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Katherine G Aiken Professor of History

Positions

Professor, History , College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences
Provost & Executive Vice President, University of Idaho 2013 - 2015

Research Areas

Publications

selected publications

academic article
- The Homestead and Morrill Acts: Federal Policy Foundational to Idaho. Idaho Landscapes. 32-45. 2013
- Superhero History: Using Comic Books to Teach U.S. History. OAH Magazine of History. 24:41-47. 2010
- Idaho Exchanges. Idaho Yesterdays. 48:7-9. 2007
- Gender and the Congressional Career of Idaho's Gracie Pfost, 1952-1962. Journal of the West. 42:44-51. 2003
- A Woman's Place is in the House, Women in the U.S. House of Representatives: Idaho's Gracie Pfost as Case Study. Rikkyo University American Studies Journal. 24:1-39. 2002
- Odyssey of a Union: Communism and the Rise of the Northwest Metal Workers, 1960-1971. Montana: The Magazine of History. 47:46-61. 1997
- "When I Realized How Close Communism Was to Kellogg, I Was Willing to Donate Day and Night‟: Anti-Communism and the Bunker Hill Strike of 1960. Labor History. 36:165-186. 1995
- "Not Long Ago a Smoking Chimney was a Sign of Prosperity‟: Corporate and Community Response to Pollution at the Bunker Hill Smelter in Kellogg, Idaho. Environmental History Review. 18:67-86. 1994
- "It May Be Too Soon to Crow‟: Bunker Hill and Sullivan Company Efforts to Defeat the Miners‟ Union, 1890-1900. Western Historical Quarterly. 24:309-331. 1993
- Bunker Hill versus the Lead Trust: The Struggle for Control of the Metals Market in the Coeur d‟Alene Mining District, 1885-1918. Pacific Northwest Quarterly. 84:42-49. 1993
- From Mission to Hospital: The Detroit Florence Crittenton Home, 1897-1930. Detroit in Perspective. 6:50-64. 1982
article
- Idaho and the American West. The Idaho Humanities Council. 1994
- Mining in the Coeur d'Alenes. The Idaho Humanities Council. 1994
- Women in Comics Can Be Good Role Models. The University of Idaho Magazine. 10:16. 1993
- "A Meeting Ground for those of Purpose Great": Women's Organizations in Idaho 1991
book
- University of Idaho: Campus History Series. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing Inc.. 2016
- Idaho: the Heroic Journey. Cherbo Publishing. 2006
- Idaho's Bunker Hill: the Rise and Fall of a Great Mining Company, 1885-1981. University of Oklahoma Press. 2005
- Harnessing the Power of Motherhood: The National Florence Crittenton Mission, 1883-1925. University of Tennessee Press. 1998
chapter
- Senator Church and His Constituents. U.S. Security, Intelligence and Democracy: From the Church Committee to the War on Terror. Ed. Russel, Miller A. Routledge. 76-96. 2008
- Idaho. The United States: The Story of Statehood for the Fifty United States. Ed. Shearer, Benjamin F. Greenwood Press. 325-356. 2004
- Sister Aimee Semple McPherson and the Interwar West, 1920-1940. Western Lives: A Biographical History of the American West. Ed. Eutlain, Richard. University of New Mexico Press. 305-326. 2004
- Western Smelters and the Problems of Smelter Smoke. Northwest Lands and Peoples. Ed. Goble, Dale D. University of Washington Press. 501-522. 1999
- The Struggles for Equality and Diversity, 1854-1975. Documents Collection. Worth Publishers. 337-362. 1993
- Don Samuelson. Idaho Governors: Historical Essays on Their Administrations. Ed. Sims, Robert. Boise State University Press. 176-181. 1992
- Introduction. Silver Strike. Ed. Stoll, William. University of Idaho Press. ix-xix. 1991
conference paper
- Walking the Talk: Modeling Integration of Content and Pedagogy. Teaching American History Project Directors Conference 2009. 2009
- A Silent Partner: Gladys Hampton and the Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival. Jazz History Conference 2008. 2008
- Three Historians: Will Work for Cash. Pacific Northwest History Conference 2007. 2007
- Gracie Pfost and Helen Chenoweth, An Unlikely Duo: Gender as an Issue in Idaho Politics. Women's West Conference 2000. 2000
- New Technology, Industrial Organization, and the Coeur d‟Alene Mining Wars. Pacific Northwest Labor History Association 2000. 2000
- Gender as an Issue in the 1952 Election of Idaho‟s Gracie Pfost. American Historical Association - Pacific Coast Branch Conference 1995. 1995
- The Proliferation of Government Regulation and Interference‟: Kellogg, Idaho‟s Bunker Hill Company and Government Efforts to Protect the Environment, 1970-1981. American Society for Environmental History Conference 1995. 1995
- An Independent Labor Union‟s Odyssey: The Northwest Metal Workers, Kellogg, Idaho, 1960-1971. American Historical Association - Pacific Coast Branch Conference 1992. 1992
- Idaho Representative Gracie Pfost and the Hells Canyon Controversy. Pacific Northwest History Conference 1992. 1992
- A Company, the Community and the Environment: Environmental Impact and the Bunker Hill Company of Kellogg, Idaho. American Historical Association - Pacific Coast Branch Conference 1991. 1991
- Entrepreneurial Risk-Taking at the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Company: Construction of the Lead Smelter, 1917. Pacific Northwest History Conference 1991. 1991
- CIO! Labor Organization and the New Deal in Idaho‟s Silver Valley, 1933-1942. Pacific Northwest History Conference 1990. 1990
- Miners and Smeltermen in the Silver Valley. Miner‟s Culture or Mining Culture: A Conference on Occupational Tradition in the Silver Valley, 1990. 1990
- From Mine to Company: The Bunker Hill, 1885-1900. NEH Centennial West Conference 1989. 1989
- Images of Women and the 1960 Mine-Mill Strike at the Bunker Hill Company. Pacific Northwest History Conference 1989. 1989
- Labor Relations at the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Company, 1892-1900. Pacific Northwest History Association Conference 1988. 1988
- The Shoshone County Anti-Communist Association vs. the Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers‟ Auxiliary: Women and Anti-Communism in Kellogg, Idaho, 1950-1960. American Historical Association - Pacific Coast Branch Conference 1988. 1988
- War in the Coeur d‟Alenes: The Bunker Hill and Sullivan Company and the Miners‟ Union, 1892-1900. North American Labor History Conference 1987. 1987
- Mary Heaton Vorse: A Preliminary Report. The Northwest Women's Studies Association Conference 1982. 1982
- Florence Crittenton Homes and the Idea of Unwed Motherhood. Northwest Women's Studies Association Conference 1979. 1979
- Militant Tactics and the Women‟s Social and Political Union. West Coast Conference on British Studies 1974. 1974
review
- Working and Living: Women and Mining Communities. Oral History Review. 119-125. 1999

