Four US archives contain some 140 letters written by Augusta Adams Cobb to her husband Brigham Young from 1844 to the 1860s. Augusta was Brigham’s second plural wife of some 55 total. A Boston Brahmin, herbalist, and cultural feminist, Augusta abandoned her wealthy first husband and six of her children to marry Brigham young in …
Speaker: CONNELL O'DONOVAN
The Lioness of the Lord: The Letters of Augusta Adams Cobb to Her Husband Brigham Young
An archive in Wisconsin contains some 150 letters that Augusta Adams Cobb wrote to Brigham Young from 1844 to the 1860s. Augusta was Brigham’s second plural wife (of 55 total). A boston Brahmin, herbalist, and cultural feminist, Augusta abandoned her wealthy first husband and six of her children to marry Brigham Young in 1843. Her …
Binding Up the Wounds: Healing Efforts Following California’s Vote on Proposition 8
Many of us are all too familiar with the damage and human cost from Proposition 8. In the years since, what efforts have been made by LDS church members, leaders, and by people of other faiths to help heal from this divisive chapter that pitted politics and religion against each other? What can straight/Mormon/religious allies …
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With national attention on the LDS role in the passage of Proposition 8, it is noteworthy that the LDS Church has set a fascinating precedent with its 130-year theological and legal battle to prevent blacks from marrying whites. This prohibition abruptly ended in 1978 with the termination of the priesthood and temple ban against those …
Paper 1. ‘African American Elders of Boston: Q. Walker Lewis, Enoch L. Lewis, and President Joseph T. Ball’ & Paper 2. ‘William McCarey (Alias Wm. Chubbee); Or The Magic Mulatto in Mormon Country’
Paper 1. ‘African American Elders of Boston: Q. Walker Lewis, Enoch L. Lewis, and President Joseph T. Ball’ & Paper 2. ‘William McCarey (Alias Wm. Chubbee); Or The Magic Mulatto in Mormon Country’ While Mormon historians have focused mostly on Elijah Abel, there is evidence that as many as seven men of African descent held …
PAPER: ELDER WALKER LEWIS OF LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS, AND THE ORIGINS OF THE PRIESTHOOD BAN
RESPONDENT: STIRLING ADAMS CONNELL O’DONOVAN