[…] around me.” When he showed an interest in painting upon completing high school, his mother—a baker—traded bread for private art lessons from a local portrait painter, Martha Lower, to whom he acknowledges a great […]
[…] loved Florence. She realized this the day Florence took the soeurs to the coast so they could buy a bucketful of mussels, which they soaked in white wine without telling Soeur Paxton, who would […]
[…] Smith, Smith’s deceased brothers (Hyrum, Don Carlos, and Samuel), and current Mormon leaders. He also composed pseudonyms for the twelve apostles, the group which assumed the leadership of the Mormon Church following Joseph Smith’s […]
[…] stirring deep emotion and taking on a mysterious and subliminal symbolism. Many of Kershisnik’s paintings address themselves to no particular culture or country. Yet Latter-day Saints often find a reflection of their faith in […]
[…] has won many awards, and she lectures, gives keynote addresses, acts as a juror, and leads workshops for guilds, art centers, colleges, and state, regional, and national conferences. Her writing and work have appeared […]
[…] Newell of Salt Lake City were about to finish their five-year tenure as editors, and anyone taking over the job could foresee an efficient and successful operation ahead by just continuing what their predecessors […]
[…] discussion? In my 1986 Dialogue essay “Historiography and the New Mormon History: A Historian’s Perspective” (19, no. 3 [Fall 1986]: 25–49) to which Duffy alludes and which he apparently does not understand, I argued […]
[…] the pressure to conform, meaning that they are unwilling to act differently from their peers; and ( 3) They dehumanize potential (and actual) victims. Interrogating the evidence with this model in mind allows the […]
[…] held at the Salt Lake Public Library on September 5, 2008, sponsored by the Charles Redd Center for Western History at Brigham Young University, the Mormon History Association, the Tanner Humanities Center at the […]
[…] the U.S. Army and most historians surely do not. It seems to me that this shorthand label for the war trivializes, personalizes, and localizes it, much as the term “Seward’s Folly” was used to […]