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Topical Guide

By: Ardis E. Parshall - November 10, 2011

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2010′s Technology in 1910

Amazon.com in 1910
Google Maps, 1910 Vintage
How to Compile a Spam List, 1910
Inkjet Printer, 1910
The iPod, 1910 Model
Netflix, 1910

A-a-a-a-and It Begins
Ads Brigham Young Might Have Seen
Ads You’re Not Going to See Again Anytime Soon

Chapter 1 (Olive Oil)
Chapter 2 (Guns)
Chapter 3 (Racist)
Chapter 4 (Sacrament Trays)
Chapter 5 (Garments)
Chapter 6 (Beneficial Life)
Chapter 7 (Medical Quackery)
Chapter 8 (Political)
Chapter 9 (Beverages)
Chapter 10 (Racist, Political, Economic)
Chapter 11 (Sex Education Books)
Chapter 12 (Dishwashing Man)
Chapter 13 (All-LDS Conference Train)
Chapter 14 (Zions Bank w/JFSjr)
Chapter 15 (AV Equipment)
Chapter 16 (Building Construction)
Chapter 17 (Snapshot of Utah/Mormon life)

Advertisement: Today I Am A Man
Ah, Romance!
And You Thought It Had Something to Do with Commitment and Righteousness
Automobile Advertising, 1911
Baby Scofflaws
Beauty Secret of Mormon Wives, 1923
Beneficial Life, 1958
Bookcraft, 1954
BYU Ad Campaign, 1963
BYU Is Apostrophizing Again
Christmas Suggestion, 1933
Cleon Skousen’s 7,000-Mile Leap
Co-Opting a Mormon Story for General Commerce
Cultural Imperialism of a Terrifying Kind
Daynes Music Advertising, 1915
Deseret Book Ads, 1956
The Deseret News Advertises in the Children’s Friend, 1949
The Deseret News Offers to Solve Your Child Discipline Problems
Fight the War, Ladies! (1942)
For All You Cleon Skousen Fans
For Laughs
Friends on Order
Gas Ovens: Something to Cling to and Fight For
Home Fire Insurance Company, 1905
Hotel Utah Advertising, 1944
How to Be Brave, Sturdy, and Have the Greatest Number of Good Thoughts
I Thought I Liked Postum, But Maybe Not This Much
Is It Such a Bad Thing?
It Meant Something Different in 1921. It Really Did
J uvenile Instructor Abets BYU-University of Utah Rivalry
Keepa’s Christmas Gift Giving Guide

page 1 (Trail Blazer t-shirt)
page 2 (View-Master church history reels)
page 3 (fruit and vegetables from ZCMI)

KSL Advertising, 1937
LDS Business College, 1944
The Whole Year Through: LDS Business College, 1954
“The machine was called an Ironrite”
Men Need Not Apply (Takes Too Long to Train ’Em)
Modesty Is the Best Advertisement
A Mormon (Advertising!) Image
Nike Never Had an Endorsement Like This
No, the University of Utah Did Not Bribe Me to Post This
NowThat’s a Rock!
The Sax Education of Mormons, 1926
“The sexiness of innocence”
Of Toddlers, Canals and Driveways
A Postum Ad with a Keepa Connection
Sugar Advertisements

The Answer to All Our Economic Woes? Sugar!!
The Finest!
Further Lessons on Mormon Sugar Patriotism
Health, Purity, and Sweet Dreams
Mormondom’s Perfect Food
One More Evidence of the Wonderfulness of Sugar
Perfect for All
See? Even Shakespeare knew it!
A Sugar Ad with Which I Can Find No Fault
A Sugar Ad Worth Framing
Sugar brings you all kinds of neat stuff
Sugar is Great for Your Jelly. Not So Good for Your Grammar.
Sugar: Not just for eating anymore
Sweet! Crystallized Sunshine
Sweet! Healthful Energy for Healthy Activity
Sweet! Good News about Between Meal Snacks
Sweet! More Extravagant Claims for Sugar
To Further Disrupt the Peace of the Reeve Household
We Built This City on Rock and – er, that is, on Sugar
“What’s for Dinner, Hon?” “Sugar, Dear.”
You Can’t Beet This Ad for Directness

Thou Shalt Not Covet – But I Do
We’re Number O– Er, We’re Adequate!
What’s Wrong with This Picture?
When 10c Bought More Than, Well, When 10c Bought Anything
When $70 Bought More than a Month’s Smartphone Connection
Why We Don t Have Ads in Church Magazines Anymore
Your Mission Exit Interview in a Nutshell

Art and Illustration (see also Magazine Cover Art)

“Alive and Real, and of Immense Stature”: Arnold Friberg’s Book of Mormon Paintings
The Angel Moroni’s Secret
Another Early Friberg, age 12
Anybody Can Make an Ordinary Snowman
Before the Gospel Art Kit (I)
Before the Gospel Art Kit (II): Old Testament Story Challenge
Canonization of Image: An Illustration
The Cody Mural
Early Work by Arnold Friberg Discovered
George Reynolds and C.C.A. Christensen: Illustrated Book of Mormon Stories
The Loveliest Missionary Tract Ever Published
Mary in Mormon Art: “A Little Study of Madonnas”
The Mesa Arizona Temple Frieze
Monument to the Restoration of the Aaronic Priesthood
Of Wise Guys and Angels’ Wings
Old Testament Illustrated

Background
Genesis 1-2,Genesis 3-5,Genesis 6-11,Genesis 12-18,Genesis 19-22,Genesis 23-26,Genesis 32-36,Genesis 37-41,Genesis 42-50

Pre-Correlation Art; or, They Just Don’t Illustrate the Kids’ Magazine Like They Used To

