I'm so excited to be in conversation with Philip J. Deloria on November 24 at the Harvard Bookstore. This is a bucket-list event for a Harvard grad and for a scholar of Native American history with the great and good Prof. Deloria! Very grateful for Harvard's American Studies program for co-sponsoring the event!
Kirkus, which is notoriously tough, has given a very generous review of Wakara's America, calling it "a revealing study from a forgotten theater of the war against Native America."
I'm thrilled to receive this starred review from Publishers Weekly for Wakara's America. And my colleagues and I were tickled that I'm called a "classicist"; I'm in a Classics and Religious Studies department, but I'm a historian. I'm particularly grateful that the reviewer identified our work using genealogy and DNA to show how complicated Wakara's [...]
I'm thrilled to be launching Wakara's America at the University of Utah's Hinckley Institute, in conversation with Forrest Cuch.
I meant to get this out on September 10. But then, life, in this case, literally intervened in the best way possible. Our second child arrived that day--pink, red-haired, and strong-willed, just like baby sister (and her dad and mom, too). It's been a year (and then some) since Race and the Making of the Mormon [...]
Max Perry Mueller 