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As Hemingway put it, “A writer’s problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and, having found what is true, to project it in such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.” Against this standard, those who write on Mormon topics fare quite well. Today, for the most part, Mormons and Mormonism are looked upon with a professionalism and objectivity that only a few years ago would have been considered unthinkable. Equally amazing is the number of quality pieces. Although much of the writing comprising “Among the Mormons” is undistinguished, the periodical selections are in general both well written and interesting (as the accompanying selections illustrate). If Mormon literature is to continue the marked improvement it has experienced over the past two decades, much more of the same will be needed; authors represented here must be encouraged. These writings warrant special attention, as do the authors. 

Articles not appearing here but of equal quality are 1977-78 Ensign articles on the Book of Mormon characters and on saints in different parts of the country. 

Periodical Articles on Mormons and Mormonism

General

Brink, T. L. “Ecumenical Beginnings in the Mormon Church.” Ecumenist 15 (May-June 1977): 56-61. 

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. “Can You and Your Children Agree on How They Should Live?” Reader’s Digest 113 (December 1978): 8 page insert. 

———. “Can You—As a Man, As a Woman—Get More Satisfaction Out of Life?” Reader’s Digest 112 (June 1978): 8 page insert. 

———. “Can You Feel More Secure in Life?” Reader’s Digest 113 (September 1978): 8 page insert.

———. “Can You Have a Happier Family Life?” Reader’s Digest 112 (April 1978): 8 page insert.

Hardy, B. Carmon. “The Schoolboy God: A Mormon-American Model.” Journal of Religious History 9 (December 1976): 173-188. 

Hatch, Randall. “Mormon Church: Managing the Lord’s Work.” MBA/Masters in Business Admin istration 11 (June 1977): 35-36, 38.

Hill, Samuel S., Jr. “A Typology of American Restitutionism: From Frontier Revivalism and Mormonism to the Jesus Movement.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 44 (March 1976): 65-76.

“How Mormons Cope With ‘Deterioration in Morals’: Interview With Spencer W. Kimball, President, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.” U.S. News & World Report 83 (December 19, 1977): 60-61. 

Hoyt, Edwin. “The Mormons March On.” Far Eastern Economic Review 99 (January 20, 1978): 29. 

Kostman, J. C. Louis, and Harvey Yazijian. “The Latter-day Intrigues of the Mormon Church.” Oui 6 (November 1977): 45-46, 120, 122-127. 

Michaelson, Robert S. “Enigmas in Interpreting Mormonism.” Sociological Analysis 38 (Summer 1977): 145-153.

“Mormon Utah: Where a Church Shapes the Life of a State.” U.S. News & World Report 83 (December 19, 1977): 59-61. 

“Mormonism Enters a New Era: But America’s Biggest Native Faith Remains a Kingdom Apart.” Time 112 (August 7, 1978): 54-56. 

Shipps, Jan. “The Mormons: Looking Forward and Outward.” Christian Century 95 (August 16-23, 1978): 761-766. 

Smith, John L. “The Travesty of Joseph Smith: A Look at Mormonism: An Unparalled Increase.” Faith for the Family 5 (May/June 1977): 3-8. 

“Utah: Inner Sanctum of the Right.” Economist 267 (May 6, 1978): 48, 51. 

Art and Music

“A Portfolio of Mormon Painters.” Ensign 7 (July 1977): 39-57. 

Lundstrom, Harold. “Alexander Schreiner Retires After a Half Century as Tabernacle Organist.” American Guild of Organists 12 (February 1978): 28-29.

Myer, Peter, and Marie Myer. “New Directions in Mormon Art.” Sunstone 2 (Spring 1977): 32-64.

Oman, Richard G. “Baskets and Dancing Blankets: In a Worldwide Church Appreciating All Cultures’ Art is a Real Part of Day-to-Day Brotherhood.” Ensign 7 (July 1977): 74-79. 

Slaughter, William W., and W. Randall Dixon. “Utah Under Glass: An Introduction to Four Prominent Pioneer Photographers of 19th Century Utah.” Sunstone 2 (Summer 1977): 28-39.

Walker, Ronald Wv and D. Michael Quinn. “‘Virtuous, Lovely, or of Good Report’: How the Church Has Fostered the Arts.” Ensign 7 (July 1977): 80-93. 

Architecture

Goss, Peter L. “Prairie School Influence in Utah.” Prairie School Review 12 (First Quarter, 1975): 5-22. 

