Today’s edition of Diverse Collections features a newspaper article from the Women’s Caucus of the University of Idaho Records.
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Indian Hunting and Fishing Rights
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This week’s edition of Diverse Collections features a document that was reproduced from The George Washington Law Review, Volume 37, July 1969, Number 5, by permission of the author.
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Voces Hispanas - Hispanic Voices of Idaho
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This week for Diverse Collections, we’re featuring a publication from the Idaho Hispanic Oral History Project in 1992.
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Encrypted Telegrams
Keeping business secrets secret
Western Union Telegram May 1 1917
Encrypted telegram solution [1]
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Japanese-Americans in the Pacific Northwest - A Bibliography
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This week’s edition of Diverse Collections features a bibliography prepared by the Staff of the Tacoma Public Library from materials found in the collections of the Library.
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For All The World To See - Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights exhibit
![For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights exhibit [12]](https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/harvester/thumbs/fatwts-7_th.jpg)
In November, a small group of Special Collections staff, other library employees, and some volunteers from the Latah County Historical Society worked to install a new exhibit on the 2nd floor of the library. It took all day, but at the end of the day, the “NEH On the Road”...
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Duke Silver joins Special Collections on April 1st!
The International Jazz Collection is growing! We are proud to announce the acquisition of the Duke Silver Collection.
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QED
Math Professor Elna Grahn
To wrap up Women’s History Month, we celebrate University of Idaho Math Professor Elna Grahn. Born Elna Hilliard in 1913, Elna received her both bachelors and masters in math from the University of Wisconsin. Elna joined the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, later the Women’s Army Corps, and served on active...
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Your Fallout Shelter Reading List
The Cold War coursework you probably never knew about
At the height of the Cold War, President John Kennedy endorsed the Community Fallout Shelter Program in the pages of Life Magazine. Many universities began teaching courses on fallout shelter design and analysis. There was a brief but intense interest in the construction of shelters, and even the U of...
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Idaho Black History Museum Newsletters
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Today’s edition of Diverse Collections features a collection of newsletters from the Idaho Black History Museum. The museum is located at the St. Paul Baptist Church, which was Idaho’s first Black church, established in 1921.1
Viewpoint: The history of the Idaho Black History Museum ↩
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