Utah State Historical Society's 69th Annual History Conference | Public Health & the Common Good

This year's conference will be virtual.

The King's English Bookshop is a proud exhibitor of this conference and offers books written by featured speakers, including:

Kenneth L. Alford | Utah and the American Civil War: The Written Record

Val Holley | 25th Street Confidential: Drama, Decadence, and Dissipation along Ogden's Rowdiest Road

Farina Noelani King | Returning Home: Diné Creative Works from the Intermountain Indian School 

William P. MacKinnon | At Sword's Point, Part I: A Documentary History of the Utah War to 1858 and At Sword's Point, Part 2, Volume 11: A Documentary History of the Utah War, 1858-1859

W. Paul Reeve | Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness

See book links below to purchase.

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This year Utah and the world have been gripped by a deadly pandemic. In recognition of the trauma and disruption of the past year, the 2021 conference will focus on public health. Beyond medicine and health outcomes, this theme also raises questions and assumptions about our medical, psychological, and religious understanding of bodily wellness; health-related policies and practices; racial, gender, and class inequalities; our democratic and political systems; and impacts on social cohesion.

Integral to public health is the notion of the common good, a concept with deep philosophical and religious roots that seems to have less currency today. The common good is often dismissed or considered antithetical to a society organized around the individual. Yet in the age of COVID-19, as personal resistance to state mask mandates and debates over who should get vaccinated first reveal, the relationship of the individual to the body politic (and vice versa) seems to be a renewed conversation in the making.

The conference promises to present other interpretations of public health and the common good, as they pertain to Utah history, to encourage a broad understanding of the topic.

 

Event date: 
Monday, September 20, 2021 - 9:00am to Friday, September 24, 2021 - 5:00pm
Event address: 
Online
Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness By W. Paul Reeve Cover Image
$37.99
ISBN: 9780190674137
Availability: Not on our shelves currently | available to order
Published: Oxford University Press, USA - February 1st, 2017

Returning Home: Diné Creative Works from the Intermountain Indian School By Farina King, Michael P. Taylor, James R. Swensen, Robert Dodson (Foreword by), Rena Dunn (Foreword by), Terence Wride (Contributions by), Students of the Intermountain Indian School (Contributions by) Cover Image
By Farina King, Michael P. Taylor, James R. Swensen, Robert Dodson (Foreword by), Rena Dunn (Foreword by), Terence Wride (Contributions by), Students of the Intermountain Indian School (Contributions by)
$35.00
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ISBN: 9780816540921
Published: University of Arizona Press - November 30th, 2021

25th Street Confidential: Drama, Decadence, and Dissipation along Ogden's Rowdiest Road By Val Holley Cover Image
$24.95
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ISBN: 9781607812692
Published: University of Utah Press - October 15th, 2013

Utah and the American Civil War: The Written Record By Kenneth L. Alford (Editor) Cover Image
By Kenneth L. Alford (Editor)
$60.00
ISBN: 9780870624414
Availability: Not on our shelves currently | available to order
Published: Arthur H. Clark Company - July 25th, 2017

At Sword's Point, Part I: A Documentary History of the Utah War to 1858 (Kingdom in the West: The Mormons and the American Frontier #10) By William P. MacKinnon Cover Image
$45.00
ISBN: 9780870623530
Availability: Not on our shelves currently | available to order
Published: Arthur H. Clark Company - April 15th, 2008

At Sword's Point, Part 2, 11: A Documentary History of the Utah War, 1858-1859 (Kingdom in the West: The Mormons and the American Frontier #11) By William P. MacKinnon (Editor) Cover Image
By William P. MacKinnon (Editor)
$45.00
ISBN: 9780870623868
Availability: Not on our shelves currently | available to order
Published: Arthur H. Clark Company - October 27th, 2016