THE AMERICAN ELSEWHERE

From the University Press of Kansas. The American Elsewhere delves into the cultural and emotional world of adventurers in the early nineteenth-century United States. With their words and images, they energized the mythologies of the West and contributed to the justifications of territorial conquest. They told stories of exhilarating perils, boundless landscapes, and erotic encounters that elevated their chauvinism, avarice, and violence into forms of nobility. As self-proclaimed avatars of American exceptionalism, adventurers transformed westward expansion into a project of romantic nationalism. For more information see The American Elsewhere.

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I will take part in a lightening round panel at the meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association in Las Vegas, August 2019. We will discuss "Rethinking Regions: Spatial Bounds in History and Historiography," and I will tackle the topic of "Texas at the Regionalist Crossroads." Thanks to Alexander Finkelstein and Anne Hyde for their invitation.

On the blog-of-sorts, I offer a review of The Iron Orchard. Click (here) for some thoughts on this independently produced and distributed Texas film.