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)
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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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New episode on its way Monday!
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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!
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BIG NEWS from James Tejani, our guest from December: His book just won the Bancroft Prize! Congrats James!
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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...
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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). πποΈ
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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.
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Step 1: Apply
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Step 4: Kick back and wait for the resulting fame and fortune
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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.
Catch up at www.writingwestward.org
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Prof of Amer Lit & Studies. Dad to 2 amazing young men. Married. We the People: http://tinyurl.com/yyhxjktb; Of Thee I Sing: http://tinyurl.com/y6hsozjx. #ScholarSunday guru. https://linktr.ee/americanstudier he/him
US historian of settler colonialism and the environment in the Twin Cities.
Associate professor history and social science education coordinator at Northwest Missouri state. Capitalism, railroads, native America, and coal mining in the 19th century is what drives my work. Being a husband and dad to four amazing kids keeps me going
Historian of Steamboating on the Upper Missouri & the Overland trail. Genealogist. Married to the love of my life, mama of 2 humans and 3 dogs. βοΈπ·π
acquisitions editor, University of Oklahoma Press | history | environment | North American West | Sports | joe@ou.edu
Also: hockey
Detroit Lakes, MN
Digital Scholarship Specialist at Princeton University Library | Kind of still a historian | Long Island ex-pat
History & Enviro Studies prof at Bowdoin College. Editor of Nature Unfurled: Asian American Environmental Histories @uwapress.bsky.social
Owns Taste for Good Farm; has written three books; happy Vermonter
Professor of Latinx history @ Yale. Center director (RITM). Ezra Stiles. Dogs.
Professor at CSU Channel Islands and researcher of Mexican American cultural history. Enjoys food, live concerts, movie theaters, hiking and outdoors, playing tennis and attending Dodgers games.
Pittsburgh-based historian of social movements, radicalism and extremism, the working class, and immigration and ethnicity. Father. Autism advocate. Duke, Steelers, Penguins, Pirates, Riverhounds, RSL, USM&WNT, Liverpool, St. Pauli.
Historian of powerβ‘οΈAssistant Prof at CCNY 𦫠U.S.-Indigenous history in the Civil War and Reconstruction Era π Writing a book on Reconstruction in Indian Territory π NativeReconstruction.com π» Stanford Ph.D. by way of UPenn π² Kentuckian π
Native American Studies PhD focused on Alaska Native history, memory, and knowledge
Lecturer UCD/Sac State
He/Him/His, cat person, lapsed guitar player
Historian | Made in π«π· Lives in π¬π§ Writes about πΊπ² | Envtal Justice, Beaches, Cities, Plastics | π SAND RUSH: THE REVIVAL OF THE BEACH IN 20TH-CENTURY LA ποΈ | π² +πΆπ»ββοΈ advocate | Here for work but also random stuff
Historian: women, early 19C Dakota and Ojibwe country; Dir: Bright Institute @ Knox College; author, A Pedagogy of Kindness (https://bit.ly/OrderPoK); catherinedenial.org; https://redbrickagency.com/cate-denial/; posts my own; she/her; settler, Native land
Historian of medicine, gender, & politics in the American West. Creator & Executive Editor Emerita, @nursingclio.
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UC Davis History PhD Candidate, Studying environmental politics and conservatism in the 20c. American West | π³οΈβπ He/Him | Opinions my own
anthropologist of the american west, thinking about the desert, water, migration, and race
Historian of the Civil War + the American West (sometimes at the same time) β’ Assist. Prof. at Texas Woman's University β’ Colorado Native β°οΈ β’ Hat Wearer π§’ β’ Owner of one border collie called Moe πΆ β’ writing about Lincoln and the West for Liveright β’