SEPT 20–24, 2021
69TH ANNUAL
UTAH STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
CONFERENCE
SPONSORS
PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE COMMON GOOD
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS
INTRODUCTION
WELCOME TO THE CONFERENCE I am pleased to welcome attendees to the sixty-ninth annual Utah State Historical Society Conference, this year focusing on the timely theme of public health and the common good. Our agency recognizes the impact that COVID-19 has had on the world and on our work since March 2020. This year’s conference presents an opportunity to discover and discuss our collective relationship to the idea of the common good. Beyond caring for each other through public health and medicine, this includes investigating systemic inequalities that are manifest in our public health sector, such as health-related policies and practices or racial and class inequalities. History has the power to inform today’s decision making, whether by our elected officials or by the everyday choices we make in how we approach our lives and our communities. I hope that you take some time to enjoy our curated content and find topics that help us dive in deeper and pose difficult questions, perhaps with difficult answers, to the concept of the common good. As we come into another fall navigating a pandemic, I find solace in the ability to connect virtually and thank you all for joining the conversation. As the new director for the Utah Division of State History, I would love to hear from you and engage with you on how we can continue to support the history community in Utah. Jennifer Ortiz
OVERVIEW
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE LIVE SESSIONS: MONDAY, SEPT 20
WEDNESDAY, SEPT 22
10:00–11:15 a.m.
10:00–11:00 a.m.
But Please Don’t Touch: History and Interpretations in Museums
The COVID-19 Pandemic: Collecting and Preserving Contemporary Materials for Future Historians
Noon–1:15 p.m. Historicizing COVID-19 in the Navajo Nation
Noon–1:00 p.m. Disparate Treatment of Non-LDS Defendants in Criminal Cases in
TUESDAY, SEPT 21 10:00–11:30 a.m. Plenary Panel: Perspectives on Human Wellness: Public Health History, Education, Policy, and Practice
Noon–1:15 p.m. Inclusivity IS the Common Good: AIDS Care in Utah in the 1990s
3:00–3:45 p.m. Mormon Embodiment and Entanglement with the Material World, 1990–2005
4:00–5:00 p.m. Education in a Pandemic: Historical and Contemporary Insights into K-12 Learning
Territorial Utah Probate Courts
OVERVIEW
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE THURSDAY, SEPT 23 10:00–11:00 a.m. The Untold History of Air Quality in Utah
Noon–1:15 p.m. Folk Healing and Latter-day Saints
2:00–3:00 p.m. Contact Tracing and Personal Connections during the Pandemic
4:00–5:00 p.m. Epidemics, Disease, and Public Health
FRIDAY, SEPT 24 Noon Keynote Address: Why History Matters in Medical Education: Slavery and the Origins of American Gynecology
**Sessions will be available on our YouTube Channel beginning Mon, Sept 20 https://www.youtube.com/ playlist?list=PLRCjUYcWI7R1GXI6NhqqNI7EpCOjAigZF
PRE-RECORDED SESSIONS: •
Soldiers and Venereal Disease
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Coded Communications: Brigham Young, Thomas L. Kane, and the “Lost” Utah War Message of July 1858
PANELS AND SESSIONS
DAY 1 BUT PLEASE DON’T TOUCH: HISTORY & INTERPRETATIONS IN MUSEUMS 10:00–11:15 a.m. Panelists: Chair: Emily Johnson, Utah Division of Arts & Museums Jami J. Van Huss, Hyrum City Museum Aspen Arnold, Hyrum City Museum Megan Van Frank, Utah Humanities Webinar link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81029647364
HISTORICIZING COVID-19 IN THE NAVAJO NATION Noon–1:15 p.m. Panelists: Farina King (Diné), Northeastern State University Heather Tanana (Diné), University of Utah Phillip Smith (Diné), Johns Hopkins University Webinar link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89575952967
MONDAY, SEPT. 20
PLENARY PANEL
DAY 2
TUESDAY, SEPT. 21 PERSPECTIVES ON HUMAN WELLNESS: PUBLIC HEALTH HISTORY, EDUCATION, POLICY AND PRACTICE 10:00–11:30 a.m. Moderator and Panelist: Ben Cater, Point Loma Nazarene University Panelists: Len Novilla, Brigham Young University W. Paul Reeve, University of Utah Monique Sawyer, Point Loma Nazarene University Gretchen A. Case, University of Utah School of Medicine Webinar link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89674291156
This plenary panel will discuss the challenges to public health as a social vision for human flourishing. Discussants will identify historical actors and communities that have been more or less successful in preventing illness and suffering; prolonging human life; and promoting physical, emotional, and social vitality. Topics of conversation will include the historical determinants that have helped shape that reality over time, the role of public health historians in the academy and society at large, contemporary challenges for the body politic, and to what extent, if any, they are unique to Utah and the West.
