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Dr. Caitlin Cieslik-Miskimen joins Johanna to talk about how valuable student newspapers and yearbooks are to study American history.  

Blake Lingle, founder and owner of Boise Fry Company and author of Fries!, An Illustrated Guide to the World’s Favorite Food teaches us everything we ever wanted to know about French fries!  Including, why they are not really French! 

Johanna and Dr. Rebecca Schwartz talk about a little-known area of World War II history in Idaho that significantly impacted Idaho families.

* The Long Afterlife of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration by Karen Inouye is the correct title of a book referenced in this episode.

Johanna is joined by Dr. Russell P. Johnson from the University of Chicago Divinity School to talk about our favorite holiday films.

In this episode, Dr. Sara Dant explains the history of how we use public lands in the West and how federal land management agencies have stewarded those lands for the public.  Dr. Dant’s presentation can best be viewed on YouTube and is geared toward students and teachers. 

I am blooming from the wound where I once bled. –Rumi

Idaho is fraught rich with stories of loss hope. Stories of failure resilience. Stories of doubt belief in a better future. Some of those stories are often repeated and some have not yet been told. It’s time to revisit our narratives from the past, to revise our stories for the future, to re-story a state and its beings whose destiny relies on what kind of storytellers we raise and what kind of ancestors we are going to become. 

In this interactive session that blends story, poetry, traditional ecological knowledge, science, and history, CMarie Fuhrman, Idaho writer in residence resistance will guide you on a journey of re-storyation. She will provide prompts, pedagogies, and poems to mix with imagination and literature to teach hope, resilience, and love and show how the craft of literature can make the stories and beliefs that change the future.

Dr. McMillin shares his presentation on the Blue Humanities, which he gave at the IHC Summer Teacher Institute, An Environment of Hope, with our listeners. In this session, participants will be introduced to the “blue humanities,” with particular focus on rivers and literature. There are three main parts: Why Teach Blue Humanities, What to Teach If You Teach Blue Humanities, and How to Teach Blue Humanities. Part one (Why) centers around hope, and the ways that literature fosters hope through “Connecting” (making connections, belonging to the world, participating), “Flowing” (moving connectedly and connectively, changing, adapting), and “Reflecting” (re-viewing, re-seeing, re-thinking). In part two (What), we will explore different ways of using Blue Humanities in the classroom, including examples of semester-long courses (from both scientific and literary perspectives) and shorter units. The final section (How) involves looking at several literary works and thinking about their different approaches to rivers and the concept of “home.”

Arlie Sommer makes media art about and for Idahoans, exploring this place and the people who make Idaho unique. She joins us to talk about her latest project, a short documentary about an “Idaho Babe.”

Dr. Nick Underwood, a professor of historian modern Jewish and European history from the College of Idaho joins us to talk about the essentials of Jewish history, antisemitism, Idaho’s Jewish history, and the value to all Idahoans of our religious diversity. 

Dr. Gautam Basu Thakur is the director of the critical theory minor at Boise State University and chair of a new department and major- Humanities and Cultural Studies. He joins us to talk about this new program and the value of applying critical theory to literature.  

Dr. Ann Campbell, a professor of English Literature from Boise State University, joins us to talk about why Jane Austen is the author of our go-to comfort reading and viewing, despite publishing only 6 novels over 200 years ago.

Join Marie Stango, Assistant Professor - 18th- and 19th-Century U.S.; Women, Gender, and Sexuality; African American and African Diaspora studies at Idaho State University in a talk about the multiple facets of Abolition in the U.S.

Join Marie Stango, Assistant Professor - 18th- and 19th-Century U.S.; Women, Gender, and Sexuality; African American and African Diaspora studies at Idaho State University in a talk about the multiple facets of Abolition in the U.S.

Join Susan Anderson, History Curator at the California African American Museum as she walks us through gold rush California. She will look at this time period in California history through the lens of African Americans and their stories.

Join Susan Anderson, History Curator at the California African American Museum as she walks us through gold rush California. She will look at this time period in California history through the lens of African Americans and their stories.

Join Dr. Becca Scofield as she shares her family's story in Idaho. Throughout the story, Dr. Scofield shines a light on the overlapping experiences a place can hold.

Dr. Scofield's email is rscofield@uidaho.edu

Join Dr. Becca Scofield from University of Idaho as she discussed how history is collected, told, and organized. She also explores the pitfalls of these processes, including how to navigate nuances in the tapestry of history.

Dr. Scofields email is rscofield@uidaho.edu

A small town weighs the economic compromises of growth in the Rocky Mountain West.

