The Bear River Massacre was an event that changed the landscape of northern Utah and the fate of the Shoshone people.

The “I” is fading fast on the mountainside above Brigham City, Utah. Winter snows threaten to erase it for good and with it, the memory of one of Utah’s more significant stories: The Intermountain Indian School, a federally-run Native American boarding school. 

Thousands of Japanese Americans were forced into exile in the Utah desert during World War II.  

The captivating and controversial past of Salt Lake City’s old Ambassador Club.

A key figure in the struggle over polygamy was US Supreme Court Justice Charles Zane. His tenure on the bench saw hundreds of people convicted of illegal cohabitation or polygamy, leading some to call his work an “antipolygamy crusade”.

Celebrations of the Chinese Lunar New Year have riveted Utahns since 1869.

In 2011 Utah state lawmakers voted to designate the Browning M1911 pistol as the official state firearm. The gun would be the latest addition to a surprising collection of historic state symbols.

The murder of Greek labor agent, George Demetrakopolous, and the hunt for his killer in 1908.

The Utah History Fair is an academic program that has been getting Utah kids excited about history for thirty years.

Despite Utah’s lack of direct involvement in the Civil War, they played a key role in the interests of leaders in Washington over the struggle for control of the western territories.