[…] of Salt Lake Temple. Revenge Is Sought by Him after Trouble with the Church; Has Left the City.” The sensational article began: No local news story published in recent years has caused so much […]
[…] As in the past years, the spring bibliographical survey is concerned primarily with books, and thus inclu des a representation of the ever present anti-Mormon books, “faith-promoting” volumes, and works of some interest because […]
A few years back fifty LDS aca demics were asked to list the most eminent intellectuals in Mormon history. B. H. Roberts and Orson Pratt were most frequently nominated. James E. Talmage and John […]
[…] to be the wrath of God. The first issue of the Church’s Evening and Morning Star (Independence, Missouri) in June 1832 devoted more than a third of a page to “The Cholera Morbus.” Editor […]
[…] Smith who wished to protect those Mormons who had been ejected from their Zion in Jackson County, Missouri, the previous year. The plan, proposed by the Mormons and Missouri’s attorney general, was for the […]
[…] sad as that may be. Ambivalent expressions from our leaders about the status of blacks during our Missouri period were certainly understandable in a border state. After the move to Illinois, Joseph Smith and […]
That the handful of early Mormon converts decided to migrate from New York only nine months after their church was organized has led some scholars to suppose that the basic influence on Latter-day Saint […]
[…] than 150 years, Mormonism has experienced a series of interrelated and crucial transitions, even transformations. This study de scribes five of these linked transitions as individualism to corporate dynasticism, authoritarian democracy to authoritarian oligarchy, […]
[…] sources— J. Marinus Jensen’s History of Provo (1924) and the WPA Writers’ Program compilation, Provo: Pioneer Mormon City (1942). I recall the first few chapters as most richly anecdotal, the human interest thinning out […]
“I have ever gained the most profit, and the most pleasure also, from the books which have ma de me think the most.” J. C. & A. W. Hare, Guesses at Truth Without hooks God is […]