Writing Westward Podcast (@writingwestward.bsky)
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Monthly conversations with authors & scholars of the North American West. Produced & hosted by @BYUReddCenter Assoc. Dir. & @BYU_History Prof. @BrendenWRensink
Joined March 2018
🚨New Episode Alert🚨. This month we chat with digital, environmental, & urban historian, Dr. Jason Heppler (Senior Developer, @chnm @GeorgeMasonU), about his book "Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism" (@OUPress, 2024).
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🚨New Episode Alert🚨. This month we talk w/ historian Coll Thrush about his new book "Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific" (@UWAPress 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 Alert🚨. This month we chat with @WillGrady_ about his book "Redrawing the Western: A History of American Comics and the Mythic West" (@UTexasPress 2024). #USWest #AmericanWest #ComicsStudies #Comicbooks.
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RT @BYUReddCenter: Congrats to our 2025 award winners and funding recipients! It is thrilling to see how much good work is being done in so….
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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 2024). Learn how logging linked distant urban & remote landscapes together.
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RT @BYUReddCenter: Applications for our annual funding season are due in 4 DAYS! March 15th. Please help spread the word (and apply yoursel….
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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 2022).
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🚨New Episode🚨. We chat w/ historian John Nelson (@TexasTech) 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" (@UNC_Press).
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Psst. You should follow us on the other place too.
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The Redd Center wants to give you money. Apply and share.
It's FUNDING SEASON at the Redd Center!. We have award categories for anyone from any discipline doing work the Intermountain West portions of AZ, CO, ID, MT, NV, NM, UT, & WY. Applications are due March 15, 2025. Please share!. #funding.
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🚨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" (@Kansas_Press 2024).
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RT @BYUReddCenter: ONE WEEK left to apply for our August 6-8 seminar/workshop (and subsequent edited volume) on Outdoor Recreation History….
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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.
2 weeks until the Jan 15 application deadline for our Outdoor Recreation History in the N. American West seminar! . You write an article, we fly you to Utah to workshop it w/ others (Aug. 6-8), & after revisions we publish it in an edited volume. #CFP
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🚨New Episode Alert🚨. A conversation with Prof. James Tejani (@CalPolyCLA Dept. of History) about his new book, "A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles—and America" (@wwnorton, 2024). #AmWest.
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RT @BYUReddCenter: 🚨CALL FOR PAPERS🚨. Announcing the next @BYUReddCenter seminar - "Outdoor Recreation History in the North American West."….
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🚨New Episode Alert🚨. For Native American Heritage Month we offer this conversation with Prof. @hollyguise (@UNM) about her 2024 @UWAPress book, "Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II.". #NativeHistory #WWII #AmWest #AuthorInterview.
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New ep. w/ historian @brentrogers2121 & his new @BisonBooksUNP book, "Buffalo Bill and the Mormons." Listen & learn why "Buffalo Bill was the Taylor Swift of the late-19th Century." 🤔. 50% off promo code 6BB24 good until Oct 31 on the @UnivNebPress site.
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🚨New Writing Westward Podcast episode!🚨 . This month features @zak_podmore and his new book, "Life After Dead Pool: Lake Powell's Last Days and the Rebirth of the Colorado River" (@TorreyHouse, 2024). #AuthorInterview #LakePowell #GlenCanyon.
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Catch up on the back catalog of 65 episodes here:
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Psst…Writing Westward resumes this month!
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