Holly George

The annual BYU Redd Center funding season is here and we have INCREASED the $$$ amounts!

PLEASE share this as broadly as possible.

We accept applications from ANY discipline for projects focused on the intermountain states of AZ, CO, ID, MT, NV, NM, UT, & WY.

tinyurl.com/2026ReddAwards

I'm teaching about turning research into written history at this workshop on Oct. 25 in Salt Lake City.

Cover of Utah Historical Quarterly, Volume 93, Issue 2, Spring 2025 Cover Image: On horseback at the Simpson Springs, Pony Express Station, in Tooele County, Utah. Bob Wick, photographer. Public domain.

Andrew Gulliford at @fortlewiscollege.bsky.social discusses Bob Wick's work with the Bureau of Land Management and his photography of the American West in Vol. 93, Iss. 2 of Utah Historical Quarterly. cc: @holly-g.bsky.social
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Show Town - University of Oklahoma Press Like many western boomtowns at the turn of the twentieth century, Spokane, Washington, enjoyed a lively theatrical scene, ranging from plays, concerts, and ...

So you want to know about the Life of Showgirl? Have I got a deal for you.
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#AmericanWest #culturalhistory
#TSTheLifeofaShowgirl

#juneteenth #dance

Exploring the Histories of Black Sites A Wideman-Davis Dance of New York, Inc. grant story from the Mellon Foundation.

And as the wife of a dancer, this fills my heart in all the ways.
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Juneteenth resources from Gilder Lehrman: www.gilderlehrman.org/historical-h...

Yes, we literally just published an article about John D. Fitzgerald by Reid Neilson! I'm sure @holly-g.bsky.social and I would love to see what you have. press-uhq.scholasticahq.com/for-authors

Home | NAISA Annual Conference The Annual Conference of the Native American & Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA), 2025, Oklahoma City, Events, FAM, Conference, Meeting, NAISA, NAIS

This looks good! www.naisaconvention.org. There's also a virtual day extension of the conference on June 30. #AmericanWest

Contributor: Why public lands should stay public and protected For 120 years, America's public lands policy has emphasized 'the greatest good of the greatest number.' 'Drill, baby, drill' isn't that.

From Utah's own Sara Dant: www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Bring on the Board Games - JSTOR Daily The increasing secularism of the nineteenth century helped make board games a commercial and ideological success in the United States.

An article from JSTOR Daily about a 19th-century temperance board game. Think roll and move + "the drunkard's path"!!! I'm more of a Euro gamer, but clearly, this is awesome. daily.jstor.org/bring-on-the... #boardgames #saltcon #gencon

Super interesting article about public lands, which IMHO is one of the most important topics in UT history and public life.

President Calvin Coolidge refuses gifts of Thanksgiving Turkeys in 1923. "President and Mrs. Coolidge will buy their own Turkey....Mr. Cooldige does not regard the practice [of giving the gift of a Turkey] as one that should be encouraged." Trenton Evening Times, 11/28/1923.

Cover of Utah Historical Quarterly, Volume 92, Issue 4, Fall 2024 Cover Image: An 19872 print of a wild turkey. In the twentieth century, turkeys became a major industry in Utah's Sampete County. L. Prang & Co. Courtesy Library of Congress, LC-DIG-pga-12068.

For #ArmedForcesDay, check out an article from Utah Historical Quarterly 92.4 on the effects of World War II on Southeastern Utah communities, including those who voluntarily enlisted or were drafted. cc: @holly-g.bsky.social
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Yes! This is a great resource!

A couple at a gym

My favorite is a gym class that's fun & gets me thinking about historiography. I realized I could start a biblio for all my favorite formats. Body combat & hip Hop are easy, but I obviously need to do more reading for Zumba & high fit. Nerdy fun is the best. #culturalHistory

President Teddy Roosevelt declines gift of a watch in 1907: “papers accompanying the watch were transmitted to the department of justice to be considered in connection with the investigation that is being made by the dept into the operations of the so-called watch trust.” Pittsburgh Post, 5/5/1907.

Utah Muslim Heritage Discover the history of Utah Muslim Heritage and the people who shaped it.

utahmuslimheritage.com Utah friends, check out this event from our friends at the Al Mustafa Foundation, who are just amazing.

Home – ILH (Español) A learning resource provided by The Utah Historical Society

So proud! The Spanish version of the Utah Historical Society's "I Love History" online resource is live ☺️. #utah #publichistory #AmericanWest
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My husband's great-grandfather wrote to Debbs, and we have his signed reply. Family treasure.

The Deadly Story of the U.S. Civil Service : Throughline When James Garfield won the Presidency in 1880, Charles Guiteau got ready to accept his new government job. No one had actually offered him a job – but he'd campaigned for Garfield, so he assumed he'd...

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Public history! Dedicated public servants! Personal growth & change! Awesome lady invalids! This episode of Throughline was, unironically, a bit of a patriotism of overload for me--which, of course, I could use right now. #NPR #AmericanHistory

Utah farmers signed up for federally funded therapy. Then the money stopped Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah. But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it.

Farmers face a high suicide rate in part because of the volatile nature of farming, especially in a dry mountain region like Utah. An in-depth report from @jessicamiller.bsky.social & @propublica.org

Art from Indian boarding school students expressing tribal identity now on display Indian boarding schools were once used to suppress Indigenous culture in the U.S. But one Utah school encouraged students to express tribal identity, and those preserved works are now on display.

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Almost burst with pride to hear this on Morning Edition. Congrats to Farina King, James Swensen, and Michael Taylor.

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#NEH #humanities

Donate to Your Humanities Council - Federation of State Humanities Councils Our nation’s 56 state and jurisdictional humanities councils are nonpartisan 501(c)3 nonprofit organizations established in 1971 by Congress to make outstanding public humanities programming accessibl...

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From Utah Humanities: The grant from Mellon means an immediate $200,000 for Utah Humanities and an additional $50,000 available in matching grants. Any donations received by Utah Humanities starting TODAY (April 29, 2025), count towards the match.

To the person at the gym who stole my broken Stanley with the I ❤️footnotes sticker: may your life be filled with endnotes. #Stanley

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Ummm... UNLV public history has Clara Bow's makeup kit. 😍

I was innocently looking for a new shower curtain before the China window closes. #tariffs