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.

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 ...

Prior to the arrival of European and Mexican explorers, roughly 8,000 American Indians, representing two distinct groups, inhabited Idaho: the Great Basin Shoshone and Bannock tribes of the ...

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) - Hundreds of 4th graders in Idaho Falls School District 91 are experiencing Idaho history first hand this week. The annual Rendezvous Roundup is taking place Tuesday, May 14 ...

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 ...

POCATELLO, Idaho (KIFI)– The Idaho Museum of Natural History's (IMNH's) new Museum Everywhere Program will bring a slice of the museum experience to the entire Gem State with help from its flagship ...

BOISE, Idaho — Five years ago, Boise illustrator Kelly Knopp felt Idaho's strangest stories deserved a visual treatment for future generations. He turned the state's hidden history, including the ...

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 ...

On an idyllic green block of downtown Boise, archaeology students were hard at work. The students from the University of Idaho, Boise State University and College of Western Idaho wielded their tools ...