A popular family genealogy website based in Provo is offering free access to millions of World War II records to mark tomorrow’s 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Anastasia Harman, Lead Family Historian for Ancestry.com, explains the highlight of the nearly 60 million records is the release of the U.S. Navy muster rolls from 1939 to 1949.
Segment 1: From Aristotle to Shelley to Frost, humans have strung together words in a lyrical, meaningful way. But in a world of 140 character messages and short attention spans, what place does verse have in modern life? And what keeps Utah poets going? Guests: John Kippen, Editor, Sugar House Review Katharine Coles, Utah Poet [...]
Listen to our podcast of a panel discussion from the 14th annual Utah Humanities Book Festival, “Joe Hill and the History of Utah Radicalism.”
The Natural History Museum of Utah has announced it will welcome patrons into its new home in early winter. The Rio Tinto Center will open to the public on Friday, November 18th, housing 1.2 million objects from around the state and region. Executive Director Sarah George says right now, they’re laying down the finishing touches.
This Sunday not only marks the tenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks, but also 154 years since the Mountain Meadows Massacre in southern Utah. Lysa Wegman-French, a historian with the National Park Service, says to commemorate what happened there, the site will be designated as a National Historic Landmark.
There’s another tragic event that happened on a September 11th that Utahns are familiar with – the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857. This Sunday, the site of that massacre will be formally designated as a National Historic Landmark. It was a tragic legacy of the Utah War, a conflict that may not be that well known outside of Utah, but is well known to our guest. William MacKinnon is author of At Sword’s Point, a compilation of his extensive research on the Utah War.
The horniest dinosaur ever found was unveiled today at the Utah Museum of Natural History in Salt Lake City. It is one of two new species of horned dinosaurs, or ceratops, paleontologists unearthed in Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
A Utah lawmaker’s resolution to end birthright citizenship, as granted in the 14th Amendment, brought dozens of lawmakers, faith leaders, legal experts and Salt Lake area citizens together this afternoon.
Bidders are competing for Salt Lake City’s historic Odd Fellows Hall as the window narrows to only two hours. KCPW’s Elizabeth Ziegler explains what’s happening and the history of the building.
A research curator with the Utah Museum of Natural History says there’s a lot to learn about how our climate is changing today, by studying changes in the environment that occurred millions of years ago, during the time of dinosaurs. Tonight, paleontologist Scott Sampson will speak on “Dinosaurs of the Lost Continent” in Salt Lake City. That “Lost Continent” is Laramidia, a land mass that is now western North America, but was once separated from the eastern half by water, Sampson says.
