[…] Tax Amendment to the Constitution. Some of these pieces of legislation evoked positive responses from the Deseret News, which from its inception has been owned and operated by the Church. An editorial on the […]
[…] far off the mark. It was an impression consistent with the observations of Richard Burton, the famous English traveller and linguist, who visited the City of the Saints in 1861. Burton reported that “All […]
How does an English graduate student who wants a visit to the East Coast, instruction in the American political system and an introduction into the Mormon publishing world satisfy these three ambitions in one […]
[…] from Monte McLaws’ doctoral dissertation, Spokesman for the Kingdom is a terse, well-researched biography of the Deseret News and Mormon journalism from 1830 to 1898. The book is thematically organized around the topics of […]
[…] time when they were cancelling many other regular programs in order to give more air time to news about the war situation, which was now growing critical. His moving account of what happened after […]
[…] 153-55. Aldrich, “Organizational Boundaries,” p. 289. Membership figures are from 1983 Church Almanac (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1982), pp. 214-16. “Wilford Woodruff and the Changing Nature of Mormon Religious Experience,” Church History 45 […]
[…] Widtsoe signature. Several different manuscript dealers and autograph handlers are selling these letters as individual items, thus breaking up an important document collection. The loss to Mormon history and Mormon historians is permanent. There […]
[…] within a year of the Manifesto, in a sermon by First Presidency counselor George Q. Cannon (Deseret News, 14 Nov. 1891). On that occasion, he explicitly stated that the document was given because the Saints […]
[…] by many General Authorities, general board members, and rank-and-file American Latter-day Saints. Fourteen years after a path- breaking BYU symposium on the problems of the expanding Church and in spite of numerous journal articles […]
[…] Cohn, bossy angels, a Valium crazed woman who chews down a tree like a beaver and the breaking up and coming together of gays, Mormons, families and friends. He derides individualism as outmoded and […]