William A. Wilson Folklore Archive
Committed to collecting and preserving folklore, the William A. Wilson Digital Folklore Archives focuses on families, religious life of Latter-day Saints and other religious movements, university students, and regional life in the Intermountain West. Home of the largest collection of Mormon folklore, the digital archive also houses significant collections of legends, customs, speech, beliefs, songs, material culture, tales and jokes, games, riddles, and personal narratives.
- Managed by Special Collections
- Archives Specialist Paulee Shakespear
- Guide to Physical Archive Link
Lectures
View Past Lectures
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“A Resonant Background” Landscape, Region, and Makerspace in Folklore and Cultural Studies
Simon J. Bronner
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2022
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Honing Your Legend and Conspiracy Theory Detector: SLAP Testing Unverified Accounts
Dr. Jeannie Banks Thomas
Utah State University
2021
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Maps and Guides to the Marrow if Human Experience: A Book Editor’s Folklore Education
John Alley
Utah State University Press
2020
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Cowboy Poetry: Bronc, Dogies, and Wrecks
David Stanley
Westminster College
2019
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Infanticide at ‘the Nunnery’: The Folkloric Transformation of St. Ann’s Retreat
Lisa Gabbert
Utah State University
2018
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The Seriousness of Mormon Humor Revisited
Elliott Oring
California State University
2017
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Basques in the American West
Jacqueline Thursby
Brigham Young University
2015
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Putting up the Garden: Performing Community and Virtue in Mormon America
Danille Christensen
Ohio State University
2014
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A Bandit and a Bear: What a Legendary Grizzly and an Italian Brigand have in Common
Steve Siporin
Utah State University
2013
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Personal Revelation Narratives in and Beyond the Intermountain West
Tom Mould
Elon University
2012
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Turning the Hearts to God and Family through Telling and Writing Sacred Stories
David Dollahite
Brigham Young University
2011
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From Old-Time Ballads to Sudanese Clay Bulls: Thirty-Four Years of the Utah State Folklife Archives
Carol Edison
Utah State Folklorist
2010
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Collaborative Oral History: Latino/Latina Voices Project
Randy Williams
Utah State University
2009
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Your Ballad Man. Alan Lomax, Radio, and Cultural Equity, 1939-1957
Todd Harvey
American Folklife Center
2008
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J. Golden Kimball in Mormon Folklore. 5th annual
Eric Eliason
Brigham Young University
2007
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Re-visioning the Past: A Folklorist in the Film Archives
Guha Shankar
American Folklife Center
2007
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Untitled
David Taylor
American Folklife Center
2005
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Household Folklife: Documenting and Preserving Family Traditions
Michael Taft
American Folklife Center
2004
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Folklore Archives Founder’s Lecture
William A. Wilson
Brigham Young University
2003