Utah History

In other news, the newest director of the National Institutes of Health is the first to be trained at a Utah school.

In other news, Willard Canyon will no longer be accessible to hikers due to mining.

The Smithsonian’s Museum on Mainstreet gives small towns a chance to reflect on their own stories and the changes along their path with its traveling exhibit Crossroads.

In this much-anticipated sequel of the book, Massacre at Mountain Meadows Richard E. Turley Jr. and Barbara Jones Brown examine the aftermath of The Mountain Meadows Massacre in Vengeance Is Mine.

In other news: Utah is joining the FTC in a national effort to fight scam calls, and this Saturday is National Day of the Cowboy.

Utah State University had three days of events to celebrate the federal holiday, which marks the true emancipation of Black Americans from slavery.

In other news, a Holladay home built in 1879 is facing demolition. A group of preservationists is pushing back.

The University of Utah released a study Wednesday about the possibility that there are victims of Utah’s eugenic sterilization program in the 20th century still alive today.

Examining everything from phonetics to history in his new book Utahisms, BYU Linguistics Professor David Eddington reveals the roots of what is truly, uniquely Utah. He joins us on this episode of Access Utah.

The public can request free access to the state's wide array of historical documents and artifacts.