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Finding Common Purpose: A History Of Community Organizing In Boise, Idaho, Emily Fritchman
Finding Common Purpose: A History Of Community Organizing In Boise, Idaho, Emily Fritchman
History Graduate Projects and Theses
Members of neighborhood associations in Boise have long acted as advocates for historic preservation, environmental conservation, and effective urban growth management. However, little historical research exploring the impact of neighborhood activists on both the regional and national level exists. This project addresses the lack of scholarship through the creation of three key elements: a website that highlights both the history of neighborhood organizing in Boise and significant figures of the activist movement, a community lecture presenting these findings to the public, and a brochure detailing the goals of the project to neighbors. Additionally, this research highlights patterns that will provide …
Conservation In Idaho Oral History Project: Oral Historiography, Process And Practice, Carissa Mai Black
Conservation In Idaho Oral History Project: Oral Historiography, Process And Practice, Carissa Mai Black
History Graduate Projects and Theses
The Conservation in Idaho Oral History Project: Oral Historiography, Process and Practice, is a combination of analytical and practical application and overview of the field of oral history. The analytical overview identifies the two major themes in oral history, academic and community, by analyzing the scholarship, including criticisms and progress of the field. It examines the different methodological approaches to oral history as well as the multidisciplinary use of the field. It also examines the process that the author went through when researching, conducting and interpreting her own oral histories for the Conservation in Idaho Oral History Project. Lastly, this …
Conservative Conservationists: Water Rights, Wilderness, And Idahoan Political Identity, Kelly M. Orgill
Conservative Conservationists: Water Rights, Wilderness, And Idahoan Political Identity, Kelly M. Orgill
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
Idahoans' unique and contradictory history of conservation politics reveals deep tensions between expectations of individual water rights, a shared regard for natural beauty, and a deep-seated fear of government intervention. From its earliest settlers to its Sagebrush Rebels to its modern day miners and lumber crews, Idaho has teemed with those eager to profit from the state’s natural resources. The post-war interest in recreation and the environmental movement of the 1970s, however, promoted concern and support for preservation in Idaho. Coupled with the Idahoan obsession with water rights, Idaho environmentalism prompted the conservative Republican state to elect environmentally-minded Democrats Cecil …