PLENARY PANEL
LEN NOVILLA Len Novilla is Associate Professor of Public Health at Brigham Young University, Provo, where she has been serving since 2003. She teaches Chronic Disease Prevention and Control at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. She has also taught the Maternal and Child Health Issues and Grant Writing in the MPH Program. Her research interests include the role of the family in health, with particular emphasis on engaging the family as the sustaining framework for health promotion and disease prevention strategies; defining the role of the family in addressing health inequities; and defining the link between the family and health systems, focusing on system assessment and strengthening within the context of the social determinants of health.
W. PAUL REEVE W. Paul Reeve is the Simmons Chair of Mormon Studies in the History Department at the University of Utah where he teaches courses on Utah history, Mormon history, and the history of the US West. His book, Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness (Oxford, 2015), received the Utah State Historical Society’s Francis Armstrong Madsen Best History Book Award, among other awards. He is Project Manager and General Editor of a digital database, Century of Black Mormons, designed to name and identify all known Black Mormons baptized into the faith between 1830 and 1930.
PLENARY PANEL
MONIQUE SAWYER GRETCHEN A. CASE Gretchen A. Case is Director of the Center for Health Ethics, Arts, and Humanities and an Associate Professor (lecturer) in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Case’s research and teaching interests are in the medical humanities (or healthcare humanities): the many ways in which the arts and humanities intersect with the medical arts and sciences. Her scholarly projects often combine communication, performance, disability theory, cultures of medicine, oral history, and ethnography. Case also has more than ten years of experience as a public historian, specializing in histories of science and medicine.
Monique Sawyer is an Associate Professor of Nursing and the Associate Dean of the School of Nursing at Point Loma Nazarene University. A passionate educator, she has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on evidence-based practice, mental health nursing, and nursing research. She is a member of numerous scholastic organizations, including the American Psychiatric Nurses Association and the International Society of Psychiatric Nurses, for which she served as podium presenter.
BEN CATER Ben Cater is Associate Professor of History, Dean of General Education, and Director of the Honors Program at Point Loma Nazarene University. His dissertation completed at the University of Utah explored the social effects of the health industry of Progressive Era Salt Lake City; he has published several articles on that topic in the Utah Historical Quarterly and Journal of Military History. He is currently at work on an article on the social history of surfing.
PANELS AND SESSIONS
DAY 2
TUESDAY, SEPT. 21
INCLUSIVITY IS THE COMMON GOOD: AIDS CARE IN UTAH IN THE 1990S Noon–1:15 p.m. Panelists: Keely Mruk, University of Utah Elizabeth Clement, University of Utah Juan Esquivel, University of Utah Comment: Rachel Mason Dentinger, University of Utah Webinar link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82931693938
MORMON EMBODIMENT AND ENTANGLEMENT WITH THE MATERIAL WORLD, 1990–2005 3:00–3:45 p.m. Panelists: Megan Weiss, University of Utah: Mormon Embodiment and Entanglement with the Material World: A Case Study of 1990–2005 LDS Visual Culture Comment: Mira Green, University of Utah Webinar link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86330160455
PANELS AND SESSIONS
DAY 2
TUESDAY, SEPT. 21 EDUCATION IN A PANDEMIC: HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY INSIGHTS INTO K-12 LEARNING 4:00–5:00 p.m. Panelists: Chair: Wendy Rex-Atzet, Utah Division of State History Hadyn B. Call, North Davis Junior High School Tyler R. Poll, North Davis Junior High School Quinn Rollins, Cyprus High School Webinar link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82624168264
PANELS AND SESSIONS
DAY 3
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 22 THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: COLLECTING AND PRESERVING CONTEMPORARY MATERIALS FOR FUTURE HISTORIANS 10:00–11:00 a.m. Panelists: Anna Neatrour, University of Utah Lisa Barr, Utah Division of State History Rachel Wittmann, University of Utah Jeff Turner, University of Utah Webinar link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81186686926
