I was born and raised in Bremen, a city in northwest Germany, in a I middle-class family. At age fifteen, I became interested in politics, joined a neo-orthodox communistic “cell group” at high school, […]
[…] giving a general overview of the growth of the church in America: “Becoming a Mormon,” “Kirtland,” “ Missouri,” “Nauvoo,” “The Trek Westward,’ “Immigration,” “Colonization of the Great Basin,” “The 1870s: A Decade of Collective […]
[…] Camp Floyd, the Civil War, and their involvement in the mining boom including developments in Utah’s Park City, Alta, and Ophir, Nevada’s Virginia City, and Butte. Bliss is able to make even such things […]
[…] softened some after we had labored with him till after midnight. The apostles left for Salt Lake City the next day, hoping Thatcher would yet make the confession deemed necessary. In his report to […]
[…] slate” (p. 6), as she had called it, is so satisfying that he later returns to Cedar City, Utah, to wipe clean his teenage mistakes. So far we have the makings of what has […]
Latter-day Saints demonstrate a perennial interest in health issues of all kinds, from the dietary role of meats to the therapeutic use of herb teas. At least some of this interest can be attributed […]
[…] and once more crowned him with the dignity belonging to his Divine and eternal nature (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1908, p. 24). I felt myself crowned with dignity by such teachings and avidly […]
[…] questionnaire to all of its then-2,300 subscribers plus 600 who had let their subscriptions lapse in the previous year. At that point, the journal had been edited in Salt Lake City for exactly two years.
[…] Library, 1955) and On the Mormon Frontier: The Diary of Hosea Stout, 1844-1861, 2 vols. (Salt Lake City: Utah Historical Society-University of Utah Press, 1964). Consequently, when the autobiography of this woman who had […]
In July 1984, I attended testimony meeting in my home ward in Salt Lake City. As the previous month’s crop of infants were blessed, I thought that after the sacrament I would go home. […]