[…] of territorial legislation enfranchising Utah’s women in 1870, almost fifty years before the Nineteenth Amendment extended the vote to American women, arguments erupted between the Mormon and non-Mormon community over the reasons behind this legislation.
[…] as Mormons. Among these early “analytical” studies were those by Joseph Geddes, Lowry Nelson, and Feramorz Y. Fox. It is significant, and perhaps to be expected, that most of these dissertations have been writtten […]
[…] has one religion been so intertwined with other aspects of life. There is little doubt that Brigh am Young felt a need for artists in the Salt Lake Valley very soon after the arrival […]
[…] lack of confidence. Nor was there a lack of confidence in the missionaries who carried the good news of the Restoration to all nations. One missionary, lecturing in Boston’s Boylston Hall, was described as […]
[…] the wall and began picking at a place where the paint was peeling. Carlton got the disastrous news from Elder Ballentine and walked into Spencer’s room. “What are you going to do?” he demanded. […]
[…] patient, dear. Someday the right one will come along for you.” And now being on the s ame flight. “No!” she wanted to shout, “I am not chaperoning the newlyweds. They get off the […]
[…] last porch, you had headed home. What would it be like, you had wondered, sharing the s ame house with him after all these years? Inside the front door your mother, smiling too broadly, […]
[…] an occasional burp or fart. The silence, like the fog, bothered me. “If you leave the trail today you’re going to get lost,” I said to everyone. No one even grunted. I waited a […]
[…] astride his backpack, wedged tightly between the spare tire and a precarious stack of cement bags. Cr amped, bored, and curious, he twisted backwards, popping his spine as he struggled to look at his […]
[…] like the elders did. A few days after our baptism, Allen and Johnson came by with the news that they had rented a house where they could live and hold meetings. Mother asked them […]