Showing posts with label Nauvoo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nauvoo. Show all posts
Sunday, June 20, 2021

Nauvoo City Council’s minutes of 1840s provide chaos, contention and lies

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  Originally published, in slightly different form, in January 2012 in StandardBlogs --- The Nauvoo City Council and High Council minutes fr...
Tuesday, June 16, 2020

A Mormon dissident in Nauvoo - The Writings of Oliver H. Olney

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Review by Doug Gibson Until recently, not many interested in Mormon history knew of Oliver H. Olney. Now, at least 170 years after his ...
Sunday, September 8, 2019

Orson Pratt was Mormonism’s first intellectual

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Originally published at StandardNET  in 2011. In the 19th century, for many in the East Coast of the United States, Brigham Young may ...
Sunday, July 15, 2018

Polygamy opponents were swept aside in Nauvoo turmoil after Joseph Smith’s death

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The months in Nauvoo following the murder of the LDS Church founder Joseph Smith were not surprisingly, filled with turmoil and politic...
Sunday, February 25, 2018

John C. Bennett was the Lucifer of early Mormonism

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John Cook Bennett: most Mormons probably know him from LDS Church Almanacs as “assistant president of the LDS Church” for a year or s...
Sunday, December 10, 2017

'American Crucifixion' a recap of murder of Joseph Smith

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Alex Beam, Boston Globe columnist, has penned a new Mormon-themed history, “ American Crucifixion: The Murder of Joseph Smith and the Fa...
Sunday, September 10, 2017

Assassination of Joseph Smith takes narrative approach to history

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“ The Assassination of Joseph Smith: Innocent Blood on the Banner of Liberty ,” (Cedar Fort, 2015) takes a narrative approach to the mur...