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West, Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion

Witgen, Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America 

Voyles, The Settler Sea: California’s Salton Sea and the Consequences of Colonialism

Baumgartner, South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

Valle, The Poetics of Fire: Metaphors of Chile Eating in the Borderlands 

Molina, A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community (University of California Press, 2022)

Barba, Country of the Cursed and the Driven: Slavery and the Texas Borderlands 

Holland, Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement (University of California Press, 2020)

Crandall, These People Have Always Been a Republic: Indigenous Electorates in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1598-1912 

Gilbert, Hopi Runners: Crossing the Terrain between Indian and American 

Lim Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands 

Adams, Three Roads to Magdalena: Coming of Age in a Southwest Borderland, 1890-1990 

Torget, Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850

Nelson, Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago’s Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent

Johnson, The Middle Kingdom under the Big Sky: A History of the Chinese Experience in Montana

Roberts, I Have Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land

Barba, Country of the Cursed and the Driven: Slavery and the Texas Borderlands 

Walters, Wide-Open Desert: A Queer History of New Mexico

Olden, Racial Uncertainties: Mexican Americans, Schools, Desegregation, and the Making of Race in Post-Civil Rights America

Brantley, Brewing a Boycott: How a Grassroots Coalition Fought Coors and Remade American Consumer Activism 

Johnson, Writing Kit Carson: Fallen Heroes in a Changing West 

Ostler, The Lakotas and the Black Hills: The Struggle for Sacred Ground

Loomis, Empire of Timber: Labor Unions and the Pacific Northwest Forests

Edgington, Range Wars: The Environmental Contest for White Sands Missile Range

West, Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado

Kirk, Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth Catalog and American Environmentalism

Hyde, Empires, Nations, and Families: A New History of the North American West, 1800-1860

Herron, Science and the Social Good: Nature, Culture, and Community, 1865-1965

Perales, Smeltertown: Making and Remembering a Southwest Border Community

Phillpott, Vacationland: Tourism and Environment in the Colorado High Country

Henson – Warren, God’s Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America

Edwards, Fairfield, and Wingo, Homesteading the Plain: Toward a New History

Rouse, Her Own Hero: The Origins of the Women’s Self-Defense Movement

Young, Heading Out: A History of American Camping

Burke, A Land Apart: The Southwest and the Nation in the Twentieth Century

Villanueva, The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands

Spencer, The Revolution has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland

Wuthnow, Remaking the Heartland: Middle America since the 1950s

Dornman, Hell of a Vision: Regionalism and the Modern American West

Blackhawk, Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West

McNenly, Native Performers in Wild West Shows: From Buffalo Bill to Euro Disney

Lee, At America’s Gate: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943

Delay, War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War

Culver, The Frontier of Leisure: Southern California and the Shaping of Modern America

Andrews, Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War

Donovan, A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Big Horn

Fixico, The Invasion of Indian Country in the Twentieth Century

Gitlin, The Bourgeois Frontier: French Towns, French Traders, and American Expansion

Jacoby, Shadows at Dawn: An Apache Massacre and the Violence of History

Unrau, Indians, Alcohol, and the Roads to Taos and Santa Fe

Kleinfeld, The Frontier Romance: Environment, Culture, and Alaska Identity 

Taniguchi, Dirty Deeds: Land, Violence, and the 1856 San Francisco Vigilante Committee 

Silverman, Thunderstick: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America