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The Dedication Of The Oliver Cowdery Monument In Richmond, Missouri, 1911, Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Robert F. Schwartz Sep 2005

The Dedication Of The Oliver Cowdery Monument In Richmond, Missouri, 1911, Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Robert F. Schwartz

BYU Studies

As one of three witnesses, Oliver Cowdery testified that “an angel of God came down from heaven” to display an ancient record—a record known then and now as the Book of Mormon. Cowdery, Martin Harris, and David Whitmer affirmed in written testimony that they saw “the engravings thereon,” and more surprisingly that the voice of God declared Joseph Smith’s translation of the record to be true. Even though all three men eventually disassociated themselves from Joseph Smith, later members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints felt to commemorate Cowdery, Whitmer, and Harris for their role in the …

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Cholera And Its Impact On Nineteenth-Centry Mormon Migration, Patricia Rushton Apr 2005

Cholera And Its Impact On Nineteenth-Centry Mormon Migration, Patricia Rushton

BYU Studies

Nineteenth-century migrants traveling across America suffered from many diseases as they journeyed to new homes in the West. The disease that was most common and caused the highest rate of illness and death was cholera. Historian Robert Carter notes, "It was a disease with which people were... familiar, yet it was little understood. It would strike suddenly, with no warning, often killing the victim within hours of the first symptoms. It was so uncontrollable that often entire families, even whole emigrating companies, would be wiped out." While cholera was not always fatal, it brought fear and suffering into the lives …

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The Apostolic Fathers As Witnesses To The Early Christian Apostasy, Matthew J. Grey Apr 2005

The Apostolic Fathers As Witnesses To The Early Christian Apostasy, Matthew J. Grey

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

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Pronounced Clean, Comfortable, And Good Looking: The Passage Of Mormon Immigrants Through The Port Of Philadelphia, Fred E. Woods Mar 2005

Pronounced Clean, Comfortable, And Good Looking: The Passage Of Mormon Immigrants Through The Port Of Philadelphia, Fred E. Woods

Faculty Publications

We were pronounced clean, comfortable, and good looking. So wrote LDS voyage leader Matthias Cowley after arriving in Philadelphia with a company of foreign Saints in the mid-nineteenth century. At this time, Latter-day Saint European immigrants, obeying the call to come to Zion, were gathering to America by the thousands on the way to their Mormon Mecca in Salt Lake City. They were obeying the call to come to Zion. In 1852, the First Presidency issued the following counsel: "When a people, or individuals, hear the Gospel, obey its first principles, are baptized for the remission of sins, and receive …

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Alma's Enemies: The Case Of The Lamanites, Amlicites, And Mysterious Amalekites, J. Christopher Conkling Jan 2005

Alma's Enemies: The Case Of The Lamanites, Amlicites, And Mysterious Amalekites, J. Christopher Conkling

Journal of Book of Mormon Studies

In Alma 21 a new group of troublemakers is introduced—the Amalekites—without explanation or introduction. This article offers arguments that this is the same group called Amlicites elsewhere and that the confusion is caused by Oliver Cowdery’s inconsistency in spelling. If this theory is accurate, then Alma structured his narrative record more tightly and carefully than previously realized. The concept also challenges the simplicity of the good Nephite/bad Lamanite rubric so often used to describe the players in the book of Mormon.

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Review Essay: Rodney Stark’S Vision Of Medieval Christianity, Elspeth Whitney Jan 2005

Review Essay: Rodney Stark’S Vision Of Medieval Christianity, Elspeth Whitney

Quidditas

Rodney Stark. For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003, 504 pages, and The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success. New York: Random House, 2005, 304 pages.

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Monasteries As Financial Patrons And Promoters Of Local Performance In Late Medieval And Early Tudor England, Christine Sustek Williams Jan 2005

Monasteries As Financial Patrons And Promoters Of Local Performance In Late Medieval And Early Tudor England, Christine Sustek Williams

Quidditas

The elaborate cycle plays produced in the larger, wealthy municipalities of York, Chester, Wakefield and Coventry receive the lion’s share of attention among scholars of medieval theatre. Until recently, performance activities in smaller communities have received little or no attention, except perhaps as something of antiquarian interest. And one area of theatre history that has been largely overlooked is the involvement of monasteries in local performance activities. Yet the precious few, fragmentary, monastic records that survived the dissolutions of the monasteries under Henry VIII and Edward VI, suggest that several monasteries gave active financial support to local theatre in England …

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The Palawai Pioneers On The Island Of Lanai: The First Hawaiian Latter-Day Saint Gathering Place (1854-1864), Fred E. Woods Sep 2004

