Call for Proposals! I’m co-editing a collection on “The Extractive Midwest” with @brianleechphd.bsky.social, Jeff Schramm, and Sarah Mittlefehldt. We seek 300-500 word abstracts for book chapters between 6,000-8,000 words (not including notes). Send us your submissions before August 30, 2026!
The Extractive Midwest CFP
The Extractive Midwest Call for Proposals for Edited Volume Description: Typically defined as a fertile, renewable, and nurturing region, the Midwest has also experienced a long history of extractio...
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June 1, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Historian @saradant.bsky.social in the @latimes.com on why public lands should stay public and why we should resist the administration’s push towards privatization. 📗#AmWest 🗃️
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Contributor: Why public lands should stay public and protected
For 120 years, America's public lands policy has emphasized 'the greatest good of the greatest number.' 'Drill, baby, drill' isn't that.
www.latimes.com
May 26, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Historian @saradant.bsky.social in the @latimes.com on why public lands should stay public and why we should resist the administration’s push towards privatization. 📗#AmWest 🗃️
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
"In the early 2000s I worked with the Huntington ... to secure a large #NEH grant to help create an online database of all people — Natives, soldiers, settlers, missionaries — who were in one way or another affiliated with the California missions before 1850." www.latimes.com/opinion/stor... #amwest
Our friend and colleague Steve Hackel in the Los Angeles Times this week. He reflects on the power of the humanities and the significance of the NEH.
Read his powerful opinion piece in Monday’s @latimes.com
Read his powerful opinion piece in Monday’s @latimes.com
May 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
"In the early 2000s I worked with the Huntington ... to secure a large #NEH grant to help create an online database of all people — Natives, soldiers, settlers, missionaries — who were in one way or another affiliated with the California missions before 1850." www.latimes.com/opinion/stor... #amwest
This is one of the absolute best opportunities out there for grad students in #amwest history #skystorians
Please circulate: CFP for Western History Dissertation Workshop. This is an exceptional chance for advanced grad students working on a western history topic to get feedback from leading scholars in the field and to do it in the Arcadian paradise that is the Huntington Library.
December 11, 2024 at 4:42 AM
This is one of the absolute best opportunities out there for grad students in #amwest history #skystorians
#AmWest Historians, UNITE! (thanks @jasonheppler.org!)
I’m joining the starter pack train: here’s a bunch of historians of the American West here on Bluesky!
September 18, 2024 at 2:39 PM
#AmWest Historians, UNITE! (thanks @jasonheppler.org!)
Calling all historians, journalists, etc., of the North American West, I've set up a new Bluesky feed called American West that pulls in posts tagged with #amwest, #noramwest, or the current WHA conference hashtag, #WHA2023. Like and follow!
October 23, 2023 at 5:54 PM
Calling all historians, journalists, etc., of the North American West, I've set up a new Bluesky feed called American West that pulls in posts tagged with #amwest, #noramwest, or the current WHA conference hashtag, #WHA2023. Like and follow!
🚨CALL FOR PAPERS
Announcing the next Redd Center seminar & anthology - "Outdoor Recreation History in the North American West." The seminar will take place on August 7-8, 2025. Proposals are due January 15, 2025.
Please help us spread the word!
reddcenter.byu.edu/Blogs/redd-c...
#CFP 🗃️📗#AmWest
Announcing the next Redd Center seminar & anthology - "Outdoor Recreation History in the North American West." The seminar will take place on August 7-8, 2025. Proposals are due January 15, 2025.
Please help us spread the word!
reddcenter.byu.edu/Blogs/redd-c...
#CFP 🗃️📗#AmWest
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November 13, 2024 at 6:44 PM
🚨CALL FOR PAPERS
Announcing the next Redd Center seminar & anthology - "Outdoor Recreation History in the North American West." The seminar will take place on August 7-8, 2025. Proposals are due January 15, 2025.
Please help us spread the word!
reddcenter.byu.edu/Blogs/redd-c...
