Many readers may not think of the American West as a particularly religious place. What do we gain by paying attention to the role of religion in its history?It is true that the topic of religion rarely comes up in standard narratives of U.S. western history (Of course there a few important exce
By Corinna Zeltsman, author of Ink under the Fingernails: Printing Politics in Nineteenth-Century MexicoBehind histories of press freedom and liberal state formation in nineteenth-century Mexico lies an unexplored dimension – the printing shops and diverse laboring communities that powered print