Idaho State Historical Society

NEW LOCATION! ADA COMMUNITY LIBRARY The Idaho State Historical Society (ISHS) has initiated an all-new book discussion series. Join Steve Barrett, archivist, BSU adjunct faculty member, and coordinator of ISHS Abraham Lincoln: His Legacy in Idaho permanent exhibit. For May—National Mental Health Month—we’ll feature Joshua Wolf Shenks book: Lincoln’s Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness. Shenk argues that lifelong, clinical depression was to Abraham Lincoln what polio was to Franklin Delano Roosevelt – an illness that not only challenged the 16th president, but in fact made him the human being he was to become.