Showing posts with label 19th century Mormonism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 19th century Mormonism. Show all posts
Saturday, April 22, 2023

H. Dean Thompson was a teacher, historian, comedian, marimba player

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  ---- ( Originally published on April 22, 2011 . I am rescuing from archive oblivion this great Cal Grondahl cartoon that went with origina...
Sunday, February 5, 2023

Rarely seen 'Corianton: A Story of Unholy Love, 1931, packs BYU's Varsity Theater

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  Review/observations by Doug Gibson For about a couple decades, I had longed to view the early sound film "based" on a segment of...
Sunday, February 20, 2022

B.H. Roberts biography provides an interesting review of his public life

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  Review by Doug Gibson John Sillito, professor emeritus of libraries at Weber State University in my home city of Ogden, Utah, has done a r...
Monday, October 4, 2021

Interview with authors of Parley P. Pratt: The Apostle Paul of Mormonism

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This interview was conducted in August of 2011, soon after the publication of the biography, Parley P. Pratt: The Apostle Paul of Mormonism ...
Monday, June 28, 2021

Major 19th century legal tussle over Mormon polygamy occurred in England

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  Originally published at StandardBlog s Most of us are aware of the many challenges, legally and legislatively, to the Mormon practice of p...
Sunday, May 10, 2020

Hamblin biography captures the many talents of the 'apostle to the Indians'

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Review by Doug Gibson Add early Mormon explorer/colonizer/missionary Jacob Hamblin to the list of excellent biographies of early Mor...
Thursday, February 27, 2020

Joseph Smith biography does not shy away from historical scrutiny

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This review was originally published in 2005 at StandardNET . Today is the bicentennial of Joseph Smith’s birth. Two hundred years lat...
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Thursday, December 19, 2019

Review: Parley P. Pratt: The Apostle Paul of Mormonism

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Review by Doug Gibson It’s been a long wait for the biography of Parley P. Pratt, the irascible, in-your-face 19 th century Mormon a...
Sunday, December 8, 2019

Lincoln used diplomacy to charm the once-hostile Mormons

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Originally published at StandardBlogs in 2011.  The crude, casual racism of a long-ago era is striking in this Nov. 28, 1860 Deseret Ne...