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Depression Is Also No Respecter of Persons

October 17, 2017May 21, 2020 maxperrymuellerLeave a comment

Today was a gorgeous day in Nebraska. Sunny, a bit windy, dry. And a day "off" from school. UNL is on fall break (which means I worked on a new grant application, for the Wakara's World  project). But today, perhaps because I had the "room" mentally to do so--I wasn't fretting about book promotion, or the weather [...]

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A Busy Week for “Race and the Making of the Mormon People”

September 26, 2017May 21, 2020 maxperrymueller1 Comment

I haven't really even caught up with the events of last week. But I want to take a quick moment and write about this week's busy schedule for Race and the Making of the Mormon People. Tomorrow I fly to Utah to give four lectures in two days. Wednesday's itinerary: FIRST will be a brown bag [...]

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Locating a treasure in plain sight

September 6, 2017May 21, 2020 maxperrymuellerLeave a comment

Today researching one of the most well-traveled sources from the early American Southwest, I came across something amazing--a (potential) form of pre-Native literacy, or at least reference to it. Of course, this is key to my argument about Wakara and the Utes' sophisticated understanding and deployment of "archival" history, even if we Roman-script readers aren't [...]

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