[…] past, in the words of the eminent “scientific” historian Leopold von Ranke, “as it actually happened.” In order to achieve this high goal they have demanded, with increasing success, the opening of archives of […]
[…] find it help ful to make a mid-day telephone call, at which time a few carefully chosen orders may be issued to keep the tone of dominance ringing throughout the family and home. Rule […]
[…] associations of migrants from the same rural localities; barriada, or poor neighborhood associations which have organized in order to protect the small urban plot which they have occupied illegally as squatters; labor unions; credit […]
Though the Bible may have generated its share of scholarly disagreement, the New Testament’s message about the need for human understanding remains clear and unambiguous. Christians may be divided on various points of doctrine, […]
[…] such matter is seldom, if ever, accompanied by overtly anti-social conduct which disturbs public tranquillity or good order. Censorship laws aimed at smut typically seek to impose broad controls or prohibitions keyed to the […]
Notes and comments are not merely short articles or long letters; they are varied, informal glimpses of Mormon thought and life. The Editors welcome news, profiles, opinions, accounts, speeches and other items that seem appropriate.
[…] was totally inappropriate. It should not have been sent.” Another commented that “the letter was out of order.” Another said that he “felt agitated and offended when I received the letter. I felt it […]
In a 1969 review-essay entitled ” The New Mormon History,” Moses Rischin spoke of the sophistication with which scholars both within and without the Mormon culture were beginning to examine the Mormon past. He […]
[…] indicative than they would be now of a generally conservative outlook in domestic and foreign affairs. In order to get a comprehensive and composite measure of political conservatism, two indices were developed, one for […]
[…] February 8,1857. I could refer you to plenty of instances where men have been righteously slain, in order to atone for their sins. I have seen scores and hundreds of people for whom there […]