Your host describes the amazing moment, just after he came to South Dakota, when he didn't see flying saucers.  

The creator of more recent Wolftrax episodes is Dr. Kristen Brown, assistant professor of English at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota. Older (and forthcoming) content consisting of faculty interviews comes from Professor Emeritus Ken Blanchard, the original creator of Wolftrax.  

Responding to Professor Marmorstein' s challenge in a previous conversation, we discuss the last book of the Bible.  At the beginning of the conversation, he insists that it is a beautiful book and a worthy contribution to the New Testament.  I insisted that it was five kinds of crackers.  Was I persuaded?  You'll have to listen to the podcast to find out.  

The creator of more recent Wolftrax episodes is Dr. Kristen Brown, assistant professor of English at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota. Older (and forthcoming) content consisting of faculty interviews comes from Professor Emeritus Ken Blanchard, the original creator of Wolftrax.  

Professor Elizabeth Haller joins me to talk about the beat writers, especially Jack Kerouac (her favorite) and William S. Burroughs (my favorite).  

The creator of more recent Wolftrax episodes is Dr. Kristen Brown, assistant professor of English at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota. Older (and forthcoming) content consisting of faculty interviews comes from Professor Emeritus Ken Blanchard, the original creator of Wolftrax.  

On this episode, I talk with Professor of History Dave Grettler about his once upon a time career in archeology and his favorite course: environmental history.  Dave explains why he's not walking around in the backwoods of Pennsylvania in a Warden's jacket nor spending his time looking for witch bottles and the jawbones of bears.  We discuss the environmental view in Genesis, the exchange of critters and creepers between Europe and the Americas, and spend some time considering the color of wolves in Yellowstone.  

The creator of more recent Wolftrax episodes is Dr. Kristen Brown, assistant professor of English at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota. Older (and forthcoming) content consisting of faculty interviews comes from Professor Emeritus Ken Blanchard, the original creator of Wolftrax.  

Reporter for the campus newspaper The Exponent interviews Wolftrax host Ken Blanchard about this podcast.  We discuss how it came to be and what it is all about.

The creator of more recent Wolftrax episodes is Dr. Kristen Brown, assistant professor of English at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota. Older (and forthcoming) content consisting of faculty interviews comes from Professor Emeritus Ken Blanchard, the original creator of Wolftrax.  

In this episode Professor of Communications Studies, Elizabeth Sills, comes on to discuss church clowns.  I hadn't heard of them either, but apparently they were once a pretty big thing.  Starting in the 1960's, clowns became part of the church service in many churches across the land.  For how this happened and what it might mean, tune in.  Professor Sills is also the interpreter of all things funny, so we discuss the scholarship of chuckles and each tell a few jokes of our own.  

The creator of more recent Wolftrax episodes is Dr. Kristen Brown, assistant professor of English at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota. Older (and forthcoming) content consisting of faculty interviews comes from Professor Emeritus Ken Blanchard, the original creator of Wolftrax.  

I kick off season two of Wolftrax with Professor of English Peter Raimey.  We talk about his forthcoming translation of the great medieval poem, Beowulf.  We talk about the historical context in which the poem was written and that in which it is set.  Professor Raimey has done a masterful job of combining accuracy of detail with a text that is both readable in modern English and preserves the poetic flow of the original.  Besides, it is a rocking good story.  Three monsters!  Don't miss the dramatic reading from the text at the end of the episode.

The creator of more recent Wolftrax episodes is Dr. Kristen Brown, assistant professor of English at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota. Older (and forthcoming) content consisting of faculty interviews comes from Professor Emeritus Ken Blanchard, the original creator of Wolftrax.  

In Part 1, historian Steve Usitalo and I discuss Russia and the war in Ukraine.  Why did Putin invade?  Why have the Russians, so powerful on paper, done so badly against the Ukrainian army?  What objectives must Ukraine achieve to survive as a nation?  Is any resolution of the conflict on the horizon?  

In Part 2,  ancient historian Art Marmorstein and I discuss the history of the early church.  Why is the history of the Church important in a university history program?  How much do we know about the early church between Paul and the rise of the Roman church?  Was Paul's epistle to the Romans more than a solution to a marketing problem?  Why did Christianity spread so fast along Roman trade routes?  And finally, what was the status of Christmas in the early church?

The creator of more recent Wolftrax episodes is Dr. Kristen Brown, assistant professor of English at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota. Older (and forthcoming) content consisting of faculty interviews comes from Professor Emeritus Ken Blanchard, the original creator of Wolftrax.  

In the first half of this episode I interview Professor of Government Jon Schaff about his fascinating book on Abraham Lincoln.  In the second half, Professor's Kristi Brownfield (sociology) and Elizabeth Haller (english) and I discuss our favorite movies for Halloween.  

The creator of more recent Wolftrax episodes is Dr. Kristen Brown, assistant professor of English at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota. Older (and forthcoming) content consisting of faculty interviews comes from Professor Emeritus Ken Blanchard, the original creator of Wolftrax.