Features
12/13/13 – The U.S. Forest Service: Setting the Scene
Editor’s Note: Today’s blog post is by SHRA Research Associate Naomi Heindel. What is the greatest good? Who makes up the greatest number, and who is often left out? How long is the long run? The United States Forest Service has struggled with these and similar questions for decades, as it has attempted to satisfy… Read the Rest »
11/1/13 – An Entrepreneurial Education:Bridging History and Business
Today’s blog post was written by HannaLore Hein, SHRA’s fall intern. Learn more about HannaLore here. “Entrepreneurialism” and “History” are two words that don’t often end up in the same sentence… at least that has been my experience, until recently. I have always had a passion for history, but I cannot say the same about… Read the Rest »
10/11/13 – Revisiting the Great Mud Bath of 1959 in the Boise Foothills
One of the things that gives Boise its particular sense of place is the Boise Front, the range of foothills that rise to the Northeast of town and stretch to the Rocky Mountain range. In 2001, Boise voters approved a $10 million dollar levy dedicated to acquiring open space in the Foothills jumpstarting conservation of… Read the Rest »
8/30/13 – SHRA’s Engagement with Boise State University
SHRA’s Dr. Jennifer Stevens has been invited back as an adjunct faculty member at Boise State University. She will teach courses in Fall 2013 and Spring 2014. This session, she is teaching an upper division course in North American Environmental History for the Department of History in the College of Social Sciences & Public Affairs. In the… Read the Rest »
8/23/13 – Boise’s Historic F.O.E Building
Editor’s Note: Today’s blog post was researched and written by our summer intern, Sadi Mosko. Sadi graduated from Boise High School in May, where she was an active member of the Boise Architecture Project. She left Boise just this week to begin her new adventures at Columbia University in New York City. She showed a great… Read the Rest »
6/7/13 – Talking History
At SHRA, we specialize in putting history to work. For us, this most frequently means combing archives and weaving narratives from a variety of written or photographic records. However, SHRA is also proud to be a part of the growing trend of oral history projects that are occurring across the country. Currently, the oral history… Read the Rest »
5/24/13 – Celebrating 150 Years of History in Boise, Idaho
Providing environmental litigation support keeps SHRA busy with clients across the United States. Our historians love digging into primary source documents on topics relating to historical mining, land use, irrigation practices, and other issues. We also take great pride in working in general public history and jump at any opportunity to get involved with projects… Read the Rest »
3/22/13: The U.S. Government Helps the Hat Industry
My favorite research projects are those that lead me to new collections and new records that are unfamiliar to me. I have spent many hours – and probably years – of my life poring over records of the Bureau of Reclamation, the General Land Office, and the Bureau of Mines. But a recent project has… Read the Rest »
2/22/13: Book Review – “Call the Midwife” Trilogy
Today’s blog post is courtesy of SHRA’s resident non-historian, our office manager Jill Johnson, who is reviewing a series of memoirs about the lives of London midwives and their service to the working class in the post-World War II world. Last Autumn, PBS ran the BBC series Call the Midwife. It recounted the stories… Read the Rest »
2/15/13: SHRA on Social Media
By now, you’re familiar with our website and this blog, but did you know that we are also on Facebook and Twitter? We love the more informal and interactive platforms that social media offers us, and we’d love for you to join the conversations. Click through and like the SHRA Facebook page, and follow us… Read the Rest »