Constance L. Lieber

Publications on Martha Hughes Cannon

Books:

• with John Sillito: Letters From Exile: the Correspondence of Martha Hughes and Angus M. Cannon. Signature Books: Salt Lake City, Utah, 1989.This book is long out-of-print but is usually available through Amazon.com and Ebay.com.
• http://signaturebookslibrary.org/letters-from-exile/
• Dr. Martha Hughes Cannon: Suffragist, Senator, Plural Wife, Signature Books: Salt Lake City, 2022.

Articles:

• “The Goose Hangs High: Excerpts from the Letters of Martha Hughes Cannon.” Utah Historical Quarterly, Vol. 48, No. 1, Winter, 1986.
• “Do Some Little Good While We Live,” co-authored with Jonathan Stapley. Chapter two in Women of Faith in the Latter Days, Volume 3, Eds. Brittany A. Chapman and Richard E. Turley, Jr., Deseret Book, 2014.

Media:

Podcast: A Matter of Trust: Dr. Angela Dunn, Annie Dodge Wauneka, and Dr. Martha Hughes Cannon

https://www.pbs.org/video/utah-history-martha-hughes-cannon/

https://video.mainepublic.org/video/utah-history-martha-hughes-cannon-producer-interview/

Interviewed on local Norton Lindsay, Warwickshire, England, radio station, summer 1989.

Various Utah Encyclopedia and Textbook Entries on Martha Hughes Cannon (many co-authored with John Sillito) Including LDS Church History Encyclopedia, 1998 and Utah History Encyclopedia.

CONFERENCES

Utah History Association Annual Meeting, Park City, Utah, 1995. “Learning the Slavish Virtues: Martha Hughes Cannon, Utah State Senator, 1896.”

Convocation Address (with John Sillito), Snow College, Ephraim, Utah, April 4, 1996 given on Letters from Exile.

Other Links to Cannon:

• http://utahwomenshistory.org/
• https://www.utahwomenshistory.org/bios/marthahughescannon/
• https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2019/09/21/utah-leaders-unveil/
• https://www.utahhumanities.org/stories/items/show/157
• https://newsletter.lib.utah.edu/ms-cannon-goes-to-washington/
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20911110/martha-maria-cannon
• https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-49129567

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

ARTICLES:

with John Sillito: “In Blessing We Too Were Blest,” Weber Studies, Vol. 5, No. 1, Spring 1988.

“Fragmente,” Die Schrift:  Student Literary Journal of Germanic and Slavic Languages at Brigham Young University. Provo, Utah: Spring 1995.

“Die Aussenseiterin: eine Einführung ins Leben Else Lasker-Schuler,” Die Schrift: Student Literary Journal of Germanic and Slavic Languages at Brigham Young University. Provo, Utah, 1996.

“Fragmented Silence, Fragmented Sound,” Rollick Magazine issue Brave New Epoch. https://rollickmag.com/fragmented-silence-fragmented-sound

“A Tiny Town with a Large Cemetery,” Heimat Review, Spring 2023.

“Chasing Alice,” Share Journal, September 2023, https://sharejournal.org/2023/09/14/escaping-alice

“I’m Not Old, Are You?” https://www.rosiecentral.com/post/inspiration-contest-silver-winner

Articles published in The Sunstone Review: “The First Issue of the Woman’s Exponent,” Jan. 12, 2024; “Are Mormon Missionaries Allowed to Kiss?” July 9, 2024; “Why Women Are Weak – According to the Exponent,” July 9, 2024

“Duino Castle and Rainer Maria Rilke: A Reverie,” Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature, Issue 8: Space, 2023.

Upcoming publications:

“Electricity on the Brain,” Life in Limbo Magazine

“When Heimat Disappears,” Brussels Review

BOOKS:

Flucht Nach Osten. Privately published: Worblaufen, Switzerland, 1992.

with Max J. Lieber and Wilford K. Lieber. Chapter Two, “Chemical Analysis of Feather and Down Textile Materials, Chemical Testing of Textiles, Qinguo Fan, ed. Cambridge, England: Woodhead, 2005.

Representations of Heimat and Trauma: Poetry, Prose and History in Silesia, 1939-1949. 2010.

Book Reviews:

• Estelle Webb Thomas: Uncertain Sanctuary: A Story of Mormon Pioneering in Mexico. Sunstone, Vol. 6, No. 4, Sept-Oct 1981, p. 62
• “New Life on the Crest of Upheaval.” Lillian Schlissel, Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey and Elizabeth Hampsten, Read This Only to Yourself. Sunstone Review, Vol. 4, No. 2, Feb 1984.
• Adriana Gozdecka-Sanford, Historical Dictionary of Warsaw. Utah Foreign Language Journal, 1998.
• Rudy Koshar, Germany’s Transient Pasts: Preservation and National Memory in the Twentieth Century. The German Studies Review. Fall, 1999.
• T. Hunt Tooley, National Identity and Weimar Germany: Upper Silesia and the Eastern Border, 1918-1922. The German Studies Review, Winter 2000.

           

Conference Papers and Addresses

• Brigham Young University Graduate Student Conference. “Fragmente [on Swiss culture].” March 28, 1996.
• New Europe at the Crossroads III, July 4-8, 1999. Teikyo University, Berlin, Germany. “Germans and Poles in Post-war Silesia: Writing a New Text.”
• First International Conference on Dialect and Minority Literature. Klagenfurt, Austria, June 22-24, 2000. “Bärn-düütsch: Dialekt im Wandel.”
• “Desire”: 8^th annual graduate Student Conference. Feb 23-25, 2001, University of Virginia. “The Desire for Heimat: Loss, Mourning, and the Search for Identity in post-World War II Silesia.”
• “Painful Silence Reigns: Trauma and Memory in a Silesian German Family, 1939-1945.” German Studies Association 35^th Annual Conference, Louisville KY, 22-25 September 2011.
• radio and television
• Senior consultant and voice for a documentary on Martha Hughes Cannon for KUED TV, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. I appeared in the documentary as “biographer.” It originally aired in Utah on 22 and 24 July 2012.
• Interviewed on “Radiowest” program on KUER, Salt Lake City, Utah, on 19 July 2012.
• Interviewed on “Radioactive” program on KRCL, Salt Lake City, Utah, on 19 July 2012.