Mormon history is part of the colonization history of the American West; and the LDS Church, as a major player in that process, still bears a colonization imprint in many ways. The colonizing days […]
<i>Dialogue 26.1 (Spring 1993): 23–82</i><br>The clash between obedience to ecclesiastical authority and the integrity of individual conscience is certainly not one upon which Mormonism has a monopoly. But the past two decades have seen […]
[…] 1883, John Taylor and George Q. Cannon agreed to purchase two-thirds of the 100,000 shares of company stock for $50,000. Then, on 3 October they set apart 60,000 shares Taylor could control or dispose […]
[…] Lindbergh made the first intercontinental airplane flight (1927). He became a father before the crash of the stock market ushered in the Great Depression (1929), and before the Empire State Building opened for business […]
[…] more acceptable and, hence, more successful in Australia. Americans and Australians are both predominantly from Anglo Saxon stock and have a common heritage of English language and law. Both countries have accepted large numbers […]
[…] 1898. Robert L. Beisner, Twelve Against Empire: The Anti-Imperialists, 1898-1900 (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968); Harold U. Faulkner, Politics, Reform and Expansion, 18901900 (New York: Harper, 1959), p. 223; Julius W. Pratt, “American Business and […]
[…] me, but he was tethered to an inexorable lifestyle that made little allowance for expressions of sentimentality. Politics is a rough game. Val: Did your father influence your choice of law as a profession? […]
[…] life. The Mormons, conversely, were more typically American in significant ways. They were of westering New England stock, Puritan in religious background, and lower-middle class rather than peasant or proletarian in outlook. They were […]
Editor’s note: In light of the Washington Post piece on “<a href=”http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-genesis-of-a-churchs-stand-on-race/2012/02/22/gIQAQZXyfR_story.html”>The Genesis of a church’s stand on race</a>” we bring back from the archives the famous article cited therein.
<i>Dialogue 8.1 (Spring 1973): 11–68</i><br>Lester Bush’s landmark article tells the most comprehensive history of the church’s teachings on race and priesthood, destabilizing the idea that it originated with Joseph Smith or had been consistently taught.