[…] “sex education” are almost synonomous with “communist conspiracy.” This dilemma (which is faced by any behavioral scientist writing on secular topics for the L.D.S. audience) is evident throughout Eberhard’s book. While trying to be […]
[…] personal recollections of their Palmyra-Manchester life. Yet non-Mormon historiography has virtually canonized antagonistic neighborhood affidavits. Since L.D.S. writing is even now very poorly publicized and distributed, the libraries of this country have typically ignored […]
[…] matter may be largely history, philosophy, and tract, but if that triumvirate must stand adumbrated by creative writing, then Alfred’s Orosius, Browne’s Religio Medici, and Paine’s Common Sense must all go by the boards. […]
[…] Then the Idaho test oath became law, and was declared constitutional by a hostile Supreme Court. In writing about a Mormon’s conviction under the Idaho law the editor of the Deseret News Weekly declared: […]
[…] girl candidate and her father climbed down the ladder. Onlookers gathered and enjoyed this part of the service with the group, inquiring afterward if that man (the one performing the baptism) was really a […]
[…] and William Henry Ashley. This, however, in no way detracts from Dale’s significant achievements in Mormon historical writing and Mormon bibliography. Being first introduced into historical writing when employed in the W.P.A. Historical Records […]
[…] ma chine. It was here, on the leaf of the machine, that mother did much of the writing in the extensive journal that occupied her spare moments, and recorded a literal history of life […]
In a preface to Lore of Faith & Folly, William A. Wilson observes that while few states possess Utah’s abundance of folklore, few have been more reluctant to collect and study their traditions. With the…
[…] has occurred and will occur again is the basic vital sign of the institution. Addendum Since the writing of this article the Church has held its 1972 World Conference. Many of the same issues […]
[…] 1940. I suffered from the usual American-Mormon ambition to produce opus magnum seriatim • ad infinitum. After writing several articles on Mormonism, I found myself examining the output since 1882 of the then President […]