[…] winter they had to borrow our hoard: seven dollars from me and five from my sister. Our days were the usual homemade loaves, peaches we’d bottled, our own half-beef in the locker,
[…] Mormon Studies Patrick Mason discuss and dissect anti-mormonism, polygamy, current politics, Native American, African-Americans, religious pluralism, slavery, the Mountain Meadows Massacre, the Cane Creek Massacre and much more in this new podcast from Research […]
[…] William Clayton struggled as a disciple because he was a strict believer in perfection in an imperfect world. Possibly an alcoholic, Clayton seems to have continually punished himself for his failures. Called to be […]
That such a volume as this could be written at all is happy testimony to the development of a Mormon historiographical tradition. Its appearance at this late date, however—over a century and a half […]
[…] the re cent brief survey of Mormon historiography by Davis Bitton and Leonard Arrington, and the happy news that Newell Bring hurst is preparing a biography of Fawn Brodie. It is now abundantly apparent […]
Each year first-class presses add to the growing number of excellent Mormon monographs. Twenty-nine major studies appeared in 1988 alone. These two volumes from the University of Missouri Press and the University of Oklahoma […]
[…] to our mountain-valley home, I mimicked their sighs of relief, grateful to be back in a green world. These sighs were echoes of those uttered by pioneer Saints, who looked upon desert as Old […]
[…] and he also loves to write poetry. I don’t think this can be said of everybody in the poetry business. These three chapbooks are evidence of Dennis’s development as an artist, his concern for […]
[…] and appeal. One feels a generosity of spirit emanating from this aggregate, a poetic vision that embraces the mother culture without militancy and looks outward as often as inward. Most of the poems were […]
She leaves the women in her husband’s house and makes a slow way home to her own mother, to friends singing as they bring sweet butter for the first month, molasses