Speak Your Piece: a podcast about Utah's history
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 engineered at the Utah State Library in Salt Lake City. Jason Powers is the sound and post-production engineer. The SYP logo is a photograph entitled "Canyonlands," taken by Utah outdoor photographer Al W. Morton, circa 1955, within the Canyonlands National Park (NPS). The lone man in the image is Kent Frost, looking over a series of needle rock formations located in San Juan County, Utah. The image and rights are owned by the Utah State Historical Society.
Speak Your Piece: a podcast about Utah's history
Will Bagley on the value of history (Season 1, Ep. 1)
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Brad Westwood (host)/Will Bagley (guest)
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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 history, how Utah's history has been approached in the past, and why understanding it is important to contemporary Utahns. He also describes selected works of his, and finally speaks of mentors, and various deceased students and professors of history, all of whom have influenced his approach to history.