History

While our Founding Fathers were crafting our democracy in 1776, the Dominguez-Escalante expedition was crossing through Utah trying to find a path from Santa Fe to California.

We talk with Jay Neugeboren about caring for a brother with mental illness, a posthumous lunch with Oliver Sacks, and a thwarted kiss at a teenage summer camp where he was a young Jewish man in exile.

Proponents say changes to the National Historic Preservation Act will streamline regulations. Critics argue it weakens the law by reducing the role of tribes and local governments.

Janet Dexter sketched celebrities for the New York Times and other newspapers in the 1920s and 1930s. But she left her successful career to commit to a life of poverty in the Maine woods.

Following a panel by Politico Magazine on America's state of democracy, historian Greg Jackson, host of "History That Doesn't Suck," joins us to talk about America's political past.

Host Tammy Proctor explores it's origin and ingredients in that hard-to-pronounce and mysterious elixir.

Spices have taken us around the world. It's been fascinating to discover new spices and to find out how versatile they can be as they move from culture to culture.

It’s just a bummer this film doesn’t make more of a deep impression as a whole. Isn’t that what good artistic expression should do?

Digital Assets Librarian Darcy Pumphrey joins us to talk about a Utah State University library exhibit on Brigham Young College 100 years after its closure.

Geology is the star attraction in many national parks, but Arches National Park reveals erosional wonders like no other place on Earth.