News & Updates

Books and Authors in the News and Online:

• Sondra G. Jones won the Juanita Brooks Best Book in Utah history for Being and Becoming Ute: The Story of an American Indian People.
  
  
• Kenneth W. Baldridge was a finalist for Best Book in Utah History for Civilian Conservation Corps in Utah, 1933-1942: Remembering Nine Years of Achievement .
  
  
• James Swensen won the Evans Biography Award for In a Rugged Land: Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and the Three Mormon Towns Collaborations, 1953-1954
  
  
• Colleen Whitley's Feed My Sheep: The Life of Alberta Henry  was named a finalist for the Evans Biography Award.
  
  
• Editors P. Jane Hafen and Brenden W. Rensink won the John Whitmer Historical Association Best Anthology Book Award for their volume, Essays on American Indian and Mormon History .
  
  
• Konden Smith Hansen won Mormon History Association's First Book Award for his book Frontier Religion: Mormons and America, 1857-1907 .
  
  
• Do you want to peruse our Mormon History titles? Take a look at our Mormon Studies catalog here.
  
  
• Kevin Jones gives a lecture about rock art and his book Standing on the Walls of Time  sponsored by Crow Canyon Archaeological Center.
  
  
• Corinne Laverty interviews with Nancy Pearlman for Environmental Directions about her book North America's Galapagos.

Press Prizes:

Benjamin Gucciardi won the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry for his manuscript, West Portal.

Virginia Kerns won the Don D. and Catherine S. Fowler Prize for her manuscript, Colonizing the Wild: A Narrative of an Indian Captive and the House of Brigham Young.