Robert Nisbet defines the idea of progress as the notion that mankind has advanced in the past from barbarism and ignorance, is now advancing, and will continue to advance through the foreseeable future. It […]
[…] country (Afghanistan) that had already been devastated by recent wars (and which had suffered a million casualties in the decade of the nineties), to wage a preemptive war against another nation (Iraq) on the […]
[…] Dwight D. Eisenhower, Fidel Castro, and Ho Chi Minh. The twentieth century, the bloodiest and most war-crazed in the history of the world, has alone been responsible for combat in which “not less than […]
[…] Royalton Vermont Town records, 1788–1880, digital image, FamilySearch.org, citing FamilySearch microfilm 982526, items 3–5, 318; “Vermont State News,” The Vermont Watchman and State Journal (Montpelier), May 14, 1884, , https://www.newspapers.com/image/71218953/. Joseph Smith is a […]
[…] valuable advances of postcolonial studies, the practical effort of locating identity and agency in long-overlooked peoples continues today. This is especially difficult in populations who left few records and did not always take a […]
[…] Elder Victor L. Brown of the Presiding Bishopric in General Conference, April 6, 1967 (reported in Deseret News, April 7, 1967). “The Relation of Habitual Thought and Behavior to Language,” Language, Thought and Reality, […]
<i>Dialogue 14.3 (Fall 1981): 11–45</i><br>Mauss situates the 1978 revelation on the priesthood in modern American historical context. Everything changed for the Church during the Civil Rights Movement when people both inside and outside the […]
[…] began to ask, “Why no exploitation of Iron County’s iron potential?” The 12 January 1881 Deseret Evening News attempted to answer that question. The report covered problems which had hampered development since the 1850s: […]
<i>Dialogue 48.2 (Summer 2015): 1–57</i><br>Although race and gender are connected in 2 Nephi 26:33, the historical origins of the gender ban have not yet been addressed with the same degree of attention in Church discourse.
[…] 50.2 (Summer 2017):55–88</i><br>Maintaining a conviction of the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon is no easy task in the era of DNA studies, archaeological excavations, and aggressive attacks by evangelical Protestants. Latter-day Saints cultivate […]