BYU Studies - 31:2

Introduction

Guest Editor's Introduction [31:2]

David J. Whittaker

Page 5

Articles

The “Perfect Pattern”: The Book of Mormon as a Model for the Writing of Sacred History

Eric C. Olson

Page 7

Priceless Words and Fallible Memories: Joseph Smith as Seen in the Effort to Preserve His Discourses

Dean C. Jessee

Page 19

Willard Richards as Historian

Howard C. Searle

Page 41

British Travelers View the Saints, 1847–1877

Edwina Jo Snow

Page 63

The Church’s Image in Italy from the 1840s to 1946: A Bibliographic Essay

Michael W. Homer

Page 83

“Provoking the Brethren to Good Works”: Susa Young Gates, the Relief Society, and Genealogy

James B. Allen and Jessie L. Embry

Page 115

Advocacy and Inquiry in the Writing of Latter-day Saint History

Daniel C. Peterson and David B. Honey

Page 139

Nancy Wiest Nay: Calligrapher

Doris R. Dant

Page 192

Poetry

Conventional Musings

Harold K. Moon

Page 82

Nauvoo

Clinton F. Larson

Page 180

Reviews

The Journals of Addison Pratt

Bruce A. Van Orden

Page 181

Early Egyptian Christianity: From Its Origins to 451 C.E.

Keith E. Norman

Page 184

Strangers in Paradox: Explorations in Mormon Theology

Richard D. Poll

Page 188

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