#CFP 🗃️📗#AmWest
Announcing the next Redd Center seminar & anthology - "Outdoor Recreation History in the North American West." The seminar will take place on August 7-8, 2025. Proposals are due January 15, 2025.
Please help us spread the word!
reddcenter.byu.edu/Blogs/redd-c...
#CFP 🗃️📗#AmWest
For TIME's Made by History, I wrote about how science became weaponized & distorted in the Arctic Refuge debate.
Ranging from Reagan to Trump, the piece discusses caribou biology, whistleblowers, & the Republican Party. And it includes a terrific cartoon! 📗🗃️ #AmWest🦌❄️
Ranging from Reagan to Trump, the piece discusses caribou biology, whistleblowers, & the Republican Party. And it includes a terrific cartoon! 📗🗃️ #AmWest🦌❄️
Denying Science to Drill for Oil is a Decades-long Tradition
What the debate about the Arctic Refuge tells us about science denialism.
time.com
February 8, 2024 at 7:00 PM
For TIME's Made by History, I wrote about how science became weaponized & distorted in the Arctic Refuge debate.
Ranging from Reagan to Trump, the piece discusses caribou biology, whistleblowers, & the Republican Party. And it includes a terrific cartoon! 📗🗃️ #AmWest🦌❄️
Ranging from Reagan to Trump, the piece discusses caribou biology, whistleblowers, & the Republican Party. And it includes a terrific cartoon! 📗🗃️ #AmWest🦌❄️
I'm thrilled to announce that @unmpress.bsky.social is launching a new "Histories of the North American West" series with me as Series Editor!
I'm especially looking for books that clearly link regional & Western histories to broader contexts.
Send me questions & MSS, and PLEASE SHARE! 🗃️📗#AmWest
I'm especially looking for books that clearly link regional & Western histories to broader contexts.
Send me questions & MSS, and PLEASE SHARE! 🗃️📗#AmWest
August 14, 2024 at 4:52 PM
I'm thrilled to announce that @unmpress.bsky.social is launching a new "Histories of the North American West" series with me as Series Editor!
I'm especially looking for books that clearly link regional & Western histories to broader contexts.
Send me questions & MSS, and PLEASE SHARE! 🗃️📗#AmWest
I'm especially looking for books that clearly link regional & Western histories to broader contexts.
Send me questions & MSS, and PLEASE SHARE! 🗃️📗#AmWest
🗃️📗#AmWest
Did you hear? The deadline for #WHA2024 submissions was pushed back a week, which means there's still time to check out the spreadsheet and scramble to assemble a panel! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
WHA 2024 Potential Panel Spreadsheet
Sheet1
Inspired by the Western Association of Women Historians' excellent conference spreadsheet, this spreadsheet is here to help connect potential panelists for submissions to the Western Historica...
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December 1, 2023 at 11:56 PM
🗃️📗#AmWest
Coyote America - A conversation with Dan Flores on history, myth, and the wildness that endures
Reckoning with Jason Herbert - @herberthistory.bsky.social
jasonherbert.substack.com/p/coyote-ame...
#envhist #animalhistory #amwest
Reckoning with Jason Herbert - @herberthistory.bsky.social
jasonherbert.substack.com/p/coyote-ame...
#envhist #animalhistory #amwest
Coyote America
A conversation with Dan Flores on history, myth, and the wildness that endures
jasonherbert.substack.com
January 30, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Coyote America - A conversation with Dan Flores on history, myth, and the wildness that endures
Reckoning with Jason Herbert - @herberthistory.bsky.social
jasonherbert.substack.com/p/coyote-ame...
#envhist #animalhistory #amwest
Reckoning with Jason Herbert - @herberthistory.bsky.social
jasonherbert.substack.com/p/coyote-ame...
