By Andrea R-MOctober 21, 2024
On August 9, 1984, three thousand Young Women from 30 Stakes and Districts across eight Midwestern states arrived in Nauvoo, Illinois for a week-long regional encampment. The camp, themed “Rejoice in Womanhood,” centered around the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during its Nauvoo period from 1839 to 1846, with a focus on over a dozen significant women. Unprecedented in its scope, planning, and logistics, the Nauvoo Encampment was a milestone of the Church’s organized regional encampments for youth.
Planning for the Encampment had begun one year prior, during the last months of General Young Women’s President Elaine Cannon’s tenure. By the summer of 1984, under the leadership of newly-called general Young Women’s President Ardeth Kapp and her counselors, Sister Patricia Holland and Sister Maurine Johnson Turley, the Encampment included formal direction by Salt Lake leadership, even while it also enjoyed the planning and volunteerism of regional, stake, and ward Young Women’s presidencies and camp leadership.
I will be presenting this topic at the Church History Symposium, to be held Thursday, October 24 at Brigham Young University, and Fri., October 25 at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City. The conference program can be found at the link as a PDF document.
Although this is a late call, I am looking for any of my fellow Encampment attendees and/or Young Women’s leaders from any of the following stakes or districts (See below.) Please comment if you have memories, photographs, mementoes, or connections to those involved in attending or planning. Or, you may reach out to me directly at RadkeA@byui.edu I would love to hear from you!
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By J StuartOctober 14, 2024
Politics and Religion:
The Impact of Governance and Government on the Restoration Movements from 1830 to the Present
September 18-21, 2025
Independence, Missouri
Our conference in 2025 falls on the centennial anniversary of debates about supreme directional control in the RLDS church and the “Scopes Monkey Trial” on the national level. We will also be meeting at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum in Independence, Missouri, at the heart of a landscape where tensions between politics and religion have had a lasting impact on the community. Papers might include church leaders’ interactions with US presidents, reactions to Supreme Court rulings, social justice issues, attitudes towards scientific developments, the role of religion in education, political demographics of Restoration religions, institutional statements of party advocacy or neutrality, and more. With politics on everyone’s mind these days, there will be plenty to debate!
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By J StuartOctober 8, 2024
APPLY AT MHA’S SITE!
The Mormon History Association invites you to Ogden, Utah for its sixtieth annual conference to be held June 5-8, 2025. Situated on the Ogden and Weber Rivers near where they join the Great Salt Lake, and nicknamed “Junction City” when it became the connecting point between numerous railroad lines, Ogden has long been a site of junctions. Long before Latter-day Saints dreamed of an American Zion in the Great Basin, ancestors of Shoshone and other indigenous peoples criss-crossed the region, establishing trade networks and sharing languages, settlements, and cultures.
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By J StuartOctober 1, 2024
The keynote speaker for the Juanita Brooks Conference on Utah History will be Dr. Matthew J. Grow! Grow is Managing Director of the Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In that capacity, he leads a team of history professionals who collect documents and artifacts, preserve them, and promote understanding of the Church’s past through a publishing program, a research library, a museum, and many historic sites. Grow also serves as a general editor of the Joseph Smith Papers and Saints: The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days. He has published widely on Latter-day Saint history and American religious history. Grow received his PhD in American history from the University of Notre Dame.
You can read more about the Brooks Conference below:
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