Fifteen years ago, David Conley Nelson wrote about LDS Church collaboration in Nazi Germany, winning the Juanita Brooks Award for the best graduate student pape from the Mormon History Association. His research became his doctoral dissertation, and, this year, a monograph published by the University of Oklahoma Press. This panel, including members of the Journal …
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THE MOSTE DESERT LUKKING PLASE THAT I EVER SAW, AMEN!
In the late winter of 1873, Brigham Young dispatched the first group of colonists sent south of the Colorado river in Arizona. After a few months, the group returned home, beaten and discouraged. The mission was tagged in Church history and literature as a “failure” with all the attention going to the later missions to …
WHERE HAVE ALL THE MORMON FEMINISTS GONE?
In October 2003, religion writer Peggy Fletcher Stackassessed the current state of Mormon feminism in anarticle, entitled, “Where Have all the Mormon Feminists Gone?” Her article noted the passing of feminist activism into history and the arrival of a more moderate feminism in the institutional or Church setting, particularly at BYU. When the article appeared …