Attitudes and Manners

Discussion 1 – Manners Matter
Discussion 2 – Just for Example
Discussion 3 – Being a Good Neighbor
Discussion 4 – Courtesy in Church
Discussion 5 – Public Performance
Discussion 6 – The True Spirit of Hospitality
Discussion 7 Attitudes Make the Difference
Discussion 8 – Hello and Goodbye

Be Honest With Yourself

The Background
Add Prayer
Be Friendly and Reverent!
Beauty is More than Skin Deep!
Can You Pass This Test?
Danger, Curves Ahead!
Dare to Be Different
Fair or False Faces?
A Fireside Chat on a Burning Question
Fresh Up with Sunday
Going Steady Too Early?
Great Men Pray
Healthy Happy Lucky You!
Honor Thy Father and Mother
It’s Smart to Take Part
The Joy of Work
Keep Faith with Your Family
Live and Learn Forever
Living Prophets
The Long and Short of Marriage
Modesty Is the Best Policy
More Precious Than Rubies
No, Thank You
Nothing Worth Having Is Free
Read It – Test It
A Religion Worth Learning
The Right Circles
Run and Win
This Is the Life
Virtue Is Its Own Reward
We Are Making Memories
Young Men Shall See Visions

Be the Girl of Your Dreams

Be the Girl of Your Dreams: The For the Strength of Youth of the 1950s
I. Hello, You
II. The Present Reflects the Past
III. The Star of Your Own Romance
IV. Can You Manage Your Emotions?
V. Can You Face Life Squarely?
VI. Do You Have Growing Pains?
VII. Personality for Popularity
VIII. What About Dating?
IX. Can You Say No?
X. A Source of Help and Inspiration

Centennial Lessons: Church History for Women (1930)

Introduction
1. The First Women of Modern Israel
2. Kirtland Pioneers
3. The Move to Missouri
4. Expulsion from Missouri
5. Settlement of Nauvoo
6. Expulsion from Nauvoo
7. Journey to Winter Quarters; The Mormon Battalion
8. Winter Quarters to Great Salt Lake Valley
9. The First Year in Great Salt Lake Valley
10. Our Foremothers

“Dear Brigham”

“As Deep in the Mud as I Am in the Mire”
“Compulsory Swallowing of the Six Day Absurdity”
“For the Sake of Suffering Mothers”
“The Propriety of Sending for One Jacob Barnum”
“Sacrificed on the Alter for Our Countrys Good”
“To Hold Base and Oppressive Men in Wholsome Check”
“You May Some Day Find Your Fatty Sides Tarred and Feathered”
Dear Daniel: A Ride on a Camel’s Back

“Doing” History

And Yet Another Joseph Smith Photograph
At Sword’s Point: Order Form
At Zelph’s Mound
Attention K-Mart Shoppers: Original Joseph Smith Photographs, Aisle Five
Before You Teach or Attend Gospel Doctrine 35 on the Handcart Rescue, Read This
Blazing a New Trail: Doign History in the Age of the Internet
Brigham Young and Father Victor Jouanneault: Evaluating Credibility of a Document
Building a Chronology of Mormon History
Can I Trust Leonard Arrington? An Exercise in Historical Provenance
The Church Census
Church History Library: Change in Saturday Hours
Church History Library Dedication
Church History Library: First Month Report Card
Congratulations, Bill and Jared and Tom, et al.
Congratulations, Jan Shipps
The CSI Effect and Mormon History
Dance, Dry Bones, Dance
Davis Bitton Papers Now Available at BYU
“Divorce”: A Lesson Plan to Scrutinize
“Doing God a Service to Kill Us”
Evaluating Historical Documents; or, I Do Not Think that Proves What You Think It Proves
An Evening with the Editors of Women of Faith in the Latter Days
Family History Detective
The Father She Never Knew
Finding the Missing Pioneers: A Case Study
Going Long: Of Clubs and Conduct
Going Long: Of Speculation and Dark Mormon Doings
Good News from the Community of Christ
How to Speak at a Public Conference
How to Write a Life
I Found a Baby Pioneer
Intermountain West Journal of Religious Studies
Joseph Smith Papers: Reference Materials Now Available
Joseph Smith’s Last Dream: Addendum
Joseph Smith’s Last Dream: Evaluation
Julie’s Papers (1 of 2), (2 of 2)
Keepa’ninnies Sight the MHA Presidential Seer Stone in Exotic Places
A Letter to President Veazey, Community of Christ
Liftoff ! The Joseph Smith Papers Are Published
The Lost
Massacre Panel: Not-so-live blogged
Melvin L. Bashore, OCTA, and the Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Database
MHA Presidential Seer Stone: An Invitation
Mistrust and Verify
“The Mormons” on PBS
Mountain West Center: 2008 Annual Report
My First MHA Experience
Of Massacres and Misinformation
Oh, WHOSE Mother?
On Teaching, Speculation, Debate, Heterodoxy, Ignorance
On the Road to Mountain Meadows
Our Crown Jewels: The Church Archives
Out of Small Things
A Phone Call to Jan Shipps
Policies for Submitting Names for Temple Ordinances
2012 Priesthood/Relief Society Course: Teachings of Presidents of the Church: George Albert Smith
Reeve and Parshall, Mormonism: A Historical Encyclopedia: Announcement
Richard L. Bushman, “Mormonism and the Public Good”: Now Online
Rumor-Mongering: Joseph Smith Daguerreotype
A “Sea Change” in Mormon Historical Studies
Secrets from the Research Library
Secrets of the Cornerstone to Be Revealed This Saturday
Secrets of the Cornerstone: Revealed (with additional photo gallery)
A Sneak Peek at the New Church History Library
Substituting One Speculation for Another
Telling the Truth about the Past
That Daguerreotype Again (1 of 2), (2 of 2)
What George Washington Didn’t Say about Barack Obama in the Relief Society Magazine, the Saints’ Herald, or Even in the Millennial Star
What’s Wrong with Mormon History? I’ll Tell You What’s Wrong!
Women’s History Lecture Series: Chad Orton, “Those They Left Behind”
Writing for theSalt Lake Tribune
Think Like a Historian: Henry Troemner and Brigham Young
The Truth Is Pulling Its Boots On
“We Feel Like We Have Found a Treasure”
You Can Do This!

