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...
Episode 3 Bonus: The Myth of the Big Strike with Kathryn Morse
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Episode 3 Bonus: The Myth of the Big Strike with Kathryn Morse
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...
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...
