[…] history, especially for those who have read the Great Basin Kingdom or The Mormon Experience. What readers get in this biography is a look at Mormon history with Young as both the central figure […]
Lowry Nelson was one of Utah’s greatest intellectual products. At age ninety-three, this, the final volume of an autobiographical trilogy rounds off Boyhood in a Mormon Village and Eighty: One Man’s Way There. Nelson’s new…
[…] the debunked Joseph, the product not only of anti Mormonism, but of some who claim to be writing objective Mormon history. I realize that this is something of an overstatement. I have a weakness, […]
In August 1851, David Adams, a physician residing in Wayne County, Illinois, wrote a letter to Brigham Young in which he expressed his dismay at the persecutions the Mormons had suffered in Missouri and Illinois…
[…] whose garish clothes “snarled and spit at each other” (p. 174), the net result is an unfor gettable dramatis personae ideally suited to the colorful setting. Although the characters are predominantly Mormon, the author […]
In 1969 Edwin B. Firmage taped oral history interviews with his grandfather, Hugh B. Brown. The following essay has been adapted from these memoirs, which will be published by Signature Books in 1988 as […]
[…] that a faithful Mormon can lead a life of the mind. DIALOGUE publishes many genres—essays, articles, monographs, reviews, testimonies, stories, poems, photographs, prints, and sermons. (In credibly, I often find its sermons readable.) DIALOGUE […]
[…] the second person baptized? As historian and genealogist of the Clegg family, Malicent Clegg Wells prepared an essay for the family centennial on 25 September 1955, marking the entrance of Henry Clegg, Jr., and […]
[…] mental fumbling as well. There is nothing depersonalized or’ duplicate about these twenty-two seasoned saints or their essays. They are, in fact, startling in their differences. Philip Barlow completed his master’s in theological studies […]
[…] task, since the writer is constantly obligated to explain the culture about which he or she is writing—an obligation not imposed upon writers interpreting cultures with more widely recognized traditions. Sillitoe explains nothing; she […]