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- Monthly conversations with authors & scholars of the North American West. - Produced & hosted by @BYUReddCenter.bsky.social Assoc. Director & History Professor @BrendenWRensink.bsky.social - https://writingwestward.org

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076 - Jason Heppler - Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism A conversation with historianΒ Jason Heppler about their book Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism Β  (University of Oklahoma Press, Environment in Modern North Ameri...

🚨New Episode ft. digital, environmental, & urban historian, Dr. @jasonheppler.org (Senior Developer, @rrchnm.bsky.social @georgemasonu.bsky.social), & his book "Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism" (@oupress.bsky.social, 2024).

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01.07.2025 14:23 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 4
075 - Coll Thrush - Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific A conversation with historian Coll Thrush about their book Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific (University of Washington Press, 2025) Coll Thrush is Professor of History a...

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This month we talk w/ historian @collthrush.bsky.social about his new book "Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific" (@uwapress.bsky.social 2025) - one of the best books I've read in a long while, I read a lot of books!

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02.06.2025 14:50 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3
074 - William Grady - Redrawing the Western: A History of American Comics and the Mythic West | Writing Westward Podcast A conversation with scholar William Grady about their book Redrawing the Western: A History of American Comics and the Mythic West (University of Texas Press, 2024) Dr. William Grady is an independent...

🚨New Episode Alert🚨

This month we chat with @williamgrady.bsky.social about his book "Redrawing the Western: A History of American Comics and the Mythic West" (@utexaspress.bsky.social 2024). #USWest #AmericanWest #ComicsStudies #Comicbooks

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05.05.2025 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

New episode on its way Monday!

02.05.2025 16:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Congrats to our 2025 award winners and funding recipients! It is thrilling to see how much good work is being done in so many disciplines on the Intermountain West!

Please share & tag your friends & colleagues to congratulate them!

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29.04.2025 16:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
073 - James Buckley - City of Wood: San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry A conversation with urban planner and architectural historian James Michael Buckley about their book City of Wood: San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry (University of Te...

🚨New episode w/ urban planner & architectural historian James Buckley & his book, "City of Wood: San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry" (@utexaspress.bsky.social 2024). Learn how logging linked distant urban & remote landscapes together.

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10.04.2025 18:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Applications for our annual funding season are due in 4 DAYS! March 15th. Please help spread the word (and apply yourself)! πŸ—ƒοΈ #AmWest

11.03.2025 15:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

BIG NEWS from James Tejani, our guest from December: His book just won the Bancroft Prize! Congrats James!

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05.03.2025 20:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
072 - Amanda Van Lanen - The Washington Apple | Writing Westward Podcast A conversation with historian Amanda Van Lanen about their book The Washington Apple: Orchards and the Development of Industrial Agriculture (University of Oklahoma Press, 2022). Β  Amanda L. Van La...

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Bite into some delicious history with professor Amanda Van Lanen (Lewis-Clark State College) and her book "The Washington Apple: Orchards and the Development of Industrial Agriculture" (@oupress.bsky.social 2022).

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03.03.2025 16:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
071 - John Nelson - Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago's Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent A conversation with historian John William Nelson about their book, Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago's Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent (University of North Carolina Press, 2023) J...

🚨New Episode🚨

We chat with historian John Nelson (@ttu.edu) about Native history, the environment, & more via his multiple award-winning 2023 book, "Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago's Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent" (@uncpress.bsky.social). πŸ“—πŸ—ƒοΈ

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01.02.2025 21:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

The Redd Center wants to give you money. Apply and share.

24.01.2025 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
070 - Samuel Western - The Spirit of 1889: Restoring the Lost Promise of the High Plains and Northern Rockies A conversation with journalist, author, and poet Samuel Western about his book, The Spirit of 1889: Restoring the Lost Promise of the High Plains and Northern Rockies (University Press of Kansas, 202...

🚨New Episode🚨

We're starting off 2025 with our 70th (!!!) episode, a conversation w/ journalist, author, & poet Samuel Western about his book "The Spirit of 1889: Restoring the Lost Promise of the High Plains and Northern Rockies" (Univ. Press of Kansas, 2024).

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09.01.2025 17:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

ONE WEEK left to apply for our August 6-8 seminar/workshop (and subsequent edited volume) on Outdoor Recreation History in the North American West. Deadline is Jan 15.

#cfp

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08.01.2025 19:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Step 1: Apply
Step 2: Share the CFP on all your feeds
Step 3: Message your friends and colleagues to apply
Step 4: Kick back and wait for the resulting fame and fortune

31.12.2024 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
069 - James Tejani - A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth | Writing Westward Podcast A conversation with historian James Tejani about their book A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angelesβ€”and America (W. W. Norton, 2024) James Tejani is associate profe...

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A conversation with Prof. James Tejani (Cal-Poly Dept. of History) about his new book, "A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angelesβ€”and America" (@wwnorton.bsky.social, 2024).

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#AmWestπŸ—ƒοΈπŸ“—

09.12.2024 20:54 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
Writing Westward Podcast | Brenden W. Rensink & the BYU Redd Center Conversations with writers and scholars of the North American West, hosted and produced by Prof. Brenden W. Rensink for the BYU Charles Redd Center for Western Studies

The Writing Westward Podcast features monthly conversations with authors & scholars of the North American West, all hosted & produced by @byureddcenter.bsky.social Assoc. Director and BYU History Professor @brendenwrensink.bsky.social.

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