Bibliography, Personal Correspondence, and Sources

Bitton, Davis. “The Year in Church History.” Ensign 7 (December 1977): 57-58. 

Cannon, Donald C. “Thomas L. Kane Meets the Mormons.” Brigham Young University Studies 18 (Fall 1977): 126-128. 

Ellern, Ahoran. “Zion in the Far West [A Modern Israeli View of the Mormons].” Brigham Young University Studies 18 (Fall 1977): 119-121. 

Esplin, Ronald K. “From the Rumors to the Records: Historians and the Sources for Brigham Young.” Brigham Young University Studies 18 (Spring 1978): 453-465. 

Evans, Max J. “Handling Photographs in the L.D.S. Church Archives.” American Archivist 40 (April 1977): 173-177. 

———, and Ronald G. Watt. “Sources for Western History at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.” Western Historical Quarterly 8 (July 1977): 303-312. 

Flake, Chad J. “Mormon Bibliography 1976.” Brigham Young University Studies 17 (Spring 1977): 361-372. 

———. “Mormon Bibliography 1977.” Brigham Young University Studies 18 (Summer 1978): 570584. 

Mulder, William. “Mormon Sources for Immigration History.” Immigration History Newsletter 10 (November 1978): 1-8. 

Poll, Richard D. “Nauvoo and the New Mormon History: A Bibliographical Survey.” Journal of Mormon History 5 (1978): 105-123. 

Walker, Ronald W. “Young Heber J. Grant and His Call to the Apostleship.” Brigham Young University Studies 18 (Fall 1978): 121-126. 

Biography and Family History

Arrington, Leonard J. “Idaho’s Benson Family.” Idaho Heritage 9 (1977): 18-19. 

———, and Jon Haupt. “The Mormon Heritage of Vardis Fisher.” Brigham Young University Studies 18 (Fall 1977): 24-47. 

Baldwin, Orval F. “A Mormon Bride in the Great Migration.” Nebraska History 58 (Spring 1977): 53-72. 

Benson, Ezra Taft. “Oral History: Ezra Taft Benson.” Idaho Heritage 9 (1977): 14-17, 50; and 10 (October 1977): 12-15. 

Bitton, Davis. “Great-Grand Father’s Family.” Ensign 7 (February 1977): 48-51. 

Bower, Larry D., ed. “Marriner Stoddard Eccles Memorial Issue.” First Security Branch Clearings 28 Ganuary 6, 1978): 1-8. 

Britsch, R. Lanier. “Another Visit With Walter Murray Gibson.” Utah Historical Quarterly 46 (Winter 1978): 65-78. 

Brooks, Juanita, and Janet G. Butler, eds. “Utah’s Peace Advocate, the ‘Mormona’: Elise Furer Musser.” Utah Historical Quarterly 46 (Spring 1978): 151-166.

Childress, William. “Lula’s Butch.” Westways 68 (April 1976): 18-21, 76. 

Cooley, Everett L. “A Dedication to the Memory of Dale L. Morgan, 1914-1971.” Arizona and the West 19 (Summer 1977): 103-106. 

Derr, Jill Mulvay, and Susan Oman. “The Nauvoo Generation: Our First Five Relief Society Presidents.” Ensign 7 (December 1977): 36-43.

————. “These Three Women: They Presided Over Relief Society in the Twentieth Century.” Ensign 8 (February 1978): 66-70. 

Dix, Fae Decker, ed. “The Josephine Diaries: Glimpses of the Life of Josephine Streeper Chase, 188194.” Utah Historical Quarterly 46 (Spring 1978): 167-183.

Edwards, Paul M. “The Secular Smiths.” Journal of Mormon History 4 (1977): 3-17. 

Gates, Susa Young. “From Impulsive Girl to Patient Wife: Lucy Bigelow Young.” Utah Historical Quarterly 45 (Summer 1977): 270-288. 

Herschensohn, Bruce. “The Marriotts: A Family’s Success Story.” Success Unlimited 24 (May 1977): 12-16, 55, 58-61. 

Hunt, Larry E. “Frederick Madison Smith: The Formative Years of an RLDS President.” Journal of Mormon History 4 (1977): 67-89. 

Huth, S. A. “The Osmonds.” Success Unlimited 25 (April 1978): 36-42, 108. 

