New Books in the American West

445 Episodes

1. Alison Rose Jefferson, "Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites during the Jim Crow Era" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)

   Published: 8/9/2021
2. Susan Lee Johnson, "Writing Kit Carson: Fallen Heroes in a Changing West" (UNC Press, 2020)

   Published: 7/30/2021
3. Robert Wooster, "The United States Army and the Making of America: From Confederation to Empire, 1775-1903" (UP of Kansas, 2021)

   Published: 7/30/2021
4. Kevin Waite, "West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire" (UNC Press, 2021)

   Published: 7/21/2021
5. Mary Beth Meehan and Fred Turner, "Seeing Silicon Valley: Life Inside a Fraying America" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

   Published: 7/20/2021
6. Todd M. Kerstetter, "Flood on the Tracks: Living, Dying, and the Nature of Disaster in the Elkhorn River Basin" (Texas Tech UP, 2019)

   Published: 7/9/2021
7. George J. Sánchez, "Boyle Heights: How a Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American Democracy" (U California Press, 2021)

   Published: 7/6/2021
8. Damon B. Akins and William J. Bauer, "We Are the Land: A History of Native California" (U California Press, 2021)

   Published: 6/16/2021
9. Lincoln A. Mitchell, "The Giants and Their City: Major League Baseball in San Francisco, 1976-1992" (Kent State UP, 2021)

   Published: 6/9/2021
10. Ryanne Pilgeram, "Pushed Out: Contested Development and Rural Gentrification in the US West" (U Washington Press, 2021)

    Published: 6/9/2021
11. Nelson Johnson, "Darrow's Nightmare: The Forgotten Story of America's Most Famous Trial Lawyer" (Rosetta Books, 2021)

    Published: 6/3/2021
12. Jennifer Sherman, "Dividing Paradise: Rural Inequality and the Diminishing American Dream" (U California Press, 2021)

    Published: 5/24/2021
13. Jessica Ordaz, "The Shadow of El Centro: A History of Migrant Incarceration and Solidarity" (UNC Press, 2021)

    Published: 5/24/2021
14. Patrick Spero, "Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Independence in the American West, 1765-1776" (Norton, 2018)

    Published: 5/21/2021
15. Mary Woodger and Casey Griffiths, "50 Relics of the Restoration" (Ceder Fort, 2020)

    Published: 5/12/2021
16. Brian Castner, "Stampede: Gold Fever and Disaster in the Klondike" (Doubleday, 2021)

    Published: 5/12/2021
17. Susan Lee Johnson, "Writing Kit Carson: Fallen Heroes in a Changing West" (UNC Press, 2020)

    Published: 5/7/2021
18. K. Bunn-Marcuse and A. Jonaitis, "Unsettling Native Art Histories on the Northwest Coast" (U Washington Press, 2020)

    Published: 4/27/2021
19. Gordon H. Chang, "Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad" (HMH, 2019)

    Published: 4/26/2021
20. Jane Little Botkin, "The Girl Who Dared to Defy: Jane Street and the Rebel Maids of Denver" (U Oklahoma Press, 2021)

    Published: 4/20/2021