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Historical Struggles for Water: Westwater (Navajo) and the Uinta Reservation (Ute) – Join us @ the Annual History Conference: “Water at the Confluence Past and Present.”
Date: September 19, 2022 (Season 5, Episode 3 – 35 minutes long). Click Here for the BuzzSprout version of this Speak Your Piece episode. The above photograph: Westwater, San Juan County, Utah, on the day...
Last updated: May 14, 2026
Returning Home: Diné Poetry, Essays, Art & Journalism from Utah’s Intermountain Indian School (1950-1983, Brigham City)
Date: November 29, 2021 (Season 3, Episode 14: 102 minutes long). Click Here for the BuzzSprout version of this Speak Your Piece episode. The above illustration is a cropped image...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
“Soul of God” – the Life & Works of Utah Raised Mexican Muralist Pablo O’Higgins – A Conversation with Susan Vogel, Fanny Guadalupe Blauer and Catherine Aviles
Date: February 28, 2022 (Season 4, Episode 5: 73 minutes (1 hr 13 min.). Click here for the BuzzSprout version of this Speak Your Piece episode. The above image is...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
Utah & the Mormons First Fifty Years Together: A Conversation with LDS Church Historians Matt Grow and Scott Hales
January 24, 2022 (Season 4, Episode 3; 1 hour and 15 minutes). Click here for the Buzzsprout versions of this episode. The above image is of the U.S. Postal Service’s...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
The New Juneteenth Holiday & Utah’s Laws on Interracial Marriage (1888-1963)
June 2, 2022 (Season 4, Episode 9, episode length: 61 minutes) Click here for the BuzzSprout version of this Speak Your Piece Episode. Photograph caption: wife & husband, George and...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
The Enduring Value & Big Arguments of Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s Book “A House Full of Females” (2017)
February 7, 2022 (Season 4, Episode 4: 67 minutes long), click here for the BuzzSprout version of this Speak Your Piece episode. The above photograph is of (beginning top left)...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
A NEW FLAG FOR UTAH? A NEW BRAND, ALONG WITH THE FAMILIAR
Date: November 15, 2021 (Season 3, Episode 13; 32 minutes long). Click here for the BuzzSprout version of this episode. Are you interested in other episodes of Speak Your Piece?...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
“Topaz Stories: Remembering the Japanese American Incarceration”
June 2, 2021 (Season 3, Episode 2, the recording in 48 minutes) Click here for the BuzzSprout version of this Speak Your Piece episode. The above photograph is of an...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
Stories by Ken Sanders: SLC’s Book Trade, 1960s-70s Counterculture and Reciting Wendell Berry
Date: September 13, 2021 (Season 3, Episode 12; 77:00 minutes). Click here for the BuzzSprout version of this Speak Your Piece episode. The above photograph is an image of rare...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
Benevolent and Mutual Aid Societies, Fraternal Orders, and Labor Unions and Salt Lake City’s West Side
Salt Lake West Side Stories: Post Twentyby Brad Westwood and Cassandra Clark Above image caption: The Salt Lake City office of the Modern Woodmen of America, a workers’ fraternal life...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
Chinese Americans on Plum Alley and on the West Side
Salt Lake West Side Stories: Post Twenty-ThreeBy Brad Westwood Above photo caption: Based on information provided on a Salt Lake Tribune folder, the above image was described simply as the...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
Sojourners to the Mormon West: Historian Michael Homer on Seeing Mormonism and Utah through European Eyes
Date: August 2, 2021 (Season 3, Episode 9; 01:03:32 minutes). Click here for the BuzzSprout version of this Speak Your Piece episode. The above illustration is of Great Salt Lake...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