Keller, Charles L. “Promoting Railroads and Statehood: John W. Young.” Utah Historical Quarterly 45 (Summer 1977): 289-308. 

McKiernan, F. Mark. “David H. Smith: A Son of the Prophet.” Brigham Young University Studies 18 (Winter 1978): 233-245. 

Porter, Larry. “The Joseph Knight Family.” Ensign 8 (October 1978): 39-45. 

Quinn, D. Michael. “The Newell K. Witney Family.” Ensign 8 (December 1978): 42-45. Sessions, Gene A. “Clark Memorandum Myth.” Americas 34 0uly 1977): 40-58. 

Tobler, Douglas F. “Karl G. Maeser’s German Background, 1828-1856: The Making of Zion’s Teacher.” Zeitschrift fur Religions und Geistesgeschichte 29 (1977): 325-344. 

Turney, Catherine. “John D. Lee: Villain or Scapegoat?” Mankind 5 (No. 8, 1976): 60-67. 

Watt, Ronald G. “Sailing ‘The Old Ship Zion’: The Life of George D. Watt.” Brigham Young University Studies 18 (Fall 1977): 48-65. 

Wirthlin, LeRoy. “Nathan Smith (1762-1828): Surgical Consultant to Joseph Smith.” Brigham Young University Studies 17 (Spring 1977): 319-337. 

Blacks

“Black Mormons Cling to Church Despite Obstacles.” Jet 54 (May 1978): 28. 

Bringhurst, Newell G. “An Ambiguous Decision: The Implementation of Mormon Priesthood Denial for the Black Man—A Reexamination.” Utah Historical Quarterly 46 (Winter 1978): 45-64. 

———. “Forgotten Mormon Perspectives: Slavery, Race, and the Black Man as Issues Among Non Utah Latter-day Saints, 1844-1873.” Michigan History 61 (Winter 1977): 352-370.

Carpenter, T. S. “Final Tribute.” New Times 11 0uly 24, 1978): 76. 

Johnson, Martin A., and Gary L. Bunker. “Ethnicity and Resistance to Compensatory Education: A Comparison of Mormon and Non-Mormon Ethnic Attitudes.” Review of Religious Research 16 (Winter 1975): 74-82. 

“Revelation: Now Blacks Can Become Full-Fledged Mormons.” Time 111 0une 19, 1978): 55. 

Wells, Elmer E. “Unjustifiable Denial of Priesthood to Black Mormons.” Negro History Bulletin 40 (July 1977): 725-727. 

Woodward, Kenneth L., with Jack Goodman. “Race Relations.” Newsweek 91 (July 11, 1978): 67. 

Book of Mormon

Howard, Richard P. “Beating Solomon Spaulding’s Poor, Dead Horse One More Time.” Saints Herald 124 (September 1977): 37. 

———. “Clarifying the Book of Mormon Manuscripts.” Saints Herald 124 (November 1977): 39. 

Larson, Stan. “Conjectural Emendation and the Text of the Book of Mormon.” Brigham Young University Studies 18 (Summer 1978): 563-569.

Merrill, David. “Behind the Spalding Controversy.” Sunstone 3 (November-December 1977): 28-30. “Mormon Mystery.” Time 110 (July 11, 1977): 69. 

Plowman, Edward E. “Mormon Manuscript Claims: Another Look.” Christianity Today 22 (October 21, 1977): 38. 

———. “Who Really Wrote the Book of Mormon?” Christianity Today 21 0uly 8, 1977): 32-34. 

Brigham Young

Arrington, Leonard J., and Ronald K. Esplin. “Building a Commonwealth: The Secular Leadership of Brigham Young.” Utah Historical Quarterly 45 (Summer 1977): 216-232. 

Bitton, Davis. “George Francis Train and Brigham Young.” Brigham Young University Studies 18 (Spring 1978): 410-427. 

Bush, Lester E., Jr. “Brigham in Life and Death: A Medical Review.” Journal of Mormon History 5 (1978): 79-103. 

Coates, Lawrence C. “Brigham Young and Mormon Indian Policies: The Formative Period, 18361851.” Brigham Young University Studies 18 (Spring 1978): 428-452. 

Cornwall, Rebecca, and Richard F. Palmer. “The Religious Background of Brigham Young.” Brigham Young University Studies 18 (Spring 1978): 286-310. 

Croft, David James. “The Private Business Activities of Brigham Young 1847-1877.” Journal of the West 16 (October 1977): 36-51. 

