[…] Engineering at Stanford University and Edwin B. Firmage, Assistant Pro fessor of Law at the University of Missouri . Dr. Firmage, who was assigned to work with Vice President Hubert Humphrey, reports his experience […]
[…] Mormonism was propelled into the national and even international spotlight as social and political conflict in Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, and Utah attracted unusually wide attention. In addition, through its Far Western colonizing activities Mormonism […]
[…] above another,” and to lay the economic groundwork for the Second Coming. The authors of Building the City of God suggest that there were also more practical reasons for this revelation. They argue that […]
[…] Robinson, contested Mormon land claims at Warm Springs and after being evicted, filed a suit against the city in federal court. Such emotional incidents did nothing to mitigate the negative associations already established in […]
[…] men in Mormon history have exemplified the unity of science and religion better than Henry Eyring. A devout student of science for over sixty years, a brilliant chemist who was internationally renowned, and at […]
No single feature of Mormonism strikes many perceptive non-Mormon observers with greater force than Mormon literal-min dedness. For instance, in his monumental and largely sympathetic monograph The Mormons published in 1957, Thomas F. O’Dea […]
[…] Mormon history is Joseph Smith’s 1834 crusade from Kirt land, Ohio, to the borders of Jackson County, Missouri, to “redeem Zion.” Its purpose was to assist Latter-day Saints lately driven from their homes, protect […]
[…] Mormon settlers entered the Salt Lake Valley in 1847, they brought with them their institutions and attitu des. These included a perception of Native Americans as fallen Israelites who, the Book of Mormon promised, […]
[…] up a difficult historical position: simultaneously being white and struggling for whiteness; being actively pushed out of Missouri and then pushing Native Americans out of what is now Utah; striving for both mainstream acceptance […]
[…] G. Williams in early 1832 and in the “Book of Commandments and Revelations of the Lord” in Missouri by John Whitmer. The originals may be viewed in Robin Scott Jensen, Robert J. Woodford, and […]