In the news
See below for links to newspaper articles, press releases, and other media coverage of the Atlas of Drowned Towns (and please let us know if you’ve seen the Atlas elsewhere).
- Lucia Stein, “The Atlas of Drowned Towns Wants to Recover Lost Stories Buried Underwater,” Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2 May 2025, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-03/drowned-towns-jindabyne-detroit-history/105205202
- Sarah Brown, “History Jamboree Digs Up Forgotten Memories About Drowned Towns,” The New Era (Sweet Home, OR), 8 April 2025, https://www.sweethomenews.com/history-jamboree-digs-up-forgotten-memories-about-drowned-town/
- Sarah Brown, “Visiting Historian Seeks to Unearth What’s Beneath Foster Lake,” The New Era (Sweet Home, OR), 18 March 2025, https://www.sweethomenews.com/visiting-historian-seeks-to-unearth-whats-beneath-foster-lake/
- “The Atlas of Drowned Towns,” Sunday Extra with Julian Morrow (produced by Isabelle Summerson), Australian Broadcasting Corporation Radio, 15 March 2025, https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/sundayextra/atlas-of-drowned-towns/105053200
- Anna Webb, “The Atlas of Drowned Towns,” Humanities: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Fall 2024, https://www.neh.gov/article/atlas-drowned-towns
- Cecily Hill, “Preserving the History of ‘Drowned Towns’ in the American West, NEH For All, June 2024, https://www.nehforall.org/projects/boise-state-university-drowned-towns
- Rick Just, “History Corner: Drowned Towns,” Boise Weekly, June 5, 2024, https://www.idahopress.com/boiseweekly/odds_and_ends/rick-justs-history-corner-drowned-towns/article_dbc281f0-1e0d-11ef-8047-8f23665a7e0e.html
- James Day, “Looking Back: Conference explores history of ‘old’ Detroit,” The Canyon Weekly, October 27, 2023, https://www.canyonweekly.com/2023/10/30/looking-back-conference-explores-history-of-old-detroit/
- Lisa Britton, “The Towns That Drowned,” Baker City Herald, November 3, 2021, https://www.bakercityherald.com/news/local/the-towns-that-drowned/article_eb573472-3c1e-11ec-8321-939d198f8e1f.html. Republished in The Register-Guard (Eugene), Statesman Journal (Salem), Capital Press, The Observer (La Grande), The Bulletin (Bend), East Oregonian
- “Cataloging the Drowned Towns of the American West,” Boise State News (blog), May 26, 2021, https://www.boisestate.edu/news/2021/05/26/cataloging-the-drowned-towns-of-the-american-west/
- “Reinhardt Awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant,” Boise State News (blog), December 17, 2020, https://www.boisestate.edu/news/2020/12/17/reinhardt-awarded-a-national-endowment-for-the-humanities-grant/
- Molly Wampler, “Idaho Historian Studies Towns Drowned By Snake River Hydroelectric Projects,” Idaho Matters (Boise State Public Radio, June 2, 2020), https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/show/idaho-matters/2020-06-02/idaho-historian-studies-towns-drowned-by-snake-river-hydroelectric-projects
- Anna Webb, “Professor Aims to Catalog ‘Drowned Towns’ of the American West,” Boise State News (blog), May 18, 2020, https://www.boisestate.edu/news/2020/05/18/with-a-new-grant-professor-aims-to-catalog-drowned-towns-of-the-american-west/