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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...

Highway to History #10 - A Very Biased History of the Lynching of Black Americans

91 hours 27 mins; January 22, 2025

Highway to History #9 - LA Fires, TikTok Ban, & RIP President Carter

70 hours 54 mins; January 15, 2025

Highway to History #8 - United CEO, the Fall of Assad & Drones Over Jersey

88 hours 4 mins; December 26, 2024

Highway to History #7 - UFO Hearings and Investigations Part 2

61 hours 58 mins; December 17, 2024

Highway to History #6 - UFO Hearings and Investigations Part 1

61 hours 31 mins; December 10, 2024

Highway to History #5 - Assassinations From Idaho to Yemen

101 hours 3 mins; November 07, 2024

Highway to History #4 - The Truth About The Amityville Horror and The Warrens

89 hours 48 mins; October 30, 2024

Highway to History #3 - Crabbing, Cocaine and The Truth About The Deadliest Catch

90 hours 20 mins; October 23, 2024

Highway to History #2 - Ruby Ridge & The Conspiracy Pyramid

117 hours 24 mins; October 16, 2024

Highway to History #1 - America is Complicated

54 mins; October 08, 2024

Genocide In the Name of Democracy - The French Revolution and the Extermination of the Catholic Vendèe

32 mins; July 05, 2024

Anti-Gay Idaho - A History of Proposition 1

66 hours 56 mins; June 26, 2024

The Bracero Program - Mexican Nationals Enduring Discrimination in WWII Era Idaho and The Pacific Northwest

80 hours 8 mins; June 13, 2024

Reintroduction - Hi I'm Mark Iverson...

8 mins; June 07, 2024

Self-Emancipated - George Washington's Relentless Hunt for Martha's Personal Servant Ona Maria Judge

89 hours 7 mins; May 16, 2024

From Mormonism to Social Media Sensation - A Conversation with Lindsay Van Allen, Host of the City Cast Boise Podcast and Tik Tok Persona Socialistly Awkward

64 hours 44 mins; May 10, 2024

A Conversation with Idaho's Own Naked Neighbor - Innovative Artist, Advocate and Warrior Woman!

64 hours 47 mins; April 26, 2024

Idaho's Libraries are for You, Me, and Those Guys Too - A Conversation With Librarian Molly Nota of the Idaho Library Association and Chelsea Major - Owner of the Lit Room Book Lounge

60 hours 7 mins; April 19, 2024

A Conversation with Tomás Baiza, author of Delivery: A Pocho's Accidental Guide to College, Love and Pizza Delivery, and A Purpose to Our Savagery

84 hours 20 mins; March 26, 2024

A Conversation with Dean Worbois - Author of Gay Bars in Boise: 1976 to 2021

85 hours 41 mins; March 21, 2024

Dynamite and Fire, The Buffalo Soldiers in North Idaho's Silver Valley - 1892 to 1910

28 mins; November 02, 2023

A Conversation with Nampa, Idaho's Haunted Crescent Brewery

42 mins; October 26, 2023

Mountain Home's Haunted Bengoechea Hotel

47 mins; October 19, 2023

The Nation Needed Idaho's Miners - WWII and the Stibnite Mines

52 mins; September 26, 2023

Jeff Standifer: The James Bond of the Confederacy

100 hours 57 mins; September 13, 2023

She Turned the Tide of the Civil War: Jane Silcott, Elias Pierce, and Idaho Gold

51 mins; September 06, 2023

After Tombstone: Wyatt Earp in Coeur d’Alene River Country

62 hours 48 mins; August 16, 2023

Be Brave and Go: The Titanic's Idaho Bound Passengers

68 hours 51 mins; August 09, 2023

Boise's Chinese Tunnels: A Guy Who Knew A Guy Who Knew the Guy that Went in Them Told Me About Them!

67 hours 18 mins; August 02, 2023

Love in an Idaho Concentration Camp: An Interview with Maggie Tokuda-Hall

54 mins; July 26, 2023

Almost Heaven: Bo Gritz and his North Idaho Covenant Community

83 hours 36 mins; July 19, 2023

Advertisements for Democracy: German and Italian POW Camps in Idaho - 1943-1946

59 mins; July 12, 2023

The Great Nampa Fire

50 mins; June 21, 2023

Idaho Folklore: The Legend of Chief Bigfoot

80 hours 31 mins; June 14, 2023

How to Defeat Hate Groups: Idaho Against the Aryan Nations Part 2

75 hours 39 mins; June 07, 2023

How to Defeat Hate Groups: Idaho Against the Aryan Nations Part 1

62 hours 52 mins; May 31, 2023

Dress His Wounds Before He Dies - The Execution of Herman St. Clair

38 mins; May 24, 2023

Life and Death Along the Boise River 1811-1862

79 hours 57 mins; May 17, 2023

Nightmare in the Bitteroots: The Magruder Murders

65 hours 20 mins; May 10, 2023

BONUS- Drunken Idaho Trivia

67 hours 27 mins; May 03, 2023

Idaho Beer History - A Conversation with Alliteration Ales

105 hours 3 mins; April 19, 2023

Covered Wagon Coffee House- The Interviews

61 hours 28 mins; April 12, 2023

BONUS-Idaho V. Vallow Opening Statements

26 mins; April 10, 2023

Vets Against Vietnam: The GI Movement in Mountain Home

103 hours 6 mins; April 05, 2023

Dr. Alan Hart - Trans Healer of Idaho Consumptives

77 hours 49 mins; March 29, 2023

The Lynching of Peter Mallick

81 hours 48 mins; March 22, 2023

The Snake War, Part 2

101 hours 41 mins; March 08, 2023

The Snake War, Part 1

72 hours 13 mins; March 01, 2023

The Confederate Invasion of Boise

73 hours 5 mins; February 22, 2023

A Necessary Evil: Prostitution in Idaho's Frontier Towns, Part 2

61 hours 25 mins; February 15, 2023

A Necessary Evil: Prostitution in Idaho's Frontier Towns, Part 1

60 hours 3 mins; February 08, 2023

Idaho Myth Breakers

106 hours 13 mins; February 01, 2023

Introductions

21 mins; January 16, 2023

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