Utah State University Press: 175 books
Hosea Stout
Lawman, Legislator, Mormon Defender
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Hosea Stout witnessed and influenced many of the major civil and political events over fifty years of LDS history, but until the publication of his diaries, he was a relatively obscure figure to historians. Hosea Stout: Lawman, Legislator, Mormon Defender is the first-ever biography of this devoted...
by Forrest Cuch
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
This book is a joint project of the Utah Division of Indian Affairs and the Utah State Historical Society. It is distributed to the book trade by Utah State University Press.
The valleys, mountains, and deserts of Utah have been home to native peoples for thousands of years. Like peoples around...
A Mission for Development
Utah Universities and the Point Four Program in Iran
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
A Mission for Development tells the remarkable story of faculty from three Utah universities who lived and worked in Iran as part of the Point Four Program. Using the experience of these advisers, the book reexamines the rise and fall of the US-Iranian alliance and explores the roles that American...
Women In Utah History
Paradigm Or Paradox?
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2005
A project of the Utah Women’s History Association and cosponsored by the Utah State Historical Society, Paradigm or Paradox provides the first thorough survey of the complicated history of all Utah women. Some of the finest historians studying Utah examine the spectrum of significant social and cultural topics in the state’s history that particularly have involved or affected women.
Secrets of the Greatest Snow on Earth
Weather, Climate Change, and Finding Deep Powder in Utah's Wasatch Mountains and around the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Utah has long claimed to have the greatest snow on Earth—the state itself has even trademarked the phrase. In Secrets of the Greatest Snow on Earth, Jim Steenburgh investigates Wasatch weather, exposing the myths, explaining the reality, and revealing how and why Utah’s powder lives up to its...
Defender
The Life of Daniel H. Wells
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Defender is the first and only scholarly biography of Daniel H. Wells, one of the important yet historically neglected leaders among the nineteenth-century Mormons—leaders like Heber C. Kimball, George Q. Cannon, and Jedediah M. Grant. An adult convert to the Mormon faith during the Mormons’...
by
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
The twentieth could easily be Utah’s most interesting, complex century, yet popular ideas of what is history seem mired in the nineteenth. One reason may be the lack of readily available writing on more recent Utah history. This collection of essays shifts historical focus forward to the twentieth,...
Woody Plants of Utah
A Field Guide with Identification Keys to Native and Naturalized Trees, Shrubs, Cacti, and Vines
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
A comprehensive guide that includes a vast range of species and plant communities and employs thorough, original keys. Based primarily on vegetative characteristics, the keys don't require that flowers or other reproductive features be present, like many plant guides. And this guide's attention to...
Coal in our Veins
A Personal Journey
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2012
In Coal in Our Veins, Erin Thomas employs historical research, autobiography, and journalism to intertwine the history of coal, her ancestors' lives mining coal, and the societal and environmental impacts of the United States' dependency on coal as an energy source. In the first part of her book,...
by Allan Powell
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
May 1, 1900 turned into a day of horror at Scofield, Utah, where a mine explosion killed two hundred men. In the traumatic days that followed, the surviving miners began to understand that they, too, might be called to make this ultimate sacrifice for mine owners. The time for unionization in Utah...
by Trevor J. Blank
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2014
Trevor Blank broke new ground for the field of folklore studies in this essay by rationalizing the study of the internet as an important area of expressive vernacular culture. Pushing back against traditionalists who dismissed the digital as simply the domain of technicians and mass media, Blank...
Exposé of Polygamy
A Lady's Life Among the Mormons
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
After the 1872 publication of *Expose',*Fanny Stenhouse became a celebrity in the cultural wars between Mormons and much of America. An English convert, she had grown disillusioned with the Mormon Church and polygamy, which her husband practiced before associating with a circle of dissident Utah intellectuals...
On Being Human
Folklore of Mormon Missionaries
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1981
A collection of narratives, humorous stories, and songs from Mormon missionaries that has become a classic study of narrative folklore. The 64th annual Faculty Honor Lecture, in the Humanities, Utah State University.
Writing at the State U
Instruction and Administration at 106 Comprehensive Universities
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Writing at the State U presents a comprehensive, empirical examination of writing programs at 106 universities. Rather than using open survey calls and self-reporting, Emily Isaacs uses statistical analysis to show the extent to which established principles of writing instruction and administration...