Critchlow Lecture Series on Utah and the American West
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Past Critchlow Lectures
2007
Professor Mark Eifler University of Portland "The Geopolitics of the Lewis and Clark Expedition"
2006 Professor John Mack Faragher
Yale University "A New Look at Violence in the American West"
2005 Fred C. Adams Utah Shakespeare Festival "History of Theater in Utah"
2004 Robert Briggs Fullerton, California "The Invasion of Suthern Utah: Pre-Conditions to the 1857 Disaster at Mountain Meadows"
2003 David Haward Bain Middlebury College "Wasatch to Green Mountains: Tracking Bernard DeVoto, Teacher/Historian"
2002 Brad Dimock Flagstaff, Arizona "Sunk without a Sound: The Tragic Colorado River Honeymoon of Glen and Bessie Hyde"
2001 James P. Ronda University of Tulsa "By the Book: Lewis and Clarke's Voyage into Print"
2000 Carol Madsen Brigham Young University "Crossing the Divide: The Personal Diplomacy of Emmeline B. Wells, Nineteenth Century Mormon Activist"
1999 Davis Bitton University of Utah "George Q. Cannon and the Economy of Territorial Utah"
1998 Ross Peterson Utah State Unviersity "When Politics were Civil: Stewart Udall's Contribution to the Humanities, 1961-1969"
1997 Thomas Alexander Brigham Young University
"Building Zion, Restoring Eden, and Preparing for the Miiennium: 19th Century Mormon Prohets and Environment"
1996 Jean Bickmore White Weber State University "Dreams, Myths, and REality: A Centennial Perspective on Utah's Consitution"
1995 William Mulder University of Utah "In Their Own Tongue: Nordic-Language Immigrant Culture in Early Utha"
1994 Valeen Tippetts Avery Northern Arizona University "Contested Ground: David Hyrum Smith Comes to Utah, 1869-1875"
1993 Wayne Carver Carleton College "A Strickly Personal History of Baseball, Plain City, and Me"
1992 Leanard Arrignton Utah State Unviersity "Symbols of Growth and Development: The First National Bank of Ogden and its Affiliates"
1991 Dean May University of Utah "Gold, War, and the New West of the 1860s"
1990 Ronald Walker Brigham Young University "Women on the Utah Indian Frontier"
1990 William J. Critchlow III Ogden, Utah "Captain James Brown: A Founder of Ogden"
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