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Utah’s Small Museum Landscape
1.18.2021 (Season 2: Episode 11; 64 minutes) Speak Your Piece Podcast on Buzzsprout. Above photograph is of the Uintah County Heritage Musuem (Vernal, Utah, 2019). The guests in this Speak Your Piece...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
Dr. Martha Bradley Evans: 20th century Utah and LDS women’s history, including the fight over the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
January 4, 2021 (Season 2, Episode 9) BuzzSprout version of this Speak Your Piece podcast. Above photo caption: Anti-ERA banquet, Washington, D.C., March 22, 1979; Anti-ERA activist Phyllis Schlafry (center)...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
Sons of Utah Pioneers (SUP), their magazine “The Pioneer,” & their 125th statehood anniversary issue
12.28.2020 (Season 2: Episode 8; 57 minutes) BuzzSprout version Speak Your Piece Podcast. Above illustration: The front cover of the Pioneer (vol. 67: No. 4, 2020 released 01.2021); courtesy of the...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
A Patriarch & Three Scions: George Q. Cannon and his oldest sons John, Frank & Abraham
12.11.2020 (Season 2: Episode 7; 50 minutes) Speak Your Piece Podcast. Above photograph (left to right): Frank J. Cannon, Abraham H. Cannon, George Q. Cannon (patriarch) and John Q. Cannon;...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
Psychiatric Hospitals (mid-1800s to the 1950s), Scientific Race Theories and Eugenics in the Interior West: a Conversation with Dr. Cassandra Clark
09.14.2020 (Season 2: Episode 4, Segment one 40 min. and two 35 min.) Speak Your Piece Podcast. Above illustrations: Phrenology illustration (Wikipedia Commons) and Eugenics Congress announcement (Vermont Eugenics: A...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
Pre-European Settlement, Crossroads, and the Idea of Home
Salt Lake West Side Stories: Post Fourby Brad Westwood Native Americans lived in what is now Salt Lake’s west side. After Europeans began to colonize North, South, and Central America,...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
The Old Pioneer Fort’s First and Second Years
Salt Lake West Side Stories: Post Sixby Brad Westwood Above photo caption: Kirk Henrichsen’s bird’s eye sketch of the Fort on the Great Salt Lake, circa 1849, extending from 300...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
Salt Lake City Loses Its “Dirtiest City” Status, the West Side, Public Health, and the City’s Only Surviving Pioneer Square
Salt Lake West Side Stories: Post Fourteenby Brad Westwood It is no surprise that in terms of public health, sanitary reform, and civic improvements, local and state leaders neglected Salt...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
Historian Leo Lyman’s Deep Dive into the “Sausage Making” of Utah’s Statehood
A SPECIAL TWO PART PODCAST SERIES to kick-off Utah’s 125th statehood anniversary celebration coming up on January 04, 2021. Recording Dates: 06.18.2020 and 06.22.2020 (Speak Your Piece podcast, Season 2,...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
“Pioneering the Vote: The Untold Story of Suffragists in Utah and the West”: A Conversation with Neylan McBaine
10.28.2020 (Season 2: Episode 5) Speak Your Piece podcast. Above illustration “The Awakening” by Hy Mayer, showing a torch-bearing female symbolizing the awakening of the nation’s women to the desire...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
Latinos/as and the West Side: Part Two
Salt Lake West Side Stories: Post Twenty-NineBy Brad Westwood, Cassandra Clark and Catherine Aviles The above photo is of four Mexican railroad workers, circa 1915-1920, presumably somewhere in Utah. Photo...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
Brokers of Human Capital
Salt Lake West Side Stories: Post Nineteenby Brad Westwood Many early American immigrants first heard about Utah and the American West from steamship and labor agents whose work was similar...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
