Two history graduate students, Emma Taggart and Tim Griffith, appeared on Idaho Matters, Boise State Public Radio’s midday news show, as part of the series America250: Short Histories of Boise. The series, a collaboration between Boise State Public Radio and Boise City Arts and History, will celebrate America’s 250th anniversary with a focus on Boise.
Taggart and Griffith spent the fall 2025 semester collecting short stories about Boise’s history. Their work engaged with personal stories from the past, including a group of high school students who heard of the Pearl Harbor attack while backcountry skiing at Bogus Basin.
“A lot of our history isn’t just from history books or archives,” Taggart said on the podcast. “It’s from people talking to each other.”
Each Monday, Idaho Matters will share a new story from the project. Their first story, published in March 2026, explored the history of Chinden Boulevard and the lives of Chinese immigrants to Boise.