[…] as the appearance of knowledge before the face of Baha’u’llah in the form of a tablet, the English equivalent of the Arabic lawh meaning a written document or letter from one of the central […]
[…] of twelve lectures of 1851-1852 in the Salt Lake Valley. These lectures were published in the Deseret News in 1854, with an expanded version delivered again in Salt Lake City, in January and February 1871. […]
[…] that those social restraints were powerful and punishing in their censure. On 21 May 1887, the Deseret News contains a brief notice of a trial for adultery of a married man and an unmarried […]
[…] and Sexuality. Although my own conclusions ultimately were very different from those of the Tanners, their prior search of the literature saved me much time and alerted me to issues I would need to […]
[…] Apostle James Talmage—the “intelligent exercise of common sense” (Talmage 1922, 3). In the words of a Deseret News editorial accompanying the opening of a well-equipped Church-sponsored hospital in 1902, “Remedies are provided by the […]
Search for Sanctuary received the 1985 Francis M. Chipman Award from the Mormon History Association. A historical narrative, it describes a little-known aspect of the 1857-58 Utah War. Brigham Young sent men out […]
[…] in enacting this statute? It was, judging from the whole act, intended to be an aid in breaking up polygamy and the pretense thereof. The well-recognized difficulty of reaching the polygamy cases by reason […]
[…] widest possible sense to cover all possible actions against the Pretoria government. This includes all withdrawals and breaking of links, economic sanctions and embargoes, diplomatic actions, and cultural and other boycotts. It also includes […]
[…] Dean Brimhall, Fawn commented on the semi-official Church position vis-a-vis the general German situation: “If the Deseret News is careful not to offend Germany, and I gather from your statements that it is falling […]
[…] scar tissue from an earlier operation had permanently blocked Helen’s fallopian tubes. In the hospital, absorbing the news, Helen wrote “Blight”: August is the month of broken dreams: The amber pear splits in the […]