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- The Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at BYU - Promoting & funding the study of the North American West with special emphasis on the Intermountain regions of AZ, CO, ID, MT, NV, NM, UT, and WY - https://reddcenter.byu.edu
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The archived video of Amy Tanner Thiriot's lecture on enslaved Black Utah pioneers, which draws from her multiple award-winning book, "Slavery in Zion," is now available on our YouTube channel. youtu.be/3t6H3Zmj6E4?...

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Today is our annual Annaley Naegle Redd Lecture! Please join us in person or via the live stream (links below) for Amy Thiriot's lecture on enslaved black Utah pioneers at 11:00 MST. Live Streaming: - www.facebook.com/BYUReddCente... - www.youtube.com/BYUReddCente...

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Welcomed home to canyon country by 3 months of mail including Glen Canyon Institute Hidden Passage. Cover photo of Gypsum Rapid’s return as part of my field research observing community & changes in the Colorado River watershed. Thank you @byureddcenter.bsky.social for your support.

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Applications for our annual funding season are due in 4 DAYS! March 15th. Please help spread the word (and apply yourself)! 🗃️ #AmWest

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🚨New Episode Alert🚨 Bite into some delicious history with professor Amanda Van Lanen (Lewis-Clark State College) and her book "The Washington Apple: Orchards and the Development of Industrial Agriculture" (@oupress.bsky.social 2022). writingwestwardpodcast.podbean.com/e/072-amanda...

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Free event next Wednesday, Feb. 26 @ 7:00 PM in Provo! Ryan W. Saltzgiver (Curator of Historic Sites for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) will present on the history and archaeology of Provo Tabernacle. Details and QR code to reserve free tickets on the attached flyer.

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Less than a month left to apply for our awards/funding for research and public programming! #funding #amwest 🗃️

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#CFP for "Indigenous Histories and Crossings in an Age of Global Change." Proposals due March 1. Spread the word about this great symposium being hosted by SMU's Clements Center for Southwest Studies at their Taos, NM campus in September 2025. It will result in an edited volume. 🗃️

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🚨New Episode🚨 We chat with historian John Nelson (@ttu.edu) about Native history, the environment, & more via his multiple award-winning 2023 book, "Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago's Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent" (@uncpress.bsky.social). 📗🗃️ www.podbean.com/eas/pb-e5vjr...

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It's FUNDING SEASON at the Redd Center! We have award categories for anyone from any discipline doing work the Intermountain West portions of AZ, CO, ID, MT, NV, NM, UT, and WY. Applications are due March 15, 2025. Please help us spread the word! reddcenter.byu.edu/Blogs/redd-c... #funding 🗃️

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#CFP to share for this conference hosted at NAU. If you know of people working on environmental science and land management issues in the region, please have them apply! Plus, we're excited to help sponsor the keynote speaker, Robin Kimmerer. Due March 28. in.nau.edu/biennial-con...

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Here's our Winter 2025 Newsletter. Check out what we're up to, what/who we've been funding, and new projects that have resulted from our past support. reddcenter.byu.edu/Blogs/redd-c...

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New year, new month, new episode.

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ONE WEEK left to apply for our August 6-8 seminar/workshop (and subsequent edited volume) on Outdoor Recreation History in the North American West. Deadline is Jan 15. #cfp reddcenter.byu.edu/Blogs/redd-c...

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Exciting news! "Essays on American Indian and Mormon History," the edited volume that Redd Center Board Member P. Jane Hafen & Assoc. Director Brenden Rensink edited & published w/ @uofupress.bsky.social in 2019, is now available in a much more affordable PAPERBACK edition! amzn.to/3DJq8Mb

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2 weeks until the Jan 15 application deadline for our Outdoor Recreation History in the N. American West seminar! You write an article, we fly you to Utah to workshop it w/ others (Aug. 6-8), & after revisions we publish it in an edited volume. Easy! reddcenter.byu.edu/Blogs/redd-c... #CFP 🗃️📗

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We're excited to host Steven Simms and Amy Thiriot (and maybe more to come...) for lectures in our Winter 2025 series. Info and updates at the link below: reddcenter.byu.edu/Blogs/redd-c...

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🚨New Episode Alert🚨 A conversation with Prof. James Tejani (Cal-Poly Dept. of History) about his new book, "A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles—and America" (@wwnorton.bsky.social, 2024). writingwestwardpodcast.podbean.com/e/069-james-... #AmWest🗃️📗

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If you are on BYU campus Thursday, December 5 at 11:00, swing by the Education in Zion Auditorium (B192 JFSB) for the premier screening of Prof. Fred Woods' new documentary on Latter-day Saint history in Montana.

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Streaming live now, Paul Formisano on the Colorado River, overlooked voices on its management, and environmental humanities. Https://www.youtube.com/byureddcenter/live

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Rebuilding @brendenwrensink.bsky.social's Writing Westward Podcast community here as the other place devolves. There are 68 past episodes to catch up on, share, rate, and review. Get to it!

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🚨CALL FOR PAPERS Announcing the next Redd Center seminar & anthology - "Outdoor Recreation History in the North American West." The seminar will take place on August 7-8, 2025. Proposals are due January 15, 2025. Please help us spread the word! reddcenter.byu.edu/Blogs/redd-c... #CFP 🗃️📗#AmWest

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