DISPARATE TREATMENT OF NON-LDS DEFENDANTS IN CRIMINAL CASES IN TERRITORIAL UTAH PROBATE COURTS Noon–1:00 p.m. Panelists: Chair and comment: Kenneth L. Cannon, Attorney and Independent Scholar Jason Twede, Utah State University Amy Berlin, Utah State University Webinar link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83971110848
PANELS AND SESSIONS
DAY 4
THURSDAY, SEPT. 23
THE UNTOLD HISTORY OF AIR QUALITY IN UTAH 10:00–11:00 a.m. Panelists: Logan Mitchell, University of Utah Webinar link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85046747636
FOLK HEALING AND LATTER-DAY SAINTS Noon–1:15 p.m. Panelists: Cathy Gilmore, Utah State University: Healing Hybrids: Latter-day Saint Explorations of Faith and Medicine in the Progressive Era Elise Petersen, Wren’s Nest House Museum: Mormonism’s Folk Healer: The Elias Hicks Blackburn Papers Anna Penner, Amherst College: Curanderismo and Mormon Folk Medicine: A Comparative Analysis Brooke LeFevre, Baylor University: “I Could Go Through Anything”: A Plural Wife’s Medical Treatment for Infertility Webinar link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88020946289
PANELS AND SESSIONS
DAY 4 PERSONAL CONNECTIONS DURING THE PANDEMIC: HOW CONTACT TRACING DID MORE THAN SLOW THE SPREAD OF COVID-19 2:00–3:00 p.m. Panelists: Lori Gillespie, University of Utah Division of Public Health Jem Ashton, University of Utah Division of Public Health Kristine Snyder, University of Utah Page Checketts, UC3 Webinar link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86099157950
EPIDEMICS, DISEASE, AND PUBLIC HEALTH 4:00–5:00 p.m. Panelists: Cherie Nash Willis, Salt Lake City Public Library : A Furnace Full of Library Books: Public Libraries Confront Epidemics Then and Now Ronald G. Watt, Independent Scholar : Doctors and Nurses in the Coal Camps T. Michelle Tucker, Hutchings Museum and Institute: Public Health Nurse Mable Jones and Lehi Doctors Immunizing Lehi and the Poor during the Epidemics of the Mid-Twentieth Century Webinar link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83215943144
THURSDAY, SEPT. 23
KEYNOTE
DAY 5
FRIDAY, SEPT. 24
WHY HISTORY MATTERS IN MEDICAL EDUCATION: SLAVERY AND THE ORIGINS OF AMERICAN GYNECOLOGY Noon Keynote: Deirdre Cooper Owens, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Webinar link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82927804640
Deirdre Cooper Owens is the Linda and Charles Wilson Professor in the History of Medicine and Director of the Humanities in Medicine program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is an Organization of American Historians’ Distinguished Lecturer, a past American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Research Fellow, and has won a number of prestigious honors and awards for her scholarly and advocacy work in reproductive and birthing justice. A popular public speaker, Dr. Cooper Owens has spoken widely across the United States and Europe. She has published articles, essays, book chapters, and think pieces on a number of issues that concern African American experiences and reproductive justice. Dr. Cooper Owens recently was selected as the 2022 Agnes Dillon Randolph Award Winner by the University of Virginia’s Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry. Her first book, Medical Bondage: Race, Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology, won a Darlene Clark Hine Book Award from the Organization of American Historians as the best book written in African American women’s and gender history. It has just been translated into Korean.
The noted historian Deirdre Cooper Owens reveals how gynecology—and modern reproductive medicine in the United States—is directly linked to the institution of slavery. Engaging with 19th-century ideas about so-called racial difference, Dr. Cooper Owens sheds light on the ways that harmful beliefs based on racial science still affect current medical practices and resonate so deeply for all Americans.
PANELS AND SESSIONS
PRE-RECORDED SOLDIERS AND VENEREAL DISEASE Panelists: Heidi Napier Chudy, National History Day Utah: Venus on the Field of Mars Sarah Langsdon, Weber State University: A Wide-Open Town: Ogden and Public Health Chair and comment: Val Holley
CODED COMMUNICATIONS: BRIGHAM YOUNG, THOMAS L. KANE, AND THE “LOST” UTAH WAR MESSAGE OF JULY 1858 Panelists: Kenneth L. Alford, Brigham Young University William P. MacKinnon, Utah State Historical Society Fellow
