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This input on the educational outcomes Intermountain Histories offered students quickly convinced me to preserve the project as a platform to showcase student work. One professor wrote: "The project engages students in producing history for public consumption, an important pedagogical and intellectual skill they infrequently are able to pursue in traditional courses. I temper this somewhat by requiring collaborating professors to oversee multiple rounds of revisions with students, training my student research and editorial assistants in editing stories as they upload drafts to the backend of our website, and finally editing them myself. Hailing from Washington and Arizona but living in Nebraska and Utah for the past two decades, my family has, by necessity, become bona fide road warriors. [Extracted from the article]