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A conversation with BYU history prof. David-James Gonzales about his new book, "Breaking Down the Walls of Segregation: Mexican American Grassroots Politics and Civil Rights in Orange Country, California" (@academic.oup.com 2025).

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Less than 2 weeks left to apply for American West research and programming funding from the Redd Center! Please apply and SHARE SHARE SHARE!

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A conversation with writer George Frazier about grassland rivers, finding wild places, canoeing 1000s of miles, & his new book "Riverine Dreams: Away to the Glorious and Forgotten Grassland Rivers of America" (@uchicagopress.bsky.social 2025)

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Writing Westward podcast tells stories of the North American West Writing Westward is a podcast run by BYU professor Brenden W. Rensink. The podcast features authors and scholars who write about the North American West.

BYU's Daily Universe student newspaper did a nice profile on the Writing Westward Podcast, featuring Rensink's "Don't Sound Stupid" reminder, & quotes from recent guests Martha Sandweiss & @neilmathison.bsky.social, & fellow BYU History Prof., @ccjones.bsky.social

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Kicking off Black History Month with Prof. Sara Gallagher (@sgallagher12.bsky.social) of Durham College and her book "Black Wests: Reshaping Race and Place in Popular Culture" (@oupress.bsky.social 2025).

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The BYU student newspaper, The Daily Universe, is going to run an article on the Writing Westward Podcast and is interested in asking questions of a few listeners. Please message if you'd be interested.

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Starting 2026 with a truly remarkable author and book - Martha Sandweiss and her book, "The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West" (@princetonupress.bsky.social, 2025).

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Can't recommend Coll's book highly enough. It is SO good.

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Buckle your seat belts and enjoy our conversation with author Neil Mathison about his new book, "Airstream Country: A Geologic Journey Across the American West" (@unmpress.bsky.social, 2025).

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The BYU College of Family, Home, & Social Sciences includes the podcast in an article for their annual Connections Magazine. The back cover has a picture of @brendenwrensink.bsky.social with the piles of books whose authors he has interviewed

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This month we chat with essayist, novelist, and Univ. of Montana environmental studies professor Mark Sundeen about his new essay collection, "Delusions + Grandeur: Dreamers of the New West" (@unmpress.bsky.social, 2025).

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We're celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month via a conversation with Prof. Ernesto Sagás (Colorado State University, Ethnic Studies) about his new book, "Latino Colorado: The Struggle for Equality in the Centennial State.

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078 - Adam Sowards - Taking Bearing and Being Historically Faithful in Public Writing | Writing Westward Podcast A conversation with historian Adam M. Sowards about their weekly Taking Bearing essays series,  "Being Historically Faithful in Public" article, and broader work in public writing. Dr. Adam Sowards is an environmental historian and writer, specializing in public lands and conservation in the US West especially the Pacific Northwest. Much of his public writings can be accessed at adamsowards.net. Dr. Sowards earned his Ph.D. in History from Arizona State University and was professor of history from the University of Idaho 2003-2022. He is now retired with emeritus status and working as a freelance writer. His published books include the following (links to purchase here): Making America’s Public Lands: The Contested History of Conservation on Federal Lands. American Ways series, ed. John David Smith. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022. An Open Pit Visible from the Moon: The Wilderness Act and the Fight to Protect Miners Ridge and the Public Interest. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020. Editor. Idaho’s Place: A New History of the Gem State. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2014. The Environmental Justice: William O. Douglas and American Conservation. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2009 United States West Coast: An Environmental History. Nature and Human Societies Series, ed. Mark Stoll. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2007.   The Writing Westward Podcast is produced and hosted by Prof. Brenden W. Rensink for the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University. Subscribe to the Writing Westward Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Play, and other podcast distribution apps and platforms. Follow the BYU Redd Center and the Writing Westward Podcast on Facebook, Bluesky, or X/Twitter, or get more information @ https://www.writingwestward.org.  Theme music by Micah Dahl Anderson @ www.micahdahlanderson.com

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An exceptional conversation with historian & writer Adam M. Sowards (@adamsowards.net) about writing for western public audiences. LOTS to consider here for academic writers, grad students, and others.

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This month we talk about 19th-century photography & re-envisioning the West w/ Robert Sullivan & his book "Double Exposure: Resurveying the West with Timothy O'Sullivan, America's Most Mysterious War Photographer" (@fsgbooks.bsky.social 2024).

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🚨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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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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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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New episode on its way Monday!

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

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

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🚨New Episode Alert🚨

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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🚨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). 📗🗃️

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

🚨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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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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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