Jason A. Heppler Photo by John Legg

Historian of land and environmental politics in the North American West.

Hi, I'm Jason A. Heppler, a historian writing about the twentieth century North American West, Great Plains, and Canadian Prairies. I'm the senior developer/scholar at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media and an Affiliate Fellow at the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Books

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Essays, Reviews, & Criticism

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Selected pieces written for other publications and edited collections.

Weblog

A selection of things written here. See the full archive.

On the Road

Talks, lectures, and conference panels. Contact me about booking speaking engagements.

Oct 21-24 Attendee — Western History Association Annual Meeting Details
Jun 20 Under the Big Sky Writer's Retreat — B Bar Ranch, Bozeman, Montana Details

Recent Reading

The latest books on my bookshelf.

The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier Megan Kate Nelson
2026
Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West Heather Hansman
2022
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
1952
The Public Scholar: A Practical Handbook David M. Perry
2026
Where the Sky Began: Land of the Tallgrass Prairie John Madson
1982
America, América: A New History of the New World Greg Grandin
2025
Bad Mexicans Kelly Lytle Hernández
2022
What We Can Know Ian McEwan
2025

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Tack & Ink

Occasional writing on the American West, agricultural history, and political culture.