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PODCAST

Utah Stories from the Beehive Archive

Utah Humanities

Tune in for a two-minute look at some of the most pivotal — and peculiar — events in Utah history! With all of the history and none of the dust, the Beehive Archive is a fun way to catch up on Utah’s past.

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2:01

The 24th Infantry Regiment

Utah Stories from the Beehive Archive ·

2025/06/16

Nearly 600 enlisted African American soldiers and their families migrated to Salt Lake City in 1896. These soldiers discovered that Utahns’ attitudes towards African Americans were much like the rest of the country, and faced racial discrimination during their time in Utah.

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2:28

Maude Adams: A Working Woman in Breeches

Utah Stories from the Beehive Archive ·

2025/06/09

This week, learn how the most famous American theater actress of the early 20th Century used gender-bending roles to push the early boundaries of a queer aesthetic.

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1:49

Simon Bamberger

Utah Stories from the Beehive Archive ·

2025/06/02

The fourth governor of the state, Simon Bamberger, was Utah’s first non-Mormon and only Jewish governor.

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1:56

Grace Oshita

Utah Stories from the Beehive Archive ·

2025/05/26

The experiences of a young girl who lived in Utah’s Topaz Internment Camp.

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1:57

Plum Alley

Utah Stories from the Beehive Archive ·

2025/05/19

Plum Alley, a narrow lane in downtown Salt Lake City, marks what used to be the heart of a vibrant Chinatown.

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1:54

The Salt Palace and the End of Salt Lake’s Japan Town

Utah Stories from the Beehive Archive ·

2025/05/12

A small area of downtown Salt Lake City used to be “Japan Town”, an area that served as the focus of the city’s Japanese American community. The area was demolished in the 1960s in order to make room for the Salt Palace.

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2:22

Working on the Railroad: Utah's Chinese Pioneers

Utah Stories from the Beehive Archive ·

2025/05/08

Chinese immigrant laborers built the railroad from California to Utah.

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2:00

Joe Hill

Utah Stories from the Beehive Archive ·

2025/04/28

Joe Hill has become a deeply ingrained part of Utah folklore. The Wobbly songwriter was executed for murder in the state in the early 1900s.

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2:09

German and Italian Prisoners of War in Utah

Utah Stories from the Beehive Archive ·

2025/04/21

Many people know about the Japanese internment camp Topaz, but Utah also held Italian and German prisoners of war during World War II.

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2:30

Convict Labor: Road-Building Backbone for Utah

Utah Stories from the Beehive Archive ·

2025/04/14

Learn about Utah’s convict labor system and how prisoners actually formed the backbone of some of our early public works projects – especially road construction.

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2:17

The Founding of SOCIO

Utah Stories from the Beehive Archive ·

2025/04/07

The creation of the Spanish Speaking Organization for Community, Integrity, and Opportunity in Salt Lake City sought to identify problems of the Spanish-speaking minority. This group worked on behalf of the community to improve equality and access to opportunity in Utah.

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2:01

Martha Hughes Cannon

Utah Stories from the Beehive Archive ·

2025/03/31

The story of an ambitious and successful young woman who lived in polygamy.

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1:58

The Woman's Exponent

Utah Stories from the Beehive Archive ·

2025/03/24

Mormon women wrote and published a newspaper for and about Mormon women. The paper had a small circulation and was replaced with the Relief Society Magazine shortly after the newspaper declined.

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2:00

Elizabeth Wood Kane

Utah Stories from the Beehive Archive ·

2025/03/17

After Elizabeth Wood Kane arrived in Utah with her husband, her letters home became the manuscript for a book about Utah culture. Her writings shed some important light on the frontier and Mormon social customs.

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1:58

Women in Utah Politics

Utah Stories from the Beehive Archive ·

2025/03/10

The early political history of Utah women began with the 1870 law that gave women the right to vote.

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1:43

Women's Home Missionary Society

Utah Stories from the Beehive Archive ·

2025/03/03

Female Methodist missionaries in Utah forged relationships with women across religious lines, protecting and advocating for women in need throughout the state.

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1:57

Utah Votes for Bryan

Utah Stories from the Beehive Archive ·

2025/02/26

Voters from Utah went crazy for Democratic presidential hopeful William Jennings Bryan in the election of 1896.

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The Ku Klux Klan in Utah

Utah Stories from the Beehive Archive ·

2025/02/17

The presence of the Ku Klux Klan was not just limited to the southern United States. In fact, the KKK had grown enough to march through the streets of Salt Lake City in the early 1920s.

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The Great White Palace: African American Segregation...

Utah Stories from the Beehive Archive ·

2025/02/10

The old Hotel Utah has a storied history of hospitality that is shadowed by the racial prejudice common throughout Utah right into the 1960s.

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2:30

Anti-Apartheid Activists Force Divestment at the...

Utah Stories from the Beehive Archive ·

2025/02/03

In the mid-nineteen eighties, global pressure was mounting against the apartheid regime in South Africa. Learn how persistent student activists at the University of Utah forced their campus to confront its connections to an oppressive regime half a world away.

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