Richard D. Poll
RICHARD D. POLL was a professor of history at Brigham Young University for twenty-two years and vice president of Western Illinois University for five. He wrote History and Faith: Reflections of a Mormon Historian. He died in 199
A Kingdom to Come | Klaus J. Hansen, Quest for Empire: The Political Kingdom of God and the Council of Fifty in Mormon History
Articles/Essays – Volume 02, No. 3
In January, 1863, when Union fortunes were low in the Civil War, the governor of the self-proclaimed State of Deseret (Utah) sent these words to the legislature of that quasi-government: This body of men will…
Read moreWhat the Church Means to People Like Me
Articles/Essays – Volume 02, No. 4
A natural reaction to my title—since this is not a testimony meeting in which each speaker is his own subject—might be, “Who cares?” For who in this congregation, with the possible exception of my brother,…
Read moreJoseph Smith’s Presidential Platform: Joseph Smith and the Presidency, 1844
Articles/Essays – Volume 03, No. 3
At a meeting in the mayor’s office in Nauvoo, Illinois, on January 29, 1844, it was moved and voted unanimously that “we will have an independent electoral ticket, and that Joseph Smith be a candidate…
Read moreState-of-the-Art-Mormon-History: The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-day Saints
Articles/Essays – Volume 12, No. 2
Seeking the Past: Nobel Quest of Fool’s Errand: Faithful History: Essays on Writing Mormon History edited by George D. Smith
Articles/Essays – Volume 25, No. 4