[…] Seven young women we had on board, as passengers, to visit certain friends they had in Britain —Three of them were ladies of rank, and the rest were healthy bucksom Lasses.—Whilst deliberating on this […]
We are the sisters of the sea.
Something there is in you and me
That calls us to our very coasts, bids us stand
Where green-veined breakers moan upon the sand,
Seeking something the old oceans hide.
[…] a thirst for vengeance deliberately fostered as a matter of calculated policy and by the barbarous conviction —still so familiar in our own century—that the members of other societies and faiths were morally inferior […]
My earliest memory of Retty Mott is of hurrying past her house as I walked home from Primary. I hurried past because my cousins had told me that she chased people. Once she had leaped out from behind a tree in her front yard and hit Max Peterson with a fire shovel. She had chased him clear to the end of the block, hitting him all the way with the fire shovel . . .
[…] way that had never before been done. An unprecedented amount of large and small bits of data —slave ship manifests, bills of sale, newspaper advertisements, plantation account ledgers—was gathered and analyzed statistically to answer, […]
[…] a projected three-volume attack. Placing the Woolley account under the microscope, Anderson critically analyzes every minute detail —names, dates, places and events—and quite successfully does to the foundation of modern fundamentalism what the Tanners […]
One of the strongest virtues of this volume is the modesty of its project. It does not claim to be the story of Mormon pioneering in Mexico, but simply a story of the same. […]
In the afternoon of 1 July 1895, Emmeline Wells and thirteen other Mormon literary lights and friends met in the parlor of Julia C. Howe’s home in memory of a deceased colleague, poet Hannah King. […]
The subtitle of this book indicates its primary shortcoming. This is, indeed, one more history of the Mormons. The chapter headings could be those of any similar work giving a general overview of the […]
[…] baptism. In May 1843 he was called on a mission to Wales; his departure, however, was postponed —most likely because of his steamboat and later events which preceded the martyrdom. Jones was the recipient […]