Megan Kate Nelson: Written West

<span class="il">Megan</span> Kate Nelson is a historian and writer, with a BA from Harvard and a PhD in American Studies from the University of Iowa. She is the author of <em>Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America</em>(Scribner 2022) and her previous book, <em>The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West</em> (Scribner 2020) was a finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in History. She writes about the Civil War, the U.S. West, and American culture for <em>The New York Times</em>, <em>Washington Post</em>, <em>The Atlantic</em>, <em>Smithsonian Magazine</em>, and TIME. Before leaving academia to write full-time in 2014, she taught U.S. history and American Studies at Texas Tech University, Cal State Fullerton, Harvard, and Brown. Thank you Megyn!