Derr, Jill Mulvay. “Woman’s Place in Brigham Young’s World.” Brigham Young University Studies 18 (Spring 1978): 377-395. 

England, Eugene. “Brigham’s Gospel Kingdom.” Brigham Young University Studies 18 (Spring 1978): 328-376. 

Esplin, Ronald K. “From the Rumors to the Records: Historians and the Sources for Brigham Young.” Brigham Young University Studies 18 (Spring 1978): 453-465. 

Irving, Gordon. “Encouraging the Saints: Brigham Young’s Annual Tours of the Mormon Settlements.” Utah Historical Quarterly 45 (Summer 1977): 233-251. 

Jessee, Dean C. “Brigham Young’s Family.” Brigham Young University Studies 18 (Spring 1978): 311-327. 

Kimball, Stanley B. “Brigham and Heber.” Brigham Young University Studies 18 (Spring 1978): 396-409. 

Moorman, Donald R. “Shadows of Brigham Young as Seen by His Biographers.” Utah Historical Quarterly 45 (Summer 1977): 252-264. 

O’Neil, Floyd A., and Stanford J. Layton. “Of Pride and Politics: Brigham Young as Indian Superin tendent.” Utah Historical Quarterly 46 (Summer 1978): 236-250. 

Quinn, D. Michael. “Brigham Young: Man of Spirit.” Ensign 7 (August 1977): 34-37. 

Walker, Ronald W., and Ronald K. Esplin. “Brigham Himself: An Autobiographical Recollection.” Journal of Mormon History 4 (1977): 19-34. 

Watt, Ronald G. “Calligraphy in Brigham Young’s Office.” Utah Historical Quarterly 45 (Summer 1977): 265-269. 

Business, Economics, and Labor

Davies, J. Kenneth. “Secularization of the Utah Labor Movement.” Utah Historical Quarterly 45 (Spring 1977): 108-134. 

Hill, Marvin S., C. Keith Rooker and Larry T. Wimmer. “The Kirtland Economy Revisited: A Market Critique of Sectarian Economics.” Brigham Young University Studies 17 (Summer 1977): 389-475. 

Kaye, Jeffrey. “An Invisible Empire: Mormon Money in California.” New West 3 (May 8, 1978): 3637, 39, 41.

Leone, Mark P. “The Economic Basis for the Evolution of Mormon Religion,” in Irving L. Zaretsky and Mark P. Leone, eds. Religious Movements in Contemporary America. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1974, pp 722-766. 

Powell, Allan Kent. “Mormon Influence on the Unionization of Eastern Utah Coal Miners, 1903-33.” Journal of Mormon History 4 (1977): 91-100. 

“Salt Lake City: Land Flowing With Mormons and Money.” Advertising Age 48 (December 12, 1977): 123. 

Doctrine, Discipline, and Organizations

Alder, Douglas D. “The Mormon Ward: Congregation or Community?” Journal of Mormon History 5 (1978): 61-78. 

Bachman, Daniel W. “New Light on an Old Hypothesis: The Ohio Origins of the Revelation on Eternal Marriage.” Journal of Mormon History 5 (1978): 19-32. 

Hartley, William G. “Mormon Sundays: A Historian Looks at How We’ve Observed the Sabbath Since 1830.” Ensign 8 (January 1978): 19-25. 

Holland, Jeffery R. ” . . . Of Countries and of Kingdoms.” Brigham Young University Studies 18 (Fall 1977): 3-11. 

Norman, Keith. “Ex Nihilo: The Development of the Doctrines of God and Creation in Early Christianity.” Brigham Young University Studies 17 (Spring): 291-318. 

Oman, Susan, and Carol Madsen, “100 Years of Primary.” Ensign 8 (April 1978): 32-39. 

Peterson, LaMar. “For the Letter Killeth: Mormon Justice.” Humanist 38 (January-February 1978): 16-19. 

Education

Arrington, Leonard J. “The Latter-day Saints and Public Education.” Southwestern Journal of Social Education 7 (Spring/Summer 1977): 9-25. 

Card, Orson Scott. “A Lively Institute in Manhattan, Kansas.” Ensign 7 (August 1977): 28-33. 

Christensen, Harold T., and Kenneth L. Cannon. ” The Fundamentalist Emphasis at Brigham Young University, 1935-1973.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 17 (March 1978): 53-57. 