2021 AWARDS
2021 AWARDS We offer our thanks to award sponsors and congratulations to recipients.
UTAH STATE HISTORICAL SOCIET Y FELLOWS W. Paul Reeve John Sillito
BOOK AWARDS
Juanita Brooks Best Book in Utah History Sponsored by the Smith-Pettit Foundation Val Holley, Frank Cannon: Saint, Senator, Scoundrel (University of Utah Press, 2020)
Finalist For Best Book in Utah History Sponsored by the Smith-Pettit Foundation Carol A. Edison, Eric A. Eliason, Lynne S. McNeill, eds., This Is the Plate: Utah Food Traditions (University of Utah Press, 2020)
2021 AWARDS
ARTICLE AWARDS Dale L. Morgan Award for best scholarly article in UHQ Sponsored by Allan and Thalia Smart and Zeese Papanikolas Rebekah Ryan Clark, “The Fire of Civic Endeavor: Utah Suffrage after Statehood, 1896–1920,” Utah Historical Quarterly (Fall 2020) Charles Redd Center for Western Studies Award for best general interest article in UHQ Sponsored by Charles Redd Center for Western Studies Benjamin Kiser, “Bucking the White Elephant: Utah’s Fight for Federal Management of the Public Domain, 1923–1934,” Utah Historical Quarterly (Spring 2020) Nick Yengich Memorial Editors’ Choice Award Sponsored by Ronald J. Yengich Yvette Towersap Tuell, “Public Lands and American Indians: Traditional Use and Off-Reservation Treaty Rights,” Utah Historical Quarterly (Spring 2020) LeRoy S. Axland History Article Award for the best Utah history journal article or chapter in an edited collection appearing in a publication other than UHQ Sponsored by Michael W. Homer Michael P. Taylor and Terence Wride, “‘Indian Kids Can’t Write Sonnets’: Re-membering the Poetry of Henry Tinhorn from the Intermountain Indian School,” American Quarterly (March 2020) Helen Papanikolas Student Paper Award Sponsored by Linda Thatcher and Patricia Lyn Scott Ami F. Chopine, University of Utah, “The Establishment of Nurse-Midwifery in Utah, 1965–1985”
2021 AWARDS
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS Steve and Diana Acerson, lifelong members of the Utah Rock Art Research Association, for spearheading grassroots efforts to identify and protect rock imagery in Utah County, working with city and county councils to educate and inform on the presence of rock imagery, and collaboratively working with state and federal partners for the long-term care and interpretation of rock imagery. John Hinckley Sr. of Provo, Utah, for preservation of the Provo Mounds, a large Fremont site just east of Utah Lake; for donating artifacts from the excavations and surveys conducted on Hinckley Farms to the Museum of Peoples and Cultures at BYU; and for opening his farm to hundreds of grade school and college students studying the region’s archeology.
WILLIAM P. MACKINNON AWARD For the professional development of meritorious employees of the Utah Division of State History Paulo Olmdeo, Archival Technician Whitney Seal, Archaeological Records Technician
2021 AWARDS
UTAH HISTORY DAY AWARDS Better Days Women’s History Prize Ava Murset, Cade VanKomen, Ethan VanKomen, Gabriella Bowler, and Natalie Edie: “Communication Gets Wet” Jocelyn Millington: “Grace Hopper: The Admiral Who First Sailed the Cyber Sea” Charles Redd Center for Western History Prize Elsie Grow: “‘For the Advancement and Betterment of Humanity’: The Fight for Women’s Suffrage at Utah’s Constitutional Convention” Daniella Lopez: “Stereotypes: The Key to Understanding the Mexican American Experience” McKayla Paulino, McKenzie Paulino, and Natalie Rampton: “The Black Hawk War of 1865–1872” Victor Perez Bautista: “The Delano Grape Strike” Fort Douglas Military Museum Prize Luke Latvakoski: “Navajo Code Talkers: The Key to Winning World War II” Michael Hancock: “Alan Turing and the Enigma Code” Kate Topham, Kate Willis, and Paige Topham: “Absence of Understanding: Consequences of Miscommunicating the Native American Experience” Glen and Caroline Miner Prize In Utah History Sponsored by Smith-Pettit Foundation Elsie Grow: “‘For the Advancement and Betterment of Humanity’: The Fight for Women’s Suffrage at Utah’s Constitutional Convention” Acacia Yuan and Camie Yuan: “Helen Foster Snow: The Bridge Connecting the US and China”
