[…] detailed analysis of the members of the Kirtland Branch, where the Saints lived until they relocated to Missouri in the latter half of the 1830s. He identified more than 800 male members, their spouses, […]
[…] excusable? Yes, given the circumstances, the miscommunication, the attempt by our host to be courteous, and our de sire to be gracious guests. Would a group of reasonable people agree we acted properly in […]
[…] who had been pioneering for the past 250 years. The Huntington girls, Zina and Prescindia, he is de lighted to tell us, are the grand-nieces of Samuel Huntington, signer of the Declaration of Independence, […]
[…] Sidon in the south wilderness. . . .There shall ye meet them.. .and there the Lord will de liver unto thee they brethren.” (Alma 16:5-6). A few years and campaigns later, Captain Moroni “sent […]
[…] that the massacre had created “a new crisis,” but the cause of this new crisis was not de lineated (p. 271). Snow family tradition reports that when the apostle shared the news with Brigham […]
[…] a history book published the year before. This meant that we traveled from Utah to New York City to attend the awards ceremony at Columbia University.The prize was awarded at a dinner for three […]
[…] Historical Archives in Salt Lake City and in the Community of Christ (formerly RLDS) Archives in Independence, Missouri. Instead he relied on the published writings of Smith and his mother, along with biographical writings […]
[…] be mythical, artistic, scholarly, or scientific. Grant H. Palmer, An Insider’s View of Mormon Origins (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2002), xiii + 281 pp. See also David Wright, “Historical Criticism,” Sunstone 16, no. […]
[…] a pawn forward two squares on its second move. Notwithstanding my cheating, however, Kasparov is able to de feat me easily. The wrongfulness of my illegal move cannot consist of depriving Kasparov of his […]
[…] in swarms of contested facts which moved in overlapping clouds from one hive to the next: Kirtland, Missouri, Nauvoo. We spent hours seeking expert opinion just about whether Nauvoo’s population “equaled,” “rivaled” or “surpassed” […]