Signature Books has sent out the Advanced Reading copies of “Confessions of a Mormon Historian: The Diaries of Leonard Arrington 1971-1997”. This means that in less than a month you will be able to buy copies!!! So here is my Quickie Review (a more detailed one to come later): IF you are even the LEAST …
Tag: Mormon History
Sunstone 2013, 174: MYSTICISM, REVELATION AND LEADERSHIP IN MORMON HISTORY: TWO CASE STUDIES
From the 2013 Summer Symposium in Salt Lake City Panel MYSTICISM, REVELATION AND LEADERSHIP IN MORMON HISTORY: TWO CASE STUDIES Paper 1 J. DUNHAM LAMANITE: EARLY MORMON LEADER, MYSTIC, AND INDIAN AMBASSADOR Presenter: CHRISTOPHER C. SMITH is a PhD student in religions in North america at Claremont Graduate University. He’s writing a dissertation on Mormons and …
The New Western History and Mormon History
The leading historians of the “New Western History”—Patricia Limerick, Richard White, Don Worster and William Cronon—have dismantled Frederick Jackson Turner’s thesis that the American character was shaped by pioneers coming to virgin land. According to Limerick et al., pioneers came west to a land already occupied, by Indians, conquered them, then marginalized them. In this …
What’s so Funny about Mormon History?: Mirth and Myth
What’s so Funny about Mormon History?: Mirth and Myth Will Bagley looks at the lighter side of Mormon history and recounts some humorous incidents and anecdotes he’s encountered in doing Mormon history. He discusses how the official chronicles of Mormondom overlook Mormon humanity. William Grant Bagley
MORMON HISTORY AND THE CONUNDRUM OF CULTURE: America and Beyond
MORMON HISTORY AND THE CONUNDRUM OF CULTURE: America and Beyond Jan Shipps, Klaus Hansen
Nauvoo in Mormon History: At the Crossroads of Faith and History
Nauvoo in Mormon History: At the Crossroads of Faith and History
Neither/Nor: Philosophical Issues and Confusions in the Debate on Mormon History
Neither/Nor: Philosophical Issues and Confusions in the Debate on Mormon History
Embracing the Human As Well As the Divine in Mormon History
Embracing the Human As Well As the Divine in Mormon History
Fiddling While It Burns: The Irrelevance of the New Mormon History
Fiddling While It Burns: The Irrelevance of the New Mormon History
Mormon History/Nirnib Faith: A Personal Statement
Mormon History/Nirnib Faith: A Personal Statement