A bizarre political moment in Utah's long trek towards statehood exposes the tension between politics and religion in the Deseret. 

Nearly 600 enlisted African American soldiers and their families migrated to Salt Lake City in 1896. These soldiers discovered that Utahns’ attitudes towards African Americans were much like the rest of the country, and faced racial discrimination during their time in Utah.

This week, learn how the most famous American theater actress of the early 20th Century used gender-bending roles to push the early boundaries of a queer aesthetic.

The fourth governor of the state, Simon Bamberger, was Utah’s first non-Mormon and only Jewish governor.

The experiences of a young girl who lived in Utah’s Topaz Internment Camp.

Plum Alley, a narrow lane in downtown Salt Lake City, marks what used to be the heart of a vibrant Chinatown.

A small area of downtown Salt Lake City used to be “Japan Town”, an area that served as the focus of the city’s Japanese American community. The area was demolished in the 1960s in order to make room for the Salt Palace.

Chinese immigrant laborers built the railroad from California to Utah.  

Joe Hill has become a deeply ingrained part of Utah folklore. The Wobbly songwriter was executed for murder in the state in the early 1900s.

Many people know about the Japanese internment camp Topaz, but Utah also held Italian and German prisoners of war during World War II.