Stanley B. Kimball

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Taking Flanders Too Seriously | Merging Business and Religion | We Love the Americans, But . . . | An Uncasual Review of Williams

The Mormons in Early Illinois: An Introduction

The Illinois period of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints commenced eight years after the founding of the Church in Fayette, New York on April 6, 1830, by Joseph Smith. From New York…

A Footnote to the Problem of Dating the First Vision

Both sides of the current debate over the date of the First Vision have tried to establish the time when members of the Smith family joined the Presbyterian church in Palmyra. The primary source for…

New Light on Old Egyptiana: Mormon Mummies 1848-71

Dialogue 16.4 (Winter 1983): 74 – 90
This paper attempts to throw some new light on the history of this Mormon connected Egyptiana since 1848 (the close of the Mormon era in Nauvoo) and to suggest how and where more of these antiquities might be found.

The Intellectual in the Service of the Faith?: Prometheus Hobbled: The Intellectual in Mormondom

I assume an intellectual is anyone who is guided more by intellect than by emotions—leastways that’s good enough for a country boy like myself. By Mormon I mean something like “faithful” Mormon, not smarty-pants intellectuals,…

Meet the Author of The Prophet of Palmyra | John E. Hallwas, Thomas Gregg: Early Illinois Journalist and Author

I was anxious to review this biography of the founder of eight nineteenth-century newspapers in and near western Illinois (including the Warsaw Message), the author of The History of Hancock County, and, especially, the author of…

The Captivity Narrative on Mormon Trails, 1846-65

The captivity narrative is one of the oldest literary genres of the New World: some 1,000 examples survive from the sixteenth century. It is also one of the earliest forms of popular literature in the…

A Double Dose of Revisionism | Stephen C. LeSueur, The 1838 Mormon War in Missouri

Each year first-class presses add to the growing number of excellent Mormon monographs. Twenty-nine major studies appeared in 1988 alone. These two volumes from the University of Missouri Press and the University of Oklahoma Press…

“Come Ye Disconsolate”: Is There a Mercy Seat in Mormon Theology and Practice?