Donald R. Moorman’s literate account of the Utah War is set within the larger panorama of events in mid-nineteenth century America and relates the process by which the isolated Mormon community in the Great Basin…
It’s hard being Mormon Mormon mind regards nipples
Of great importance in the study of Mormon interrelationships is how polygyny fits into the larger picture of the modern American family. In his witty, provocative volume on reproductive rights and law in Ameri can…
Although this book has an overly dramatic title, it is a magnificent and sensitive history of the efforts by church members and leaders to respond meaningfully to economic need, not only in LDS communities but…
You, my father,
Too damned independent at seventy-five
To admit you could no longer handle
A simple double-edge Gillette,
“Let’s see what sort of surprises await us in Jennifer’s story,” Jean-Paul said wearily and shuffled the story pages on his desk, as though by doing so he would impose order on narrative chaos. What…
There are significant differences between historical investigation of controversial issues and the polemical use of history. Jeff D. Blake’s essay is a textbook example of polemics impersonating as history. First, he employs the classic “straw…
The summer 1993 issue of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought featured D. Michael Quinn’s near-definitive discussion of Ezra Taft Benson’s political activities during the 1960s and 1970s.[1] Despite Quinn’s thorough documentation, in the section…
She was learning German that year,
a war bride, living in Darmstadt,
trying to say ich in the back of her throat,
the guttural r of Herr and Frau, to introduce
Shortly after Mormon pioneers arrived in Utah in July 1847 Brigham Young planned for an anticipated population explosion by exploring the region and locating sites which could support new settlements and industries. Parley P. Pratt…