2012 MHA Award Winners
By June 30, 2012
Highest MHA award
Leonard J. Arrington Award
William G. Hartley?citation attached
By June 30, 2012
Highest MHA award
Leonard J. Arrington Award
William G. Hartley?citation attached
By June 25, 2012
As the Mormon History Association’s annual conference is next week (info here), and since a number of JI contributors are presenting, we thought it time to continue our tradition of providing paper abstracts. Below you will find the names, paper titles, and summaries of all JIers participating next week. (A full program is found here.) And make sure to tweet/follow the proceedings at #mha2012.
By June 24, 2012
Since the Mormon History Association is meeting in Calgary this week, I have chosen to poke around for Canadian connections to the Southwestern States Mission.
By June 22, 2012
The last few years have witnessed a dramatic explosion in the accessibility of Mormon history. Even five years ago, it was necessary to make expensive pilgrimages to Salt Lake City and other American archives to examine Mormonism?s founding documents?assuming that those documents were unrestricted and available for public consumption. During the last few years, the Church has proceeded to make high definition scans of Joseph Smith materials available on the Joseph Smith Papers website, numerous materials, pamphlets, and magazines available at the Internet Archive, and the catalog of most of its archival holdings available on the internet.
By June 21, 2012
In [belated] honor of Father?s Day, I?m including a poem I came across from the 1921 Improvement Era:
Fatherhood
All people render homage
To the mothers of the race.
Each child can feel a mother’s love,
For none can fill her place:
But what about true fatherhood,
So noble, kind, yet strong?
The father who each day toils on,
Just where does he belong?
By June 20, 2012
Just a reminder to our readers that next weekend (June 28-July 1) in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, the Mormon History Association will be holding its annual conference. There’s a number of fantastic panels, papers, and sessions dealing with a whole range of fascinating topics. A number of JIers are on top to present, as are many friends of JI. It should be a great conference and I hope to see many of you there. Be sure and introduce yourself if you’re a reader and we’ve never met.
By June 17, 2012
How were potential missionaries identified, vetted, and called on missions? It appears that the local quorums of Seventy recommended and interviewed potential male missionaries. [1] Other than that, however, I mostly don?t know: the diaries tend to start when the missionary leaves home, with nary a word about the call or preparations.
By June 15, 2012
Our final unit was the one in which we actually read a book by a non-Latter-day Saint. I felt it would be important to have at least one book by a non-member, and for this unit I choose Douglas Davies? The Mormon Culture of Salvation. I appreciate his perspective as an outsider. He talks about things that end up being rituals of a sort, but that I, as an acclimated insider, hadn?t considered rituals, like the sustaining of church callings. (I mean, I guess it?s obvious that it?s a ritual, but I?m so inured to it, and the fact that it?s so short a span of time to perform, that I just didn?t think of it in that way until I read his book. It?s almost embarrassing to admit that, but there you have it. Outside perspectives are important, is the moral here.)
By June 11, 2012
From Jenny Seman, PhD candidate in history at Southern Methodist University, cross posted from Borderlands History.
Brett Hendrickson (a Religious Studies scholar who writes about faith healing) and I are putting together a panel addressing healing, religion and spirituality in the West for the 2013 Western History Association Conference in Tucson, Arizona. Check out the listing here:
By June 10, 2012
The missionaries and the people living within the boundaries of the Southwestern States Mission often found themselves at odds. In this post I will look briefly at how the missionaries wrote about interactions that were negative in some way. [1]
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