Mormons and Mormonism in U.S. Government Documents
Author : Susan L. Fales
Publisher :
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 15,68 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Reference
ISBN :
Author : Susan L. Fales
Publisher :
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 15,68 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Reference
ISBN :
Author : Susan L. Fales
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 47,83 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Government publications
ISBN :
Author : Benjamin E. Park
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 18,8 MB
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1631494872
Best Book Award • Mormon History Association A brilliant young historian excavates the brief life of a lost Mormon city, uncovering a “grand, underappreciated saga in American history” (Wall Street Journal). In Kingdom of Nauvoo, Benjamin E. Park draws on newly available sources to re-create the founding and destruction of the Mormon city of Nauvoo. On the banks of the Mississippi in Illinois, the early Mormons built a religious utopia, establishing their own army and writing their own constitution. For those offenses and others—including the introduction of polygamy, which was bitterly opposed by Emma Smith, the iron-willed first wife of Joseph Smith—the surrounding population violently ejected the Mormons, sending them on their flight to Utah. Throughout his absorbing chronicle, Park shows how the Mormons of Nauvoo were representative of their era, and in doing so elevates Mormon history into the American mainstream.
Author : Leonard J. Arrington
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 10,10 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Religion
ISBN :
The best history of the Latter-Day Saints addressed to a general audience now includes a new preface, an epilogue, and a bibliographical afterword. "This is without a doubt the definitive Mormon history".--Library Journal.
Author : Sylvester A. Johnson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 49,59 MB
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520962427
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has had a long and tortuous relationship with religion over almost the entirety of its existence. As early as 1917, the Bureau began to target religious communities and groups it believed were hotbeds of anti-American politics. Whether these religious communities were pacifist groups that opposed American wars, or religious groups that advocated for white supremacy or direct conflict with the FBI, the Bureau has infiltrated and surveilled religious communities that run the gamut of American religious life. The FBI and Religion recounts this fraught and fascinating history, focusing on key moments in the Bureau’s history. Starting from the beginnings of the FBI before World War I, moving through the Civil Rights Movement and the Cold War, up to 9/11 and today, this book tackles questions essential to understanding not only the history of law enforcement and religion, but also the future of religious liberty in America.
Author : Spencer W. McBride
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 50,62 MB
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1501716751
Contingent Citizens features fourteen essays that track changes in the ways Americans have perceived the Latter-day Saints since the 1830s. From presidential politics, to political violence, to the definition of marriage, to the meaning of sexual equality—the editors and contributors place Mormons in larger American histories of territorial expansion, religious mission, Constitutional interpretation, and state formation. These essays also show that the political support of the Latter-day Saints has proven, at critical junctures, valuable to other political groups. The willingness of Americans to accept Latter-day Saints as full participants in the United States political system has ranged over time and been impelled by political expediency, granting Mormons in the United States an ambiguous status, contingent on changing political needs and perceptions. Contributors: Matthew C. Godfrey, Church History Library; Amy S. Greenberg, Penn State University; J. B. Haws, Brigham Young University; Adam Jortner, Auburn University; Matthew Mason, Brigham Young University; Patrick Q. Mason, Claremont Graduate University; Benjamin E. Park, Sam Houston State University; Thomas Richards, Jr., Springside Chestnut Hill Academy; Natalie Rose, Michigan State University; Stephen Eliot Smith, University of Otago; Rachel St. John, University of California Davis
Author : Brandon G. Kinney
Publisher : Westholme Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,63 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781594161308
In this work, Kinney examines how the violent expulsion of the Mormons from Missouri changed the history of America and the West. Illustrations. Maps.
Author : Brent M. Rogers
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 20,96 MB
Release : 2017-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 080327677X
6. The U.S. Army and the Symbolic Conquering of Mormon Sovereignty -- 7. To 1862: The Codification of Federal Authority and the End of Popular Sovereignty in the Western Territories -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Author : Matthew Godfrey
Publisher : Life Writings Frontier Women
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 23,29 MB
Release : 2007-03-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Mary Lois Walker Morris was a Mormon woman who challenged both American ideas about marriage and the U.S. legal system. Before the Manifesto provides a glimpse into her world as the polygamous wife of a prominent Salt Lake City businessman, during a time of great transition in Utah. This account of her life as a convert, milliner, active community member, mother, and wife begins in England, where her family joined the Mormon church, details her journey across the plains, and describes life in Utah in the 1880s. Her experiences were unusual as, following her first husband's deathbed request, she married his brother as a plural wife in the Old Testament tradition of levirate marriage. Mary Morris's memoir frames her 1879 to 1887 diary with both reflections on earlier years and passages that parallel entries in the day book, giving readers a better understanding of how she retrospectively saw her life. The thoroughly annotated diary offers the daily experience of a woman who kept a largely self-sufficient household, had a wide social network, ran her own business, wrote poetry, and was intellectually curious. The years of "the Raid" (federal prosecution of polygamists) led Mary and Elias Morris to hide their marriage on "the underground," and her to perjury during Elias's trial for unlawful cohabitation. The book ends with Mary Lois's arrival at the Salt Lake Depot after three years in exile in Mexico with a polygamist colony.
Author : Anson D. Shupe
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 15,96 MB
Release : 1990-12-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Examines incidents of scandal, corruption, abuse of power, and murder within the Mormon Church, in a case study of virtue gone astray.