Brenden W. Rensink

Historian of the North American West, Borderlands, Indigenous Peoples, and Environment

From the Bookshelf: Linking the Histories of Slavery – North America and Its Borderlands

Linking the Histories of Slavery: North America and Its Borderlands Edited by Bonnie Martin and James F. Brooks (cross-posted at the Borderlands History Blog) Students and scholars of the NorthContinue readingFrom the Bookshelf: Linking the Histories of Slavery – North America and Its Borderlands

From the Bookshelf: Joseph Smith Papers – Council of 50 Minutes

  Administrative Records Vol. 1, Council of Fifty Minutes, March 1844-January 1846 The Joseph Smith Papers Salt Lake City: Church Historians Press, 2016 Available for PURCHASE now. The Council ofContinue readingFrom the Bookshelf: Joseph Smith Papers – Council of 50 Minutes

From the Bookshelf: James F. Brooks – Mesa of Sorrows

Mesa of Sorrows: A History of the Awat’ovi Massacre James F. Brooks W. W. Norton Press, 2016.   Back in February, I was fortunate to host James F. Brooks onContinue readingFrom the Bookshelf: James F. Brooks – Mesa of Sorrows

From the Bookshelf: Reid – The Sea is My Country

I just finished reviewing Joshua L. Reid’s The Sea is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs for the Pacific Northwest Quarterly and it exceeding all of my expectations.Continue readingFrom the Bookshelf: Reid – The Sea is My Country

From the Bookshelf: Rosenthal – Reimagining Indian Country

Nicolas G. Rosenthal. Reimagining Indian Country: Native American Migration & Identity in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2012.  Readers may be catching on toContinue readingFrom the Bookshelf: Rosenthal – Reimagining Indian Country

From the Bookshelf: Colombi and Brooks – Keystone Nations: Indigenous Peoples and Salmon Across the North Pacific

Keystone Nations: Indigenous Peoples and Salmon Across the North Pacific, edited by Benedict J. Colombi and James F. Brooks, thematically hit on so many of my interests that I couldn’tContinue readingFrom the Bookshelf: Colombi and Brooks – Keystone Nations: Indigenous Peoples and Salmon Across the North Pacific

On Comparative Methodology, My Book Manuscript, and Haake’s The State, Removal and Indigenous Peoples in the United States and Mexico

Back when I was working on my dissertation, I was put in contact with a scholar in Australia – Claudia B. Haake – as her recent monograph was relevant toContinue readingOn Comparative Methodology, My Book Manuscript, and Haake’s The State, Removal and Indigenous Peoples in the United States and Mexico

From the Bookshelf: Graybill – The Red and the White

In what seems like a lifetime-ago, I was a graduate student working on an M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln.  While there, I had the opportunityContinue readingFrom the Bookshelf: Graybill – The Red and the White

From the Bookshelf: Starita – The Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge

From the Bookshelf Periodic musings on books I like I have taught the 2nd half of the U.S. survey (1877-present) no less than 8 times and for that course (andContinue readingFrom the Bookshelf: Starita – The Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge

From the Bookshelf: Reséndez – A Land So Strange

From the Bookshelf Periodic musings on books I like. Only once in my life as a historian has a book recommendation given to a friend actually turned out well.  ItContinue readingFrom the Bookshelf: Reséndez – A Land So Strange

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