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The Montana History Portal provides weekly updates on new content as well as tips on how to successfully navigate the site through this Highlights newsletter. You can find back issues on the "Highlights" newsletter section of our website.
Library and museum staff members are encouraged to share these with patrons by linking our content and programs on your website and sharing through social media.
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During the summer and fall of 2024 the Montana History Portal established a new partnership with Leif Fredickson, Director of the Public History Program in the History Department at the University of Montana and his students. A fall semester class focused on the history of the automobile and culminated with Fredrickson's students doing a research project related to the impact of automobile transportation. After learning more about the History Portal and how to research the database, the students worked collaboratively to create a digital exhibit for the Montana History Portal about the building of the Going-to-the-Sun Road. The project went very well, and the exhibit was published in early January. The students can be proud of their work and practical experience in the Public History Field, and we are happy to share their project with you. |
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In 1921, workers began clearing a swath of trees in Glacier National Park that would eventually become one of the most celebrated roads in the nation. Initially, administrators gave it the bland functional name “Transmountain Highway.” The road did indeed bridge east and west Glacier, running over the rugged Continental Divide at Logan Pass, a low point of 6,464 feet between mountains that towered thousands of feet taller.
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