November is Native American Heritage Month! (It’s one of the reasons Basic Books decided to release Wakara’s America this month—at least I think!). In honor of this month, and to encourage readership of these vital texts, here are five books that helped me write Wakara’s America. I list them in no particular order. Ned Blackhawk’s Violence over the [...]
The most dangerous myth of Manifest Destiny is that it succeeded.
Today’s the day! Wakara’s America: The Life and Legacy of a Native Founder of the American West is officially published TODAY with Basic Books. Drawing together deep archival research with Native oral histories, archaeology, geology, and ecology, Wakara’s America offers an innovative new vision of the history of the American West with Native people at its center. It serves [...]
I'm interrupting my book promotion for something more important. The story of Dr. Mark Bray--a respected historian of fascism and anti-fascism at Rutgers--has broken beyond academic circles. See this NYT article for a good breakdown. But to summarize, Bray has been targeted by Turning Point USA and other groups for his scholarship on anti-fascism. For [...]
Max Perry Mueller 