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 notes, including images, are at: https://carlisleindianschoolresearch.com/podcast/2021/3/29/episode-15-tour-of-the-school-grounds-in-1879

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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.

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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 obtaining needed supplies and funds as the school opened.

Show notes for this episode: https://carlisleindianschoolresearch.com/podcast/2021/3/9/episode-13

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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/podcast/2021/3/3/episode-12-research-roundup

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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://carlisleindianschoolresearch.com/podcast/2021/2/23/episode-eleven-newspapers-from-1879

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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/2021/2/16/episode-ten-early-documentation-1879-1880

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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 give that topic an episode of its own!"

Shownotes here: https://carlisleindianschoolresearch.com/podcast/2020/4/22/episode-nine-an-introduction-to-medicine-at-the-school-with-guest-frank-vitale

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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 information go to: https://carlisleindianschoolresearch.com/podcast/2020/3/23/episode-eight-local-churches-and-the-indian-school

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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 and find links to more information go to: https://carlisleindianschoolresearch.com/podcast/2020/2/6/episode-seven-lets-talk-glass-plate-negatives

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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://carlisleindianschoolresearch.com/podcast/2019/12/6/episode-six-carlisle-before-carlisle

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