presentations

invited talk
- Idaho Cities at a Crossroads, Speaker, Idaho Association of Cities 2008
- Big Trouble, Speaker 2006
- The Trial of the Century, Speaker, Association of Attorneys National Convention 2006 2006
- Women and Mining in the Coeur d'Alenes, Speaker 2006
- Labor Relations and the Bunker Hill Company, Speaker 1989
presentation
- Idaho and the Great Depression, Speaker, Phi Alpha Theta Initiation 2009
- Irrigation in the West, Speaker, Teacher In-Service Workshop 2009
- The Idaho Coeur d'Alene Mining District, Speaker, Coeur d'Alene Library Discussion Series 2009
- Western Myth, Speaker, Teacher In-Service Workshop 2009
- Commencement Address, Speaker, University of Idaho Winter Commencement 2008 2008
- Labor and Mining in Idaho, Speaker, Teacher In-Service Workshop 2008
- The Silver and Gold Book: Women and Early Moscow, Speaker, Pleides 2008
- The United States Constitution, Speaker, Teacher In-Service Workshop 2008
- Silver Valley History, Speaker, Teacher In-Service Workshop 2007
- Civil Rights in the 1950s and 1960s, Speaker, Teacher In-Service Workshop 2006
- Idaho's Bunker Hill, Speaker 2006
- Senator Frank Church and the Idaho Connection, Panelist, Bellwood Lecture Panel 2006
- Korea and Vietnam, Speaker, Teacher In-Service Workshop 2005
- Labor and Ethnicity in the Coeur d'Alenes, Speaker, Idaho's Journey for Human Rights 2005
- Let's Talk About It: Home Below Hells Canyon, Speaker 2005
- Terrorism and History, Speaker, Teacher In-Service Workshop 2005
- Wonder Woman and Phi Beta Kappa: The Life of the Mind Meets Real Life in a Comic Strip, Speaker, Phi Beta Kappa Initiation 2005
- Brown v. Board and Civil Rights, Speaker, Teacher In-Service Workshop 2004
- Gracie Pfost and Helen Chenoweth: Idaho Women in the House, Speaker 2004
- Let's Talk About It: Their Eyes Were Watching God, Speaker 2004
- Much More Than a Hole in the Ground: Kellogg, Idaho's Bunker Hill Company, Keynote Speaker, Idaho State Historical Society Annual Meeting 2004
- Pedagogy and Primary Sources: The Lewis and Clark Example, Speaker, Teacher In-Service Workshop 2004
- Suffrage and Prohibition, Speaker, Teacher In-Service Workshop 2004
- From Boycott to Consciousness Raising: Ella Baker and Jo Ann Robinson, Speaker 2003
- Let's Talk About It: A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West, Speaker 2003
- May Arkwright Hutton, Speaker 2003
- The Left in the 1930s and 1950s: Making Historical Connections, Speaker, Idaho Humanities Council Summer Institute 2003
- The Women's History Context for Reed v. Reed, Speaker and Panelist 2003
- Kellogg, Idaho's Bunker Hill Company, Speaker, Mining History Conference 2002
- That 'Motley Irish Crowd':Ethnicity and the Coeur d'Alene Mining Wars of the 1890s, Speaker, Idaho State University Centennial Academic Celebration of Idaho 2002
- Water and the West, Speaker, Idaho Humanities Council Summer Institute 2002
- What's a Nice Girl Like Me Doing in a Profession Like This?, Speaker, University of Idaho Interdisciplinary Colloquium 2002
- Let's Talk About It: Grapes of Wrath, Speaker 2001
- Let's Talk About It: Their Eyes Were Watching God, Speaker 2001
- Racial Diversity in Idaho: Hispanics in the Silver Valley as a Case Study, Speaker, Idaho Humanities Council Summer Institute 2001
- Let's Talk About It: Invisible Man, Speaker 2000
- Let's Talk About It: Balsamroot, Speaker 1999
- The Coeur d‟Alene Mining Wars, 100 Years Later, Speaker 1999
- The United States in the 1920s: Hemingway's Milieu, Speaker 1999
- Let's Talk About It: A Mormon Mother: An Autobiography, Speaker 1998
- Let's Talk About It: Home Below Hell's Canyon, Speaker 1998
- Mining and Idaho History, Speaker, Teacher In-Service Workshop 1998
- Women's Suffrage in Idaho, Speaker, Teacher In-Service Workshop 1997
