This presentation will give an overview of temple development—from Kirtland to Nauvoo to Zodiac and to the Endowment House. The center of the presentation will be a contextualization of Hawley’s insight into the changing of the Endowment and other ordinances through those years. Melvin C. Johnson, Andrew Hamilton
Speaker: Melvin C. Johnson
Murder, Mayhem, Mormons, and Miners: Tales of Death and Violence from Utah’s Pioneer Dixie
Too often we portray 19th-century Mormon pioneers as two-dimensional stick figures against the back drop of the Mormon Restoration. The presentation, however, covers several accounts of deadly incidents and treachery that occurred among the Mormons the Santa Clara and Virgin Rivers area, giving us a new look into pioneer days in Dixie. Melvin C. Johnson
John Burton Slave Of Parowan Utah 1797 1865
John Burton (1797–1865) was born to slave parents, and eventually joined the Mormon Church. Burton’s Mormonism transcended race, bondage, culture, and geography as he journeyed west with several owners from Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, Illinois, and frontier Utah. He was one of the three African Americans in Brigham Young’s 1847 company to Utah and remained in …
THE TEXAS REPUBLIC AND THE MORMON KINGDOM OF GOD: The Attempt to Establish A Theocratic Nation in the Texas-Mexico Borderlands in 1844
THE TEXAS REPUBLIC AND THE MORMON KINGDOM OF GOD: The Attempt to Establish A Theocratic Nation in the Texas-Mexico Borderlands in 1844 Michael Van Wagenen, Melvin C. Johnson
Kingdom In The West: An editors’ Roundtable
Kingdom In The West: An editors’ Roundtable Lyndia Carter, Will Bagley, Michael Homer, Violet Kimball, William MacKinnon, B. Carmon Hardy, Melvin C. Johnson