[…] dumping of 20,000 pounds of mercury into the Lake of the Woods region of Ontario by a paper and pulp company between 1962 to 1970. When the dumping came to light in early 1970, […]
[…] Such contention, however, is more than outbalanced by the passion that so many individuals bring to their writing and to conversations about Mormon history. That passion is contagious. Thus, you can imagine how grateful […]
[…] number of marginal voices challenging the cessationist notion that the Christian canon had been sealed with the writing of the New Testament. Yet Smith did not only couch his claim in his own words, […]
[…] to the larger project of examining the King James Bible’s influence on The Book of Mormon, this essay focuses on several aspects of the problem of Isaiah in The Book of Mormon as they […]
[…] address the methodological challenges of preserving the past in an electronically obsessed present. The decline of letter writing and the increase of instant communications like email and cell phones have altered the remnants left […]
[…] significant, and Dialogue’s interest in publishing documents of this type can contribute greatly to the study and writing of Mormon history. I hope that the Rigdon narrative will be the first of many historical […]
In a 1969 review- essay entitled “The New Mormon History,” Moses Rischin spoke of the sophistication with which scholars both within and without the Mormon culture were beginning to examine the Mormon past. He […]
[…] tersely that the actual total earned through Mormon business was a “closely guarded secret.” A Congregational minister writing in the Christian Century in 1965 referred to Mormon business with disgust, declaring that such a […]
[…] is at all times the best way: only that it is one way and a good way. Writing is one means that an author possesses to become himself, and he can become that self […]
[…] impossible to write objectively about individuals while they are still alive; the historian might feel intimidated when writing of the recent past for fear of offending certain influential people who participated in the events […]