Chapter Essays

Carr Childers, Leisl. “Change, Loss, and the Gain of Unfamiliar Things: John Steinbeck’s The Red Pony and the Agricultural, Economic, and Environmental Crisis of the Interwar West,” In Renee Laegreid, ed., The West Between the Wars. University of Nebraska Press. In copy edits.

Carr Childers, Leisl. “All that We Cannot See: Mari Sandoz’s Little Bighorn Battlefield Now and Then,” in Sandoz Studies Volume 2: Sandoz and the Battle of Little Bighorn. Renee Laegreid, Leisl Carr Childers, and Margaret Huettl, editors. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2024. pp. 155-177.

Carr Childers, Leisl and Adam Sowards. “Hope in Public Lands: A Conversation,” in Wallace Stegner’s Unsettled Country: Ruin, Realism, and Possibility in the American West. Mark Fiege, Michael Lansing, and Leisl Carr Childers, editors, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2024. pp. 183-212.

Carr Childers, Leisl. “The American West Program at Colorado State University, 1972 to 2022,” in The American West Program at 50: Celebrating a Half Century of Innovation & Inclusion in Art & History at Colorado State University. Jared Orsi, Derek Everett, and Leisl Carr Childers, editors. Fort Collins, CO: Center for Literary Publishing, 2023. pp. 9-29.

Carr Childers, Leisl. “Taking a Public Turn: Public History as Public Service in the American West,” in Western Lands, Western Voices: Essays on Public History in the American West. Gregory E. Smoak, editor. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2021.

Carr Childers, Leisl. “The Angry West: Understanding the Sagebrush Rebellion in Rural Nevada,” in Bridging the Distance: Common Issues in the Rural West. David Danbom, editor. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2015. 269-315.

Carr Childers, Leisl. “Incident at Galisteo: The 1955 Teapot Series and the Mental Landscape of Contamination,” in Proving Grounds: Militarized Landscapes, Weapons Testing, and the Environmental Impact of U.S. Bases. Edwin Martini, editor. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015. 75-110.

Fabos, Bettina, Leisl Carr Childers, and Sergey Golitsinskiy. “Digital Literacy, Public History, and Fortepan Iowa,” in Media Education for a Digital Generation. Julie Frechette and Rob Williams, editors. New York: Routledge, 2015. 244-260.

Carr Childers, Leisl. “Every Mine, Every Cow Camp, Every Ranch Near the Nevada Test Site: Oral History as Field Work,” in Oral History, Community, and Work in the American West. Jessie Embry, editor. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2013. 284-304.