[…] A History of LDS Welfare, 1830-1990 (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1993). Basil Davidson, The Black Man’s Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State (London: James Currey, 1992). Andre G. Frank, […]
[…] apartments, and private residences for owners, architects, contractors, real estate investors, and developers” (xii). These previously unpublished black and white photographs run chronologically from 1903 to 1940, with the majority dating to the first […]
[…] Book of Moses, Bushman does not even mention the prominent role assigned certain biblical counterfigures identified with black people—namely Cain, Ham, and Canaan. Instead, Bushman vaguely alludes to “visions of light and truth alternate […]
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Nothing thrilled me more as a little girl than hearing my parents’ courtship story: my mother, diminutive and dimpled, was eighteen, Australian, and a recent convert to the Church, living with her parents and six…
[…] on the one hand, the reformative revelations related to the cessation of polygamy and to ordaining worthy black men to the Mormon priesthood, and, on the other, the official declaration related to family values. […]
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[…] of Ritual and Other Ecclesiastical Terms (London: James Hogg & Son, 1871), Pt. 1, 46. Joseph Faa Di Bruno, Catholic Belief: or A Short and Simple Exposition of Catholic Doctrine (London: Burns and Oates, […]