- Baseball as a Case Study for Historical Inquiry, Speaker 1996
- Gender as an Issue in the Career of Idaho Member of Congress Gracie Pfost, Keynote Speaker, Women's History Week Celebration 1996
- Let's Talk About It: Invisible Man, Speaker 1996
- Using History as a Lens to Explore Challenges Women Face in Nontraditional Employment Situations, Speaker, Hewlett-Packard Company Workshop 1996
- Women and the Teaching Curriculum, Speaker, University of Idaho Fall Teaching Forum 1996 1996
- Environmental issues and Mining, Speaker, Teacher In-Service Workshop 1995
- The Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Women's Suffrage Amendment, Speaker 1995
- Women and Social Welfare During the Progressive Era, Speaker 1995
- A New Look at Mining in Idaho, Speaker 1994
- Let‟s Talk About It: We Sagebrush Folk, Speaker 1994
- Mining Technology, Speaker 1994
- Mining and the Depression, Speaker 1994
- Mining and the Environment, Speaker 1994
- Mining in Idaho, Speaker, Teacher In-Service Workshop 1994
- Mining in North Idaho, Speaker 1994
- The Coeur d‟Alene Mining Wars, Speaker 1994
- The Silver Valley - Spokane Connection, Keynote Speaker, National University Continuing Education Association Regional Meeting 1994 1994
- Idaho and WWII, Keynote Speaker, Latah County Historical Society Annual Meeting 1993 1993
- Let‟s Talk About It: Billy the Kid, Speaker 1993
- Let‟s Talk About It: Ceremony, Speaker 1993
- Mining in Idaho, Speaker, Teacher In-Service Workshop 1993
- Western Women‟s Voice, Speaker, Pacific Northwest Library Association 1993 1993
- Women in Comics, Speaker 1993
- Idaho Congresswoman Gracie Pfost, Speaker 1992
- Let‟s Talk About It: A Bride Goes West, Speaker 1992
- The Bill of Rights, Speaker, Teacher In-Service Workshop 1992
- Idaho, the Homefront, and World War II, Speaker 1991
- Let‟s Talk About It: A Bride Goes West, Speaker 1991
- May Hutton, Speaker 1991
- The Bill of Rights, Speaker, Teacher In-Service Workshop 1991
- The Bill of Rights, Speaker 1991
- The English Background to the Bill of Rights, Speaker, Whittenberger Foundation Teacher Summer Institute 1991
- The University of Idaho Then and Now, Speaker 1991
- Women and the Bill of Rights, Speaker 1991
- Women‟s Organizations in Idaho, Speaker 1991
- Women‟s Suffrage in Idaho, Speaker 1991
- Abigail Scott Duniway, Speaker 1990
- Let‟s Talk About It: We Sagebrush Folk, Speaker 1990
- Let‟s Talk About It: We Sagebrush Folk, Speaker 1990
- Let‟s Talk About It: We Sagebrush Folk, Speaker 1990
- Mormon Migration, Speaker 1990
- Mormon Migration, Speaker 1990
- Two Constitutions Project, Speaker, Western States Humanities Council Conference 1990 1990
- Women in History, Speaker 1990
- Anti-Communism and the Bunker Hill Strike of 1960, Speaker, Phi Alpha Theta Initiation 1989
- Let‟s Talk About It: We Sagebrush Folk, Speaker 1989
- Margaret Sanger, Speaker 1989
- The Idaho Constitution, Speaker 1989
- The Idaho Constitutional Convention, Speaker 1989
- The Idaho Constitutional Convention, Speaker 1989
- The Idaho Constitutional Convention, Speaker 1989
- William Clagett and the Idaho Constitutional Convention, Speaker 1989
- Women‟s Suffrage and the Idaho Constitution, Speaker 1989
- Women‟s Suffrage and the Idaho Constitution, Speaker, Teacher In-Service Workshop 1989
- Women‟s Suffrage and the Idaho Constitution, Speaker, Teacher In-Service Workshop 1989
- Emma Goldman, Speaker 1988
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Speaker 1987
- Foreign Affairs and United States Constitution, Speaker 1987
- Foreign Affairs and the United States Constitution, Speaker 1987
- Foreign Affairs and the United States Constitution, Speaker 1987
- The United States Constitution, Speaker, Teacher In-Service Workshop 1987
- The United States Constitution, Speaker, Teacher In-Service Workshop 1987

