* For the Zoom link, email jhenderson@history.ucsb.edu. 9:30 AM – 9:45 AM – INTRODUCTIONS 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM – SESSION A “Women, Children, the Idle, and the Infirm”: Making Mormon Silk Work in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Sasha Coles, History, UC Santa Barbara This paper gives shape to the discourse and labors that facilitated the Mormon silk project in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. After members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints colonized the Great Basin region…