History 605

In this episode, Ben Jones talks with Linda Clemmons to discover how did the Dakota-French families navigated the complicated and rich cultures in Dakota Territory and Minnesota in the mid-nineteenth century.

In this episode, Ben Jones speaks with University of South Dakota Law Professor Tom Simmons to see what happened when angry investor Peter Wintermute and Acting Territorial Governor Edwin McCook have a shootout and brawl in the midst of a Yankton public meeting.

Jon Schaff joins the 605 Podcast to discuss how movies and TV shows represent South Dakota.

Paul Horsted joins the 605 Podcast to talk about the US Army's 1874 Black Hills Expedition and explain how the forest, roads, and buildings all mark historical change

Chuck Chalberg joins the 605 Podcast to discuss Theodore Roosevelt.

Jeanne and David Heidler join the 605 Podcast to talk about their book, "Washington's Circle: The Creation of the President."

Historian David Wolff joins the 605 Podcast to discuss the Deadwood fires of 1879, 1889, 1894, and 1987 and how the responses to these fires made modern city.

Nancy Koupal joins the 605 Podcast to talk about her book Pioneer Girl: The Path Into Fiction .

David C. Posthumus joins the 605 Podcast to talk about his book Lakhota: An Indigenous History

Daniel Burge joins the 605 Podcast to talk about his book, "A Failed Vision of Empire: The Collapse of Manifest Destiny, 1845-1872."

Valerie Sherer joins the History 605 Podcast to talk about the Women’s National Indian Association and the political clout they wielded to raise money, establish hospitals and schools, and live out their view of the Christian gospel.

Pulitzer Prize winning author Stacy Schiff joins the History 605 Podcast to discuss her book, The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams.

David Grabitske joins the History 605 Podcast to discuss the past and future plans for the South Dakota State Historical Society.

Jason Steinhauer joins the History 605 Podcast to discuss his book History, Disrupted: How Social Media and the World Wide Web has Changed the Past/

Joe Jackson joins the History 605 Podcast to discuss the book Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary.

Jon Lauck joins the History 605 Podcast to talk about this book The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest.

Will McClay, a Professor of History at Hillsdale College is the guest on this episode as we talk about his book, “Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story”

Dr. Ashley Rogers Berner, Director of Education Policy at John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland discusses the history of teaching in the United States.

In this episode, we discuss the book, The Great Plains which defined how we think about the region.

During the “dirty thirties,” Earl Neller took six children hitch hiking 850 miles from Sioux Falls, to the Black Hills and then to Hebron, North Dakota.

How can political candidates win in South Dakota? To answer that, one has to know something about the state's complicated political culture, traditions, and voting habits. Some of those answers can be found in our just-released book, "Plains Political Traditions," edited by Jon Lauck and Paula Nelson.

On this edition of History 605, we speak to author April White who brings us back to the high society of the Sioux Falls’ Cataract Hotel and how it became the place where certain women from the east coast could escape a bad marriage.

In today's episode, we discuss Akim's book, "Ruling Pine Ridge: Oglala Lakota Politics from the IRA to Wounded Knee" published by Texas Tech University Press.

Writer Joseph Starita joins us to talk about his book "I am a Man" where he shares the remarkable story of how Standing Bear defeated General George Crook in 1879, not on the battlefield, but in federal court.

Who were the Lakota Code Talkers? What kind of language is Lakota? What can go wrong when two very conceptually different languages such as English and Lakota try to communicate in treaties?