Outdated announcements of past events are available here

Eminent Women (by Amy Tanner Thiriot)

The Eminent Women of the St. George Temple
Ann Fairfax Washington Lee and Susanna Rogers Sangiovanni Pickette Keate: Part 1, Part 2
Anna Charlotte Eldridge Hinkle Chidester and Charlotte Corday
Isabell Hill Romney Platt and Charlotte Lengefeld von Schiller
Christiane von Goethe and Roseinia Sylvester Jarvis, Part 1, Part 2
Martha Washington and Lucy Bigelow Young
Mary O’Connell and Ann Crosby Thomas: Part 1, Part 2

Family History Basics

Lesson 1 (First steps)
Lesson 2 (Home sources)
Lesson 3 (Social Security)
Lesson 4 (Census)
Lesson 5 (Resolving Discrepancies)

Fiction

Advent 2010, 2011

“As Little Children”
At Santa’s Home
Bells of Christmas
Christmas at Aunt Sally’s
Christmas at Welcome Inn
The Christmas Cards
Christmas in Bowlder Gulch
Christmas Is Coming … Maybe
Christmas Is Just Another Day
Christmas Is Where the Heart Is
Christmas, or a Reasonable Facsimile
A Christmas to Remember
The Christmas Treasure
The Christmas Tree
A Doll Buggy for Christmas
A Dress for Cinderella
A Grandma for Christmas
Home for Christmas
“I Heard the Bells of Christmas Ring”
It’s Christmas Everywhere
Jimmy’s First Christmas
The Least of the Flock
Leonora’s Christmas Visit
The Lost Christmas
The Lucky One
A Manger and a Barn
Marie and the Christmas Story
Merry Christmas, Mother!
The Mistakes of Santa Claus
A Mountain Boy’s Christmas
No Present for Ann
O Little Town
An Old-Fashioned Christmas
One Bright Star
Party Dress
The Pink Angel
Red Neck
A “Reel” Gold Christmas Present
Remember the Day
Santa Couldn’t Get Through
Santa With a High Hand
The Shining Gift
Something Lacking
A Star in the Tree Top
The Teakwood Chest
Top of the Tree
Two Wishes from a Christmas Doll
Whittling Boy

“To be continued …” (serial fiction)

And for Eternity: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 10

Anne Brent, Helpmate: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9

The Bottle Message: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 10, Chapter 11, Chapter 12

A Daughter of Martha: Chapter 1

Dear to the Heart of the Shepherd: Chapter One, Chapter Two, Chapter Three, Chapter Four, Chapter Five, Chapter Six, Chapter Seven, Chapter Eight, Chapter Nine, Chapter Ten

Dennis and the Mormon Battalion: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 10, Chapter 11, Chapter 12

Enemy’s Son:Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 10, Chapter 11

Expatriation: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 10

Faith Is a Heritage: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 10

Hermanas: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8

His Father’s Son: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 9

The Lotus Eater: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 10

The Making of Marty:Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 10, Chapter 11, Chapter 12

Merry-Go-Round: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 10, Chapter 11

Not to the Swift: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6

On the Trails of the Old Kaibab: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 10, Chapter 11, Chapter 12

Orchids in the Snow: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8

Special for Redheads: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

Through This Door: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6

A Time to Forget: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 10, Chapter 11, Chapter 12

And They Called it Mother’s Day
Aunt Cheer’s White Elephant Party
The Awakening
The Bishop’s Wife
The Bitter Cup
The Blunders of Percival
The Captain’s Biggest Battle
The Comic Valentine
Custer’s First Stand
Danger on the Hill Road
The Danger Zone: A Story for Boys
A Day in Bed
Deflated Dollar
Edna’s Husband
Father Was a Good Provider
Ferdinand’s Strategy
A Girl’s Point of View
Give Thanks for What?
Good Bye and Good Luck, Mrs. Kelsey
The Gracious Years
Grandpa’s Red Suspenders
“Halloween”: A Short Story from the Children’s Friend, 1925
The Hee-Haw Pony
Highly Organized
Homely Hester
If It Wasn’t for Tillie
Janet and Stevie stories

It’s Gotta Be Cash”
Pink Lemonade for the Boys
You Know How Boys Are, part 1, part 2

Just Like Edison
Justice Is a Group Affair
Lace Stockings
Last Summer
The Legacy
Little Old Glass Slipper
Miss Benson’s Hired Man
Miss Pennywell Goes Into Action
Mollie’s Mistake: A Valentine Story
The Morrell Tribe
The Mother of Nancy
“Mothers Always Is”
Moving Again
Mrs. Bennett’s Baby
Mrs. Benson Takes a Hand: In Which Pastry Wins Over Pothooks
Mrs. Benson Takes a Hand: In Which She Routs a Racketeer
Mrs. Benson Takes a Hand: Religion and Horse Sense
Needed by Someone
No Comments, Please
The Ogre on Alden Street
A Pair of Pants for Benjy
Papa Took Us Fishing
The Prize Photograph
Rape, Suicide, and “Loss of Virtue”: A Children’s Christmas Story
The Relief Check
A Rest for Rose Ellen
Ring Out the Old
Tch! Tch! Grandma!
Thanks a Million
Thanksgiving for Emily
The Thickness of Water
Tommy’s Thanksgiving
Wallflower
Walter Chase’s Experience
The Wearing of the Gay
We Can’t All Be Generals
Wee Pine Knot
When Wishes Were Bicycles
The White Picket Fence
With New Vision

