New Books in the American West

417 Episodes

1. Damien M. Sojoyner, "Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums" (U California Press, 2022)

   Published: 1/03/2023
2. What a City Is for: Remaking the Politics of Displacement

   Published: 28/02/2023
3. Mitchell Schwarzer, "Hella Town: Oakland's History of Development and Disruption" (U California Press, 2022)

   Published: 26/02/2023
4. Ian C. Hartman and David Reamer, "Black Lives in Alaska: A History of African Americans in the Far Northwest" ( U Washington Press, 2022)

   Published: 24/02/2023
5. Deborah Holt Larkin, "A Lovely Girl: The Tragedy of Olga Duncan and the Trial of California's Most Notorious Killer" (Pegasus Crime, 2022)

   Published: 22/02/2023
6. Joseph Plaster, "Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin" (Duke UP, 2023)

   Published: 20/02/2023
7. Andrea G. McDowell, "We the Miners: Self-Government in the California Gold Rush" (Harvard UP, 2022)

   Published: 17/02/2023
8. Malcolm Harris, "Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World" (Little, Brown, 2023)

   Published: 14/02/2023
9. Leigh Campbell-Hale, "Remembering Ludlow But Forgetting the Columbine: The 1927-1928 Colorado Coal Strike" (U Colorado Press, 2023)

   Published: 13/02/2023
10. How a California Electricity Utility Caused Deadly Wildfires

    Published: 8/02/2023
11. “Tech” Journalism and the Many Lives of Stewart Brand

    Published: 7/02/2023
12. Yu Tokunaga, "Transborder Los Angeles: An Unknown Transpacific History of Japanese-Mexican Relations" (U California Press, 2022)

    Published: 6/02/2023
13. Elizabeth Farfán-Santos, "Undocumented Motherhood: Conversations on Love, Trauma, and Border Crossing" (U Texas Press, 2022)

    Published: 24/01/2023
14. Amy Kohout, "Taking the Field: Soldiers, Nature, and Empire on American Frontiers" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

    Published: 22/01/2023
15. The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature

    Published: 19/01/2023
16. Amanda Hendrix-Komoto, "Imperial Zions: Religion, Race, and Family in the American West and the Pacific" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)

    Published: 3/01/2023
17. Finis Dunaway. "Defending the Arctic Refuge: A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice" (UNC Press, 2021)

    Published: 22/12/2022
18. Brenden W. Rensink, "The North American West in the Twenty-First Century" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)

    Published: 21/12/2022
19. Michael Weeks, "Cattle Beet Capital: Making Industrial Agriculture in Northern Colorado" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)

    Published: 17/12/2022
20. Cynthia Radding, "Bountiful Deserts: Sustaining Indigenous Worlds in Northern New Spain" (U Arizona Press, 2022)

    Published: 16/12/2022