In this week’s chapter we read about the outbreak of the First World War and the ongoing Mexican Revolution. Joining us today is Elder Hugo Montoya, a General Authority Seventy and a counsellor in the South America Northwest Area Presidency.
Kate Holbrook, a managing historian in the Church History Department, and Steve Harper, a professor of Church History and Doctrine at Brigham Young University, join us to discuss the life of Alma Richards, his accomplishments at the 1912 Olympics
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Jed Woodworth is the managing historian of the Saints project. In today’s episode Jed shares insights into the issues surrounding post-manifesto marriage and the public’s opinion of the Church in the early twentieth century.
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The erection of the Joseph Smith Memorial in Vermont, United States, was an exciting moment for the Church. Joining us in this episode is Keith Erekson, Director of Outreach in the Church History Department, who explains the symbolism
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In this episode we explore the political crises surrounding the Church and the legacy of plural marriage. Joining us this week is Ken Cannon, a lawyer and independent historian. Ken shares his perspective on the way the Church deals with challenges
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February 7, 2022 (Season 4, Episode 4: 67 minutes long), click here for the Utah Department of Culture & Community Engagement's fuller version with complete show notes, for this Speak Your Piece episode. American historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's influential 2017 book A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism,1835-1870 (Vintage […]
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Matt Grow is the managing director of the Church History Department. In today’s episode, Matt brings his perspective to George Q. Cannon’s return to Hawaii and the growing concern about Latter-day Saint youth in Cardston, Canada.
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The first Latter-day Saint women to serve as full-time missionaries arrived in England in 1898. Matt McBride, a director in the Church History Department, and Lisa Olsen Tait, a historian and general editor of volume 3, discuss this
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Amber Taylor, Kate Holbrook, and Lisa Olsen Tait are historians in the Church History Department who join us in today’s episode to discuss the state of Mutual Improvement Associations at the end of the nineteenth century.
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Cherry Silver is co-editor of the Emmeline B. Wells diaries and Tiffany Bowles is the Associate Curator of Education in the Church History Musuem. In today’s episode Cherry and Tiffany join us to shed more light on the Political Manifesto
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Latter-day Saints in Great Britain seek to withstand persecution led by a disaffected former member. In Utah, church leaders try to better understand practices relating to the sealing of families and how to appeal to its younger members.
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While the Tabernacle Choir enjoys success the Chicago World Fair, there are big challenges facing the Church. Michael Hicks, an emeritus professor of Music at Brigham Young University, Jed Woodworth, managing historian of the Saints project joins us
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Welcome back to the 3rd season of the Saints podcast. In this episode we introduce our hosts, James Perry and Shalyn Back and talk about Saints volume 3 with Church Historian and Recorder, Elder LeGrand R. Curtis Jr. about what readers can hear.
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Date: November 15, 2021 (Season 3, Episode 13; 32 minutes long). To see the complete show notes (including “topics discussed in time,” and photographs) Click here for the Utah Dept. of Culture & Community Engagement version of this episode. Are you interested in other episodes of Speak Your Piece? Click here to see all the […]
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JACKSON, Richard Woolley: Architect
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Date: 09.13.2021 (Season 3, Episode 12, 77:00 min.) To read the complete Utah Dept. of Culture & Community Engagement show notes for this episode (including topics in time, photos and recommended readings) click here. Interested in other episodes of Speak Your Piece? Click here for more episodes. Podcast Content: No scripts, no advanced questions, just a […]
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Date: 08.02.2021 (Season 3, Episode 9, 01:03:32 min.) To read the complete Utah Dept. of Culture & Community Engagement show notes for this episode (including topics in time, photos and recommended readings) click here. Interested in other episodes of Speak Your Piece? Click here for more episodes. Podcast Content: In this episode of Speak Your Piece, […]
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Date: 08.09.2021 (Season 3, Episode 10, 54:13 min.) To read the complete Utah Dept. of Culture & Community Engagement show notes for this episode (including topics in time, photos and recommended readings) click here. Interested in other episodes of Speak Your Piece? Click here for more episodes. National history Day, along with Utah’s affiliate program, […]
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Date: 07.12.2021 (Season 3, Episode 8, 1: 20:00 min.) To read the complete Utah Dept. of Culture & Community Engagement show notes for this episode (including topics in time, photos and recommended readings) click here. Interested in other episodes of Speak Your Piece? Click here for more episodes. Podcast Content: What can be encountered on one […]
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Will Bagley, Utah and Western historian, author, editor of over twenty books, former columnist for the Salt Lake Tribune (best known column “history Matters” 2000–2004) and sought-out public commentator on Mormon and Utah history. A former journalist and for the last 35 years, as one of Utah's most outspoken historians, Bagley answers questions regarding why […]
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Thomas G. Alexander, former Director of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, and retired Professor of history, Brigham Young University, describes his 2019 biography Brigham Young and the Expansion of the Mormon faith (University of Oklahoma Press) which benefits from over Alexander’s forty years of research and writing in Utah history.
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Thomas G. Alexander, former Director of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, and retired Professor of history, Brigham Young University, describes his 2019 biography Brigham Young and the Expansion of the Mormon faith (University of Oklahoma Press) which benefits from over Alexander’s forty years of research and writing in Utah history.
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W. Paul Reeve, Simmons Professor of Mormon Studies, University of Utah, describes his public history project Century of Black Mormons, designed to name and identify all known Black, African American, members of the Mormon Church (1830 and 1930). Reeves also describes the key arguments for his award winning book Religion of a Different Color: Race […]
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W. Paul Reeve, Simmons Professor of Mormon Studies, University of Utah, describes his public history project Century of Black Mormons, designed to name and identify all known Black, African American, members of the Mormon Church (1830 and 1930). Reeves also describes the key arguments for his award winning book Religion of a Different Color: Race […]
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Richard E. Turley, former Assistant Church historian (and before this, Executive Director) of the Church history Department, describes his thirty-five year career in Mormon history. Among other works, Turley co-authored in 2008 Massacre at Mountain Meadows: An American Tragedy with Ronald W. Walker and Glen M. Leonard, and in 1992 Victims: The LDS Church and […]
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Richard E. Turley, former Assistant Church historian (and before this, Executive Director) of the Church history Department, describes his thirty-five year career in Mormon history. Among other works, Turley co-authored in 2008 Massacre at Mountain Meadows: An American Tragedy with Ronald W. Walker and Glen M. Leonard, and in 1992 Victims: The LDS Church and […]
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James D’Arc, while in his early 20s as a BYU undergrad in the mid-1970s, convinced Brigham Young University to collect and document America’s film industry. Not just motion picture related to Utah or Mormonism–which they also collected–but nearly everything to document this culture making and reflecting industry. This includes original motion pictures, music scores, film […]
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