S1E13 The Refugee Experience and Boise
The refugee resettlement process is a long and taxing process, not one for the faint hearted. Salome takes us on a truncated journey through the process from fleeing one’s home, adjustments in the hos...
25 Aug 20201h
S1E12 The History of Idaho State Parks
In 1908, Idaho’s first state park was created by an Act of Congress. It was named for Sen. Weldon B. Heyburn, who famously said “[state parks] are always a subject of political embarrassment.” This pr...
18 Aug 20201h 16min
S1E11 Native Women Writers and Colonial Domesticity at the Federal Indian Boarding Schools
In this presentation, we'll look at some writings of American Indian women who encountered the colonial, domestic education propagated by federal Indian schools and white women reformers who lived and...
11 Aug 202058min
S1E10 Minidoka: An American Concentration Camp
Minidoka: An American Concentration Camp tells the story of Japanese Americans, most of them American citizens, who were forcibly removed from their Pacific Northwest homes during Word War II. They we...
4 Aug 20201h 4min
S1E9 How INL is Changing the Future of Nuclear Energy
The future of nuclear energy in the US is changing and Idaho National Laboratory, recently designated by Congress as the National Reactor Innovation Center, is leading the way. Coupled with cutting ...
28 Juli 202059min
S1E8 Idaho's Most Controversial Politician: Glen H. Taylor
Post-World War II Idaho politics were unpredictable, intraparty challenges were common, partisanship, often exemplified by newspaper treatment of candidates, was extreme and anti-Communism, a defining...
14 Juli 202058min
S1E7 The Idaho Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial
The Idaho Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial is the only Anne Frank memorial in the United States, is one of the few places in the world in which the entire text of the Universal Declaration of Human Ri...
8 Juli 20201h
S1E6 The Black Experience in Idaho
Terry and Kam will discuss the contemporary Black experience in Idaho. Ranging from growing up and living in Idaho, gender, queerness, and other life experiences, they both will highlight how all thes...
1 Juli 20201h 5min
