Some may be surprised to learn that the stereotypical image of the hyper-virile nineteenth century Mormon male had a special appeal to the “lost manhood” sector of a thriving American patent medicine industry. There […]
[…] man who attracts and marries only culturally sensitive and beautiful women, Taylor is typecast as a debonair, English gentleman set against the stereotyped frontier of Brigham Young’s Utah. The author would have us believe […]
J. Kenneth Davies, a long-time student of Utah labor history, has been interested in the relationship between the labor movement in Utah and the Mormon Church. Deseret’s Sons of Toil is intended to be […]
We are the sisters of the sea. Something there is in you and me That calls us to our very coasts, bids us stand Where green-veined breakers moan upon the sand, Seeking something the […]
The States and the Nation Series is a set of histories of each state and the District of Columbia “designed to assist the American people in a serious look at the ideals they […]
[…] he and Mother shared, wraps in rough blankets, gets cold easily, remembers nothing of now, knows the world as it was then, intimately, as he knew her. Sleeps soundly. I sit in front of […]
Who made the world, my child? Father made the rain silver and forever. Mother’s hand drew riverbeds and hollowed seas, drew riverbeds and hollowed seas to bring the rain home.
[…] I have been accused of forging this letter and of taking unfair advantage of President Smith. Let the readers judge. I am personally grateful that the Church has not been caught in the position […]
Following the phenomenal success of his book-turned-TV mini-series, Alex Haley described his work Roots as “faction,” a careful combination of history and fiction. Using what names, dates and places he could find in the records as a skeleton, […]
[…] And they might be right, for there are far too many cultural and historical parallels in Old World writings and the Book of Mormon which hadn’t found the light of day when Joseph Smith […]