Utah

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• SOURCE: Religion Dispatches
  4/25/2022
  

  "Under the Banner" Improves, but Doesn't Sanitize, Book's Reductive History of Mormonism

  by Benjamin E. Park

  The new series raises questions about America's homegrown faith, and shakes off some of the source book's post-9/11 concerns with extremism and religious violence to show the complexity among different tendencies and branches of the faith. 

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• SOURCE: Salt Lake Tribune
  4/26/2020
  

  Utah Women’s Suffrage Became ‘Hotly Debated Issue’ in Bid for Statehood

  It was "really a fight" for women in Utah to regain their voting rights in 1895, says history professor Kathryn MacKay.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/14/20
  

  Utah women had the right to vote long before others — and then had it taken away

  by Katherine Kitterman

  As we remember the 19th Amendment, we shouldn’t forget what came before it.

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• SOURCE: AP
  2/1/20
  

  Historians Struggle to Understand Oral History Written in Forgotten Shorthand

  The 1951 transcription is written in a decades-old shorthand style that few people use today. “It’s definitely a lost art,” Langsdon said.

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• 5/12/19
  

  Jane Manning James and African American Women in the Mormon Church

  by Quincy D. Newell

  Jane Elizabeth Manning James, a free black woman who converted to Mormonism in the early 1840s, provides a little-known vantage point from which to tell a story of Mormonism that takes the church’s racial history into account.