Research

investigator on

Jazz in the Schools awarded by National Endowment for the Arts 2008
Silver Mining in the West: Conflict and Community on the Frontier awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities 2005 - 2006
Much More than a Hole in the Ground: Kellogg, Idaho‟s Bunker Hill Company 1885-1981 -- Photographs awarded by John Calhoun Smith Fund 2004
America's Game: American Society and Baseball, 1845-present 1997
Much More than a Hole in the Ground-Kellogg, Idaho‟s Bunker Hill Company awarded by John Calhoun Smith Fund 1997
America's Game: American Society and Baseball, 1845-present 1996
History of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Smeltering Company in Kellogg, Idaho, 1885-1982, Part VII awarded by John Calhoun Smith Fund 1995
History of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Smeltering Company in Kellogg, Idaho, 1885-1982, Part VI awarded by John Calhoun Smith Fund 1992
History of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Smeltering Company in Kellogg, Idaho, 1885-1982, Part V awarded by John Calhoun Smith Fund 1991
Women's Suffrage in Idaho 1991
History of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Smeltering Company in Kellogg, Idaho, 1885-1982, Part IV awarded by John Calhoun Smith Fund 1990
Women's Clubs in Idaho awarded by Idaho Humanities Council 1990
Women's Organizations in Idaho awarded by Idaho Humanities Council 1990
Women's Suffrage in Idaho awarded by Idaho Humanities Council 1990
Women's Suffrage in Idaho awarded by Idaho Humanities Council 1990
History of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Smeltering Company in Kellogg, Idaho, 1885-1982, Part III awarded by John Calhoun Smith Fund 1989
Workshops on the Care and Management of Historical Photograph Collections 1989
History of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Smeltering Company in Kellogg, Idaho, 1885-1982, Part II awarded by John Calhoun Smith Fund 1988
History of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Smeltering Company in Kellogg, Idaho, 1885-1982 awarded by John Calhoun Smith Fund 1987
Humanities Program for Rurally Isolated Nontraditional Students awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities 1985 - 1987
Faculty Development Grant, University of Idaho NEH Project 1986
Coeur d'Alene Humanities Program, Idaho Humanities Council 1985
Course Development Grant, University of Idaho NEH Project 1985
Cooperative Education Program 1984
Developing Programs for Adult Learners 1982
International Trade Awareness Program 1982

Background

education and training

B.A. in History, University of Idaho 1972
Ph.D. in History, Washington State University 1980
M.A. in History, University of Oregon 1974

Contact

full name

Katherine G Aiken