#envhist #animalhistory #amwest
As if I wasn’t already excited enough for the @WhaHistory 2024 conference in Kansas City for the BBQ gluttony opportunities, now there’s this! Great panel crew with Annie Coleman, Ruth Alexander, Lance Blythe, Margaret Sutton, Jacob Northcutt, Matthew Green, (and me). #WHA2024 #AmWest 🗃️📗
March 29, 2024 at 2:25 AM
Opting for a couple hours of work in the toasty warm lodge instead of sloppy wet snowboarding with my son. 😬 This book review ain’t gonna write itself! 🗃️📗#AmWest
January 29, 2024 at 11:32 PM
Opting for a couple hours of work in the toasty warm lodge instead of sloppy wet snowboarding with my son. 😬 This book review ain’t gonna write itself! 🗃️📗#AmWest
Environmental Historian friends:
I'm prepping a North American Environmental History-themed capstone senior seminar.
What books have you used recently w/ advanced undergrads that *worked*, and why? Anthologies or articles (esp. to drive methodology discussions), or monographs.
📗🗃️#AmWest
I'm prepping a North American Environmental History-themed capstone senior seminar.
What books have you used recently w/ advanced undergrads that *worked*, and why? Anthologies or articles (esp. to drive methodology discussions), or monographs.
📗🗃️#AmWest
September 11, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Environmental Historian friends:
I'm prepping a North American Environmental History-themed capstone senior seminar.
What books have you used recently w/ advanced undergrads that *worked*, and why? Anthologies or articles (esp. to drive methodology discussions), or monographs.
📗🗃️#AmWest
I'm prepping a North American Environmental History-themed capstone senior seminar.
What books have you used recently w/ advanced undergrads that *worked*, and why? Anthologies or articles (esp. to drive methodology discussions), or monographs.
📗🗃️#AmWest
What a team! Congrats to CSU & all involved. Our scholarly community will all benefit from your hard work. And a million thanks to Anne F. Hyde and everyone at Oklahoma who did such good work with the Western Historical Quarterly over the past decade! #AmWest 🗃️ #WHA2025 (Screenshot from WHA FB Page)
September 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
What a team! Congrats to CSU & all involved. Our scholarly community will all benefit from your hard work. And a million thanks to Anne F. Hyde and everyone at Oklahoma who did such good work with the Western Historical Quarterly over the past decade! #AmWest 🗃️ #WHA2025 (Screenshot from WHA FB Page)
Here's my latest @writingwestward.bsky.social Podcast episode!
I indulged in some favorite pet topics of mine with this one (Indigenous history, the environment, etc.) but in a region I haven't work in much. Very very very cool work. Books like this win awards for a reason! 📗🗃️ #amwest
I indulged in some favorite pet topics of mine with this one (Indigenous history, the environment, etc.) but in a region I haven't work in much. Very very very cool work. Books like this win awards for a reason! 📗🗃️ #amwest
February 1, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Here's my latest @writingwestward.bsky.social Podcast episode!
I indulged in some favorite pet topics of mine with this one (Indigenous history, the environment, etc.) but in a region I haven't work in much. Very very very cool work. Books like this win awards for a reason! 📗🗃️ #amwest
I indulged in some favorite pet topics of mine with this one (Indigenous history, the environment, etc.) but in a region I haven't work in much. Very very very cool work. Books like this win awards for a reason! 📗🗃️ #amwest
Hey #WHA2024 friends! Please corner me for a chat if you have a manuscript in the works that you think would be a good fit for this new UNM Press series I'm editing. Focus on work that make intentional connections to broader contexts. DM me if you want to set a time to talk. #AmWest 🗃️📗
I'm thrilled to announce that @unmpress.bsky.social is launching a new "Histories of the North American West" series with me as Series Editor!
I'm especially looking for books that clearly link regional & Western histories to broader contexts.
Send me questions & MSS, and PLEASE SHARE! 🗃️📗#AmWest
I'm especially looking for books that clearly link regional & Western histories to broader contexts.
