A conversation with historian James Tejani about their book A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles—and America (W. W. Norton, 2024) James Tejani is associate professor of history at California Polytechnic State Univers

A conversation with historian Holly Miowak Guise about her book, Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II (University of Washington Press, Indigenous Confluences Series, 2024).Dr. Guise is Assistant Professor of History at the University of N

A conversation with historian Brent M. Rogers their book Buffalo Bill and the Mormons (Bison Books / University of Nebraska Press, 2024). Brent M. Rogers is the Managing Historian of the LDS Church History Department in Salt Lake City. He holds a Ph.D. i

A conversation with journalist and author Zak Podmore about their book, Life After Dead Pool: Lake Powells Last Days and the Rebirth of the Colorado River (Torrey House Press, 2024)

A conversation with poet and author Julie Carr about their book, Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West (University of Nebraska Press, 2023).Julie Carr is Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boul

A conversation with journalist Lyndsie Bourgon about her book, Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods (Little, Brown Spark, 2022).Lyndsie Bourgon is a journalist, author, oral historian, fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Societ

A conversation with geographer Andrew Curley about his book, Carbon Sovereignty: Coal, Development, and Energy Transition in the Navajo Nation (University of Arizona Press, 2023).Andrew Curley is a member of the Navajo Nation and an Assistant Professor i

A conversation with historian Peter Boag about their book Pioneering Death: The Violence of Boyhood in Turn-of-the-Century Oregon (University of Washington Press, 2022).Peter Boag is Professor and Columbia Chair in the History of the American West at Was

A conversation with cartoonist Navied Mahdavian about his graphic novel memoir, This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America (Princeton Architectural Press, 2023).Navied Mahdavian is is a cartoonist and writer whose work has appeared in the N

A conversation with historian Natalia Molina about their book A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community (University of California Press, 2022).Natalia Molina is Distinguished Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and De