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.
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 