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.
Episodes
88 episodes
Constance Lieber on Martha Hughes Cannon (1857-1932) the First Female State Senator (Utah) in the USA (S5, E12)
Date: April 17, 2023 (Season 5, Episode 12: 1 hour, 7 minutes long). Click here <...
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Season 5
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Episode 12
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Native American Boarding Schools in the Am. West & in Utah (ca. 1870s-1980s) with Dr. Farina King (Diné): Part 1 – an Introduction (S5, E1)
Date: August 29, 2022 (Season 5, Episode 1: 53 minutes long). Click here...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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53:56
American Boarding School Policies with Native American College Adviser Franci Lynne Taylor (Choctaw) – Part 2 (S5, E4)
Date: September 26, 2022 (Season 5, Episode 4: 54 minutes and 19 seconds long). Clic...
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Episode 4
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54:19
“Making Lamanites: Mormons, Native Americans and the… Placement Program”: A Conversation with Historian Matthew Garrett – Part 3 (S5, E5)
Date: October 3, 2022 (Season 5, Episode 5: 53 minutes 56 seconds). Click h...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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53:56
Diné Elders, Rose Jakub and Gayle Dawes, Describe their Multi-generational Boarding School Experiences – Part 4 (S5, E6)
Date: October 24, 2022 (Season 5, Episode 6: 81 minutes long). Click here
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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1:21:44
James Toledo on Multi-Generational Impacts from Boarding Schools and on the Need for Healing: Part 5 – Series Conclusion (S5, E11)
Date: August 29, 2022 (Season 5, Episode 11: 49 minutes and 18 seconds long). ...
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Season 5
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Episode 11
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38:41
SLC's Pioneer Museum and the Daughters of Utah Pioneers: A Conversation with Megan Weiss (S5, E13)
Date: May 30, 2023 (Season 5, Episode 13: 54 minutes and 21 seconds long). Click here for the ...
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Season 5
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Episode 13
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54:21
Reissued: Rick Turley, 35 Years of LDS Church History (S1, E4 - Part 2)
Date: December 2, 2019 (Season 1, Episode 4 - Part 2: 20 minutes long). Click here for the Utah Dept. of Culture and Com...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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20:00
Reissued: Rick Turley, 35 Years of LDS Church History (S1, E4 - Part 1)
Date: December 2, 2019 (Season 1, Episode 4 - Part 1: 31 min. & 18 sec. long). Click here for the Utah Dept. of Cult...
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Episode 4
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31:18
Gary Bergera on his Life’s Work as an Author and Publisher of History (S5, E10)
Date: March 10, 2023 (Season 5, Episode 10: 53 minutes long). For the entire show notes and additional resources for this episode,
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Season 5
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Episode 10
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52:34
Reissued: “Utah Politics: The Elephant in the Room”: Utah Politics from 1890s-1970s with Rod Decker (S1, E6 - Part 2)
Date: December 16, 2019 (Season 1, Episode 6 – Part 2: 17 min. & 26 sec. long). Click here f...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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17:26
Reissued: “Utah Politics: The Elephant in the Room”: Utah Politics from 1890s-1970s with Rod Decker (S1, E6 - Part 1)
Date: December 16, 2019 (Season 1, Episode 6 – Part 1: 30 min. long). Click here for the Utah De...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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30:00
Reissued: Amy Barry, Stories from Utah’s Cemeteries Database (S1, E7 - Part 2)
Date: December 23, 2019 (Season 1, Episode 7 - Part 2: 26 min. & 1 sec. long). Click here for the Utah Dept. o...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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26:01
Reissued: Amy Barry, Stories from Utah’s Cemeteries Database (S1, E7 - Part 1)
Date: December 23, 2019 (Season 1, Episode 7 - Part 1: 25 min. & 3 sec. long). Click here for the Utah Dept. o...
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Episode 7
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25:03
Todd Compton on “A Frontier Life: Jacob Hamblin, Explorer and Indian Missionary” (published 2013)
Date: February 3, 2023 (Season 5, Episode 8: 62 minutes long). For the entire show notes and additional resources for this episode,
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Season 5
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Episode 8
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1:02:21
Growing Up Latinx in Utah: A Conversation with Lee Martinez and Maria Garciaz (S5, E9)
Date: February 6, 2023 (Season 5, Episode 9: 40 minutes long). For the entire show notes and additional resources for this episode,
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Season 5
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Episode 9
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40:39
Reissued: “Intermountain Histories,” the Podcast “Writing Westward” and More: A Conversation with Brenden Rensink (S1, E9 - Part 2)
Date: January 13, 2020 (Season 1, Episode 9 — Part 2: 23 minutes long). For the entire show notes and additional resources for this episode,
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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23:00
Reissued: “Intermountain Histories,” the Podcast “Writing Westward” and More: A Conversation with Brenden Rensink (S1, E9 - Part 1)
Date: January 13, 2020 (Season 1, Episode 9 — Part 1: 26 min. and 39 sec. long). For the entire show notes and additional resources for this episode,
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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26:39
Rick Turley and Barbara Jones Brown on “Vengeance is Mine: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Its Aftermath” (2023) (S5 E7)
Date: July 7, 2022 (Season 5, Episode 7: 75 minutes long). For the entire show notes and additional resources for this episode,
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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1:14:58
Murals of Four Remarkable Black Women in Utah’s History, Installed in SLC’s Richmond Park by Sema Hadithi & Better Days (S4 E15)
Date: July 7, 2022 (Season 4, Episode 15: 63 min. & 52 sec. long). For the entire show notes and additional resources for this episode,
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Season 4
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Episode 15
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1:04:00
Reissued: W. Paul Reeve, "Century of Black Mormons" (S1 E3 - Part 2)
Date: November 25, 2019 (S1 E3 - Part 2: 21 min. & 23 seconds). For the entire show notes and additional resources for this episode,
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Episode 3
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21:23
Reissued: W. Paul Reeve, "Century of Black Mormons" (S1 E3 - Part 1)
Date: November 25, 2019 (S1 E3 - Part 1: 23 min. & 44 seconds). For the entire show notes and additional resources for this episode,
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Episode 3
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23:44
Greg Smoak on His Book “Western Lands, Western Voices: Essays on Public History in the American West” (S4 E14)
Date: June 27, 2022 (Season 4, Episode 14: 59 minutes & 21 seconds long). For the entire show notes and additional resources for this episode
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Season 4
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Episode 14
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