The Palawai Pioneers On The Island Of Lanai: The First Hawaiian Latter-Day Saint Gathering Place (1854-1864), Fred E. Woods

Faculty Publications

A decade after the death of the Prophet Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum, the message of the Restoration continued to breathe new spiritual life into thousands who were part of scattered Israel, and the Hawaiians were no exception. The call to gather had go forth: "Gather ye out from among the nations, from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. Send forth my elders of my church unto the nations, which are afar off; unto the islands of the sea" (D&C 133:7-8). After the Saints had been exiled from Nauvoo in 1846 and had migrated …

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Perspectives Of Pro-Revivalism: The Christian History And The Great Awakening, Lisa Thurston Brown Mar 2004

Perspectives Of Pro-Revivalism: The Christian History And The Great Awakening, Lisa Thurston Brown

Theses and Dissertations

The Christian History was a pro-revivalist magazine printed in Boston from 1743-1745 during what is known as the Great Awakening. It contained accounts of revivalism written by pro-revivalist ministers from throughout the American colonies, England and Scotland. These ministers believed that the Holy Spirit was being poured out upon the land in a shower of grace, causing unprecedented numbers of people to convert to Christ. In The Christian History, pro-revivalist ministers expressed their support for the revivals and shared their experiences. Thus the magazine has typically been viewed as religious propaganda advocating a single, polemical viewpoint. However, in spite …

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The "Tabernacle Post Office" Petition For The Saints Of Kanesville, Iowa, Fred E. Woods, Maurine Carr Ward Mar 2004

The "Tabernacle Post Office" Petition For The Saints Of Kanesville, Iowa, Fred E. Woods, Maurine Carr Ward

Faculty Publications

As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. Thus spoke wise King Solomon a millennium before the birth of Christ. As America labored to give birth to a new nation, the United States Post Office Department was born when the Second Continental Congress met in 1775 at Philadelphia and agreed to appoint Benjamin Franklin as the country's first postmaster general. During the nineteenth century, America continued to grow in population as children were born and as immigrants crossed the Atlantic to the land of promise. This growth not only caused America to lengthen …

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Recent Trends In Book Of Mormon Apologetics: A Critical Assessment Of Methodological Diversity And Academic Viability, Benjamin N. Judkins Jan 2004

Recent Trends In Book Of Mormon Apologetics: A Critical Assessment Of Methodological Diversity And Academic Viability, Benjamin N. Judkins

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

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Doing Violence To Journalistic Integrity, Craig L. Foster Jan 2004

Doing Violence To Journalistic Integrity, Craig L. Foster

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of Jon Krakauer. Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of a Violent Faith.

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The Founding Of Danish America, J. R. Christianson Jan 2004

The Founding Of Danish America, J. R. Christianson

The Bridge

If I were to address an audience of Norwegian Americans and ask them when Norwegian emigration to America began, many would answer without hesitation, "in 1825." Some would even say, "the fourth of July 1825," which was the date when the sloop, Restaurationen, sailed out of Stavanger harbor with fifty-three emigrants bound for the New World. I know this is true because I have frequently addressed Norwegian-American audiences and have always received this same answer. The voyage of the Restaurationen is well established as the beginning of Norwegian mass emigration to America.

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Full Issue Jan 2004

Full Issue

The Bridge

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The Distribution Of Internal Interfaces In Polycrystals, Brent L. Adams, Bassem S. El-Dasher, Gregory S. Rohrer, Anthony D. Rollett, David M. Saylor, Paul Wynblatt Nov 2003

The Distribution Of Internal Interfaces In Polycrystals, Brent L. Adams, Bassem S. El-Dasher, Gregory S. Rohrer, Anthony D. Rollett, David M. Saylor, Paul Wynblatt

Faculty Publications

This work was supported by the MRSEC program of the National Science Foundation under Award Number DMR-0079996. Recent advances both in experimental instrumentation and computing power have made it possible to interrogate the distribution of internal interfaces in polycrystals and the three dimensional structure of the grain boundary network with an unprecedented level of detail. The purpose of this paper is to review techniques that can be used to study the mesoscopic crystallographic structure of grain boundary networks and to summarize current findings. Recent studies have shown that grain surfaces within dense polycrystals favor the same low energy planes that …

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Norman Joseph William Thrower. Maps And Civilizations: Cartography In Culture And Society, Laurence Grambow Wolf Oct 2003

Norman Joseph William Thrower. Maps And Civilizations: Cartography In Culture And Society, Laurence Grambow Wolf

Comparative Civilizations Review

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Trustworthy History?, Steven C. Harper Jun 2003

Trustworthy History?, Steven C. Harper

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of Grant H. Palmer. An Insider’s View of Mormon Origins.

