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Articles 1 - 12 of 12
Full-Text Articles in History
The Theater In Mormon Life And Culture, Howard R. Lamar
The Theater In Mormon Life And Culture, Howard R. Lamar
Arrington Annual Lecture
No abstract provided.
In Union Is Strength Mormon Women And Cooperation, 1867-1900, Kathleen C. Haggard
In Union Is Strength Mormon Women And Cooperation, 1867-1900, Kathleen C. Haggard
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
In 1847, the Mormons entered the Great Basin and under the direction of Brigham Young, began an era of cooperation. The cooperative efforts of the Mormons extended to all aspects of their economic life and was designed to bring about a self-sufficient community. This paper examines three geographic areas in Utah and, using a comparative framework, studies the cooperative efforts of Mormon women from these regions with regards to three business initiatives: cooperative stores, sericulture (silk culture), and grain storage. Within this context, the economic impact of Mormon women on their communities, through the church's female organization, the relief society, …
The Emergence Of Longview, Washington: Indians, Farmers, And Industrialists On The Cowlitz-Columbia Flood Plain, Brett H. Rushforth
The Emergence Of Longview, Washington: Indians, Farmers, And Industrialists On The Cowlitz-Columbia Flood Plain, Brett H. Rushforth
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
This thesis examined the relationships among ecology, economy, and society in the history of Longview, Washington, a planned timber settlement on the Columbia and Cowlitz Rivers. It compared the environmental, economic, and social histories of the Cowlitz Indians, American farmers, and urban industrialists that lived there over the past four hundred years.
The central argument of the thesis is that human society cannot separate its economic and social organization from its ecology, nor can it reorder the environment without restructuring its economic and social institutions. Three different groups lived in the same physical space, but since they conceived and used …
"Halfway Between Nobody Knows Where And Somebody's Starting Point": A History Of The West End Of Montrose County, Colorado, John A. Hardcastle
"Halfway Between Nobody Knows Where And Somebody's Starting Point": A History Of The West End Of Montrose County, Colorado, John A. Hardcastle
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The thesis contains interesting and relevant information concerning the impact of the mining and milling industry on communities located within a geographically, socially, politically, and economically defined area in southwestern Colorado. This area supplied a tremendous amount of radium, vanadium, and uranium in successive eras. The author focuses primarily on Uravan, and examines the town's role in the uranium procurement program during World War II. The study of Uravan also provides information on the social structure of a company-owned community. Also examined are the ways in which government policies affected these small communities, and the impacts of the mining and …
Looking Through A Paradox An Environmental History Of Two Mormon Communities, Jenna Howick Tilt
Looking Through A Paradox An Environmental History Of Two Mormon Communities, Jenna Howick Tilt
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
"Nature is both powerfully attractive and powerfully repellent,"1 describes the "Western Paradox" as it was first described by Donald Worster in his Under the Western Skies: The West has been an American symbol of independence, equality and self-preservation from its earliest day, but that freedom had a price. The scarcity of water in the arid West shackled these free spirited adventurers as they became slaves to canals, dams and irrigation ditches.2 Their natural spirit seemed to be defied by the world of technology and machines, which they sought to leave behind by coming West. Yet, by coming to …
A Silhouette Of Society, Gerri Waters Sorenson
A Silhouette Of Society, Gerri Waters Sorenson
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
With a land survey completed by George Washington, the Virginia Assembly approved an act on May 11, 1749 which established the town of Alexandria. By 1760 a traveler described the burgeoning city as ''a small trading place, situated on an arch of a large circular bay ... at one extremity of which is a wharf; at the other a dock for building ships." Annexed as part of the District of Columbia in 1791, a young merchant from London commented around this time that "the town was mainly one street, running northeast and southwest ... Wooden houses predominated with a few …
Everything's Relative: The Theory Of Relativity's Influence On Early Twentieth-Century Thought, Shawna Jo Randall
Everything's Relative: The Theory Of Relativity's Influence On Early Twentieth-Century Thought, Shawna Jo Randall
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
In the early twentieth century Albert Einstein revolutionized humankind's understanding of the universe. Few scientific innovations have had as pervasive an impact as Einstein's Theory of Relativity. His conjectures accounted for scientific phenomena which were otherwise unexplained. With a set of abstract equations, he created unity and consistency among otherwise disconnected entities. He redefined the universe and transformed previous notions about space and time. For the scientific community the Theory of Relativity established a foundation for subsequent developments in physics. It is important to note, however, that the nonscientific community was also profoundly affected by Einstein's theory. Lay people did …
Diego Rivera In The United States: "Working From Within The Enemy Camp", Sarahí Dehesa-Avelar
Diego Rivera In The United States: "Working From Within The Enemy Camp", Sarahí Dehesa-Avelar
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
The most notorious twentieth-century Mexican artist and politician, Diego Rivera, stepped up to the international pedestal of art in the late 1920s. Recognized for his revival of mural painting and undeniable compositional skill, the middle-aged Rivera was crowned a Michelangelo of modern art by artists, intellectuals, and admirers of the time. When Rivera traveled to the United States to show off his peacock's tail, the American media also participated readily in the servile flattery of the Mexican master. Yet, as was evident in print media, Rivera's art was revered more for its technical ability to depict Mexico and its culture, …
Show And Tell: The Biases Of Plutarch And Euripides, Annalee Tyler
Show And Tell: The Biases Of Plutarch And Euripides, Annalee Tyler
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
It can be said that there is no such thing as an unbiased viewpoint. For a newspaper columnist, a politician, or a radio talk-show host, this is good news. But for the historian, it proves to be somewhat problematic. Is it possible to gain an accurate view of the facts if there is, essentially, no such thing? Most history is written by the victors, the conquerors who wish to glorify themselves and their cause. Where is the record for the lower classes, women, and children? Even those who purport to be impartial have views that are colored by their backgrounds, …
Laugh And History Laughs With You, Davis Rich Lewis
Laugh And History Laughs With You, Davis Rich Lewis
History Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
The History Of Louisa Barnes Pratt, George Ellsworth
The History Of Louisa Barnes Pratt, George Ellsworth
All USU Press Publications
In her memoir, and 1870s revision of her journal and diary, Louisa Barnes Pratt tells of childhood in Massachusetts and Canada during the War of 1812, and independent career as a teacher and seamstress in New England, and her marriage to the Boston seaman Addison Pratt.
Converting to the LDS Church, the Pratts moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, from where Brigham Young sent Addison on the first of the long missions to the Society Islands that would leave Louisa on her own. As a sole available parent, she hauled her children west to Winter Quarters, to Utah in 1848, to California, …
In Another Time, Harold Schindler
In Another Time, Harold Schindler
All USU Press Publications
An illustrated collection of historical articles originally published in the Salt Lake Tribune from 1993 to 1996, In Another Time provides both an entertaining introduction to Utah and a distinguished and popular historian's summary views of the state's peculiar history. Harold Schindler is well known to readers of the Tribune as a columnist and feature writer. He is also widely respected as a historian and author, especially of the popular biography Orrin Porter Rockwell: Man of God, Son of Thunder. The essays published here come from two series he wrote for the Tribune, and they include some of the longest …