Illustrated Periodical Images of Mormons, 1850-1860
April 26, 2018Image history—how the Mormons were viewed by others—has been a fruitful approach used by several historians during the past decade.
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My Fifty Years in Journalism
April 26, 2018Can a Mormon boy from the cow country of the West reasonably aspire to a writing career in the mainstream of our national life? What roads are open to him? Must he sacrifice his faith…
From Antagonism to Acceptance: Mormons and the Silver Screen
April 26, 2018Mormons have been involved in films ever since Hollywood became a magic word. Church members first tried to influence the Hollywood establishment, then went on to create their own film industries; finally, today a corps…
Nostrums in the Newsroom
April 26, 2018Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-Six was not a dull year for the 127-year-old Deseret News. Melvin Dummar, a Box Elder County service station operator, was named, along with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,…
The Church as Broadcaster
April 25, 2018The Mormon Church is a formidable broadcast institution. Through subsidiary corporations and institutions it owns sixteen radio and television stations, a sophisticated international broadcast distribution system, a Washington news bureau, a cable TV system and production and consulting divisions.
The Church as Media Proprietor
April 25, 2018Small wonder that churches use the mass media as a broad-based platform for information and persuasion. The communications marvels of our century make it possible for the LDS Church to reach a wide audience indeed,…
Canyon Eden | Emma Lou Thayne, Never Past the Gate
April 25, 2018A serious novel about children usually is fascinating to adults. Emma Lou Thayne’s first novel, Never Past the Gate, is a zestful story with a mature theme. Ostensibly a lighthearted, nostalgic narrative of a family’s…
Anthology That Sings | Neal E. Lambert and Richard H. Cracroft, eds., 22 Young Mormon Writers
April 25, 2018These five short stories and twenty-four poems are marked by talent, self-consciousness and unevenness. The stories are more consistently accomplished than the poetry, with one exception I will discuss later. I began at the beginning…
“And It Came To Pass” “: The Book of Mormon RLDS 1966 edition”
April 25, 2018Dialogue 10.4 (Winter 1977): 139–143
Most Latter-day Saints probably would be surprised to learn the Book of Mormon is available in modern English and has been for over a decade. More recently the 1966 RLDS “reader’s edition” has been republished in paperback by Pyramid Publications and is now turning up at local bookstores.
Taking Them Seriously | Claudia L. Bushman, ed., Mormon Sisters: Women in Early Utah
April 25, 2018Edited by Claudia Lauper Bushman, founder of Exponent II, Mormon Sisters covers sizeable ground: articles about women as mystics and healers, midwives, schoolteachers, politicians, feminists; selections dealing with individual women (like Eliza Snow and Susa…