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Year in Review … 1975, That Is
It’s the time for year-in-review articles and retrospectives, as we get ready to kick 2016 out the door. I’m not sure how to put my thoughts about this year into coherent words, so maybe I’d rather...
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A Gem from the Local Archive: A Beginner’s Boston
When you live in a place over twenty years, and you come to know people who’ve lived there even longer than you, now and then you stumble over something in what we might call the local archives. Much...
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Gem from the Local Archive: My Turn on Earth
For years, our hi-fi stereo languished in the attic. But it’s been dusted off and now resides in a place of honor in our teenager’s room, because vinyl is hip again, and suddenly we’re glad we saved...
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From the Archives: “Star Wars easily the favorite of most”: History Division...
Among my very favorite parts of archival research is the small and unexpected glimpses into the lives of historical figures that have nothing directly to do with the research at hand. I was reminded of...
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From the Archives: Mormonism in Barbados (Almost), 1853
(detail from John Arrowsmith, Map of the Windward Islands, 1844. Click on image for original) Last month, Elder Dale Renlund visited the West Indian island of Barbados, which he dedicated for the...
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A Rather Disappointing Sequel to the “Great Hawaiian Cat Massacre”
Regular readers of JI may remember a post that I wrote a few years ago about Joseph F. Smith’s beheading of a cat. It was a fun post to write and remains one of my favorite posts that I wrote during my...
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From the Archives: Black Internationalism in 19th Century Salt Lake City; or...
NOTE: The original version of this post was based, in part, on faulty research, for which I take full blame. What appears below is a revised version (with a slightly modified title). There is no...
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The Rough Draft of the Manifesto
The George Q. Cannon Diaries, recently published by the Church Historian’s Press, reveal a wealth of information about nineteenth-century Mormonism, politics, and polygamy. The journal entry that I...
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Digitized Publications Available from Utah Archives
This post will focus on digitized periodicals and publications available through Utah archives related to Mormon history. All of these sources are very helpful for doing research, both in the...
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“The spirit of murder seems to be on the increase … due to the increase in...
In the July 15, 1891 issue of the (original) Juvenile Instructor, Mormon apostle and editor George Q. Cannon penned an editorial entitled, “Obedience — Do not Kill.” As that title implies, Cannon’s...
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