Friends and Visitors to the Saints

Allen Allensworth: From Slavery to High Military Honor
Clarence Horace Montgomery y Agramonte: A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside an Enigma
Arthur Conan Doyle Reinterprets Joseph Smith
[Jean d'Entraigues:] La Ville des Mormons
[Robley Evans:] Utah’s First Annapolis Cadet
[Eugene Field:] A Poet and His Nursemaid
Fisher Sanford Harris: Non-Mormon Peacemaker in Zion
Douglas Gordon Hook: Engineering Joy
Janos Kalapsza “went out to the Mormons”
Jacob Moritz: Justice to the Dead

AARGH!! A section of the Topical Guide has been lost at this point; I’m working to reconstruct it, somehow.

From Our Exchanges (Reviews)

17 Miracles, More or Less
Commercial Propaganda in the Silent Film: A Case Study of A Mormon Maid (1917)
Daughters in My Kingdom: A Personal Response
Daughters in My Kingdom: Revising Expectations
Emmas Family (Review)
First Impressions of the Joseph Smith Papers: Revelations Volume
The Next Book You Want for Your Home Library: Women of Faith in the Latter Days, Vol. 1
Gary James Bergera, “Transgression in the LDS Community,” Part 1, JMH, Summer 2011
“The Goose Hangs High”: Excerpts from the Letters of Martha Hughes Cannon”
How Do You Teach Church History?
Humanitarian Update, Summer 2010
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s “A Pail of Cream”
“Lovely Picture Books for Women”: Daughters in My Kingdom
“Mormon Women’s Biographies of Their Female Forbears”
“Murder Ballads of Mormondom”
Music of the Mormons, 1830-1865
The Mormon Concept of Mother in Heaven
Report: Ben Bennion and Tom Carter, “Twelve Mormon Homes: Touring Utah with Elizabeth & Thomas Kane, 1872-73″
Report: William P. MacKinnon, “Thomas L. Kane and the Utah War”
Review:At Sword’s Point, Part 1, in the Journal of Arizona History
Review: The Devil Colony, James Rollins
Review: Richardson, 3D Atlas of Zion National Park: Seeing Is Believing– Or Is It?
Review: Sally Denton, Faith and Betrayal: A Pioneer Woman’s Passage in the American West
Review: Vincent Musaalo: Through Some Miracle Not Yet Clear to Me
A Teeny, Tiny Review: Julie M. Smith, Search, Ponder, and Pray
“To Read Them Over and Over” : Revelations and Translations, vol. 2
“Transformations of Power: Mormon Women’s Visionary Narratives”
Utah Historical Quarterly: Utah War Issue
William E. Berrett, “How Do You Teach Church History?”
Women of Faith in the Latter Days, Vol. 1: eBook and Bonus Content Available

Guest Posts

Polly Aird
Fires of Faith in Great Britain, 1848
George Armstrong Hicks: Dixie Mormon/Voice of Dissent

Alison
In My Own Words: Alison, 2009

Anne (U.K.)
“As Arranged”
Cousin Maggie, part 1, part 2
The Lost
Mothering Sunday
The Pine Cone Story
Pine Cone 2: The Sequel

Curtis Allen
Cornelius Gilliam: Fifty Years of Life, A Century of War
William Alonzo Hyde: More Than the Author of an Article

Anonymous
Violence and Bloodshed and Mayhem

Mark B.
April 6, at Sea
The New York Times’ First Crossword Puzzle

Clair Barrus
Of Gifts and Rods and “Things of Nature”

Gary Bergera
Hugh B. Brown’s Most Famous Statement

Michelle, Eric, Alex, and Julia C.
Keepa Goes to Family Home Evening

Steve C
In Memory of Karl-Heinz Schnibbe
The Way We Were: July 1942 (German edition)

Clarissa
In Which Jules Verne Meets Clarissa

Coffinberry
Charade Challenge, 2009
General Conference Charade: An Original Keepa Puzzle
Gladys Irene Hervey Beggs: “Follow the Mormon Trail”

Sam Cowley, Jr.
My Father, FBI Special Agent Samuel P. Cowley

Carol Brady Dupuis
Here I Raise Mine Ebenezer

Ellen
Fun in the Mission Field
My First Sacrament Meeting Talk: Intimate Unity with God
Not So Fast

Kevin Folkman
20th Century Covered Wagon Pioneers
Arizona Pioneer Discovers Mexican Fast Food in 1873!
Can I Trust Leonard Arrington? An Exercise in Historical Provenance
“Crossing the Threshold of the Preexistent State”: Hugh J. Cannon, David O. McKay, and the Seasick World Tour
“Down and Back” Immigrant Companies
MHA: My First MHA Experience
“A Suitable Program Was Rendered”
Unexpected Tenderness: Joseph F. Smith on the Death of George A. Smith
What Mormon Historical Figure Would You Invite to Thanksgiving Dinner?

