Leonard J. Arrington
Where does our journey take us after baptism?
Ten years to the day after Brigham Young's baptism, he led the first group of pioneers to the Salt Lake Valley. Review of these important steps in his life — questions as to our own paths and progress.
Mormon gospel not money gospel: A reply to new essay on Mormonism from Harper's Magazine
In 1910 an influential national periodical, Person's Magazine, published an article accusing The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints of having engaged in nefarious dealings with various politicians, including former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.
Annual Leonard Arrington lecture moved; writing contest announced
LOGAN — The 2011 Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lecture will be at the Logan LDS Institute of Religion, 600 Darwin Ave., adjacent to Utah State University's Taggart Student Center, on Sept. 15 at 7 p.m. The lecture features Richard V. Francaviglia in a presentation titled "'Like the Hajis of Meccah and Jerusalem' — Orientalism and the Mormon Experience 1820-1970."
Symposium to honor Richard Bushman
Mormonism in Cultural Contexts will be a symposium on June 18 in honor of Richard Lyman Bushmans 80th birthday.
Prophets who lived in the Hotel Utah
Several people can recall random and memorable moments when they met the prophets who lived in the Hotel Utah. Here are some of those unique stories.
Hotel Utah, 100 years of history
On June 9, 1911, the Deseret Evening News proclaimed: "Utah Hotel Opens in Blaze of Splendor." Today the creamy-white structure, sheathed in enameled brick and terra cotta, is no longer a hotel, though such it was for 76 memory-stuffed years.
The area of Deseret started huge, got smaller as it became Utah
The dateline that begins this paragraph, as we call the preceding place-setter in the news business, is a hint of what could have been. This story is being written in Salt Lake City, of course.
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