[…] sense is that part of the army’s early reticence about the Utah Expedition was attributable to its de facto loss of the post-war public relations battle. With the outbreak of the Civil War and […]
[…] published by Thomas Nelson and Sons, ca. 1945. Figure 11. The Ointment of the Magdalene (Le perfume de Madeleine) by James Tissot. Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, 1886–1894. Courtesy of the […]
[…] investigations by Latter-day Saint professionals, professors, and ecclesiastical leaders. These narratives foreground the efforts of educated, white, upper-middle-class professionals and Church-funded institutions based in Salt Lake City and Provo, near the centers of Mormon power.
[…] 1830 to the present, can be found in the Church Historian’s Library and Archives, in Salt Lake City. The records in the Church Archives appear to be “honest,” in the sense of presenting the […]
[…] do well to begin with D. R. Burrill (ed.), The Cosmological Arguments, A Spectrum of Opinion (Garden City, New York: Anchor 1967). Cf. deBeer, Sir Gavin, Charles Darwin, A Scientific Biography (Garden City, New […]
[…] They also were, like Orson Pratt’s other scientific work, refutations of the deterministic atomism of Pierre Simon de LaPlace whose Celestial Mechanics (1799) argued for a completely mechanistic cosmos. See Ronald L. Numbers, Creation […]
[…] occupied by the twenty four Mormon elders who had arrived that night by train from Salt Lake City. Included in the group from Utah, Idaho, and Arizona was an angular twenty-nine-year-old by the name […]
[…] imminent commencement of the Millennial Era, an era which would witness the church’s return to Jackson County, Missouri, and the advent of the Savior. Thus, for the members present, the dedication of the Salt […]
[…] the McKays—specifically David O. as a caring but dominant husband acting in seemingly perfect harmony with his de voted but deferential wife, Emma Ray—promoted unrealistic expectations among both Latter-day Saint men and women. The […]
[…] do well to begin with D. R. Burrill (ed.), The Cosmological Arguments, A Spectrum of Opinion (Garden City, New York: Anchor 1967). Cf. deBeer, Sir Gavin, Charles Darwin, A Scientific Biography (Garden City, New […]