Road to Damascus
April 25, 2018At evening Paul contemplated two trees on a distant ridge. They were both firs, one tall, straight, conical; the other curiously warped midtrunk into a great bent bush of a tree. The crippled tree troubled…
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A Special Relationship: J. Bracken Lee and the Mormon Church
April 25, 2018J. Bracken Lee, a non-Mormon in an overwhelmingly Mormon state, became its most colorful and controversial politician with probably a greater impact on his state and the nation than any Utah figure since Brigham Young.…
Fate and the Persecutors of Joseph Smith: Transmutations of an American Myth
April 25, 2018Dialogue 11.4 (1977): 63-70
In the 1950s there was a book published call Fate of the Persecutors of Joseph Smith, which contains stories that have been part of folklore that have been passed down discussing what happened to the people who helped kill Joseph Smith.
“I Sustain Him as a Prophet, I Love Him as an Affectionate Father”: An Interview with Edward L. Kimball
April 25, 2018In October 1978, Dialogue interviewed Edward L. Kimball, youngest son of President Spencer W. Kimball and co-author of the popular biography Spencer W. Kimball. Dr. Kimball is a law professor at Brigham Young University. Dialogue:…
Bibliography of Leonard James Arrington
April 25, 2018Abbreviations AH Agricultural History AHR American Historical Review AW Arizona and the West BYU Studies Brigham Young University Studies BHR Business History Review Dialogue Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought EHR Economic History Review Ensign…
Leonard James Arrington: His Life and Work
April 25, 2018The appearance of Leonard J. Arrington’s Great Basin Kingdom in October 1958 was an important event in Mormon historiography. Reviewers hailed it as “one of the most important books ever produced about the Mormons and…
Church Historians I Have Known
April 25, 2018This talk is necessarily going to be “oral history.” As such it is suspect, as most oral history must be. Time plays tricks on our memories. It beclouds our judgment, confuses people, bends our interpretations,…
Reflections on T. Edgar Lyon
April 25, 2018T. Edgar Lyon, a healthy and rugged man who had hardly known a sick day, died at age seventy-five after a short, losing battle with cancer. In his death, his wife, six sons, and thirty-two grandchildren lost a gentle, loving husband and father, and the Church a great historian and teacher.
In Memoriam: T. Edgar Lyon (1903-1978)
April 25, 2018T. Edgar Lyon, well known to a generation of students at the University of Utah Institute of Religion, died on September 20, 1978, at the age of 75. Born and reared in Salt Lake City,…
Editor’s Note
April 25, 2018Earlier this year David Whittaker informed Dialogue that his long-awaited bibliography of Leonard Arrington’s works was ready—and that it would coincide with the 20th anniversary of Arrington’s trailblazing Great Basin Kingdom. We agreed that the winter…