News Release

July 14, 2006

Idaho Sees Red: Journal Exposes Idaho's Communist Ties

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Radical labor’s fiery crusade against the power of big corporations is hot reading in an “Idaho Sees Red” spring/summer issue of the state’s award-winning history journal. Idaho Yesterdays returns to the violent 1890s, when socialists organized unions in Northwest forests and mines. Lavishly illustrated, this issue features color photographs, historical prints, labor art and a delightfully satiric but nearly forgotten series of labor cartoons.

The journal of Rocky Mountain history and culture is jointly published by Boise State University and Idaho State University for the Idaho State Historical Society. The Spring/Summer 2006 issue will be available in late July at Vista Book Gallery, Idaho Book and Gift and Borders or directly from the Center for Idaho History and Politics at Boise State. Call (208) 426-2710 or e-mail Nancytacke@boisestate.edu.

A companion Web site at www.idahoyesterdays.com  features expanded essays, educational links and lesson plans for using the journal to teach fourth-grade Idaho history.

Revived in 2004, the popular journal debuted in 1957 and served as a valuable academic journal of Idaho history for 45 years. Due to state budget cuts, publication was suspended in 2002. The journal’s editorial board is made up of faculty from Boise State, University of Idaho, Lewis-Clark State College, Brigham Young University-Idaho and College of Southern Idaho.

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Contacts: Todd Shallat, director, Center for Idaho History and Politics, (208) 426-3701, tshalla@boisestate.edu;  Laura Woodworth-Ney, Idaho Yesterdays editor, (208) 282-2606, woodlaur@isu.edu 
Media Contacts: Kathleen Craven, University Relations, Boise State University, (208) 426-3275, kcraven@boisestate.edu

Boise State University’s new - and Idaho’s only - Executive MBA program will hold a final informational open house for prospective students from 5:30-7:30 p.m. July 19 in the Allen Noble Hall of Fame adjacent to Bronco Stadium. The program begins in September and a limited number of seats remain. Visit http://emba.boisestate.edu.

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