[…] (1979): 61–83. Mrs. Benjamin G. Ferris , The Mormons at Home: With Some Incidents of Travel from Missouri to California, 1852–3. In a Series of Letters (Dix & Edwards, 1856). Paula Kelly Harline, The […]
[…] PDFs provided online and on JSTOR. Church Educational System, Doctrines of the Gospel: Student Manual (Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1986). “Atonement of Jesus Christ,” accessed Apr. 19, […]
[…] many of her suggestions. Edward Kimball, Lengthen Your Stride: The Presidency of Spencer W. Kimball (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2005), 167. Even potentially ghostwritten conference talks, however, should be seen as written from […]
[…] the way he courts a Mormon girl, joins the Church, and settles on a ranch near Park City, Utah. The story is quietly stunning; it unfurls slowly, deliberately, washing over the reader like an […]
[…] of her poems: “San Diego Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints,” “Nazarín,” and “Good Government in the City” (the latter of which’s title, for all its vague neo-Imagism, can’t help but feel like a […]
[…] the Mormon religion.” History is an essential part of the construction of Mormon identity; events like the Missouri persecutions, the progress of settlers to Utah, and other historical moments are often drawn upon as […]
[…] p. 26, n. 22: This was actually the second visit of Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon to Missouri. They and several others left Kirtland for Missouri June 19, 1831, returning Aug. 27. It was […]
[…] became a doctoral student and worked with the Boston feminists. In Delaware, she founded the Newark ( DE) historical society and became the executive director of the Delaware Heritage Commission, celebrating Delaware’s role as […]
As a kid growing up near the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, I spent most of my time plotting my escape—from childhood itself, but more specifically from a Mormon childhood in Utah. […]
[…] the particulars of its methodology, the initial approach of close reading is something similar to what Paul de Man describes at Harvard in the 1950s: Students, as they began to write on the writings […]