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Religious Nationalism In The Modernization Process State Shinto And Nichirenism In Meiji Japan, Michiaki Okuyama Apr 2003

Religious Nationalism In The Modernization Process State Shinto And Nichirenism In Meiji Japan, Michiaki Okuyama

Comparative Civilizations Review

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Earth Religions And Book Religions: The Religious Door Ot Civilizational Encounter, Anthony Stevens-Arroyo Apr 2003

Earth Religions And Book Religions: The Religious Door Ot Civilizational Encounter, Anthony Stevens-Arroyo

Comparative Civilizations Review

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The Forgotten Voice Of The Oneida Stake Academy, Fred E. Woods Jan 2003

The Forgotten Voice Of The Oneida Stake Academy, Fred E. Woods

Faculty Publications

The Physiography class invited me to their Comet Party. We all got up at 3 o'clock a.m. and went to the academy building and there watched Halley's comet and indulged in outdoor games, wrote H. Oswald Christensen, a devoted faculty member of the Oneida Stake Academy in Preston, Idaho. His voice, along with those of many other Academy faculty members and students, must not be forgotten.

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From Liverpool To Keokuk: The Mormon Maritime Migration Experience Of 1853, Fred E. Woods Jan 2003

From Liverpool To Keokuk: The Mormon Maritime Migration Experience Of 1853, Fred E. Woods

Faculty Publications

In January, Fifty-three, we left our English home, Determined for the Gospel's sake, to Zion's land to come. Our family was very small, its members numbered three, Yet strong in faith of Israel's God, and full of hope were we. 'Twas not to us an easy task to bid old friends adieu, To take a long farewell of those who always had been true, To leave for aye, the cozy home we made but just before, And take a last fond look of things we should behold no more; The wind blew keen, as out we went into the cold …

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The 1853 Mormon Migration Through Keokuk, Fred E. Woods, Douglas Atterberg Jan 2003

The 1853 Mormon Migration Through Keokuk, Fred E. Woods, Douglas Atterberg

Faculty Publications

In May 1853, William W. Belknap, who would later serve as a major general in the Civil War and as secretary of war to President Grant, wrote to his sister, Clara, about the Mormon emigrants who were outfitting in Keokuk, Iowa, that spring and summer: "Yesterday was Sunday and I wish you had been here to go up to the Mormon Camp with me. They had preaching at three stands in three languages--English, German, and Danish. They sing --especially the Danes--very sincerely and are perfectly enthusiastic. It is a strange, strange mystery and if you were here you'd be astonished. …

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Book Review, Catherine Y. Lee Oct 2002

Book Review, Catherine Y. Lee

Journal of East Asian Libraries

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Global Vision Of World History In Contemporary China, Ricardo K. S. Mak Oct 2002

Global Vision Of World History In Contemporary China, Ricardo K. S. Mak

Comparative Civilizations Review

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Latter-Day Saint Scandinavian Migration Through Hull, England, 1852-1894, Fred E. Woods, Nicholas J. Evans Oct 2002

Latter-Day Saint Scandinavian Migration Through Hull, England, 1852-1894, Fred E. Woods, Nicholas J. Evans

BYU Studies

Nearly one hundred thousand Latter-day Saints made the journey across the Atlantic during the nineteenth century. Both contemporary commentators and Mormon historians alike have described these ocean crossings extensively. Yet the journey from Liverpool to America was but one segment in the much longer gathering process for over twenty-four thousand Scandinavian Mormons who migrated to Utah during this period. Scandinavians represented the second-largest ethnic group of Saints gathering to Zion between 1852 and 1894. During these years, nearly two hundred vessels carrying Latter-day Saints (fig. 1) left Scandinavia bound for Hull, an important port on the east coast of England. …

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A New Era Of Family History Work: Teaching Family History Successfully In A Ward Setting, Keith A. Erekson Sep 2002

A New Era Of Family History Work: Teaching Family History Successfully In A Ward Setting, Keith A. Erekson

BYU Family Historian

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Editor's Corner, George R. Ryskamp Sep 2002

Editor's Corner, George R. Ryskamp

BYU Family Historian

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Orson Hyde: A Life Of Lessons Learned, Roy Huff Sep 2002

Orson Hyde: A Life Of Lessons Learned, Roy Huff

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

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About Contributors, The Byu Family Historian Sep 2002

About Contributors, The Byu Family Historian

BYU Family Historian

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Vol 1 Fall 2002 The Byu Family Historian, The Byu Family Historian Sep 2002

Vol 1 Fall 2002 The Byu Family Historian, The Byu Family Historian

BYU Family Historian

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