These exhibition tour essays were commissioned and published by Utah Humanities to accompany its Smithsonian Museum on Main Street (MoMS) exhibition tours of Utah. Written by the state consulting scholar for each tour, the essays were available free to the public at each exhibition stop, as well as online at www.utahhumanities.org. Essays were designed to connect the themes of the national exhibitions to Utah and often provided an intellectual framework for the local host sites to develop their own local projects.