Utah, The Right Place revised
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Utah residents lead lives rich with family, industry, politics, and community. The 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City focused the eyes of the world on this unique place, highlighting our strong contributions to the fine arts, professional sports, literature, and music, along with our unparalleled access to recreation and more. Thomas G. Alexander tells the whole story of the Beehive State in Utah, The Right Place, a Utah Statehood Centennial Project of the Utah State Historical Society. Originally published in 1995, this newly updated and revised edition is the comprehensive historical Utah experience. With current information on recent political and economic changes, including the changes brought on by the 2002 Olympic games, Dr. Alexander teaches and entertains through his historical writings.
Utah residents lead lives rich with family, industry, politics, and community. The 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City focused the eyes of the world on this unique place, highlighting our strong contributions to the fine arts, professional sports, literature, and music, along with our unparalleled access to recreation and more. Thomas G. Alexander tells the whole story of the Beehive State in Utah, The Right Place, a Utah Statehood Centennial Project of the Utah State Historical Society. Originally published in 1995, this newly updated and revised edition is the comprehensive historical Utah experience. With current information on recent political and economic changes, including the changes brought on by the 2002 Olympic games, Dr. Alexander teaches and entertains through his historical writings.
Thomas G. Alexander holds the Lemuel Hardison Redd Jr. Chair as Professor of Western American History at Brigham Young University. Born and raised in Utah, this award-winning author has written articles for many journals and has published a number of books, including Grace and Grandeur: A History of Salt Lake City (2002).
Preface,In November 2002, I accompanied a number of board and staff members of the Utah Humanities Council to the annual conference of the Federation of State Humanities Councils. At the conference”s final session, Betty Sue Flowers, director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum in Austin, Texas, reflected on the conference as she offered some thoughts on interpreting and writing history.In what sounds on the surface like a flippant remark, but which on reflection tells us a great deal about understanding our history, she said, “I became a futurist because the past was too unpredictable.” Her comments built upon a lecture given the previous day. The day before, we had heard a presentation by Edward T. Linenthal, a professor of religious studies at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh. Ed talked about contested history and memory. He showed that in displays designed to commemorate events such as the Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, the Little Big Horn Battlefield in Montana, the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington D. C., and the Enola Gay exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum, decisions about which facts to present or leave out and how to interpret the events themselves aroused deep-seated and, at times, violent emotions
AcknowledgmentsPrefaceChapter 1 The LandChapter 2 Utah”s Earliest PeoplesChapter 3 Explorers, Entrepreneurs, and EmigrantsChapter 4 Building a New KingdomChapter 5 Conflict and Culture, 1847-1857Chapter 6 Confrontation and Compromise, 1857-1869Chapter 7 Mining, Cooperation, and Challenge, 1870-1879Chapter 8 Change and Creativity in the Age of Woodruff, 1880-1896Chapter 9 Progressive Utah: Economics and Society, 1896-1917Chapter 10 Progressive Utah: Politics and Culture, 1896-1917Chapter 11 The Great War and the Little Depression, 1917-1930Chapter 12 Hard Times and a Tough People, 1930-1941Chapter 13 World War II and the Transformation of Utah, 1935-1945Chapter 14 An American Colony, 1945-1969Chapter 15 An American Commonwealth, 1970-2003Chapter 16 Reflections on Utah”s Kingdom, Colony, and CommonwealthBibliographyIndex
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Dimensions | 1 × 9 × 10 in |