A history of the Vietnam/American War

By Raymona Maddy. CD-ROM prototype of an interactive teaching unit, 2001. Artfully designed, the CD-ROM includes timelines, interviews, statistics, a glossary of terminology, videos clips, and music from the era.

 

Visions of the Snake

By Todd Shallat and Chuck Scheer. A traveling exhibit funded by the Boise State University Foundation and the Idaho Humanities Council, 1995. Historical photography and art reveal the evolving popular image of southern Idaho. Wasteland, Fertile Crescent, tourist attraction, a future Dust Bowl, a future Phoenix or San Jo se—the steppe of Snake is a shifting mirage.

To Boise and Back: a documentary

By Jon Hanian and Jay Krajic. Produced by KCBI Television with support from the Boise State University Department of History and Hewlett Packard, the video documents a bittersweet homecoming for Bosnian war refugees. Hanian's researched and wrote the documentary as a Boise State master's project. Realizing there was a compelling story behind what forced this family to flee their homeland, he returned to war-torn Bosnia with three family members and chronicled the conditions and climate of their former home. Hanian is the 2003 winner of Columbia University's duPont Award, which the nation's most prestigious broadcasting prize.

The Moses Alexander Collection

Arranged and described by Dylan J. McDonald. Handsomely published guide to Idaho gubernatorial papers with photographs and a biographical essay, 2002. Alexander, a Boise businessman and the city’s turn-of-the-century mayor, became the nation’s first elected Jewish Governor, 1915-1919. His official papers had remained boxed away and scattered for nearly a century before student archivist McDonald organized the collection. His 41-page guide includes photographs and a biographical essay.

A Public History of Proposition One

By Jeremy Maxand. CD-Rom prototype of a web-based archive. 2003. The archive includes photographs, documents, posters, and research papers concerning the narrow defeat of A Public History of Proposition One. By Jeremy Maxand. CD-Rom prototype of a web-based archive. 2003. The archive includes photographs, documents, posters, and research papers concerning the narrow defeat of Idaho’s 1994 anti-gay initiative .Idaho’s 1994 anti-gay initiative.