Michelle Glauser
John Alvon Glauser: An Elder in Nazi Germany
John Alvon Glauser: Face to Face with History

Keith Irwin
Funny Bones, 1904 (2)

Jeffery O. Johnson
Review: Sally Denton, Faith and Betrayal: A Pioneer Woman’s Passage in the American West

Scott K (SLK)
Charles Price, surveyed

William P. MacKinnon
June 26: End of the Utah War?
Long Gone: The Mystery of Gubernatorial Absences in South Carolina and Utah
A “Sea Change” in Mormon Historical Studies
Thoughts for Latter-day Saints among Others: Presidential Decisions on Afghanistan and Vietnam

Maurine
Oliver Cowdery’s Last Testimony
The Shawl of Mary Haskin Parker Richards

Middle-aged Mormon Man
The Mormon What????

George Miller
Adamic Language and Masons

Mina
Sled Boy

Glen Nelson
Through Death Valley: The Mormons in Pulp Fiction, 1907

Observer (fka Eric S)
comic strip i did over lunch

Bradford Ogden
Elizabeth “Lizzie” Ramsay: Her Story

Paul Reeve
I Am a Believer, But I Don’t “Just Believe”
Israel’s Netanya Academic College
Mitt Romney, Blackness, and the Book of Mormon, Part 1
Mitt Romney, Blackness, and Brigham Young, Part 2

Clark Ricks
Family History Detective
Hyrum Ricks, Sr.: “For Your Own Good and For Your Salvation”
Samuel Whitney Pincock: Torpedoed!

Joseph Soderborg
Foreshadowing in France
Secrets of the Cornerstone to Be Revealed This Saturday
Secrets of the Cornerstone – Revealed (with additional photo gallery)

Tatiana
Ghosts

Amy Tanner Thiriot
see also Eminent Women
The Big Table: An Experiment in Communal Living
“Died in the Service of Their Fatherland”: Latter-day Saints in Germany, World War I – part one, part two
Karl Püschel: “Far Away from My Home”: A Latter-day Saint in the German Army, 1918
The Fire and Light Was Always Free: A Case of Pioneer Hospitality
Marinda Redd Bankhead: A Slave in Zion

John M. Tippets
Early Days of the Anchorage, Alaska Branch

Grant Vaughan
Addie May Wood and the Value of Education

Diana Kilbourn Yates
Dale Kilbourn: “A Gifted Man … Part of the Artistic Heritage of the Church”

David Young
Sled Girl and Friends

Shawn Young
Stories from the Construction of the Laie Temple

How We Taught Doctrine and Covenants/Church History in the Past

Lesson 4: Remember the New Covenant, Even the Book of Mormon
Lesson 5, “This Is the Spirit of Revelation”
Lesson 6, “I Will Tell You in Your Mind and in Your Heart, by the Holy Ghost
Lesson 7: The First Principles and Ordinances of the Gospel
Lesson 8: The Restoration of the Priesthood
Lesson 9: The Only True and Living Church/a>
Lesson 10: This Is My Voice Unto All
Lesson 11: The Field Is White Already to Harvest
Lesson 12: The Gathering of My People
Lesson 13: This Generation Shall Have My Word through You
Lesson 14: The Law of Consecration
Lesson 15: Seek Ye Earnestly the Best Gifts
Lesson 16: Thou Shalt … Offer Up Thy Sacraments upon My Holy Day”
Lesson 17: “The Law of Tithing and the Law of the Fast”
Lesson 18: “Establish .. a House of God”
Lesson 19: The Plan of Salvation
Lesson20: The Kingdoms of Glory
Lesson 21: “Looking Forth for the Great Day of the Lord to Come”
Lesson 22: The Word of Wisdom: “A Principle with Promise”
Lesson 23: “Seek Learning, Even by Learning and Also by Faith”
Lesson 24: “Be Not Deceived, but Continue in Steadfastness”
Lesson 25: “The Power of Godliness”
Lesson 26: “Go Ye Into All the World, and Preach My Gospel”
Lesson 27: “They Must Needs Be Chastened and Tried, Even as Abraham”
Lesson 28: “Oh God, Where Art Thou?”
Lesson 30: “The Prisoners Shall Go Free”
Lesson 31: “Sealed … for Time and for All Eternity”
Lesson 38: “In Mine Own Way”
Lesson 39: “The Hearts of the Children Shall Turn to Their Fathers”
Lesson 40: Finding Joy in Temple and Family History Work
Lesson 44: Being Good Citizens
Lesson 45: “The Family is Ordained of God”

How We Taught the New Testament in the Past

Lesson 1: “That Ye Might Believe that Jesus Is the Christ”
Lesson 2: “My Soul doth Magnify the Lord”
Lesson 3: Unto You Is Born a Saviour
Lesson 4: Prepare ye the Way of the Lord
Lesson 5: Born Again
Lesson 6: They Straightway Left Their Nets
Lesson 7: [He] Took Our Infirmities, and Bare Our Sicknesses
Lesson 8: The Sermon on the Mount: A More Excellent Way
Lesson 9: Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God
Lesson 10: Take My Yoke upon You, and Learn of Me
Lesson 11: He Spake Many Things unto Them in Parables
Lesson 12: I Am the Bread of Life
Lesson 13: I Will Give unto Thee the Keys of the Kingdom
Lesson 14: Who Is My Neighbour?
Lesson 15: I Am the Light of the World
Lesson 16: I Was Blind, Now I See
Lesson 17: What Shall I Do That I May Inherit Eternal Life?
Lesson 18: He Was Lost, and is Found
Lesson 19: Thy Faith Hath Saved Thee
Lesson 20: Woe unto You, Hypocrites
Lesson 21: What Is the Sign of Thy Coming?
Lesson 22: Inherit the Kingdom Prepared for You
Lesson 23: Love One Another, As I Have Loved You
Lesson 24: This Is Life Eternal
Lesson 25: Not My Will, But Thine, Be Done
Lesson 26: To This End Was I Born
Lesson 27: He Is Not Here, for He Is Risen
Lesson 28: We Are Witnesses
Lesson 29: The Number of the Disciples Was Multiplied
Lesson 30: God Is No Respecter of Persons
Lesson 31: And So Were the Churches Established in the Faith
Lesson 32: Live in the Spirit
Lesson 33: Ye Are the Temple of God
Lesson 34: Keep the Ordinances, As I Delivered Them
Lesson 35: Be Ye Reconciled to God
Lesson 36: Beloved of God, Called to Be Saints
Lesson 37: Jesus Christ: The Author and Finisher of Our Faith
Lesson 38: Thou Hast Testified of Me
Lesson 39: For the Perfecting of the Saints
Lesson 40: I Can Do All Things through Christ
Lesson 41: I Have Finished My Course
Lesson 42: Pure Religion
Lesson 43: A Chosen Generation
Lesson 44: God Is Love
Lesson 45: He That Overcometh Shall Inherit All Things
Lesson 46: “He Will Dwell with Them and They Shall Be His People”