Dr. Ryanne Pilgeram from University of Idaho joins us to discuss her book on Dover, Idaho titled "Pushed Out." What happens to rural communities when their traditional economic base collapses? When new money comes in, who gets left behind? Pushed Out offers a rich portrait of Dover, Idaho, whose transformation from “thriving timber mill town” to “economically depressed small town” to “trendy second-home location” over the past four decades embodies the story and challenges of many other rural communities.

Check out her book at the Book People store in Moscow or Vanderford’s in Sandpoint.

You can also purchase the book online here: https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295748696/pushed-out/ (use discount code WST30 for 30% off!)

A small town weighs the economic compromises of growth in the Rocky Mountain West.

Dr. Ryanne Pilgeram from University of Idaho joins us to discuss her book on Dover, Idaho titled "Pushed Out." What happens to rural communities when their traditional economic base collapses? When new money comes in, who gets left behind? Pushed Out offers a rich portrait of Dover, Idaho, whose transformation from “thriving timber mill town” to “economically depressed small town” to “trendy second-home location” over the past four decades embodies the story and challenges of many other rural communities.  

Check out her book at the Book People store in Moscow or Vanderford’s in Sandpoint. 

You can also purchase the book online here: https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295748696/pushed-out/ (use discount code WST30 for 30% off!)

Join Dr. Markie McBrayer from University of Idaho as she discusses the history of third parties in the United States' two-party system.

Join Dr. Markie McBrayer as she explores political party systems through US history. This includes shifts in party values, names, and structures.

Celebrity historian Raffi Andonian explores the history of the American dream from the founding of the US to present day through people, art, and objects.

Celebrity historian Raffi Andonian explores the history of the American dream from the founding of the US to present day through people, art, and objects.  

Kyle T Mays, Assistant Professor of African American Studies, American Indian Studies, and History at UCLA, joins us to provide context on Afro-Indigenous History of the United States with a focus on the Black Power and Red Power movements.

Kyle T Mays, Assistant Professor of African American Studies, American Indian Studies, and History at UCLA, joins us to provide context on Afro-Indigenous History of the United States with a focus on the Black Power and Red Power movements.

Adam Sowards, Professor Emeritus at the University of Idaho, joins us to provide context on the American Landscape through four laws, two places, and two people.

Adam Sowards, Professor Emeritus at the University of Idaho, joins us to provide context on the American Landscape through four laws, two places, and two people.

This three-part series presented by Dr. Liz Redd of Idaho State University will help listeners:

1) articulate pervasive myths and stereotypes of native American peoples often perpetuated in mainstream education/society

2) reframe discussions to dispel common misconceptions about Native American peoples, their histories, and their persistence & resistance 

3) describe the unique sovereign political status of Native American Tribes in the United States as informed by history and policy 

4) explore ways to incorporate diverse voices and perspectives throughout curriculum and programs  

Key concepts include representation, U.S. Native American Law & Policy, erasure, resistance, and sovereignty.

This three-part series presented by Dr. Liz Redd of Idaho State University will help listeners:   

1) articulate pervasive myths and stereotypes of native American peoples often perpetuated in mainstream education/society 

2) reframe discussions to dispel common misconceptions about Native American peoples, their histories, and their persistence & resistance 

3) describe the unique sovereign political status of Native American Tribes in the United States as informed by history and policy 

4) explore ways to incorporate diverse voices and perspectives throughout curriculum and programs  

Key concepts include representation, U.S. Native American Law & Policy, erasure, resistance, and sovereignty.

This three-part series presented by Dr. Liz Redd of Idaho State University will help listeners:

1) articulate pervasive myths and stereotypes of native American peoples often perpetuated in mainstream education/society

2) reframe discussions to dispel common misconceptions about Native American peoples, their histories, and their persistence & resistance

3) describe the unique sovereign political status of Native American Tribes in the United States as informed by history and policy

4) explore ways to incorporate diverse voices and perspectives throughout curriculum and programs

Key concepts include representation, U.S. Native American Law & Policy, erasure, resistance, and sovereignty.

This panel discussion focuses on the impacts, stories, and legacies of Minidoka through the lens of survivors and descendants from the camp.   The panel includes the following panelists:  

Paul Tomita, Survivor (Sansei) 

Mary Abo, Survivor (Nisei) 

Karen Hirai Olen, Survivor (Sansei) 

Wendy Tokuda, Descendant (Sansei) 

Stephen Kitajo, Descendant (Yonsei)

Dr. Donna Nagata from the University of Michigan discusses multi-generational trauma and the psychosocial consequences of the World War II incarceration and historical trauma on Japanese Americans with Robyn Achilles.