Eble, Kenneth E. “A Counter Force Within the System.” Change 9 (July ;977); 66-69. 

Hoyt, Edwin. “Studious Missionaries.” London Times Higher Education Supplement 321 (December 30, 1977): 3. 

Rowe, Glenn R. “Can You Read Deseret? This Pioneering Mormon Alphabet was More Than an Educational Experiment.” Ensign 8 (March 1978): 60-61. 

Schulthess, Dave. “Campus Close-Up: Brigham Young University.” Coach and Athlete 40 (March 1978): 8-10. 

Worthington, Boyd G. “Assessment of Personal and Consumer Finance Literacy Among Undergrad uate Students at Brigham Young University.” Business Education Forum 31 (February 1977): 35-37. 

Emigrants, Immigration, and Settlement

Allen, James B. “To the Saints in England: Impressions of a Mormon Immigrant (The 10 December 1840 William Clayton Letter From Nauvoo to Manchester).” Brigham Young University Studies 18 (Spring 1978): 475-480. 

———. “’We had a Very Hard Voyage for the Season.’ John Moon’s Account of the First Emigrant Company of British Saints.” Brigham Young University Studies 17, (Spring 1977): 339-341. 

Grant, H. Roger, and David E. Kyvig. “A Mormon Plan for an Island Kingdom of God.” Prologue 4 (Spring 1972): 26-30. 

Hammarberg, M. “Sampling Design for Mormon Utah, 1880.” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 7 (Winter 1977): 453-476.

Jackson, Richard H., and Robert L. Layton. “The Mormon Village: Analysis of a Settlement Type.” Professional Geographer 28 (May 1976): 136-141 

Lifchez, Raymond. “Inspired Planning: Mormon and Fourierist Communities in the Nineteenth Century.” Landscape 20 (Spring 1976): 29-35. 

Schomakers, G. “Mormonen Trekken Westwaarts.” Spiegel Historiael [Netherlands]. 9 (July/August 1974): 422-429. 

Walker, Ronald W. “The Willard Richards and Brigham Young 5 September 1840 Letter From England to Nauvoo.” Brigham Young University Studies 18 (Spring 1978): 466-475. 

Weeks, Robert P. “A Utopian Kingdom in the American Grain.” Wisconsin Magazine of History 61 (Autumn 1977): 3-20. 

Families

Barlow, B. “Notes on Mormon Interfaith Marriages.” Family Coordinator 26 (April 1977): 143-150.

Kunz, Phillip R., Evan T. Peterson, and Gail W. Peterson. “Does Family Size Affect Academic Achievement.” Brigham Young University Studies 18 (Summer 1978): 529-535. 

Folklore

Fife, Austin E. “Seagulls and Crickets.” Western Folklore 37 (January 1978): 61.

Poulsen, Richard C. ” ‘This is the Place’: Myth and Mormondon.” Western Folklore 36 (July 1977): 246-252.

Wilson, William A. “Utah Folklore and the Utah Librarian.” Utah Libraries 20 (Spring 1977) 25-36. 

Genealogy, Temples, and Temple Work

Anderson, Paul L. “The First of the Modern Temples.” Ensign 7 (July 1977): 6-11. Center, Don B. “Genealogy and the Mormons.” Journal of Genealogy 2 (July 1977): 12, 16. 

Hall, Joseph. “The Genealogy Racket: Or How To Make Money Off the Faithful.” Sunstone 2 (Summer 1977): 16-17. 

Embry, Jessie. “Missionaries for the Dead: The Story of the Genealogical Missionaries of the Nineteenth Century.” Brigham Young University Studies 17 (Spring 1977): 355-360 

Leonard, Glen M. “From the Association Bookshelf.” History News 33 (February 1978): 43-45. Essay on the newest genealogical how-to-do-it books. 

Leone, Mark P. “The New Mormon Temple in Washington, D.C.” in Leland Ferguson, ed., Historical Archaeology and the Importance of Material Things. Special Publications Series, Number 2. Published by the Society for Historical Archaeology 2 (1977): 43-61. 

Powell, Ted F. “Saving the Past for the Future: Sales of International Search and Cooperation.” American Archivist 39 (July 1976): 311-318.

“Rare Opening of Oahu’s Temple.” Sunset 160 (May 1978): 100. 

Wimmer, Larry T., and Clayne L. Pope. “The Genealogical Society Library of Salt Lake City: A Source of Data for Economic and Social Historians.” Historical Methods Newsletter 8 (March 1975): 51-58. 

