Speak Your Piece: a podcast about Utah's history Transcripts
Brad Westwood, Senior Public Historian, Utah Dept. of Culture & Community Engagement · 83 episodes with transcripts
The past is never truly “in the past.” It’s all around us, it informs us. It speaks to our shared and to our separate identities. “Speak Your Piece” is a podcast where contributors share their insights and discoveries about Utah's 12,000 year (plus) human story.
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Constance Lieber on Martha Hughes Cannon (1857-1932) the First Female State Senator (Utah) in the USA (S5, E12)
October 26, 2023
Brad Westwood (0:03)
Welcome to the podcast, Speak Your Peace. This is a podcast about Utah's history produced by the Utah Department of Culture and Community Engagement. I'm Brad Westwood, Senior Public Historian. My job is to make the very best, the most interesting and the most accurate history of Utah, accessible to the widest…
The subject of this episode is Dr. Martha Hughes Cannon, the first female state senator in the United States, not just in the West, not just in Utah, across the entire United States. Cannon served in Utah Senate some 24 years before most women in the US could vote.
Dr. Katherine Kitterman (0:57)
Hi, Brad.
Brad Westwood (0:58)
Prior to joining the Historical Society, Katherine was Director of Utah's Better Days, an organization dedicated to elevating women's voices, past and present.
- Constance Lieber on Martha Hughes Cannon (1857-1932) the First Female State Senator (Utah) in the USA (S5, E12)
- SLC's Pioneer Museum and the Daughters of Utah Pioneers: A Conversation with Megan Weiss (S5, E13)
- Reissued: Rick Turley, 35 Years of LDS Church History (S1, E4 - Part 1)
- Reissued: Rick Turley, 35 Years of LDS Church History (S1, E4 - Part 2)
- Gary Bergera on his Life’s Work as an Author and Publisher of History (S5, E10)
- Reissued: “Utah Politics: The Elephant in the Room”: Utah Politics from 1890s-1970s with Rod Decker (S1, E6 - Part 1)
- Reissued: “Utah Politics: The Elephant in the Room”: Utah Politics from 1890s-1970s with Rod Decker (S1, E6 - Part 2)
- Reissued: Amy Barry, Stories from Utah’s Cemeteries Database (S1, E7 - Part 1)
- Reissued: Amy Barry, Stories from Utah’s Cemeteries Database (S1, E7 - Part 2)
- Todd Compton on “A Frontier Life: Jacob Hamblin, Explorer and Indian Missionary” (published 2013)
- Growing Up Latinx in Utah: A Conversation with Lee Martinez and Maria Garciaz (S5, E9)
- Reissued: “Intermountain Histories,” the Podcast “Writing Westward” and More: A Conversation with Brenden Rensink (S1, E9 - Part 2)
- Reissued: “Intermountain Histories,” the Podcast “Writing Westward” and More: A Conversation with Brenden Rensink (S1, E9 - Part 1)
- Rick Turley and Barbara Jones Brown on “Vengeance is Mine: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Its Aftermath” (2023) (S5 E7)
- Murals of Four Remarkable Black Women in Utah’s History, Installed in SLC’s Richmond Park by Sema Hadithi & Better Days (S4 E15)
- Reissued: W. Paul Reeve, "Century of Black Mormons" (S1 E3 - Part 1)
- Reissued: W. Paul Reeve, "Century of Black Mormons" (S1 E3 - Part 2)
- Greg Smoak on His Book “Western Lands, Western Voices: Essays on Public History in the American West” (S4 E14)
