Past Historical Society Lectures

Fall 2025

Georg Schild
“Revolution and Revision: From the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution"

Eric Swedin
"How Science Sparked the Spread of Democracy and Transformed Today's World"

Spring 2025

Stephanie Wolfe
“Rwanda Remembers: Memorializing Trauma"

Brent M. Rogers
"Buffalo Bill and the Mormons"

Logan Mitchell
Climate Scientist & Energy Analyst

Tiia Sahrakorpi
"Remembering Hitler Youth and Childhood"

Fall 2024

W. Paul Reeve
"Rethinking the Latter-Day Saint Racial Story"

Darren Parry
"Indigenous Voices: Reclaiming History and Heritage"

Leah Murray
"Analyzing the 2024 Election"

Spring 2024

Leah LaGrone
“Sex Wages"

Heather B. Moore
"Indonesia and the Imprisonment of 100,000 Dutch Men, Women, and Children"

David L. Ferro and Eric G. Swedin
"The History of Computers in Utah"

Sara Dant
"The Past, Present, and Future West"

Fall 2023

Michael Hubbard MacKay
"Joseph Smith's Temple Endowments"

Madeline Mackie
"Ice Age Mammoth Hunters"

Christopher Merritt
"Chinese Migrants and the Building of the Transcontinental Railroad"

Spring 2023

Zack Minasian
"A Recollection of My Summer of '68 with Tommy Lasorda and the Ogden Dodgers"

Erin Bush
"Objectionable Girls: Criminalizing Female Behavior in the Early 20th Century"

Nathan Rives
"The Religion-Supported State: How Early National New England Explains Church-State Relations in America Today"

Keith A. Erekson
"Real vs. Rumor: How to Survive in the Information Age"

Fall 2022

Kathryn MacKay
"Leah Dunford Widtsoe and Home Economics in Utah"

David Yoder
"Fremont Figurines: When the Past Looks You in the Face"

Leah Murray
"The Meaning of the Midterm Elections"

Spring 2022

Russel Burrows, Val Holley, and David Rich Lewis
"Three Portraits and One Subject: Ogden's Bernard Devoto"

John Sillito
"B.H. Roberts: A Life in the Public Arena"

Katherine Bynum
"The Rodriquez Family Tragedy: Police Violence and Domestic Violence"

Stephen Francis
"Death, Inheritance, and the Tudor Family"

Fall 2021

Spencer W. McBride
"Joseph Smith for President: The Prophet, The Assassins, and the Fight for American Religious Freedom"

Val Holley
"Frank J. Cannon: Saint, Senator, Scoundrel"

Leah Murray
"2020 Election Analysis"

Spring 2020

Leah Murray
"The 2020 Census"

Laura J. Mitchell
"Big Game and Big Science: The Complicated History of American Animals and Modern Museums"

Tricia Starks
"An Empire in Smoke and Flesh: Tobacco and Advertising in Imperial Russia"

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
"First in the Nation? Utah Women in the National Suffrage Movement"

Stephen Francis
"Death, Inheritance, and the Tudor Family"

Fall 2019

Louis Hyman
"The Radical Racial Legacy of Sears"

Michael Hubbard MacKay
"Joseph Smith's Seer Stones"

Gayle and Sharon (Wong) White
"Chinese in Ogden: A Personal Family Story"