Indians

Adams, Larry LaMar, and Others. “Academic Success of American Indian Students at a Large Private University.” College and University 53 (Fall 1977): 100-107.

Broadfoot, Raymond. “Indians of the Americas: A Racial Puzzle.” Saints Herald 125 (February 1978): 16-18; and (March 1978): 24-25. 

Christy, Howard A. “Open Hand and Mailed Fist: Mormon-Indian Relations in Utah, 1847-52.” Utah Historical Quarterly 46 (Summer 1978): 216-235.

Joseph Smith

Alexander, Thomas G. “The Place of Joseph Smith in the Development of American Religion: A Historical Inquiry.” Journal of Mormon History 5 (1978): 3-17. 

Cannon, Donald Q. “The King Follett Discourse: Joseph Smith’s Greatest Sermon in Historical Perspective.” Brigham Young University Studies 18 (Winter 1978): 179-192. 

Carter, Carol L. “The Joseph Smith Home Restored: Preserving the Church’s Heritage in Lamoni.” Saints Herald 124 (April 1977): 31-33. 

Hale, Van. “The Doctrinal Impact of the King Follett Discourse.” Brigham Young University Studies 18 (Winter 1978): 209-225. 

Jessee, Dean. “Howard Coray’s Recollections of Joseph Smith.” Brigham Young University Studies 17 (Spring 1977): 341-347. 

Larson, Stan. “The King Follett Discourse: A Newly Amalgamated Text.” Brigham Young University Studies 18 (Winter 1978): 193-208. 

Porter, Larry C. “Christmas With the Prophet Joseph.” Ensign 8 (December 1978): 8-11. 

Rhodes, Michael Dennis. “A Translation and Commentary of the Joseph Smith Hypocephalus.” Brigham Young University Studies 17 (Spring 1977): 259-274. 

Scherer, Mark A. “Joseph Smith, Jr.: Presidential Candidate.” Saints Herald 124 (June 1977): 18-20, 47. 

Wirthlin, LeRoy S. “Joseph Smith’s Surgeon.” Ensign 8 (March 1978): 58-60. 

Woodford, Robert J. “Book of Mormon Personalities Known by Joseph Smith.” Ensign 8 (August 1978): 12-15. 

Kirtland and Nauvoo

Anderson, Lavina Fielding. “Kirtland’s Resolute Saints.” Ensign 9 (January 1979): 49-55.

Backman, Milton V., Jr. “Kirtland: The Critical Years.” Ensign 9 (January 1979): 24-28.

———. “Truman Coe’s 1836 Description of Mormonism.” Brigham Young University Studies 17 (Spring 1977): 347-355. 

Enders, Donald L. “A Dam for Nauvoo: An Attempt to Industrialize the City.” Brigham Young University Studies 18 (Winter 1978): 246-254. 

England, Eugene, ed. “George Laub’s Nauvoo Journal.” Brigham Young University Studies 18 (Winter 1978): 151-178. 

Hill, Marvin S., C. Keith Rooker, and Larry T. Wimmer. “The Kirtland Economy Revisited.” Brigham Young University Studies 17 (Summer 1977): 391-482. 

Kimball, Stanley B. “The First Road West: From New York to Kirtland, 1831.” Ensign 9 (January 1979): 29-30. 

———. “Nauvoo West: The Mormons of the Iowa Shore.” Brigham Young University Studies 18 (Winter 1978): 132-142. 

Lyon, T. Edgar. “Recollections of ‘Old Nauvooers’ Memories From Oral History.” Brigham Young University Studies 18 (Winter 1978): 143-150. 

Quinn, D. Michael. “The Practice of Rebaptism at Nauvoo.” Brigham Young University Studies 18 (Winter 1978): 226-232. 

Rowley, Dennis. “Nauvoo: A River Town.” Brigham Young University Studies 18 (Winter 1978): 255-272. 

“The Way It Looks Today: A Camera Tour of Church History Sites in the Kirtland Neighborhood.” Ensign 9 (January 1979): 31-48. 

Law, Politics and Government

Beeton, Barbara. “James Hervey Simpson in the Great Basin.” Montana: The Magazine of Western History 28 (January 1978): 28-43. 

