So many American's like their history manufactured and packaged to suit their world view. They prefer the history they injest to be highly palatable and easily digested, an entree meant to reassure themselves of their own exceptionalism. However, history is as complicated as humanity itself, why would it be anything else? History is, afterall, the study of our ansestors and thus, in a fashion, of ourselves. If history doesn't confront our miscoceptions with stark realities and lessons from the past, what good is it? Historians and authors London Talbot and Mark Iverson run towards these subjects! They enjoy diving in the mess that is American history. Highway to History is the recorded record of their attemot to have interesting and challenging conversations about America's past, present and future. Step on in our 1978 GMC Kingsley motorhome and listen up!
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So many American's like their history manufactured and packaged to suit their world view. They prefer the history they injest to be highly palatable and easily digested, an entree meant to reassure themselves of their own exceptionalism. However, history is as complicated as humanity itself, why would it be anything else? History is, afterall, the study of our ansestors and thus, in a fashion, of ourselves. If history doesn't confront our miscoceptions with stark realities and lessons from the past, what good is it? Historians and authors London Talbot and Mark Iverson run towards these subjects! They enjoy diving in the mess that is American history. Highway to History is the recorded record of their attemot to have interesting and challenging conversations about America's past, present and future. Step on in our 1978 GMC Kingsley motorhome and listen up!
34: A Conversation with Dean Worbois - Author of Gay Bars in Boise: 1976 to 2021
Highway to History Podcast
1 hour 25 minutes
1 year ago
34: A Conversation with Dean Worbois - Author of Gay Bars in Boise: 1976 to 2021
Author Dean Worbois and I sat down at a picnic table in Boise's Julia Davis Park on a clear November day back in 2023 to talk about history...personal history. I wanted to know what it was like for Dean growing up as a gay child in Boise, Idaho as well as how he experienced his city of birth as a man. Additionally, I sought Dean's insight on America's past, where things stand now, and where he thinks the United States will be at in the future. The result is an honest conversation between two students of history about their experiences coming of age and living in America and the perennial struggle LGBTQ+ Americans must wage to simply live in their country as the people they are and were born to be. Thanks for listening!
To purchase a copy of Dean's book, Gay Bars in Boise, Idaho 1976 - 2021 - A General and Very Personal History, please visit Rediscovered Books in downtown Boise at 180 N 8th St, or online at https://www.rdbooks.org/.
Highway to History Podcast
So many American's like their history manufactured and packaged to suit their world view. They prefer the history they injest to be highly palatable and easily digested, an entree meant to reassure themselves of their own exceptionalism. However, history is as complicated as humanity itself, why would it be anything else? History is, afterall, the study of our ansestors and thus, in a fashion, of ourselves. If history doesn't confront our miscoceptions with stark realities and lessons from the past, what good is it? Historians and authors London Talbot and Mark Iverson run towards these subjects! They enjoy diving in the mess that is American history. Highway to History is the recorded record of their attemot to have interesting and challenging conversations about America's past, present and future. Step on in our 1978 GMC Kingsley motorhome and listen up!
