By Shavauna Munster & Holly George When considering the history of illness, signpost pandemics such as the Justinianic plague, black death, and Spanish influenza often …
This Is the Place for Us: Somali Settlement in the Salt Lake Valley
By Haden Griggs The This Is the Place monument in Salt Lake City commemorates and evokes the struggle nineteenth-century Latter-day Saints faced in settling …
Researching Segregation in Utah
By Christine Cooper-Rompato My forthcoming article in Utah Historical Quarterly, “Utah in the Green Book,” explores the history of hotels where African Americans could spend …
Industry & Immigrants in Turn-of-the-Century Utah
Holly George This week alone, I ordered stuff from China, searched the app of a certain giant retailer several times, happily opened a new package, …
Front Row Seat to Atomic Age
Editors’ note (by UHQ editorial fellow Haden Griggs): The Diablo nuclear test was part of a larger series of tests known as Operation Plumbbob that …
From Obscurity into the Light: Master Surveyor Henry G. Sherwood
By Kristine Shorey Forbes The recent discovery of a sheepskin map purported to be the original plat of Salt Lake City created by LDS surveyor …
TRANSCRIPT OF Utah at the Crossroads of the Mind: History and Philosophy at Midcentury
November 1, 2019, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Location: University of Utah, Marriott Library, Rm 1150 SCHEDULE Panel: 9:00 – 10:30 AM A University for …
When Buffalo Bill Came to Utah
In the spring 2019 issue of Utah Historical Quarterly, Brent M. Rogers explores William “Buffalo Bill” Cody and his checkered relationship with the state of …
From the Mountains of Spain to the Mountains of Utah
By Holly George On a normal afternoon in April 2017, Daniel Jones, a friend from the bus who worked at the Division of Corporations and …
A Distance Reading of Immigration in Carbon County
Digital Techniques for Utah History By Nate Housley The Marriott Library at the University of Utah houses a number of oral history collections that can …
Welcome to the UHQ Blog
Welcome to the new blog for the Utah Historical Quarterly, Utah’s historical journal of record. This blog will feature less formal—but still substantively analytical—essays and …