Two historians walk into a sound booth: A Review of the out×LAND×ish podcast
By Mike Childers Iowa Public Radio’s sound booth sits just inside the station’s front doors. An enormous window allows thoseContinue Reading
Tag: National Parks
The Color of Our Parks – Public Lands History Center Host Panel on Race and the National Parks
by Maggie Moss Jones Americans experience their parks in many different ways, something not formally acknowledged until recently when theContinue Reading
Celebrating Yosemite Part 11: The 1997 Merced Flood and the Future of Yosemite
A rare tropical storm pounded the Sierras with rain throughout New Years Eve day, 1997. The warm rains melted theContinue Reading
Celebrating Yosemite Part 9: Wilderness in Yosemite
The Wilderness Act turns fifty this month. Signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on September 3, 1964, the actContinue Reading
Celebrating Yosemite Part 8 – The Stoneman Meadow Riots and Problem of Law Enforcement
Few events in Yosemite’s history remain as divisive as the July 4, 1970 Stoneman Meadow Riot, which had become aContinue Reading
Celebrating Yosemite Part 7 – The First Ascent of El Capitan and the Question of Appropriate Recreation
At 6:00 a.m. on November 12, 1958, after climbing through the night, Warren Harding, Wayne Merry, and George Whitmore pulledContinue Reading
Celebrating Yosemite Part 5 – The 1937 Yosemite Valley Flood
A light rain began falling in the Yosemite Valley on the morning of December 9, 1937. By the afternoon theContinue 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
