Project: River Street Digital History Project

Director: William A. White

Archaeological fieldwork in the River Street Neighborhood, Boise, Idaho (2015)

Photograph: Archaeological fieldwork in the River Street Neighborhood, Boise, Idaho (2015)
The River Street Digital History Project concentrates on the history of the River Street Neighborhood, which was the historical home for most of the non-white population of Boise, Idaho. The Project centers on the creation of a website designed to disseminate digital copies of existing archival data, short segments of newly collected oral history interviews, and photographs from private collections. It is also the digital hub for information on the ongoing historic preservation and archaeology activities there.

2018   Heritage Conservation Archaeology at the Hayman House, Boise. SHA Newsletter 51(2):11—14.

2017   The Archaeology of the River Street Neighborhood: A Multi-Racial Urban Region of Refuge in Boise, Idaho. Dissertation submitted to the faculty of the School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson.

2017   Writ on the Landscape: Racialization, Whiteness, and River Street. Historical Archaeology, 51:131—148.

2016   Creating a Space for a Place: The River Street Archaeology Project. Arizona Anthropologist, 27:69—82.

2016   Living on the South Side of the Tracks: The River Street Digital History Project and Boise, Idaho. ISBN/EAN13: 0692701893 / 9780692701898. Succinct Research, Tucson. http://www.riverstreethistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/RiverStreetProject_eBook_updated.pdf

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Bill White

When he was four-years-old, Bill White decided he wanted to either be an astronaut or an archaeologist when he grew up. He decided to follow his dream career of doing archaeology as a teenager when he realized he was an inch too tall to fit into a NASA space suit.

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Boise, ID
United States
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