Speak Your Piece: a podcast about Utah's history
BookmarkBrad Westwood, Senior Public Historian, Utah Dept. of Culture & Community Engagement
Speak Your Piece: a podcast about Utah's history is a history podcast hosted by Brad Westwood, Senior Public Historian, Utah Dept. of Culture & Community Engagement. It has 83 episodes, with the latest published October 2023.
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, archival collection, archaeological report; or allows a respected writer, curator or historian to speak freely, sometimes about difficult history. SYP seeks to tell a history of Utah in a way you might not heard it before., told by the people who know it best: historians, writers, curators, archaeologists, rare book dealers, archivists, librarians and more. Speak Your Piece is recorded and enginee
history ·en-us ·83 episodes
Constance Lieber on Martha Hughes Cannon (1857-1932) the First Female State Senator (Utah) in the USA (S5, E12)
SLC's Pioneer Museum and the Daughters of Utah Pioneers: A Conversation with Megan Weiss (S5, E13)
Reissued: Rick Turley, 35 Years of LDS Church History (S1, E4 - Part 2)
Reissued: Rick Turley, 35 Years of LDS Church History (S1, E4 - Part 1)
Gary Bergera on his Life’s Work as an Author and Publisher of History (S5, E10)
Reissued: “Utah Politics: The Elephant in the Room”: Utah Politics from 1890s-1970s with Rod Decker (S1, E6 - Part 2)
Reissued: “Utah Politics: The Elephant in the Room”: Utah Politics from 1890s-1970s with Rod Decker (S1, E6 - Part 1)
Reissued: Amy Barry, Stories from Utah’s Cemeteries Database (S1, E7 - Part 2)
Reissued: Amy Barry, Stories from Utah’s Cemeteries Database (S1, E7 - Part 1)
Todd Compton on “A Frontier Life: Jacob Hamblin, Explorer and Indian Missionary” (published 2013)
Growing Up Latinx in Utah: A Conversation with Lee Martinez and Maria Garciaz (S5, E9)
Reissued: “Intermountain Histories,” the Podcast “Writing Westward” and More: A Conversation with Brenden Rensink (S1, E9 - Part 2)
Reissued: “Intermountain Histories,” the Podcast “Writing Westward” and More: A Conversation with Brenden Rensink (S1, E9 - Part 1)
Rick Turley and Barbara Jones Brown on “Vengeance is Mine: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Its Aftermath” (2023) (S5 E7)
Murals of Four Remarkable Black Women in Utah’s History, Installed in SLC’s Richmond Park by Sema Hadithi & Better Days (S4 E15)
Reissued: W. Paul Reeve, "Century of Black Mormons" (S1 E3 - Part 2)
Reissued: W. Paul Reeve, "Century of Black Mormons" (S1 E3 - Part 1)
Greg Smoak on His Book “Western Lands, Western Voices: Essays on Public History in the American West” (S4 E14)
Brent Ashworth’s Personal Experiences with Mark Hofmann: Counterfeiter, Forger & Convicted Murderer (S4 E13)
Brandon Plewe on the 1900 Utah Census (S4 E7)
Utah & America’s “Downwinders” History with Mary Dickson (S4 E12)
Historian John Sillito on the Irrepressible B. H. Roberts –Orator, Church Leader, Politician, Journalist, Public Intellectual and Mormon Historian (S4 E11)
Utah Women in World War I from the UHQ (S4 E10)
Women Inventors in Utah Territory from the UHQ (S4 E6)
Historical Struggles for Water: Westwater (Navajo) and the Uinta Reservation (Ute) - Join us @ the Annual History Conference: "Water at the Confluence Past and Present" (S5 E3)
Utah’s Timpanogos Cave & the National Monument’s Centennial Year (1922-2022) (S5 E2)
Returning Home: Diné Poetry, Essays, Art & Journalism from Utah's Intermountain Indian School (1950-1983, Brigham City, UT) (S3 E14)
“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 (Season 4, Ep. 5)
Utah & the Mormons First Fifty Years Together: A Conversation with LDS Church Historians Matt Grow and Scott Hales (Season 4, Ep. 3)
The New Juneteenth Holiday & Utah's Laws on Interracial Marriage (1888-1963) (Season 4, Ep. 9)
The Enduring Value & Big Arguments of Laurel T. Ulrich's Book "A House Full of Females" (2017) (Season 4, Ep. 4)
A New Flag for Utah? A New Brand, Along With the Familiar (Season 3, Ep. 13)
Stories by Ken Sanders: SLC's Book Trade, 1960s-70s Counterculture and Reciting Wendell Berry (Season 3, Ep. 12)
Sojourners to the Mormon West: Historian Michael Homer on Seeing Mormonism and Utah through European Eyes (Season 3, Ep. 9)
Utah's National History Day (Season 3, Ep. 10)
“Rails East to Ogden:” Abandon Cultural Landscapes, Historical Archaeology and One of USA’s “Unknown National Treasures” (Season 3, Ep. 8)
SLC's Latinx Population, Environmental Racism: A West Side Story, Past & Present (Season 3, Ep. 11)
“Run it up the Flagpole...” Utah Considers a New State Flag (Season 3, Ep. 7)
“We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout:” The Life of W. W. Phelps with LDS Historian Bruce Van Orden (Season 3, Ep. 3)
Utah's Story - 150 Years of Photography from the Salt Lake Tribune (Season 2, Ep. 18)
Mormon Laborers, Working on the Transcontinental Railroad (1868-1869) (Season 3, Ep. 6)
"Are We There Yet?" - Mid 20th Century Vacations, Highways, Motels, Neon Signs... (Season 3, Ep. 4)
"Topaz Stories: Remembering the Japanese American Incarceration" (Season 3, Ep. 2)
History of Water in Utah: "The Most Complicated Plumbing System..." (Season 3, Ep. 1)
"My Life in [1950's] Carbon County [Utah]:" A Conversation With Dr. Ronald G. Watt (Season 2, Ep. 15)
"Salamander: The Story of the Mormon Forgery Murders" -- a Conversation with Co-author Allen D. Roberts (Season 2, Ep. 16)
The Youthful Workforce of the North Rim, Zion, Bryce & Cedar Breaks: "Singaway: Working and Playing for the Utah Parks Company, 1923 to 1972" (Season 2, Ep. 14)
"The Peoples of Utah" - revisited, for USA's 250th anniversary in 2026 (Season 2, Ep. 10)
Utah's Archaeological Past and the "Utah Cultural Stewardship Program" (Season 2, Ep. 12)
Utah’s Small Museum Landscape (Season 2, Ep. 11)
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