[…] 5, 1852, he declared in a prepared speech to the territorial legislature, later published in the Deseret News: “No property can or should be recognized as existing in slaves.” Just two weeks later, though, […]
[…] of the General Authorities; and sermons typically addressed issues of doctrine and accommodation. Articles from the Deseret News, however, indicate a marked decline of popular support for female employment during this time. For example, […]
[…] vote to end polygamy. This tactic was suggested by the New York Times in 1867 (reprint, Deseret News, 15 Jan. 1867; Beeton 1986, x) and was subsequently introduced as a bill in the United […]
[…] the church was poor, proselyting was chiefly among the poor. Local missionary enterprises were almost never adequately financed, and in many urban situations the best housing that could be secured was a home, an […]
[…] from Sunstone and the Mormon History Association expressing shock and sadness. Lavina Fielding Anderson wrote: “It’s heart- breaking for us personally. Paul and I were trying to think last night of a time when […]
[…] man-child, a true outlier, so much on the borderline of an independent, unpredictable ruffian despite his maudlin English upbringing that, once a Mormon and having got to Salt Lake Valley in the mid-1850s, he […]
[…] Shannon, right?” “Carolyn,” Norman corrected, “and funny you ask. We’re getting married.” “That poor girl,” Erica said, breaking her bored silence. She thumbed through a Cosmopolitan and yawned. “She’s always so sarcastic in the […]
[…] tide, to where rolls of ocean water lifted a line of orange buoys on their crests before breaking against the rock wall that les rochelais had built four hundred years earlier. Charlotte had told […]
[…] American Cyclopedia, which informed its readership that “as early as 1813 this work was announced in the newspapers as forthcoming, and as containing a translation of the ‘Book of Mormon.’” Another example of the […]
[…] Mormons will remember exactly where they were and what they were doing when they first heard the news. I was in a school meeting some ten miles away from my home when a secretary […]