Overview
This is a guide to the interviews and documents collected by Tess Cramer and Daniel Davis in 2021. It is a follow-up to an exhibit ("A World Transformed") marking the 150th anniversary of the Transcontinental Railroad created by Dan, Tess, and Devin Greener in 2018 and displayed in the Utah State Capitol, USU Merrill-Cazier Library, Southern Utah Museum of Art, and Park City Museum. If you would like to view one of these interviews then please contact Dan at daniel.davis@usu.edu.
Interviewee's:
Daniel Davis (Curator of the "A World Transformed" exhibit) - May 5, 2021
Cheryll Marcell (California State Railroad Museum Foundation President and CEO) - May 24, 2021
Connie Young Yu (Independent Historian and Chinese Historical Society of America Emeritus) - June 9, 2021
William Breazeale (Curator from the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento) - June 9, 2021
Scott Lothes (Executive Director for the Center for Railroad Photography and Art) - April 14, 2021
SiuLin Santee and Li Ju (Members of the Chinese Railroad Workers Descendants Association) - April 20, 2021
Barre Fong (Independent filmmaker, on the board of the Chinese History Society of America) - March 15, 2021
Eric Arnesen (Author of two books, "Black Protest and the Great Migration" and "Brotherhoods of Color") - June 29, 2021
John Wirth (Executive producer for AMC series, "Hell on Wheels") - March 3, 2021
Gerald McDonough (the Utah Hibernian Society historian) - March 31, 2021
Phil McCarthey (A Utah businessman with Irish heritage who hosted Irish Ambassador during the Sesquicentennial) - March 31, 2021
Todd Stewart (Curator of the Sesquicentennial exhibit, "Compendium") - March 2, 2021
Peter Liebhold (Head curator for the National Museum of American History's "Forgotten Workers: Chinese Migrants and Transcontinental Railroad") - May 30, 2021
Sam Vong (Curator for the National Museum of American History's "Forgotten Workers: Chinese Migrants and Transcontinental Railroad") - May 31, 2021
Darren Parry (Former chairman of the Northwest Band of the Shoshone Nation) - May 5, 2021
Max Chang (Board of Appointees for the Spike150 celebration) - March 8, 2021
Mickey Gallivan (Utah businessman with Irish heritage, on the Spike150 board) - March 31, 2021
Paisley Rekdal (Utah Poet Laureate, 2017-2022) - April 29, 2021
Dr. Gordon Chang (Stanford Professor, co-director of "Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project") - March 29, 2021
Chris Merritt (State Historic Preservation Officer for Utah, expert on Chinese workers in 19th Century American West) - June 2, 2021
Patricia LaBounty (Director of the Union Pacific History Museum, coordinator for "Race to Promontory" exhibit and book) - May 14, 2021
Dr. Alessandra La Roca Link (Organized the "Railroads in Native America" symposium) - June 25, 2021
Glenn Willumson (University of Florida Art History Professor and author of Iron Muse: Photographing the Transcontinental Railroad) - May 3, 2021
Wendy Rex-Atzet (Utah History Day coordinator, helped create K-12 lesson plans on the Transcontinental Railroad) - May 13, 2021
Robert Austin (Utah State Board of Education's K-12 Social Studies Specialist, helped create K-12 lesson plans) - May 21, 2021
Molly Cannon (Curator of the USU Anthropology Museum, helped excavate Chinese railroad worker sites in Utah) - March 30, 2021
Brian Champagne (USU Professor of Journalism who created documentary "The Last Spike" with his students) - May 6, 2021
Michael Kay (History and Journalism dual-major, lead historian for "The Last Spike" documentary) - June 3, 2021
