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Editors’ Note: The SPRING 2021 UHQ opens with the story of Amanda Olson, the working-class daughter of Swedish immigrants whose story dominated local news in 1891. After Olson was either raped or seduced–the language was intentionally vague–she “shot [her] betrayer.” We asked Lisa Tait, the article’s author, a few questions about Olson’s …
Spring 2021 Utah Historical Quarterly To receive your copy, BECOME A MEMBER of the Utah State Historical Society Most editions of Utah Historical Quarterly don’t begin life as a special issue—that is, one for which the editors solicit articles on a certain topic. Rather, we usually group articles together based …
Editors’ note: The winter 2021 edition of Utah Historical Quarterly features an article on the sugar beet industry, labor organizing, and business interests of LDS officials. We asked the author, Matthew C. Godfrey, a General Editor of the Joseph Smith Papers Project, a few questions about the sugar industry and …
Archival Descriptions The Utah Division of State History is conducting a review of the descriptions and terminology of our archives and catalog. We are working to update biased, outdated, and/or problematic descriptions and headings of works within the collections to better represent the diverse peoples of Utah. The review includes …
The Utah State Historical Society is launching a blog series on historical memorials in Utah. We seek proposals for short historical essays that place historical markers, monuments, and place names in historical and contemporary perspective. Given the divergent ways the public commemorates and remembers history, contributors to the series are …
Researchers wishing to cite a collection should include the following information :(title of work), Utah State Historical Society. For example : The Allan Kent Powell Research Collection, circa 1850-2012, Utah State Historical Society. Rights Statement Unless otherwise specified, the manuscript collections are the physical property of the Utah State Historical Society, …
Researchers wishing to cite a collection should include the following information :(title of work), Utah State Historical Society. For example : Sullivan-Tallon House, Restoration and Remodel, Utah State Historical Society. Rights Statement Unless otherwise specified, the architectural drawings collections are the physical property of the Utah State Historical Society, Salt Lake …
Researchers wishing to cite a collection should include the following information :(title of work), Utah State Historical Society. For example : The Shiplers Commercial Photographers Collection, 1903-1980, Utah State Historical Society. Rights Statement Unless otherwise specified, the audio-visual collections are the physical property of the Utah State Historical Society, Salt Lake …
In January 4, 1896, after decades of struggle, Utah became the 45th state to enter the Union. Utah’s path to statehood was complicated and often controversial, which makes its journey an important American story. Utah’s leaders applied for statehood seven times—and failed six times—over five decades. Here we compiled a list …
In anticipation of the 250th anniversary of 1776, the Utah State Historical Society is revisiting The Peoples of Utah, published in 1976. The original Peoples of Utah, which surveyed a number of racial and ethnic communities in the state, has become a foundational resource in Utah history. Our new project …
By Christopher James Blythe In September 1965, many people in northern Utah were convinced that the NAACP had planned a “riot” for the following month’s general conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A student writer at University of Utah’s Daily Utah Chronicle summarized the rumors. “According …
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 a land new to them. Although specifically a reference to Utah’s first permanent Euro American settlers, the sentiment expressed by the monument’s title aptly represents …