History 605

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?

How can we know what happened in the past? Historians use a wide variety of sources in order to answer that question. But how do we know what happened when there was no written language?

What prompts revolution and calamity? A sudden and sharp rise in grain prices, claims historian Scott Nelson, the UGA Athletics Association Professor of the Humanities at the University of Georgia. Nelson chatted with us about his book, Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World.

Today we talk to Joseph Daniels about how history and heritage will be used to commemorate and celebrate the nation's Semiquincentennial, or the 250th year since the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Daniels is the CEO of the America 250 Foundation charged with supporting the nation's celebration.

In this episode of History 605, I spoke with Roger Grant, a historian of the American railroad. Roger has had a long career teaching at Clemson University and has written several books. I spoke with him about his book, "Railroads and the American People," and his forthcoming essay on South Dakota's railroads with the Center for Western Studies. As Roger reminds us, "An idea is what an idea does,"...

In this episode we ask, "how can we represent and best commemorate the Rapid City Flood?" Troy Kilpatrick and Corey Christianson of Rapid City's Journey Museum and Learning Center talk with us about how they answered that question with their current exhibit.

Much of history is an attempt to understand culture, and language is a window to culture like nothing else. So how can we understand the immigrants on the Northern Plains if we don’t speak their language? In the late 19th century, Germans left Europe in massive numbers and thousands settled in what is now South Dakota. What kind of culture did they bring with them? What kind of culture was created...