From Our Home to Yours
Each day, the Idaho Humanities Council coordinates statewide humanities programming from a historic home in downtown Boise. We offer here some suggestions for engaging and thoughtful humanities experiences in your own home, especially as many Idahoans are proactively limiting social activities due to COVID-19.
There are many examples below, from virtual tours of museums, books, movies, television shows, and podcasts. If you have any additional ideas or suggestions to share, please let us know!
Virtual Exhibits:
Smithsonian Museum of Natural History (DC)
Google Arts & Culture (Over 100 sites)
Podcasts
Brainbox (Oklahoma Humanities)
The 1600 Sessions (White House Historical Association)
Backstory Celebrates 10 Years (Virginia Humanities)
Websites
Being Human (University of Pittsburgh Humanities Center)
Distance Learning (Idaho Public Television)
Latah County Historical Society
Idaho State Historical Society
Book Passage's Conversations with Authors
Wassmuth Center for Human Rights
Literature
When March Went Mad: The Game that Transformed Basketball by Seth Davis
Dream Team: How Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the Greatest Team of All Time Conquered the World and Changed the Game of Basketball Forever by Jack McCallum
Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America by T. J. Stiles
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brook
Pandemic 1918: Eyewitness Accounts from the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History by Catharine Arnold
The Great Influenza by John M. Barry
"The Single Most Important Lesson from the 1918 Influenza," John M. Barry, NYT Opinion
Honey Bus by Meredith May
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey CEP kindle
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Circles by Madeleine Miller
The White Darkness by David Grann
Miss Julia series by Ann B. Ross
Aunt Dimity series by Nancy Atherton
Out of Time series by Monique Martin
Culinary Mystery Series by Josi S. Kilpack
Sitting in Beauty by Mary Ann Allison
Films, Television, and Media
All the Bright Places (Netflix)--NYT Review
Anne with an E (Netflix)
West Wing (Netflix) -- West Wing Weekly Podcast
Ken Burn's Baseball (PBS) -- Streaming Free