History

Host Sarah Berry talks with Sara Szobody, Online Learning Librarian at USU Libraries, about growing up in Pennsylvania and her connection to Mennonite food.

Throughout human history, civilizations have lost touch with knowledge, traditions, and practices that their ancestors developed over thousands of years — a phenomenon that has been called “the Great Forgetting.” Now, author June Cohen believes we’re overdue for a “Great Remembering."

Author Andrew Coe joins us today to talk about his new book, "American Bread," detailing the history of America's bread traditions and industry.

In her new book "This Haunted Land: Reckoning with Ghosts and the Stories that Shape America," Betsy Gaines Quammen takes us on a journey into haunted towns, forgotten lives, and abandoned places.

This week Tammy Proctor takes a little diversion into medieval history exploring research that examines bones and skeletons and analyzes them to try to figure out what kind of isotopes or minerals are in the bones

The day of remembrance honors those who were taken from their families and sent to boarding schools. Children were often cut off from their Native cultures, and many experienced abuse and neglect.

Historian Benjamin Park is giving the annual Arrington Mormon History Lecture on Sept. 24, titled "Declarations of Interdependence — Why the Latter-day Saints Just Can’t Quit the United States."

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.