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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 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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2:21

Welsh Immigrants Recreate Their Lives in Utah

Utah Stories from the Beehive Archive ·

2025/01/27

Welsh immigrants brought with them valuable skills that laid the foundation for Utah’s early mining industry.

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2:29

Utah's Rosies

Utah Stories from the Beehive Archive ·

2025/01/20

You’ve seen her. She wears the red bandanna and a blue collared shirt, flexing her bicep with a look that says, “get to work.” She’s Rosie the Riveter, and Utah had an army of them.

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2:10

Alien Registration Act of 1940

Utah Stories from the Beehive Archive ·

2025/01/13

The United States has a long history of limiting immigration and managing migrants once they are here, including a campaign to register non-citizen immigrants living in Utah.

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3:26

Lessons in Resilience

Utah Stories from the Beehive Archive ·

2024/12/30

Over long years of colonization, the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation faced severe setbacks. But the Tribe continued to adapt to new conditions and found ways to preserve their culture and traditions.

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3:33

2002 Winter Olympics Bring Utahns Together

Utah Stories from the Beehive Archive ·

2024/12/23

Utah's snowy peaks and valleys became the stage for athletes from around the world during the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake. But the Games were much more than a sporting competition.

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3:32

Utah Tree History: A Landscape in Flux

Utah Stories from the Beehive Archive ·

2024/12/16

Utah history isn’t just about the people who lived and worked here. It’s also about some of the oldest living organisms in our state – trees! Learn more about our arborous elders.

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3:23

Nine Mile Canyon: Resource Exploitation vs Cultural...

Utah Stories from the Beehive Archive ·

2024/12/09

Nine Mile Canyon contains an estimated 10,000 rock art sites created over a thousand years ago, and that’s just the beginning of the canyon's historic and cultural value. But natural gas exploration and extraction nearby pose challenges to preservation efforts.

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3:31

The Energy Transition Powered by Rural Utah

Utah Stories from the Beehive Archive ·

2024/12/02

When you flip your light switch, do you know which part of rural Utah your electricity is coming from? Historically, fuel for the energy grid came from rural areas in the form of fossil fuels. But even as utilities transition to alternative energy, that energy is still sourced in rural Utah.

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3:32

Poultry Co-operative Transforms Utah Agriculture

Utah Stories from the Beehive Archive ·

2024/11/25

The switch from Utah being a net importer of turkeys to becoming a substantial exporter in the 1920s can be attributed to the efforts of one man -- Benjamin Brown -- and the poultry co-operative he organized.

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3:33

Radio: Bridging the Distance Across Rural Utah

Utah Stories from the Beehive Archive ·

2024/11/18

Today, we have 24 hour news channels and TikTok to share breaking news and current trends. But for Utahns isolated by distance in the early 20th century, the radio did a tremendous job of connecting residents in rural communities to each other and to the larger world.

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3:33

Ephraim Relief Society Granary

Utah Stories from the Beehive Archive ·

2024/11/11

In the late nineteenth century, the local Granary building in Ephraim gave women an unusual public presence on Main Street, and became a proud symbol of early female autonomy, economic success, and charitable endeavors.

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3:40

Arts Drive Rural Utah

Utah Stories from the Beehive Archive ·

2024/11/04

Just like alfalfa fields and amazing vistas, art is easy to find in rural Utah. It is also a major economic driver.

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3:49

Spring City and the Politics of Preservation

Utah Stories from the Beehive Archive ·

2024/10/28

Living in a historic home can be lovely – but for Spring City residents in the 1970s, the influx of so-called "outsiders" sprucing up pioneer-era historic dwellings was a source of contention.

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3:31

Cedar City's Sheep Tunnel

Utah Stories from the Beehive Archive ·

2024/10/21

Running underneath Cedar City is a concrete tunnel that is now a hang-out for adventurous kids and graffiti artists. But, what was this secret pathway originally intended to do?

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3:26

Liberty Park: Salt Lake City’s “Central Park”

Utah Stories from the Beehive Archive ·

2024/10/14

Today, Salt Lake City’s urban sprawl and poor air quality are noteworthy, but the problem isn’t exactly new. Public parks were once seen as an antidote to the bad effects of increasing urbanization -- kind of like a little bit of the "country" in the city, if you will.

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3:24

The Magical Van’s Dance Hall

Utah Stories from the Beehive Archive ·

2024/10/07

Every weekend across Utah, dancers fill nightclubs twisting to the latest tunes. But did you know that one of the most extravagant and celebrated dance halls in the Beehive State was found in the remote town of Delta? Learn what all the fuss was about.

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3:29

Copper Mine Swallows Company Towns

Utah Stories from the Beehive Archive ·

2024/09/30

Demand for copper in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries reshaped Utah’s once-rural Bingham Canyon into an enormous open-pit mine supported by thriving company towns. But that same demand for copper went on to consume those same company towns.

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3:36

Flying Professors

Utah Stories from the Beehive Archive ·

2024/09/23

Today, remote learning usually happens over a computer. But did you know that Utah colleges once used airplanes to bring professors directly to classrooms in rural areas? These "flying professor" programs represent just one chapter in a longer history of distance education.

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