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Remembering Olivia and Juanita, Me, You, and the UHQ
By David Rich Lewis Olivia Coombs was dead. George Wood shot her and her daughter, Emily, on July 28, 1862,…
Call for Proposals: Public Health in Utah and the American West
Special Issue of Utah Historical Quarterly Guest Editor: Dr. Benjamin Cater, Associate Dean, Foundational Explorations, and Associate Professor of History, Point Loma…
The Uranium Boom and Free Enterprise
By Nate Housley During the uranium boom of the 1950s, thousands of would-be prospectors flooded into the “four corners” region…
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B. H. Roberts & the League of Nations
In 1933, weeks before his own passing, B. H. Roberts delivered an address to the World Fellowship of Faiths entitled…
Salt Lake City Hospitals, circa 1900
In the Spring 2019 issue of Utah Historical Quarterly, John Grima recovers the history of Ogden City Hospital. Here, we…
Rural Life in Northern Utah, 1940
In the summer of 1940, the United States was finally beginning to pull itself out of the Great Depression. Only…