What Happens Now That the Bundy Trial is Over?
In the wake of the shocking outcome of the Bundy trial, two scholars weigh in on its possible ramifications. “TheContinue Reading
Category: Leisl Carr Childers
Following the Money in the West
by Leisl Carr Childers A review of Follow the Money: A Spatial History for In-Lieu Programs for Western Federal Lands FollowContinue Reading
Thanksgiving Reflections on Standing Rock
Our colleague Elizabeth Sutton was recently in North Dakota at Standing Rock. She returned to Cedar Falls with a storyContinue Reading
A Disappeared Resource
by Leisl Carr Childers This semester, I have asked my students to explore the history of nuclear testing through theContinue Reading
Restoring a River and a People: The Elwha River Project
by Michael W. Childers with photographs by Leisl Carr Childers Standing on the abandoned roadbed, I look down at theContinue Reading
Essential Reading on the Incidents at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
Our good friends at The Institute for Mountain Research at Westminster College asked BlogWest administrator Leisl Carr Childers for a compilationContinue Reading
Cliven Bundy Revisited
I take back the term “empathy.” I’m not even sure I’m sympathetic at this point. Over the weekend, after the completionContinue Reading
Understanding Cliven Bundy
by Leisl Carr Childers The last two weeks’ worth of national news has chronicled a surreal drama acted out inContinue Reading