2021 AWARDS
History in Government Prize Sponsored by Utah State Archives and Records Service Cambria Merrill: “Leading the Way to Women’s Suffrage” Kate Topham, Kate Willis, and Paige Topham: “Absence of Understanding: Consequences of Miscommunicating the Native American Experience” Science, Technology, and Medicine Prize Sponsored by Utah STEM Action Center Noah Millington: “Telstar: The Satellite that Changed the World” Liesel Sappington: “Koko’s Story: The Importance of Communication With Animals” Oregon-California Trails Association Prize Aeris Lau, Cody Su, Jacob Nelson, Kimiya Mavaddat, and Max McFarland: “The Pony Express: The Most ‘Note’able Men” Hannah Cecil, Maile Gonzalez: “Pony Express” Bradley Sweeney and Leah Sweeney: “A Battle Turned Massacre: Communication the Key in Determining the Legacy Left at Bear River” Amy Reyes Renova: “The Pony Express and the Evolution of Communication”
University of Utah Social and Civil Rights Prize Anna Jackman and Cairo Evans: “Painting a Voice: Norman Rockwell and the Civil Rights Movement” Jocelyn Hadley: “Karl Heinrich Ulrichs and Gay Activism”
University of Utah World History Prize Malia Chaya: “The Camera throughout History: Vietnam War—Media Communication” Jordyn Robinson and Shailynn Spangler: “Axis Sally and Tokyo Rose: The Decrescendo of Propaganda”
AWARD COMMITTEES
BOOK AWARD COMMITTEE Holly George Cathy Gilmore Jeff Nichols Brenden Rensink Jedediah Rogers
NON-UHQ ARTICLE AWARD COMMITTEE Holly George Cathy Gilmore Jedediah Rogers
UHQ BOARD OF EDITORS / ARTICLE AWARD COMMITTEE Rebecca Andersen Brian Q. Cannon Jennifer Macias Kathryn L. MacKay Jeff Nichols Clint Pumphrey John Sillito Stephanie Fulgaar Statz James R. Swensen
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EXHIBITORS
Benchmark Books
Mormon History Association
Utah Division of Archives and Records Service
University of Utah Press
Utah Division of Multicultural Affairs
the King’s English Bookshop
King’s English Bookshop
Utah History Day
FELLOWS
UTAH STATE HISTORICAL SOCIET Y FELLOWS Leonard J. Arrington (1917–1999) David L. Bigler (1927–2018) Fawn M. Brodie (1915–1981) Juanita Brooks (1898–1989) Olive W. Burt (1894–1981) Eugene E. Campbell (1915–1986) Everett L. Cooley (1917–2006) C. Gregory Crampton (1911–1995) S. George Ellsworth (1916–1997) Austin E. Fife (1909–1986) LeRoy R. Hafen (1893–1985) B. Carmon Hardy (1934–2016) A. Karl Larson (1899–1983) Gustive O. Larson (1897–1983) Brigham D. Madsen (1914–2010) Dean L. May (1938–2003) David E. Miller (1909–1978) Dale L. Morgan (1914–1971) William Mulder (1915–2008) Floyd A. O’Neil (1927–2018) Helen Z. Papanikolas (1917–2004) Charles S. Peterson (1927–2017) Melvin T. Smith (1928–2020) Wallace E. Stegner (1909–1993) William A. Wilson (1933–2016) Thomas G. Alexander James B. Allen
Will Bagley Maureen Ursenbach Beecher Jessie L. Embry Max J. Evans Peter L. Goss Michael W. Homer Joel Janetski Jeffery Ogden Johnson Edward Leo Lyman William P. MacKinnon Carol Cornwall Madsen Wilson Martin Robert S. McPherson Philip F. Notarianni Allan Kent Powell W. Paul Reeve Richard W. Sadler Gary L. Shumway John Sillito Gregory C. Thompson Gary Topping
HONORARY LIFE MEMBERS Kenneth L. Alford Jill Mulvay Derr Craig Fuller Marlin K. Jensen Stanford J. Layton William P. MacKinnon John S. McCormick F. Ross Peterson Linda Thatcher Gary Topping Richard E. Turley Jr.
69TH ANNUAL UTAH STATE HISTORICAL SOCIET Y CONFERENCE In 1897, public-spirited Utahns organized the Utah State Historical Society to expand public understanding of Utah’s past. Today, the Utah Division of State History is charged with protecting, maintaining, and building awareness of the state’s most valued and historic resources.
UTAH DIVISION OF STATE HISTORY AND UTAH STATE HISTORICAL SOCIET Y 3760 South Highland Drive Salt Lake City, Utah 84106 history.utah.gov statehistory@utah.gov ushs.utah.gov
Conference Planning Committee: Alycia Rowley, Lisa Buckmiller, Kevin Fayles, Holly George, Jennifer Ortiz, and Jedediah Rogers Design by Hannah Stewart