How We Taught the Old Testament in the Past

Old Testament Manual
Lesson 1: “This Is My Work and My Glory”
Lesson 2: “Thou Wast Chosen Before Thou Wast Born”
Lesson 3: The Creation
Lesson 4: “Because of My Transgression My Eyes Are Opened”
Lesson 5: “If Thou Doest Well Thou Shalt Be Accepted”
Lesson 6: “Noah … Prepared an Ark to the Saving of His House”
Lesson 7: The Abrahamic Covenant
Lesson 8: Living Righteously in a Wicked World
Lesson 9: “God Will Provide Himself a Lamb”
Lesson 10: Birthright Blessings: Marriage in the Covenant
Lesson 11: “How Can I Do this Great Wickedness?”
Lesson 12: “Fruitful in the Land of My Affliction”
Lesson 13: Bondage, Passover, and Exodus
Lesson 14: “Ye Shall Be a Peculiar Treasure unto Me”
Lesson 15: “Look to God and Live”
Lesson 16: “I Cannot Go Beyond the Word of the Lord”
Lesson 17: “Beware Lest Thou Forget”
Lesson 18: “Be Strong and of a Good Courage”
Lesson 19: The Reign of the Judges
Lesson 20: “All the City … Doth Know that Thou Art a Virtuous Woman”
Lesson 21: “God Will Honor Those Who Honor Him”
Lesson 22: “The Lord Looketh on the Heart”
Lesson 23: “The Lord Be Between Thee and Me Forever”
Lesson 24: “Create in Me a Clean Heart”
Lesson 25: “Let Every Thing that hath Breath Praise the Lord”
Lesson 26: King Solomon: Man of Wisdom, Man of Foolishness
Lesson 27: The Influence of Wicked and Righteous Leaders
Lesson 28: “After the Fire, a Still, Small Voice”
Lesson 29: “He Took Up the Mantle of Elijah”
Lesson 30: Come to the House of the Lord
Lesson 31: Happy Is the Man that Findeth Wisdom
Lesson 32: “I Know That My Redeemer Liveth”
Lesson 33: Sharing the Gospel with the World
Lesson 34: “I Will Betroth Thee Unto Me in Righteousness”
Lesson 35: God Reveals His Secrets to his Prophets
Lesson 36: “The Glory of Zion Will Be a Defense”
Lesson 37: “Thou Hast Done Wonderful Things”
Lesson 38: Beside Me There Is No Saviour
Lesson 39: How Beautiful Upon the Mountains
Lesson 40: Enlarge the Place of Thy Tent
Lesson 41: “I Have Made Thee This Day an Iron Pillar”
Lesson 42: “I Will Write It in Their Hearts”
Lesson 43: The Shepherds of Israel
Lesson 44: Every Thing Shall Live Whither the River Cometh
Lesson 45: If I Perish, I Perish
Lesson 46: A Kingdom Which Shall Never Be Destroyed
Lesson 47: Let Us Rise Up and Build
Lesson 48: The Great and Dreadful Day of the Lord

Humor

19th Century Knock Knock Jokes
Adam and His Nerve
Funny Bones (redirects to a subpage with links to all Funny Bones posts)
Horse on a Mission
The Joke’s On Us
The Joke’s on Us – 2: Artemus Ward: A Mormon Romance
The Joke’s on Us (3)
The Joke’s on Us: Folk Song Edition
The Joke’s on Us (5)
Life Among the Mormons, 1970
A Math Problem
More 19th Century Knock Knock Jokes
Original Keepa 1870: Franco-Prussian War
Still More 19th Century Knock Knock Jokes
True Life Funny Bones from the Mission Field
President Hinckley Came by it Honestly
Unexpected Insight into Book of Mormon Culture
Wit’s Ends: British LDS Humor, 1944,1944 (2),1944 (3)

In Memoriam

[LaMar C. Berrett and Leland Gentry:] The Bell Tolls
Ronald Davis Bitton, 1930-2007
In Memory of Karl-Heinz Schnibbe
James E. Faust, 1920-2007
Brigham D. Madsen (1914-2010)
[Mountain Meadows:] “The most difficult of all the many subjects”
Jay Welch, Former Mormon Tabernacle Choir Director, Has Died
Joseph B. Wirthlin, age 91, Has Passed Away

In Our Ward (how I taught the Gospel Doctrine/Relief Society lessons)

