In this month’s “We the People,” we looked into why Idaho is called the Gem State. The origin of our state’s nickname dates ...

Former Idaho State Museum director Ken Swanson explains some of the Thompson submachine guns, or “Tommy guns,” on display at the J. Curtis Earl Weapons Exhibit at the Old Idaho Penitentiary in Boise.

Model railroad clubs in the Treasure Valley allow train enthusiasts to let off steam and find a community that shares their ...

There’s an almost unbridled excitement as David Matte, Sarah Phillips, Janet Gallimore and Mark Breske, employees of the Idaho State Historical Society, walk between towering shelves of boxes at the ...

BOISE, Idaho — Statewide historic landmarks will be able to be seen through any screen. A $5,000 grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation kickstarted Preservation Idaho's development of ...

A basement museum beneath Boise High showcases more than 100 years of school history, preserving artifacts and memories even ...

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho — An iconic piece of Idaho history has gone missing, and the Museum of Idaho is desperate to find it. You may remember reading the back of this large 12 foot by 4 foot metal sign as ...

This story was originally published in November 2018. What do we miss as we whiz around our state at 65 or 80 mph? This summer, after several trips around Idaho, that nagging question crystallized for ...

Boise has opened Idaho's first museum inside a high school, transforming a basement room and former rifle range into a ...

Gov. Brad Little and Superintendent Debbie Critchfield are misunderstanding the purpose of studying history when they promote the U.S. history curriculum called “The Story of America.” They say that ...