[…] There were considerable donations to the Perpetual Emi grating Fund. Hundreds of wagons were sent to the Missouri Valley, and later to meet the railroad as it pushed west, to bring poor immigrants to […]
[…] the communities was unpromising. It was at this time that two or three thousand Mormons, expelled from Missouri as a result of mob violence, fled to Illinois and made Quincy their temporary rallying point. […]
[…] and old, ‘Be bold! Be bold!” and everywhere, “Be bold; be not too bold!” Yet better the excess than the defect; better more than less . . . . Longfellow, Morituri Salutamus Having entered our fourth year […]
[…] and Martha Sonntag Bradley gathered information about arranged marriages in what was then the Johnson or Colorado City group from interviews they conducted in the 1980s and 1990s. 1 first learned about placement marriage […]
[…] Latter-day Saints built behind the Iron Curtain was held in the city of Freiberg, in the German Democratic Republic (GDR)—then East Germany. Henry J. Burkhardt, president of the Dresden Germany Mission and a key […]
[…] 1970), 8-14. “James Gordon Bennett’s 1831 Report on ‘The Mormonites,”‘ BYU Studies, X (Spring, 1970), 353-364. “The Missouri and Illinois Mormons in Ante-bellum Fiction,” Dialogue, V (Spring, 1970), 37-50. With Jon Haupt. “The Mormons […]
[…] life of Brigham Young I was most elated, and somewhat envious. Of all the nineteenth-century Mormon lea ders, he seemed to me the one of whom the best biography could be written. Possibilities for […]
[…] of individual conscience is certainly not one upon which Mormonism has a monopoly. But the past two decades have seen accelerating tensions in the relationship between the institutional church and the two overlapping subcommunities […]
. . . one key to urban development should be plain—it lies in the widening of the circle of those capable of participating in it, till in the end all men will take part in the conversation. Lewis […]
[…] resign. For six years thereafter he remained in Saratoga; then in 1869 he moved to New York City where he formed a successful law partnership. In 1870, President Ulysses S. Grant, without McKean’s solicitation, […]