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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) Watch th...

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. Watch the video here .

Listen to Kurt Ikeda, Director of Interpretation and Education, Minidoka national Historic Site briefly discus the impact and the history of the Minidoka Site in Idaho. This is the first episode in a three part series created in partnership with the Friends of Minidoka.   Speakers:  Kurt Ikeda Director of Interpretation and Education, Minidoka National Historic Site   Robyn Achilles...

In the age of information, why is so hard to be a well-informed citizen? Developing our news literacy can help us navigate the media landscape, and that means more than checking facts and spotting hoaxes. Yes, facts are important, but we also need a broader understanding of how news and information are produced and consumed in the digital age. What’s happening to real news, and how is it construct...

The Panel will be discussing how both local media and journalism are currently changing & evolving in the 21st century. This panel will be moderated by Bill Manny of Idaho Public Television and the IHC Board of Directors, and introduced by Margaret Johnson, Chair of IHC Board of Directors and Professor of English; Director of Composition at Idaho State University. These panel discussions were...

El Panel discutirá cómo los medios locales como y el periodismo se hancambiado y evolucionando en el siglo XXI. Este panel será moderado por Bill Manny de Idaho Public Television y miembro del IHC, y presentado por Margaret Johnson, Profesora de Inglés y Director de Composición en Idaho State University y miembro del IHC. Estos paneles de discusión fueron posibles gracias a los fondos de la Fundac...

Join IHC for a panel discussion with prominent journalists Maria Hinojosa and Mark Trahant. They discuss why we view media as so polarizing, and the role journalism plays in our democracy.    This panel was moderated by Bill Manny of Idaho Public Television and the IHC Board of Directors, and introduced by Monique Michel of IHC’s Board of Directors and director of Ballet Folklorico Mexic...

Únase a IHC para una mesa redonda con periodistas prominentes Maria Hinojosa y Mark Trahant. Hablarán sobre los medios y porque los consideramos tan polarizantes y la función del periodismo en nuestra democracia.   Este panel será moderado por Bill Manny de Idaho Public Television y miembro del IHC, y será presentado por Monique Michel del IHC y la Directora de Ballet Folklorico Mexico Lindo....

The United States has been around for more than 250 years, and the mechanisms for the way people vote has changed as the US matures. Many people wonder what voting can look like in the future. Voting on an app? Voting being done without paper? A national holiday for the presidential election? This panel will discuss path towards new voting means, and the issues preventing them.   This program...

The electoral college has been part of the US voting systems for more than two centuries. Debate on why it is still in use rather than the popular vote is very present from the general population. Comments such as “outdated,” “anti-democratic,” and “arbitrary” fly around as critiques against the institution. Join us as we discuss the history of the electoral college, if it should remain, and the m...

What makes voters want to vote? What makes them want to be engaged in a certain election versus another? Dr. Caroline Heldman from Occidental College in Los Angeles and Dr. David Adler from the Alturas Institute will explore the impacts of voter apathy in smaller states and those deemed “safe” in the presidential election, such as Idaho. The discussion will also touch on the different ways various...

3 political science professors from Boise State University to discuss issues facing Idaho voters, both on the local and national level. Topics for discussion include voter apathy and voting patterns and each panelist will bring their own specialty to this timely discussion. This program is funded by the 'Why It Matters: Civic and Electoral Participation' initiative, administered by the Federation...

What does it mean to be a citizen? What are the obligations of citizenship in a Democracy? What responsibilities are intertwined with civic duty? Dr. David Gray Adler, Dr. Caroline Heldman, and Dr. Lara Brown share insights and answer questions from the audience in a timely special discussion.   This program is funded by the 'Why It Matters: Civic and Electoral Participation' initiative, admi...

This conversation will explore the role of the judiciary in the history of American’s struggle to form a more perfect union.  A Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge, a United States Bankruptcy Judge and a law clerk for the District of Idaho will discuss the role that the judiciary has played in history in either serving this effort or preventing it with a specific focus on cases in Idaho that...

Hello listeners!  Over the next few weeks, we will be posting a curated collection of episodes focusing on themes surrounding Democracy. In this special series, expect to learn about voter apathy, media literacy, the electoral college, and the changing face of media. These episodes were funded in part by the Federation of State Humanities Councils through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Fou...

Look at a map of the United States and you'll see the familiar cluster of states in North America, plus Hawai'i and Alaska in boxes off to the side. But what about Puerto Rico? What about American Samoa? The country has held overseas territory--lands containing millions of U.S. nationals--for the bulk of its history. They don't appear often in textbooks, but the outposts and colonies of the United...

During the twentieth century, hundreds of communities in the American West disappeared, and no one seemed to care. River development projects – massive dams built for irrigation, hydroelectricity, and flood control – displaced or destroyed towns, tribal communities, farmsteads, and ranches on the Snake, Colorado, Columbia, and other rivers. Recovering these lost histories is the mission of The Atl...

An overview of Sacajawea from 1805-106 and the Lewis and Clark Expedition's time in Lemhi County, Idaho. Jumping back to today, a look at the different portrayals and representations of Sacajawea throughout the 20th and 21st century and the establishment and mission of the Sacajawea Center today. Bios: Suzy Avey, Director of the Sacagawea Interpretive, Cultural, and Educational Center, Salmon, ID...

In 1847, Presbyterian missionary Henry Spalding acquired handmade Nez Perce artifacts and sent them from north-central Idaho to his friend and supporter, Dudley Allen, in Ohio in exchange for commodities. This was the fate of many early Native American materials, to be appropriated by non-Natives and removed from the hands and lands that created them. The shirts, dresses, baskets, horse regalia, a...

The Berlin Wall, Polish Solidarity, Tiananmen Square, the dissolution of the Soviet Union: the end of the Cold War created cultural and political reverberations around the globe. Americans celebrated the United States’ triumph over the Soviet Union, having “won” a conflict that had dominated international affairs for half a century. Yet the end of the Cold War wrought changes in American culture t...

In this talk, Riché Richardson reflects on the life, activism and continuing significance of civil rights leader Rosa Parks.  Richardson draws on the leader’s legacy and work with children to reflect on her own life path, mentors, and early community service work as a student at the historic St. Jude Educational Institute in Montgomery, Alabama that established foundations for her current wor...

John Denver is one of America’s greatest country-folk singer/songwriters. With over 30 albums in his discography, Denver was more than just a performer. He was an actor, environmentalist, and humanitarian whose efforts continue to be celebrated. He had a raw talent and unique ability to capture the essence of everyday issues through music that seemed to flow from him with deep conviction, especial...

While the fall of the Alamo on March 6, 1836, has become an iconic moment in Texas--and due to the influence of Hollywood in American history--it was only one event in a chain that began decades earlier in Mexico's struggle for independence from Spain and stretched through the American Civil War. The siege and battle of the Alamo is a good way, then, to examine how ethnic, racial, political, econo...

Ritualized festivals in Francophone Belgium (Wallonia) are focal points of civic pride and serve as vehicles for local expressions of historical commemoration. Numerous saint-military marches received UNESCO recognition as examples of “Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity” in 2012. The annual processionals involve hundreds of marchers from local communities dressed in Napoleonic-era military u...

The Fremont cultures of the northeastern Great Basin and northern Colorado Plateau are understood as the northernmost maize agriculturalists in the North American Southwest. Because of the relatively recent timing of the Fremont foraging-farming transition (AD 300-1300), we can learn a great deal about the subtle interplay between climatic conditions and social decisions leading to the intensifica...