May 1, 2003

ESSAY BY BOISE STATE 
HISTORIAN PART OF BOOK 
HONORING GERALD NASH

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An essay by a Boise State University history professor on the cultural life of Boise in the last half of the 20th century is featured in a book honoring the late Gerald Nash. Nash made major contributions to the study of modern American and western American history, and had a strong impact on several generations of students and colleagues at the University of New Mexico — 10 of whom penned the essays for this tribute. The American West in 2000: Essays in Honor of Gerald D. Nash (hardcover, 216 pages, $29.95), from the University of New Mexico Press, covers subjects ranging from women’s rights and urban sprawl to organized religion and American Indian culture. An autobiographical essay by Nash focuses on his intellectual development as a German refugee arriving in New York in the late 1930s and his commitment to the study of the American West when he began graduate school. The essay on Boise was written by Nash’s former student Carol Lynn MacGregor, a Boise State University adjunct history professor. The chapter explores misconceptions about Idaho’s capital city as a primitive outpost or bastion of racism and the area’s booming cultural and technological growth. Other contributors include Margaret Connell-Szasz, Arthur R. Gómez, Donald J. Pisani, Marjorie Bell Chambers, Christopher J. Huggard, Roger W. Lotchin, and Gene M. Gressley. The American West is edited by Richard W. Etulain and Ferenc M. Szasz. -30- Contact Carol MacGregor Department of history 208 426-1255 Media Contact Kathleen Craven communications and marketing 208 426-3275

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