Writing Westward Podcast
1) 078 - Adam Sowards - Taking Bearing and Being Historically Faithful in Public Writing
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.
2) 077 - Robert Sullivan - Double Exposure: Resurveying the West with America's Most Mysterious War Photographer
A conversation with historian Robert Sullivan about their book Double Exposure: Resurveying the West with Timothy O'Sullivan, America's Most Mysterious War Photographer  (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ...Show More
3) 076 - Jason Heppler - Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism
A conversation with historian Jason Heppler about their book Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism  (University of Oklahoma Press, Environment in Modern North Ameri...Show More
4) 075 - Coll Thrush - Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific
A conversation with historian Coll Thrush about their book Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific (University of Washington Press, 2025) Coll Thrush is Professor of History a...Show More
5) 074 - William Grady - Redrawing the Western: A History of American Comics and the Mythic West
A conversation with scholar William Grady about their book Redrawing the Western: A History of American Comics and the Mythic West (University of Texas Press, 2024) Dr. William Grady is an independent...Show More
6) 073 - James Buckley - City of Wood: San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry
A conversation with urban planner and architectural historian James Michael Buckley about their book City of Wood: San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry (University of Te...Show More
7) 072 - Amanda Van Lanen - The Washington Apple
A conversation with historian Amanda Van Lanen about their book The Washington Apple: Orchards and the Development of Industrial Agriculture (University of Oklahoma Press, 2022). Â Amanda L. Van La...Show More
8) 071 - John Nelson - Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago's Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent
A conversation with historian John William Nelson about their book, Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago's Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent (University of North Carolina Press, 2023) J...Show More
9) 070 - Samuel Western - The Spirit of 1889: Restoring the Lost Promise of the High Plains and Northern Rockies
A conversation with journalist, author, and poet Samuel Western about his book, The Spirit of 1889: Restoring the Lost Promise of the High Plains and Northern Rockies (University Press of Kansas, 202...Show More
10) 069 - James Tejani - A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth
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 profe...Show More