Brad Westwood, Senior Public Historian, Utah Dept. of Culture & Community Engagement

Speak Your Piece: a podcast about Utah's history

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The past is never truly “in the past.” It’s all around us, it informs us. It speaks to our shared and to our separate identities. “Speak Your Piece” is a podcast where contributors share their insights and discoveries about Utah's 12,000 year (plus) human story. Hosted by Brad Westwood, Senior Public Historian (Utah Dept. of Culture & Community Engagement), and co produced by Chelsey Zamir, a new episode is released every other week, sometimes more, sometimes less. SYP explores the key arguments with new and worthwhile older publications, articles or websites; or delves into a notable museum,...

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Brad Westwood, Senior Public Historian, Utah Dept. of Culture & Community Engagement

Episodes

“Being & Becoming Ute": a Conversation with Ethnohistorian Dr. Sondra G. Jones (Season 1, Ep. 10 - Part 1) 06.05.2020 36:18

Date: 01.10.2020 (Season 1, Episode 10, Part 1: 36:18 min.) To read the complete Utah Dept. of Culture & Community Engagement show notes for thisepisode (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 free ranging conversation Dr. Sondra Jones speaks about her b...

Katherine Kitterman: Utah Women Working For the Vote, an exhibit at the Utah State Capitol) (Season 1, Ep. 8 - Part 2): 06.05.2020 24:57

The second part of the interview with Katherine Kitterman about Better Days 2020, which is two significant anniversaries for women's suffrage. This part focuses on an exhibition at the State Capitol.

Better Days 2020 Historian Katherine Kitterman on women suffrage history, key arguments, events and people (1870-1920) (Season 1, Ep. 8 - Part 1) 06.05.2020 28:07

Guest Bio: Katherine Kitterman deeply understands both the national and the local contexts regarding 19th and early 20th century women suffrage history. She also has a knack for explaining in simply ways, complex historical circumstances. Kitterman is a PhD candidate in History at American University (Washington, D.C.) and is the Historical Director for the BetterDays2020 organization. Her focus...

James D'Arc, Hollywood films made in Utah (Season 1, Ep. 5 - Part 2) 03.05.2020 19:24

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 scripts, art work and st...

James D'Arc, Hollywood films made in Utah (Season 1, Ep. 5 - Part 1) 02.05.2020 31:51

Thomas G. Alexander on Brigham Young (Season 1, Ep. 2 - Part 1) 23.01.2020 22:35

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.

Thomas G. Alexander on Brigham Young (Season 1, Ep. 2 - Part 2) 23.01.2020 27:06

Will Bagley on the value of history (Season 1, Ep. 1) 19.12.2019 1:09:46

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 people should study his...