- Brent Ashworth’s Personal Experiences with Mark Hofmann: Counterfeiter, Forger & Convicted Murderer (S4 E13)
- Brandon Plewe on the 1900 Utah Census (S4 E7)
- Utah & America’s “Downwinders” History with Mary Dickson (S4 E12)
- Historian John Sillito on the Irrepressible B. H. Roberts –Orator, Church Leader, Politician, Journalist, Public Intellectual and Mormon Historian (S4 E11)
- Utah Women in World War I from the UHQ (S4 E10)
- Women Inventors in Utah Territory from the UHQ (S4 E6)
- Historical Struggles for Water: Westwater (Navajo) and the Uinta Reservation (Ute) - Join us @ the Annual History Conference: "Water at the Confluence Past and Present" (S5 E3)
- Utah’s Timpanogos Cave & the National Monument’s Centennial Year (1922-2022) (S5 E2)
- Returning Home: Diné Poetry, Essays, Art & Journalism from Utah's Intermountain Indian School (1950-1983, Brigham City, UT) (S3 E14)
- “Soul of God” – the Life & Works of Utah Raised Mexican Muralist Pablo O’Higgins – A Conversation with Susan Vogel, Fanny Guadalupe Blauer and Catherine Aviles (Season 4, Ep. 5)
- Utah & the Mormons First Fifty Years Together: A Conversation with LDS Church Historians Matt Grow and Scott Hales (Season 4, Ep. 3)
- The New Juneteenth Holiday & Utah's Laws on Interracial Marriage (1888-1963) (Season 4, Ep. 9)
- The Enduring Value & Big Arguments of Laurel T. Ulrich's Book "A House Full of Females" (2017) (Season 4, Ep. 4)
- A New Flag for Utah? A New Brand, Along With the Familiar (Season 3, Ep. 13)
- Stories by Ken Sanders: SLC's Book Trade, 1960s-70s Counterculture and Reciting Wendell Berry (Season 3, Ep. 12)
- Sojourners to the Mormon West: Historian Michael Homer on Seeing Mormonism and Utah through European Eyes (Season 3, Ep. 9)
- Utah's National History Day (Season 3, Ep. 10)
- “Rails East to Ogden:” Abandon Cultural Landscapes, Historical Archaeology and One of USA’s “Unknown National Treasures” (Season 3, Ep. 8)
- SLC's Latinx Population, Environmental Racism: A West Side Story, Past & Present (Season 3, Ep. 11)
- “Run it up the Flagpole...” Utah Considers a New State Flag (Season 3, Ep. 7)
- “We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout:” The Life of W. W. Phelps with LDS Historian Bruce Van Orden (Season 3, Ep. 3)
- Utah's Story - 150 Years of Photography from the Salt Lake Tribune (Season 2, Ep. 18)
- Mormon Laborers, Working on the Transcontinental Railroad (1868-1869) (Season 3, Ep. 6)
- "Are We There Yet?" - Mid 20th Century Vacations, Highways, Motels, Neon Signs... (Season 3, Ep. 4)
- "Topaz Stories: Remembering the Japanese American Incarceration" (Season 3, Ep. 2)
- History of Water in Utah: "The Most Complicated Plumbing System..." (Season 3, Ep. 1)
- "My Life in [1950's] Carbon County [Utah]:" A Conversation With Dr. Ronald G. Watt (Season 2, Ep. 15)
- "Salamander: The Story of the Mormon Forgery Murders" -- a Conversation with Co-author Allen D. Roberts (Season 2, Ep. 16)
- The Youthful Workforce of the North Rim, Zion, Bryce & Cedar Breaks: "Singaway: Working and Playing for the Utah Parks Company, 1923 to 1972" (Season 2, Ep. 14)
- "The Peoples of Utah" - revisited, for USA's 250th anniversary in 2026 (Season 2, Ep. 10)
- Utah's Archaeological Past and the "Utah Cultural Stewardship Program" (Season 2, Ep. 12)
