Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Utah State History”
The Utah State Historical Society will hold its 67th annual meeting to be held on September 27, 2019, at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center in West Valley City. The conference theme takes a long view of the interior West. Whereas local and state history tend to build on narrow case …
Memorial House will hold an Open House allowing visitors to come and learn about this historic building, WWI, and the Treaty of Versailles.
The Other Ranger: Early Roles of Women in National Forest Management Richa Wilson, Regional Heritage Program Coordinator, United State Forest Service
West: A Poem of the Transcontinental Railroad Paisley Rekdal, State Poet Laureate, University of Utah
Dead Pelicans: Historical Archaeology of the Remote Gunnison Island Arie Leeflang, Archaeological Records Manager, Utah Division of State History
Two competitive sprinters from remote Western Australia are drafted into Britiain’s colonial forces to serve as message runners during the ill-fated campaign against Ottoman troops in the Dardanelles. Led by inept aristocratic officers, ANZAC troops are meaninglessly slaughtered by Turkish machine-gunners in a battle that would mark the awakening of …
The Prehistoric Museum presents Making Sense of Archaeology exhibition by the Utah Division of State History. The exhibition opens to the public Saturday March 30, 2019 in the Special Exhibitions Gallery. The exhibit is an educational hands-on scientific and historical experience specifically tailored for people who are blind or have …
Rendered deaf, blind, and paralyzed by his war injuries, a young American soldier retreats to his inner life before discovering a means to communicate with the outside world. Based on blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo’s 1939 novel, Johnny Got His Gun forcefully repudiates the glorification of war. Director: Dalton Trumbo Color, Black and …
Military tribunals sentence deserting French soldiers to execution during the 1917 waves of mutinees that spread across the French line. Director: Stanley Kubrick Black and White 1h 28mins Shepherd Union, Wildcat Theater
Drafted from his rural Tennessee town, Alvin York, a devout Christian and conscientious objector, reluctantly puts his marksmanship to the service of his country and becomes one of the most decorated Americans of the war. Director: Howard Hawks Black and White 2h 14mins Shepherd Union, Wildcat Theatre
This canonical film based on Erich Maria Remarque’s blockbuster 1929 novel, follows Paul Baumer, a German soldier whose youthful enthusiasm turns to bitterness as he witnesses his comrades-in-arms fall one by one. Director: Lewis Milestone Black and White 2h 16min Sheperd Union, Wildcat Theater
Brown Bag Lecture on Memorial House and other Historic WWI era building in Salt Lake City. State Archives, 346 South Rio Grande Street, Salt Lake City