Category: Frontier

What is the West? Comparative Wests & History

5/16/2013

What exactly is the West? What on earth are Comparative Wests? And why on earth should you care? Historians Brian Codding, Douglas Bird, Ethan Blue, Jon Christensen & Richard White introduce you to the newest way of thinking about the history of the American West.

Read the introduction and key essays on what the West means today by following the link HERE

Can I particularly recommend the introduction HERE and Darren Jorgensen's comparison of the myth of the cowboy in the US and Australia HERE.

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Ken Burns' "The West" - Full Series

11/25/2012

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A fantastic series by Ken Burns and Steven Ives which explores the West through the writings of New Western Historians such as Patty Limerick and Richard White. If you have the time this is a brilliant watch from start to finish!! If not, I have put a guide on so you can pick specific parts which might be useful. There is an accompanying website which you will find HERE too.

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Western History Association Spring Newsletter

9/25/2012

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I have attached a copy of the latest newsletter from the Western History Association. Some great little articles in this quarter including:

“Teaching the West On the Conservative-Liberal Divide,” by Andrea Radke-Moss
“Cowboys, Aliens, and Other Folks: Teaching the West in Popular Culture,” by Richard Aquila
“Confronting the Mythic West in U.S. High School History Classes,” by Christi Carlson, Katie Piehl, Heather Walker, Lori Wright, and Paula Wright
“Establishing a Baseline in Western Historiography: The Graduate Reading Seminar,” by Durwood Ball
“Forty Years with Bob Hine and the Textbook, The American West: An Interpretive History,” by John Mack Faragher
“Teaching the Environmental History of the North American West,” by Jay Taylor
“Yes, Virginia, Indians Are Still Here: Teaching Native American History,” by Andrew Fisher
“Both Sides Now: Teaching the West North of the 49th Parallel,” by Betsy Jameson
“Teaching Borderlands History for a New Generation,” by Samuel Truett

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WHA Newsletter

12/14/2011

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I have attached a copy of the latest newsletter from the Western Historical Association. Some great little articles in this quarter including:

All Quiet on the Turner Front
More than Just a Prize: The Civil War and the West
Admission of Nevada Territory
Reconstituting the Center of the United States: The Creation of Colorado Territory in 1861

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New Horizons in the American West

9/5/2010

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Wild Bill Hicock and wagon trains - familiar images of pioneer spirit, but a more complex and less triumphalist view of how the American frontier moved West is explained by Margaret Walsh.

http://www.historytoday.com/margaret-walsh/new-horizons-american-west

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What is the West? Comparative Wests & History

Ken Burns' "The West" - Full Series

Western History Association Spring Newsletter

WHA Newsletter

New Horizons in the American West

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