Is Alaska stuck in the myth of the big strike? On this week's bonus episode, we speak with Kathryn Morse, a professor at Middlebury College and author of The Nature of Gold: an Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush. I loved speaking with Kathryn because she is both incredibly knowledgeable about the Klondike Gold Rush, and an astute observer of how gold rush era myths inform Alaska's identity and politics today. We discuss the crisis in American identity that coincide...
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Is Alaska stuck in the myth of the big strike? On this week's bonus episode, we speak with Kathryn Morse, a professor at Middlebury College and author of The Nature of Gold: an Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush. I loved speaking with Kathryn because she is both incredibly knowledgeable about the Klondike Gold Rush, and an astute observer of how gold rush era myths inform Alaska's identity and politics today. We discuss the crisis in American identity that coincide...
This episode looks at how Russian colonization has been publicly remembered in Kodiak in the island's recent history. We speak to staff at the Kodiak History Museum, the Alutiiq Museum, and community members who performed in the summer theatre production Cry of the Wild Ram. Guests: Anjuli Grantham Sarah Harrington Lynn Walker April Laktonen Counceller Hanna Sholl Sophie Frets For more information, visit us at www.thealaskamyth.com Instagram | Facebook | Twitter
The Alaska Myth
Is Alaska stuck in the myth of the big strike? On this week's bonus episode, we speak with Kathryn Morse, a professor at Middlebury College and author of The Nature of Gold: an Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush. I loved speaking with Kathryn because she is both incredibly knowledgeable about the Klondike Gold Rush, and an astute observer of how gold rush era myths inform Alaska's identity and politics today. We discuss the crisis in American identity that coincide...
