[…] struggling over it for three weeks, the photographer and I did get something out that looked, well, human. I sent it to Boston with the explanation that having my photograph taken was like wrestling […]
[…] far reaching and long lasting. If one were to characterize the novelist as one who expresses the human condition (past, present or future) in a highly personal and subjective manner and the historian as one […]
[…] though it does not touch us most directly, still we wear a similar uniform of human skin which stinks with the blood of our many-sized brothers. My love, […]
[…] heart.) ix O bleak excellence, oblique of dreams, see the seething! Consider this massive effect of human effort: I have lost the angular visions of my youth. I see things now in horizontal […]
[…] your nature and your vision of the greatness of your possibilities, you will influence the course of human history in far greater proportion than your numbers would suggest. You are the light of the […]
Klaus J. Hansen’s review of Doyle L. Fitzpatrick’s The King Strang Story: A Vindication of James J. Strang, the Beaver Island King in the Spring 1971 Dialogue is the latest manifestation of a currently popular scholarly perspective on Mormonism which is most easily recognized by its emphasis on “the political kingdom of God.”
Had Brigham Young adhered to Sam Brannan’s advice and settled in California, San Francisco might have become the Mecca of Mormonism. Young stopped in the Great Salt Lake Valley and San Francisco had to be content with lesser glories. However, California did produce a number of interesting Mormon-related books, pamphlets, and broadsides. A list of these works, as they appear in Clifford Merrill Drury’s California Imprints, 1846-1878 Pertaining to Social, Educational, and Religious Subjects (privately printed for the author, 1970, is printed below for the reader’s edification. Those interested in the location of the works should consult Drury’s volume.
[…] From President Joseph Fielding Smith I learned that errors may not always be apparent, that it is human to err, that even the great James E. Talmage, editor of the Book of Mormon, Pearl […]
Perhaps the most difficult kind of analysis that scholars may presume to make is that of presenting attitudes of people toward various ideas. Any poll can be affected by weakness in the sampling technique, by…
Latter-day Saints have long had an interest in pre-Columbian ocean travel. Americanist scholars, with a few notable exceptions such as Gordon Ekholm, J. Charles Kelley and a few others, have in the past either rejected…