Book of Mormon

Lesson 2: “All Things According to his Will”
Lesson 4: “The Things Which I Saw While I Was Carried Away in the Spirit”
Lesson 6: “Free to Choose Liberty and Eternal Life”
Lesson 8: “O How Great the Goodness of Our God”
Lesson 10: “He Inviteth All to Come Unto Him”
Lesson 12: “Seek Ye for the Kingdom of God”
Lesson 14: “For a Wise Purpose”

Gospel Principles

Gospel Principles, Lesson 15: The Life of Christ

New Testament

Lesson 1: That Ye Might Believe that Jesus Is the Christ
Lesson 3: Unto You Is Born a Saviour
Lesson 15: I Am the Light of the World
Lesson 17: What Shall I Do that I May Inherit Eternal Life?
Lesson 19: Thy Faith Hath Saved Thee
Lesson 21: What Is the Sign of Thy Coming?
Lesson 23: Love One Another, As I Have Loved You
Lesson 25: Not My Will, But Thine, Be Done
Lesson 27: He Is Not Here, for He Is Risen
Lesson 31: And So Were the Churches Established in the Faith
Lesson 33: Ye Are the Temple of God
Lesson 35: Be Ye Reconciled to God
Lesson 37: Jesus Christ: The Author and Finisher of Our Faith
Lesson 39: For the Perfecting of the Saints
Lesson 41: “I Have Finished My Course”
Lesson 43: “A Chosen Generation”
Lesson 45: “He That Overcometh Shall Inherit All Things”

Old Testament

Lesson 2: “Thou Wast Chosen Before Thou Wast Born”
Lesson 4: “Because of My Transgression My Eyes Are Opened”
Lesson 6: “Noah … Prepared an Ark to the Saving of His House”
Lesson 7: The Abrahamic Covenant
Lesson 9: “God Will Provide Himself a Lamb”
Lesson 11: “How Can I Do This Great Wickedness?”
Lesson 13: Bondage, Passover and Exodus
Lesson 14: “Ye Shall Be a Peculiar Treasure Unto Me”
Lesson 16: “I Cannot Go Beyond the Word of the Lord”
Lesson 18: “Be Strong and of Good Courage”
Lesson 20: “All the City … Doth Know That Thou Art a Virtuous Woman”
Lesson 24: “Create in Me a Clean Heart”
Lesson 26: King Solomon: Man of Wisdom, Man of Foolishness
Lesson 28: After the Fire, a Still, Small Voice
Lesson 30: Come to the House of the Lord
Lesson 32: “I Know that My Redeemer Liveth”
Lesson 36: The Glory of Zion Will Be a Defense
Lesson 38: “Beside Me There is No Savior”
Lesson 40: Enlarge the Place of Thy Tent
Lesson 42: “I Will Write It in Their Hearts”
Lesson 44: “Every Thing Shall Live Whither the River Cometh”
Lesson 45: “If I Perish, I Perish”

Teachings for Our Times

Acquiring and Recognizing Spiritual Guidance
“Be Ready”

Gospel Doctrine Lesson 35: Reporting on My Lesson
“The Long-Promised Day” (with slides and PowerPoint download)

In Their Own Words

Alison: My Conversion Story, 2009
Annie Abels, 1899
Doris Annie Axe, 1929
Frantiska Vesela Brodil, ca. 1931
Gabriel Gomes Fidalgo, 2012
Arnold G— n , 1950
Arnold Goodliffe, 1907
Sarah Granger Kimball, 1884
Newsome Kirk, 1951
“A Mother,” 1948
Ei (Asano) Nachie Nagao, 1916
Henry Joseph James Nielson, 1897
Friedrich Nitsche, 1946
Walter Lee Noblin, 1908
Pearl Whitlock Peterson, 1938
Alfred George Pollard: How I Reached Zion, 1892
Sarah E. Tollerton Buck Rand, 1939
Carolyn Wright Snow, 1930
James E. Talmage, 1893
Ralph Watson, 1897
Kimi Yamada, 1907

Keepapitchinin

Coming Next Week at Keepapitchinin
Cornerstone Post is Coming
Don’t Steal from Keepa
Good Morning — What Brings You Here Today?
Keepa Cometh
Keepa for Kindle
Keepa Goes a-Twittering
Keepa is Now on Facebook
Keepa Kuriosities
Keepa Now on Kindle
Keepa: On Hiatus
Keepa, Pitch, ’n’ Indy
Keepa’s Back on Line
Keepa’s Niblets
Keepa’s Topical Guide
Keepa’s Wordle
Navel-Gazing Fun
The Niblets Are Back
’Ninny-Sourcing: Can You Help Me Out?
’Ninny-Sourcing: Stop the Presses!
No Less Powerful
A Note to RSS Subscribers
Notice to “Friends of 292”
On Hiatus
One Thousand \’wən ‘thaụ̣̣-zən(d)\
Philadelphia-area Snacker, Saturday, May 16
Pits and Bieces
Poll: What Do You Want from Keepa, Anyway?
Salutatory
Some Favorite Posts from Pre-Keepa Days
State of the Blog Address
Tell It All
“This Silly M-W-F Nonsense”: A Poll
Topical Guide Is Back
Want to Write a Guest Post?
What was happening in the Church when you were born?
A Word about the Next Week or Two
Would a Woman Named Ardis Wear a Hooded Cloak?
Year-End Report (or, Narcissism Run Amok)

