David Buice

DAVID BUICE is a professor and an administrator in the Division of Academic Affairs at Louisiana Tech University. He is currently concluding a book on Latter-day Saints in the nineteenth-century South.

A Stench in the Nostrils of Honest Men: Southern Democrats and the Edmunds Act of 1882

Articles/Essays – Volume 21, No. 3

Senator George F. Edmunds of Vermont stood before his colleagues 12 December 1881 to introduce Senate Bill Number 353, the latest in a series of measures aimed at the Mormon practice of polygamy. The Edmunds’…

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“All Alone and None to Cheer Me”: The Soughern States Mission Diary of J. Golden Kimball

Articles/Essays – Volume 24, No. 1

If you had been a guest in Chattanooga’s Florentine Hotel on the evening of 14 April 1883, your sleep might have been disturbed, particularly if your room were near one of those occupied by the…

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