Send me questions & MSS, and PLEASE SHARE! 🗃️📗#AmWest
October 22, 2024 at 1:48 PM
1st day teaching an upper division Modern Native American History. Small but engaged group of students, almost all women. 1/2 with Native backgrounds—Navajo, Apache, Mayan. Mostly non-majors (some AIS minors), which will make for unique challenges. Should be a great semester! 🗃️ #AmWest
January 9, 2024 at 11:20 PM
1st day teaching an upper division Modern Native American History. Small but engaged group of students, almost all women. 1/2 with Native backgrounds—Navajo, Apache, Mayan. Mostly non-majors (some AIS minors), which will make for unique challenges. Should be a great semester! 🗃️ #AmWest
Updated CFP for The Extractive Midwest! Proposals due August 30!
@h-net-humanities.bsky.social @nichecanada.bsky.social
#envhist #envhum #amwest
@h-net-humanities.bsky.social @nichecanada.bsky.social
#envhist #envhum #amwest
August 13, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Updated CFP for The Extractive Midwest! Proposals due August 30!
@h-net-humanities.bsky.social @nichecanada.bsky.social
#envhist #envhum #amwest
@h-net-humanities.bsky.social @nichecanada.bsky.social
#envhist #envhum #amwest
#CFP reminder for this seminar I'm hosting (and edited collection that will result from it) on Outdoor Recreation in the North American West!
January 15 deadline
Submit a proposal yourself and share as widely as you can.
#AmWest #USWest📗🗃️
January 15 deadline
Submit a proposal yourself and share as widely as you can.
#AmWest #USWest📗🗃️
🚨CALL FOR PAPERS
Announcing the next Redd Center seminar & anthology - "Outdoor Recreation History in the North American West." The seminar will take place on August 7-8, 2025. Proposals are due January 15, 2025.
Please help us spread the word!
reddcenter.byu.edu/Blogs/redd-c...
#CFP 🗃️📗#AmWest
Announcing the next Redd Center seminar & anthology - "Outdoor Recreation History in the North American West." The seminar will take place on August 7-8, 2025. Proposals are due January 15, 2025.
Please help us spread the word!
reddcenter.byu.edu/Blogs/redd-c...
#CFP 🗃️📗#AmWest
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December 4, 2024 at 8:14 PM
#CFP reminder for this seminar I'm hosting (and edited collection that will result from it) on Outdoor Recreation in the North American West!
January 15 deadline
Submit a proposal yourself and share as widely as you can.
#AmWest #USWest📗🗃️
January 15 deadline
Submit a proposal yourself and share as widely as you can.
#AmWest #USWest📗🗃️
🚨New Writing Westward Podcast Episode Alert!🚨
This month I chat with Prof. @sarahkeyesphd.bsky.social (UNR Dept. of History) about her new book "American Burial Ground: A New History of the Overland Trail" (University Pennsylvania Press 2023).
reddcenter.byu.edu/Blogs/redd-c...
🗃️#AmWest
This month I chat with Prof. @sarahkeyesphd.bsky.social (UNR Dept. of History) about her new book "American Burial Ground: A New History of the Overland Trail" (University Pennsylvania Press 2023).
reddcenter.byu.edu/Blogs/redd-c...
🗃️#AmWest
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reddcenter.byu.edu
November 3, 2023 at 5:43 PM
🚨New Writing Westward Podcast Episode Alert!🚨
This month I chat with Prof. @sarahkeyesphd.bsky.social (UNR Dept. of History) about her new book "American Burial Ground: A New History of the Overland Trail" (University Pennsylvania Press 2023).
reddcenter.byu.edu/Blogs/redd-c...
🗃️#AmWest
This month I chat with Prof. @sarahkeyesphd.bsky.social (UNR Dept. of History) about her new book "American Burial Ground: A New History of the Overland Trail" (University Pennsylvania Press 2023).
reddcenter.byu.edu/Blogs/redd-c...
🗃️#AmWest