Long, E. B. “The ‘Terrible Combat’ at Bear River. For Federal Officials Serving in the West, Mormons and Indians Created Far More Problems Than the Rebels.” Civil War Times Illustrated 15 (April 1976): 4-6, 7-10, 40-43. 

Shepherd, Allen R. “Gentile in Zion: Algernon Sidney Paddock and the Utah Commission, 18821886. Nebraska History 57 (Fall 1976): 359-377. 

“Utah: Inner Sanctum of the Right.” Economist 267 (May 6, 1978): 48, 51. 

Watters, Gary L. “Utah Territory [in the Civil War].” Journal of the West 16 (April 1977): 44-56.

White, William Griffin, Jr. “The Feminist Campaign for the Exclusion of Brigham Henry Roberts From the Fifty-Sixth Congress.” Journal of the West 17 (January 1978): 44-52. 

Literature and Speech

Bitton, Davis, and Gary L. Bunker. “Mischievous Puck and the Mormons.” Brigham Young University Studies 18 (Summer 1978): 504-519. 

Center, Don B. “Maligning as a Technique in Anti-Mormon Rhetoric, 1847-1890.” Georgia Speech Communication Journal 8 (Spring 1977): 4-12. 

Geary, Edward A. “Mormondom’s Lost Generation: The Novelists of the 1940s.” Brigham Young University Studies 18 (Fall 1977): 89-98. 

Stott, Graham St. John. “Zane Grey and James Simpson Emmett.” Brigham Young University Studies 18 (Summer 1978): 491-503. 

Topping, Gary. “Zane Grey in Zion: An Examination of His Anti-Mormonism.” Brigham Young University Studies 18 (Summer 1978): 483-490. 

Whittaker, David J. “Early Mormon Pamphleteering.” Journal of Mormon History 4 (1977): 35-49. 

Missionary Work

Barney, R. D., and G. G. Y. Chu. “Differences Between Mormon Missionaries’ Perceptions and Chinese Natives’ Expectations in Intercultural Transactions.” Journal of Social Psychology 98 (February 1976): 135-136. 

Britsch, R. Lanier. “The Founding of the Samoan Mission.” Brigham Young University Studies 18 (Fall 1977): 12-26. 

Goddard, J. R. “A Mormon Missionary in Essex.” Essex Countryside 26 (September 1978): 34-35. 

“Status Report on Missionary Work: A Conversation With Elder Thomas S. Monson of the Missionary Committee of the Council of Twelve.” Ensign 7 (October 1977): 8-14. 

Thorp, Malcolm R. “The Religious Backgrounds of Mormon Converts in Britain, 1837-52.” Journal of Mormon History 4 (1977): 51-66. 

Mormon History Association

Esplin, Ronald K., and Kenneth Stobaugh. “In Quest of the Past: The Mormon History Association Today.” Sunstone 2 (Summer 1977): 45-47. 

Howard, Richard P. “The Mormon History Association at Kirtland.” Saints Herald 124 (August 1977): 45. 

Mormon Trails

Bauer, Irwin. “Exploring Mormon Trails.” Travel Incorporation Holiday 149 (May 1978): 40-45.

Kauer, Hans Gerd. “Der Mormonen-Trail: Ein Stuck Pionier-geschichet aus dem Widen Westen.” Damals 6 (December 1974): 1059-1078. 

Polygamy

Bitton, Davis. “Mormon Polygamy: A Review Article.” Journal of Mormon History 4 (1977): 101-118.

Bradlee, Ben, Jr. “Mormon Manson: Deaths Attributed to Sect Leader E. LeBaron.” New Times 10 (March 6, 1978): 38-43. 

Burgess-Olsen, Vicky. “In Her Own Words: A Feminist Studies Mormon Polygamy and Remarkably Finds It Liberated the Wives.” People (July 10, 1978): 55-56, 58. 

Campbell, Eugene E., and Bruce L. Campbell. “Divorce Among Mormon Polygamists: Extent and Explanation.” Utah Historical Quarterly 46 (Winter 1978): 4-23. 

Cannon, Kenneth L., II. “Beyond the Manifesto: Polygamous Cohabitation Among LDS General Authorities After 1890.” Utah Historical Quarterly 46 (Winter 1978): 24-36. 

Kronstadt, Sylvia. “Till Death Us Do Part.” Penthouse 9 (October 1977): 85-86, 94, 96, 98, 122. 

