[…] emerged in late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century editions. In Palmyra, as was typical throughout America, notices appeared in news papers for every year from 1818 through 1830 advertising almanacs. Almanacs were also on sale in […]
[…] subject from the Mormon point of view.” Surprised, I repeated that this book was for a general market, that I would be happy to prepare a supplement to make the book more useful on […]
[…] proclivities of the perpetrators. Though no mention was made of old letters and early Mormon money, that market too involved speculative investments and high finance, as well as that most valuable currency—trust. For sale […]
[…] “She was always interesting.” Energetic and charismatic, Minerva was “passionate” on her three favorite topics: “the Gospel, politics, and art” (R. Teichert, 20 Nov. 1985). Not surprisingly, in choosing subjects to paint she opted […]
Listen to Claremont Chair of Mormon Studies Patrick Mason discuss and dissect anti-mormonism, polygamy, current politics, Native American, African-Americans, religious pluralism, slavery, the Mountain Meadows Massacre, the Cane Creek Massacre and much more in […]
[…] be held by forces now hostile to Americans. Commodore Stockton not only informed them of the threatening news, he encouraged them to go and hold Yerba Buena, an Anglo-American colony on the San Francisco […]
[…] Out of this cauldron of struggle and conflict were forged many of the stories we still tell today, stories that inculcate in both tellers and listeners a great sense of appreciation for the sacrifices […]
[…] reading public’s worship of his Sherlock Holmes stories (which he described in the 11 May 1923 Deseret News as “rather childish things”) and was sometimes bitter at the lack of appreciation for his more “serious” […]
[…] of the action that finally stopped the Salem witch trials. Those trials, perhaps the greatest blot on American religious devotion, had resulted in the deaths of twenty people, all of whom vigorously proclaimed their […]
[…] A generation later these ambitious projections seem surprisingly accurate, though slightly short of the actualities. Carlson has American church membership reaching 6 million by the year 2000 (it is already at 5 million), most […]