Brenden W. Rensink, "The North American West in the Twenty-First Century" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)

New Books in Indigenous Studies · Dec 21, 2022 · 56m

In 1893 Frederick Jackson Turner famously argued that the generational process of meeting and conquering the supposedly uncivilized western frontier is what forged American identity. In the late twentieth century, “new western” historians dissected the mythologized western histories that Turner and others had long used to embody American triumph and progress. While Turner’s frontier is no more, the West continues to present America with challenging processes to wrestle, navigate, and overcome.

The North American West in the Twenty-First Century (U Nebraska Press, 2022), edited by Brenden W…