The Extreme History Project: The Dirt on the Past

The Dirt on the Past History Minute - Bronze Age Women Stronger than Today’s Elite Female Rowers

Join Crystal and Nancy, co-hosts of The Dirt on the Past podcast, for a history minute where they discuss how Bronze Age women had stronger arms than today's elite female rowers, due to grinding grain for hours a day. "This is the first study to actually compare prehistoric female bones to those of living women," said lead researcher, Dr Alison Macintosh. 

Imperial Zions with Amanda Hendrix-Komoto

Join us as we talk with Amanda Hendrix-Komoto about her new book, Imperial Zions: Religion, Race, and Family in the American West and the Pacific which was published in 2022. We discuss the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, focusing in on the women of the historical narrative including the wife of Joseph Smith. We talk about polygamy within the church, and when the practice started to take shape, and we talk about how the Latter-day Saints created their understandings of polygamy at the same time they tried to change the domestic practices of Native Americans and other Indigenous peoples. Amanda Hendrix-Komoto is Assistant Professor of History at Montana State University. 

The Dirt on the Past History Minute - Lizzie Williams

Join Crystal and Nancy, co-hosts of The Dirt on the Past podcast, for a history minute!

 

The Dirt on the Past History Minute - Chaco Canyon

Join Crystal and Nancy, co-hosts of The Dirt on the Past podcast, for a history minute!

 

The Dirt on the Past History Minute - Sarah Bickford

Join Crystal and Nancy, co-hosts of The Dirt on the Past podcast, for a history minute!

 

Camp Caroline with Micah Chang

Join us as we speak with Micah Chang about his time working on the first joint archaeological field school between the University of Montana and Montana State University. This field school, initiated by the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, was held to immerse students in federal archeology. Students conducted field surveys and carried out archival research on an African American mining and homesteading community east of Butte, MT currently called the Camp Caroline Mining District. Professional and practicing archeologists and historians worked alongside students to survey, uncover, and interpret this community that left behind scant evidence of their presence and history. The story of Montana’s African American community and their lived experiences has seldom been examined archaeologically. The intention of this field school was twofold: to teach students federal archeology and to elevate African American history in Montana. Micah Chang is a PhD candidate in the Department of History and Philosophy at Montana State University. He is defending his dissertation in April. His research focuses on race, agriculture, and environment on the Northern Great Plains and the American West.

 

A Sense of Place with Sarah Rosenberg

Join us for our conversation with Sarah Rosenberg, the Historic Preservation Officer for the City of Bozeman, MT. We discuss all things historic preservation with Sarah including her vision to tell stories of the underrepresented communities and promote the protection of intangible heritage. We do a little myth busting about what you can, and cannot, do to your house if you live in a historic district or if your house is listed on the National Register. We also discuss historic preservation in the face of growth and how the two can be compatible. Join us for this riveting conversation with Sarah!  

The Story of Us with Kimberly Hogberg

Join us as we talk with filmmaker, Kimberly Hogberg about her film, The Story of Us: The Women who Shaped Montana. This short film was a collaboration with The Extreme History Project, so we are so excited to talk about the film and its debut on Montana PBS! We discuss the film and what goes into creating a historical documentary including the fundraising, the filming, the editing, and the post-production processes. A big thank you to the the organizations that funded this film including The Greater Montana Foundation, the Montana History Foundation, Humanities Montana and the Montana Film Office. 

 

Yellowstone Revealed with Francesca Pine-Rodriguez

Join us for a conversation with Francesca Pine-Rodriguez, the Director of the nonprofit, Mountain Time Arts that is based in Bozeman, MT. We discuss a program led by MTA, Yellowstone Revealed, a series of place-based projects led by a group of inter-tribal Indigenous artists and scholars that happened in Yellowstone National Park during the summer of 2022. We also discuss Indigenous Peoples' Day and the importance of this holiday, because everyone is indigenous to somewhere! For more information on Mountain Time Arts, visit their website at www.mountaintimearts.org. 

 

Digging into Pseudoscience with Crystal and Nancy

Join Nancy and Crystal as they discuss the mythology and true archaeology surrounding the Runestones in the Americas and archaeological evidence of early Norse Settlements before Columbus. We use the series America Unearthed on the History Channel as an example of how to spot entertainment versus scientific evidence that supports archaeological or historical theories.