“President Lincoln, Polygamy, and the Civil War: The Case of Dawson and Deseret.” Lincoln Lore 1644 (February 1975): 1-4; and 1645 (March 1975): 1-4. 

Shah, Diane K., with Janet Huck. “Eternal Triangles.” Newsweek 90 (November 21, 1977): 113, 118-119. 

Population

Bean, Lee L., Dean L. May, and Mark Skolnick. “The Mormon Historical Demography Project.” Historical Methods 11 (Winter 1978): 45-53. 

Jarvis, George K. “Mormon Mortality Rate in Canada.” Social Biology 24 (Winter 1977): 294-302. 

Smith, James E., and Phillip R. Kunz. “Polygyny and Fertility in Nineteenth Century America.” Population Studies 30 (November 1976): 465-480. 

Reed Smoot

Alexander, Thomas G. “Teapot Dome Revisited: Reed Smoot and Conservation in the 1920s.” Utah Historical Quarterly 45 (Fall 1977): 352-368. 

Allen, James B. “The Great Protectionist, Senator Reed Smoot of Utah.” Utah Historical Quarterly 45 (Fall 1977): 324-345. 

Shipps, Jan. “The Public Image of Sen. Reed Smoot, 1902-32.” Utah Historical Quarterly 45 (Fall 1977): 380-400. 

Swanson, Jeffrey L. “That Smoke-Filled Room: A Utahn’s Role in the GOP Convention.” Utah Historical Quarterly 45 (Fall 1977): 369-379. 

Science and Health

Sherlock, Richard. “A Turbulent Spectrum: Mormon Reactions to the Darwinist Legacy.” Journal of Mormon History 5 (1978): 33-59. 

Smith, Scott. “The Mormons.” Vegetarian World 2 0une 1976): 13. 

United Order

Israelsen, L. Dwight. “An Economic Analysis of the United Order.” Brigham Young University Studies 18 (Summer 1978): 536-562. 

Nelson, William O. “To Prepare a People: The Lord’s Law of Consecration, Restored in the Early Days of the Church, Still Applies to Us.” Ensign 9 (January 1979): 18-23. 

Sorensen, A. Don. “Being Equal in Earthly and Heavenly Power: The Idea of Stewardship in the United Order.” Brigham Young University Studies 18 (Fall 1977): 100-117. 

Welfare Program

Barton, Betty L. “Mormon Poor Relief: A Social Welfare Interlude.” Brigham Young University Studies 18 (Fall 1977): 66-88. 

Fisher, Albert L. “Mormon Welfare Programs: Past and Present.” Social Science Journal 15 (April 1978): 75-99.

Women

“A Conversation With the General Relief Society Leaders.” Ensign 7 (March 1977): 32-42.

Adix, Shauna. “Education for Women: The Utah Legacy.” Journal of Education 159 (August 1977)38-49.

Baldwin, Orval F., II. “A Mormon Bride in the Great Migration.” Nebraska History 58 (Spring 1977): 53-71.

Beeton, Beverly. “Woman Suffrage in Territorial Utah.” Utah Historical Quarterly 46 (Spring 1978)100-120.

Bitton, Davis, and Gary L. Bunker. “Double Jeopardy: Visual Images of Mormon Women to 1914.” Utah Historical Quarterly 46 (Spring 1978): 184-202. 

Edwards, Carolynn. “Women in the Early Church. Who Were They? Can We Know?” Saints Herald 124 (March 1977): 27-30. 

Kimball, Camilla. “A Woman’s Preparation.” Ensign 7 (March 1977): 58-59. 

Larson, Carol. “The Gospel Counterculture: What Happens to Women Around the World as the Gospel Teaches New Family Patterns, Leadership Skills, Self-Improvement Goals?” Ensign 7 (March 1977): 22-27. 

Wohl, Lisa Cronin. “A Mormon Connection? The Defeat of the ERA in Nevada.” Ms. 6 0uly 1977): 68-70, 80, 83-85.

Word of Wisdom

Bergeson, Paul S. “Infants and the Word of Wisdom.” Ensign 7 (April 1977): 54-56. 

“Doctrine and Covenants 86: A Principle With Promise: Some Contemporary Perspectives.” Saints Herald 124 (April 1977): 12-15, 45. 

Larson, Lora Beth. “The Do’s in the Word of Wisdom.” Ensign 7 (April 1977): 46-53.

Williams, Roger R. “Tobacco and Alcohol.” Ensign 7 (April 1977): 57-60.