Etulain, “The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane” (U. Oklahoma Press, 2014)
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Feb 06, 2017 |
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Amy Von Lintel, “Georgia O’Keeffe: Watercolors, 1916-1918” (Radius, 2016)
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Dec 17, 2016 |
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Jason Pierce, “Making the White Man’s West: Whiteness and the Creation of the American West” (UP of Colorado, 2016)
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Sep 26, 2016 |
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Kevin Bubriski, “Look into My Eyes: Nuevomexicanos por Vida, ’81-’83” (Museum of New Mexico Press, 2016)
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Jul 10, 2016 |
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Kenna R. Archer, “Unruly Waters: A Social and Environmental History of the Brazos River” (U of New Mexico, 2015)
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May 09, 2016 |
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Frank P. Barajas, “Curious Unions: Mexican American Workers and Resistance in Oxnard, California, 1898-1961” (U. Nebraska Press, 2012)
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Apr 30, 2016 |
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Mario Jimenez Sifuentez, “Of Forests and Fields: Mexican Labor in the Pacific Northwest” (Rutgers UP, 2016)
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Mar 30, 2016 |
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Lori Flores, “Grounds for Dreaming: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants and the California Farmworker Movement” (Yale UP, 2015)
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Mar 10, 2016 |
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Mario T. Garcia, “The Chicano Generation: Testimonios of the Movement” (U of California Press, 2015)
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Nov 12, 2015 |
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Natale Zappia, “Traders and Raiders: The Indigenous World of the Colorado Basin, 1540-1859” (UNC Press, 2014)
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Oct 28, 2015 |
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Ana Elizabeth Rosas, “Abrazando el Espiritu: Bracero Families Confront the U.S.-Mexico Border” (U of California Press, 2014)
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Jun 20, 2015 |
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Geraldo L. Cadava, “Standing on Common Ground: The Making of a Sunbelt Borderland” (Harvard UP, 2013)
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Jun 14, 2015 |
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Andrew Needham, “Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest” (Princeton UP, 2014)
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Apr 26, 2015 |
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David Bullock, “Coal Wars” (Washington State University Press, 2014)
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Feb 23, 2015 |
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Dede Feldman, “Inside the New Mexico Senate: Boots, Suits, and Citizens” (University of New Mexico Press, 2014)
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May 12, 2014 |
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Gilbert Mireles, “Continuing La Causa: Organizing Labor in California’s Strawberry Fields” (Lynne Rienner, 2013)
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Mar 17, 2014 |
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Thomas H. Guthrie, “Recognizing Heritage: The Politics of Multiculturalism in New Mexico” (University of Nebraska Press, 2013)
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Feb 20, 2014 |
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Brendan C. Lindsay, “Murder State: California’s Native American Genocide, 1846-1873” (University of Nebraska Press, 2012)
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Sep 09, 2012 |
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Char Miller, “Public Lands, Public Debates: A Century of Controversy” (Oregon State UP, 2012)
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Apr 09, 2012 |
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Hayes Peter Mauro, “The Art of Americanization at the Carlisle Indian School” (University of New Mexico Press, 2011)
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Dec 22, 2011 |
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Jace Weaver, “Notes from a Miner’s Canary: Essays on the State of Native America” (University of New Mexico Press, 2010)
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Jun 20, 2011 |
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Eric Gardner, “Jennie Carter: A Black Journalist of the Early West” (University Press of Mississippi, 2008)
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Apr 09, 2008 |
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Malcolm Rohrbough, “The Trans-Appalachian Frontier: People, Societies, and Institutions, 1775-1850” (Indiana UP, 2008)
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Jan 26, 2008 |