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May 11, 2008

Alexander Schreiner: Mormon Tabernacle Organist
Daniel Frederick Berghout

Alexander Schreiner (1901–87) performed on the Mormon Tabernacle organ on Temple Square in Salt Lake City for more than fifty years. One of the most celebrated and influential American organists of the twentieth century, Schreiner became a popular ra...

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A Call to Arms: The 1838 Mormon Defense of Northern Missouri
Alexander L. Baugh

This 1996 dissertation demonstrates that the expulsion of the Latter-day Saints from Missouri in 1838–1839 was "entirely unwarranted and illegal." Analyzing the history of the seven military episodes of this conflict, especially in terms of the tradi...

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Celebrating Zion: Pioneers in Mormon Popular Historical Expression
Eric A. Eliason

More than a century after Latter-day Saints trekked across the Mormon Trail, Church members continue to celebrate this pioneer experience as an identity-defining touchstone of their American-born religion. Latter-day Saints commemorate their pio...

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Early Mormon Pamphleteering
David J. Whittaker

Some have argued that Mormonism began with a book, the Book of Mormon. This printed beginning quickly spawned a prolific amount of published material both expounding and defending early doctrines of the Latter-day Saints.

Between 1836 and ...

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The Emergence of Brigham Young and the Twelve to Mormon Leadership, 1830-1841
Ronald K. Esplin

This study investigates Brigham Young and his fellow apostles in the 1830s as they gradually became an effective quorum and moved toward eventual ascendancy. It ex...

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A History of the Latter-day Saints in Northern Missouri from 1836 to 1839
Leland H. Gentry

This massive dissertation, originally over 500 pages in length, is filled with impressive details about the settlement, troubles, and expulsion of the Latter-day Saints from northern Missouri, 1836–1839. Since its approval at BYU in 1965, this doctor...

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The Japanese Missionary Journals of Elder Alma O. Taylor, 1901–10
Reid L. Neilson

Alma O. Taylor was called to the Japan Mission at age eighteen, and his parents would have been shocked had they known his mission would last nearly nine years. Alma, the eighteen-year-old lad, would return a twenty-seven-year-old man, having served ...

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The Mormon Ideology of Place: Cosmic Symbolism of the City of Zion, 1830–1846
Steven L. Olsen

Steve L. Olsen, Director of Operations at the Museum of Church History and Art, asserts that early Latter-day Saints believed that people of God from the time of Enoch and Melchizedek have awaited the return to earth of Zion, the heavenly city tha...

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The Mormon Reformation
Paul H. Peterson

Famine and hard times in Utah in the mid-1850s convinced Church leaders that God was not pleased with the state of the Kingdom. Consequently, they initiated a program of rebaptism, rededication, and retrenchment among the Saints between 1856 and 1857...

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Sister-Wives and Suffragists: Polygamy and the Politics of Woman Suffrage 1870–1896
Lola Van Wagenen

Beginning in 1870, Utah women from both polygamist and monogamist marriages attempted to establish their primacy as the standard-bearer of woman's rights in the territory. Some sought support from leaders within the territory while others looked to t...

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A Study of the Origins of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the States of New York and Pennsylania
Larry C. Porter

Addressing some of the most consquential yet esoteric subjects and events in Latter-day Saint Church history, this 1971 dissertation makes available items from early Mormon history never previously so thoroughly documented. Specifically, Dr. Larry C....

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To Make True Latter-day Saints
Richard Ian Kimball

Historians have used a variety of touchstones to describe the Mormon experience—polygamy, communal associations, and corporatization among others—but none has provided a long-term, large-scale, interpretation of Mormon leisure and recreation. Focusin...

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