This week Kate and Jim discuss what's been going on lately, including new acquisitions, walking tours and walking tour publications, a former student in the movies, a finding about Superintendent Mercer and outings, and an update on digitied ma

Episode 24: A Tragic True Crime Story

Jul 26th, 2022 33m 58s

As noted at the beginning of this episode, Kate and Jim are discussing a murder-suicide of a former Carlisle student, and reading from newspaper accounts of the time which contain words and characterizations that may be offensive to some listen

Episode 23: Our Exploration of the Richard Henry Pratt Papers

Jul 18th, 2022 31m 25s

Welcome to Season 2! We talk about our first visit to the Beinecke Library and our initial exploration of the Richard Henry Pratt Papers. We talk about what we did, the kinds of things we found, and all the things we want to get back to and exp

Episode 22: Calisthenics and The Cage (not what you think)

Sep 16th, 2021 22m 33s

In this episode Kate examines a book of Calisthenics Songs purchased by the school, and presumably used, in 1879. And we follow a research journey about a building on campus known as "The Cage." It's not as bad as it sounds. Show notes, includ

From the Newspapers of January 1880

Sep 7th, 2021 47m 29s

This week Kate and Jim review a selection of articles from newspapers across the country about the school published in January of 1880. Articles describe specifics about the school and the activities of the students as well as events on the nat

Episode 20: Big Concepts

Jul 20th, 2021 24m 20s

This week Kate is on her own sharing some concerns about the process of deciding what Topic tags to apply to publications and documents on the Carlisle Indian School Digitial Resrouce Center site. She also reads some insightful sections from a

Introduction to Native American boarding schools in the U.S.

Jul 6th, 2021 47m 58s

This week Kate and Jim briefly discuss some recent events including the announcement of the creation of the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiave and the challenges that group will face. We then give an introduction to the reasons boarding sc

Research Roundup

Jun 8th, 2021 28m 35s

This week, Kate and co-host Jim Gerencser discuss new resources about Chief Spotted Tail and the sons he sent to Carlisle and then quickly removed, as well as more resources about how outings worked, the progress being made on confirming the nu

Episode 17: Comparing evidence about the gathering of the first students

Apr 21st, 2021 32m 32s

This week, Kate and Jim do their first "mythology busting" episode and compare the stories and details of the available documentary sources about the gathering of the first students to come to Carlisle.Show notes available at: Carlisle Indian

Episode 16: Research Roundup

Apr 13th, 2021 24m 12s

This week, Kate and Jim discuss a LOT of discoveries they made this past week including a photo that led to an interesting example of a student on outing, uncovering people who have documentation as students but who actually never were enrolled

Tour of the school grounds in 1879

Mar 29th, 2021 38m 10s

This week Kate and Jim discuss the buildings that were remaining on the grounds from the Army's Carlisle Barracks, their condition, and how they were adapted and used by the Carlisle Indian Industrial School when it first opened in 1879. Show

Episode 14: Research Roundup

Mar 18th, 2021 15m 28s

This week Kate explains why there's no proper new episode this week because of all the other interesting research activity, including exploring information on students and updating information about those places in other places online. Show no

Episode 13: Beginning to mine the correspondence files

Mar 9th, 2021 50m 5s

This week, Kate is once again joined by Jim Gerencser to begin to explore the incoming correspondece files from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. In this episode we are focusing on the difficulties the school's founder, Richard Henry Pratt, had in

Episode 12: Research Roundup

Mar 3rd, 2021 19m 50s

This week, Kate goes solo and gives an update on what's been crossing her desk this past week, including books to read, new photos, old photos, and considering organizational software. Show notes at: https://carlisleindianschoolresearch.com/po

Episode Eleven: Newspapers from 1879

Feb 23rd, 2021 54m 11s

This week, Kate is joined again by Jim Gerencser to review some of the content about the Carlisle Indian School in a selection of newspapers from 1879--the year the school was founded. You can find the shownotes here: https://carlisleindiansch

Episode Ten: Early documentation

Feb 16th, 2021 35m 23s

This week, host Kate Theimer and resident expert Jim Gerencser discuss what documentation about the school and its students is available for the years 1879 and 1880. Show notes available at: https://carlisleindianschoolresearch.com/podcast/202

Episode Nine: An Introduction to Medicine at the School with guest Frank Vitale

May 12th, 2020 40m 35s

In this episode Kate welcomes guest Frank Vitale who gives a overview of the history of medicine at the Carlisle Indian School, including how students were treated, what the most common ailments were, and many references to "we really need to g

Episode Eight: Local churches and the Indian School

Apr 3rd, 2020 33m 4s

In this episode I give an overview of how church attendance figured into the lives of students at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School and role I think it played in the school's goal of assimilation. To see the images and find links to more i

Episode Seven: Discoveries among the glass plate negatives

Feb 24th, 2020

This week, I discuss some of the discoveries I made while working with thousands, yes, thousands, of images of Carlisle Indian School subjects. Just a couple of high-level observations about photographer J.N. Choate's process.To see the images

Episode Six: Carlisle Before Carlisle

Dec 6th, 2019 28m 21s

In this episode I discuss the Native people who originally lived in the Carlisle area, the history of the Carlilse Barracks, and a bit about what Carlisle would have been like in 1879 when the first students arrived. See the show notes at https

Episode Five: Researching Ulysses G. Paisano

Nov 20th, 2019 35m 11s

This week I answer a question received via Facebook about a specific student: Ulysses G. Paisano. In doing so I share a deep-ish dive into the kinds of documentation we have connected to him, as well as exploring the information about him in th

Episode Four: How young were the students?

Nov 14th, 2019 29m 48s

In this episode I sort of answer the questions "how young was the youngest student?" and "how young were the students generally?" So, you'll get some numbers and some stories. And some photos if you check out the show notes at: https://carlisle

Episode Three: Richard Henry Pratt's Beginnings

Oct 28th, 2019 32m 53s

In this episode I share my research about the family, youth, and military career of Richard Henry Pratt, the founder of the Carlisle Indian School. For complete show notes visit: https://carlisleindianschoolresearch.com/podcast/2019/10/25/epis

Episode Two: The arrival of the first students

Oct 4th, 2019

In this episode Kate reads some newspaper and first person accounts of the arrival of the first students at the school and share some information about the photographs taken of the first group. You can find complete show notes for this episode

Episode One: I Don't Feel Ready, But Let's Begin

Jul 24th, 2019 4m 27s

This is super-brief introduction to what I hope this podcast will be about and my background and approach for researching the Carlisle Indian Industrial School.

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