- Utah’s Small Museum Landscape (Season 2, Ep. 11)
- Dr. Martha Bradley Evans: 20th C. Utah & LDS Women's History (including ERA) (Season 2, Ep. 9)
- Sons of Utah Pioneers, their magazine "the Pioneer," & their 125th statehood anniversary issue (Season 2, Ep. 8)
- Kenneth L. Cannon: A Patriarch & Three Scions: George Q. Cannon and Sons (Season 2, Ep. 7 - Part 1 & 2)
- Darren Parry and his book "The Bear River Massacre: A Shoshone History" Season 2, Ep. 6 - Part 1 & 2)
- Leo Lyman's Deep Dive into the “Sausage Making” of Utah's Statehood (Season 2, Ep. 3 - Part 2)
- Leo Lyman's Deep Dive into the “Sausage Making” of Utah's Statehood (Season 2, Ep. 3 - Part 1)
- Neylan McBaine, "Pioneering The Vote: The Untold Story of Suffragists in Utah and the West" (Season 2, Ep. 5 - Part 2)
- Neylan McBaine, "Pioneering The Vote: The Untold Story of Suffragists in Utah and the West" (Season 2, Ep. 5 - Part 1)
- Dr. Cassandra Clark, "Landscapes of the Mind" (Season 2 Ep. 4 - Part 2)
- Dr. Cassandra Clark: "Landscape of the Mind" (Season 2, Ep. 4 - Part 1)
- Leisl Carr Childers: Understanding Cliven Bundy & Utah Public Lands (Utah Historical Quarterly) (Season 2, Ep. 2 - Part 1)
- Leisl Carr Childers: Understanding Cliven Bundy & Utah Public Lands (Utah Historical Quarterly) (Season 2, Ep. 2 - Part 2)
- Everett Bassett: Discovering human remains at Mountain Meadows (Season 2, Ep. 1 - Part 1)
- Everett Bassett: Discovering human remains at Mountain Meadows (S2 E1 - Part 2)
- Seth Anderson discusses the history of Utah's LGBTQ+ (Season 1, Ep. 15 - Part 2)
- Seth Anderson discusses the history of Utah's LGBTQ+ (Season 1, Ep. 15 - Part 1)
- Holly George: Early 20th Century Theater in the American West (Season 1, Ep. 14 -Part 1)
- Utah Historical Quarterly Editor Holly George: World War 1 and Spanish Flu (Season 1, Ep. 14 - Part 2)
- Rev. France Davis, 20th Century African Americans in Utah (Season 1, Ep. 13 - Part 1)
- Rev. France Davis, 20th Century African Americans in Utah (Season 1, Ep. 13 - Part 2)
- Joe Hill (1879-1915): Labor Troubadour, Union Organizer & Execution in Utah (Season 1, Ep. 12 - Part 2)
- Joe Hill (1879-1915): Labor Troubadour, Union Organizer & Execution in Utah (Season 1, Ep. 12 - Part 1)
- How San Juan County Nearly Became a Ute Reservation (Season 1, Ep. 11 - Part 2)
- How Utah's San Juan County Nearly Became a Ute Reservation (Season 1, Ep. 11 - Part 1)
- "Being & Becoming Ute": A Conversation with Ethnohistorian Sondra G. Jones (Season 1, Ep. 10 - Part 2)
- “Being & Becoming Ute": a Conversation with Ethnohistorian Dr. Sondra G. Jones (Season 1, Ep. 10 - Part 1)
- Katherine Kitterman: Utah Women Working For the Vote, an exhibit at the Utah State Capitol) (Season 1, Ep. 8 - Part 2):
- Better Days 2020 Historian Katherine Kitterman on women suffrage history, key arguments, events and people (1870-1920) (Season 1, Ep. 8 - Part 1)
- James D'Arc, Hollywood films made in Utah (Season 1, Ep. 5 - Part 2)
- James D'Arc, Hollywood films made in Utah (Season 1, Ep. 5 - Part 1)
- Thomas G. Alexander on Brigham Young (Season 1, Ep. 2 - Part 1)
- Thomas G. Alexander on Brigham Young (Season 1, Ep. 2 - Part 2)
- Will Bagley on the value of history (Season 1, Ep. 1)
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