HISTORY TOPIC IDEAS

Why consider a Utah topic? • Explore the history that shaped your community. • Investigate a local angle that connects to national or world events. • Consult Utah History To Go for introductory articles on many of these topics. • Look for primary sources online at the Utah History Research Center. • Click on hyperlinked topics to find credible secondary sources in the Utah Historical Quarterly or primary source sets from the Utah Division of State History. • You could win $500 at State! The top Utah history projects receive the Glen and Caroline Miner Prize for Utah History each year.

Early Utah Mormon Histories , Ute, Goshute, Paiute, and Navajo Mormon Migration, Settlement of Deseret Communities & Intertribal Relations Struggle for Statehood, Colonel Thomas Kane Dominguez-Escalante Expedition Hole-in-the-Rock Trek Old Spanish Trail Trade Networks Mountain Meadows Massacre Rivera Expedition Polygamy: Reed-Smoot Hearings, Women’s Fur Trade histories Explorers, Trappers, Traders: The Utah War Jim Bridger, Peter Skene Ogden, Etienne Provost, Jedediah Smith, John Weber, John C. Railroad Communities and Cultures Fremont, Miles Goodyear, James Beckwourth Transcontinental Railroad, Legacies of the (African American) Golden Spike Expeditions: Stansbury, Gunnison, Simpson Chinese Railroad Workers Pony Express

Mining Communities, Strikes, & Disasters Native Americans in the Time of Settlement Carbon County, Bingham Canyon, Park City Bear River Massacre & Legacy Thomas Kearns Black Hawk War, Circleville Massacre Joe Hill and the IWW Indian Boarding Schools in Utah Bingham Canyon Strike of 1912 Native Leaders: Pocatello, Bear Hunter, Mine Disasters: Winter Quarters, Scofield Sagwich, , Tabby-to-Kwanah, Washakie, Walkara Reservation Life Immigrants & Ethnic Communities in Utah Urban Indian Communities African-American Communities & Leaders Utes and Settlers in Chinese Walker War Greek Italian

NHD Utah 2020-21 Japanese Immigrants Civil Rights Jewish Communities, Governor Bamberger, Women’s Suffrage – First to Vote Auerbach’s Department Store, Benjamin Kanab’s All-Woman Town Council Brown, Clarion The Equal Rights Amendment in Utah Latinx Communities, Great Depression, Utah’s NAACP Leaders Mormonism and African-Americans Pacific Islanders, Iosepa colony Race Riots and BYU Athletics Refugee Communities Adoption of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Scandinavian Communities Holiday in Utah War Brides SOCIO: Spanish Speaking Organization for Your Community! Community, Integrity, and Opportunity & Armando Solorzano World Wars, Great Depression World War I in Utah Environmental History WWI German internees at Fort Douglas Echo Park Dam Controversy Marriner S. Eccles, New Deal Architect Glen Canyon Dam/Colorado River Storage Act The Civilian Conservation Corps in Utah The Central Utah Project (CUP) WWII Industries: Tooele Army Depot, Hill AFB, Ranchers, Rangelands, and Grazing Manti Parachute Factory Sagebrush Rebellion Wendover and the Atomic Bomb MX Missile Controversy Women during WWII NAGPRA: The Native American Graves Japanese Incarceration at Topaz Protection and Repatriation Act in Utah Col. Gail Halvorsen, the Candy Bomber Public Lands in Utah: National Parks & Monuments, U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, State Parks Science and Technology Grand Staircase & the Federal Antiquities Act John Wesley Powell’s Geographic Surveys Wilderness Activists: SUWA, Edward Abbey Paleontology: Utah’s Dinosaur Rush John Widtsoe, Father of Dry Farming Tourism & Recreation in Utah Philo T. Farnsworth, Inventor of Television Saltair Resort Women inventors in Utah Territory Berg Halstrom and River Rafting in Utah Thiokol and the Exploration of Space Ski Utah! The Artificial Heart International Peace Garden Downwinders, Nevada Test Site Goblin Valley Utah’s Missile Launch Sites Utah's National Parks Salt Flats and the Need for Speed Dr. Arthur Leroy Inglesby Digital Pathbreakers: WordPerfect and Novell Everett Ruess, Canyon Country Explorer David D. Rust, Canyon Country Guide 2002 Olympics

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