[…] bills of sale, newspaper advertisements, plantation account ledgers—was gathered and analyzed statistically to answer, either anew or for the first time, vexing questions about our nation’s “peculiar institution.” How well treated were slaves? What […]
[…] (as the accompanying selections illustrate). If Mormon literature is to continue the marked improvement it has experienced over the past two decades, much more of the same will be needed; authors represented here must […]
[…] Joseph Smith, Sr. could not find Dr. Mclntyre, a Dr. Greenwood was brought to care for Alvin. Over his own protests, Alvin was “immediately administered . . . a heavy dose of calomel.” This […]
[…] well as the increasingly influential LDS medical community, argue strongly that early opinions have long since been over taken by the advances of modern science. The “quacks” of Mormondom and those who follow them […]
[…] scenes and trying to dissuade his listeners from the truth. Indeed, the young elder seemed more concerned over what the preachers were doing when he was not present than over the occasional face-to-face confrontations. […]
[…] situated in a typical Wasatch valley. However, his small-scale diagrams and photographs, which favor the town scape over the land scape, fail to convey the visual impact of the scenes he describes nearly as […]
[…] and found it to be a revelation to me, the thing for which I had been searching over twenty-five years. A portion of it was the testimony of Prophet Smith. At the bottom of […]
[…] end. The pine trees brushed against the two-story mountain house. The poet’s study, all windows, looked out over a luxuriant mountain range, yellow and purple with wildflowers. The poet invited me to sit on […]
[…] my grandfather and grand mother, David McKay and Jeanette Evans McKay, built a house which is now over one hundred years old. Last summer we celebrated what would have been his one hundredth birthday, […]
[…] Virtually any cliche that can be drawn from popular fiction can be duplicated repeatedly in Mormon fiction. Over and over again, women in these novels sacrifice their happiness upon the altar of duty; little […]