Latter-day Saint Lives

Abigail Smith Abbott: Mormon Battalion “Widow”
James and Sophie Anderson: Christmas in the Time of the Plague
[Frank D. Bailey:] A Latter-day Saint in a German POW Camp
Marinda Redd Bankhead: A Slave in Zion
[Orestes Utah Bean:] Oh, You Bean!
Gladys Irene Hervey Beggs: “Follow the Mormon Trail”
Emma Lee Pouncey Bertrand: “Mother Bertrand”
James Blaine Bevell: Providing for His Family
John M. Bernhisel: The Doctor and the Library
[Cora Philena Birdsall]: Remembering Cora Birdsall
John V. Bluth: “Notes Penciled on Scratches of Paper”
Carl Clifton Booth: The Good Shepherd of West Dallas
Annie Griffith Burbank: Among the Gentiles
Douglas C. Busath: Finding “Home” in New Guinea
“The Brilliance of His Mind and the Sincerity of Testimony”: Richard L. Bushman, 1953
North to Alaska: Edward G. Cannon and Kedzie N. Winnie and Kedzie Noble Winnie Writes from Nome, 1912
Annie LaVaun Carr and Loraine West Rich: Two Child Artists, 1921
Stephen Andrew Childers: Power and Authority
Gardell Dano Christensen: To Tell the World of Faraway Places
Frances Swan Clark: A Kindness Remembered
Malinda Carroll Hudson Conder: Mother of Martyrs
Samuel P. Cowley: A Simple Man
My Father, FBI Special Agent Samuel P. Cowley
John Philip Dalby: Musician Storyteller, Artist
Ora Johnson Dalton: Willing to Assist Him
Frederick Vincent Dankowske: A Pilgrim but Not a Stranger
Gohar Yeghaiyan Davidian: A Latter-day Saint in Syria
Hazel Dawn: The Pink Lady
[Henri Edouard] Ned Desaules and the United Order (1 of 2) (2 of 2)
Julie Desaules Desaules: Heart of Her Extended Family
Antonio E. Duran: Converted by the Book of Mormon
Ruth Farnsworth: A Life of Joy and Generosity
Ruth Farnsworth Revisited (with new photos)
John the Baptist Gayler: “Come In!”
John Alvon Glauser: Face to Face with History
Jonah Gomez: Loving Life
Jensine Hostmark Grundvig: Zionward
Lafayette Guymon: “I’ll Let God Keep the Records”
Anaïse Guyot: The Girl They Left Behind (with her letter in her original French)
Sarah Day Hall: Southern Mother in Israel
Fred Mack Hamel: Latter-day Saint, World War II POW
Josephine Marie Augustine de la Harpe Ludert Ursenbach: From the Tsar’s Court to the Kingdom of God
[Hettie Hilda Harper:] The Pied Piper of Dudley Port
Boyd Ottinger Hatch: New Hope
George Armstrong Hicks: Dixie Mormon/Voice of Dissent
Orrilla Northway Rose Higley: “If You Should Have a Chance to Hear a Mormon Elder Preach”
Charlotte Lee Hobby: “In Full Fellowship,” 1896
Tahauri a Hutihuti: Thirty Years
Hubert Huysecom: “I Did All I Could”
Eulah Marie Jewett: Queen for a Day, Daughter Forever
Anne Maria Jewkes: “My Father Has Called Me Away”
William Alonzo Hyde: More Than the Author of an Article
Owen Pierce Jones: Second Sight
Clifford F.D. Kangas, 1947-1967
Dale Kilbourn: “A Gifted Man … Part of the Artistic Heritage of the Church”
J. Golden Kimball, in His Own Words
[William A. King:] The Case of the Missing Pioneer
[Carl Kjar:] Missionary Imprisoned for Civil Infraction, 1910
Catherine Garber Laine: The Role of Her Lifetime
Frederick Lamb: A Wartime Incident
[Annette Tilleman Lantos] “Aviva Levine”: The God of Her Fathers
John Menzies Macfarlane: Far, Far Away and Not So Long Ago
Russell Lowell Maughan: Dawn-to-Dusk Pioneer of the Air
Indianna Mary Maybert: More than the Way Her Life Ended
[Margaret Baker McKinnon:] The Little Girl and the Sunday School Superintendent: A Story in Four Short Acts
[Emily Wittenbaker McMahon:] Tracing Emily
Laura Rees Merrill: Replacing Fear with Peace
[John Edward Miles, Jr.:] Avalanche!
[Temperance Westwood Moon:] A Poet and His Nursemaid
Arthur Elijah Morgan: “Made Sense”
William S. Muir: Builder in the Kingdom
Tsune Ishida Nachie: Preaching the Gospel, Redeeming the Dead
[How to Write a Post: Finding] Walter E. Noblin’s Story
Moroni Olsen: Class Act
Ellen Briggs Douglas Parker: Where Her Treasure Was
Bernice Taylor Parshall: A Teacher in Zion
William O. Pederson: “What We Learned from World War II”
Samuel Whitney Pincock: Torpedoed!
Johanna Tippett Porter: In Active Service to the End
Charles Price, surveyed
Karl Püschel: “Far Away from My Home”: A Latter-day Saint in the German Army, 1918
Elizabeth “Lizzie” Ramsay: Her Story
[Harry Reid:] A Good Man
[Roy Lee Richardson:] Will They Remember Me?
Hyrum Ricks, Sr.: “For Your Own Good and For Your Salvation”
Christina Olsen Rockwell: Visiting Teacher
Venus Robinson Rossiter: Learning to Serve
[Elizabeth Jefford Drake Ballam Davis Roundy] A Day in the Life of a Sister Missionary in London, 1852
Evelyn Nessie Eleanor Rudd: “A Humble Working Woman” Doing the Lord’s Work
Charlotte Owens Sackett: Teaching the Sisters to Sing
Friedrich Schulzke: “It Fell to My Lot to Guide the Little Branch” (with Friedrich Schulzke Photo Album)
[Sidney Bailey Smith:] “Being a Mormon, the More I Trembled the More I Prayed”: A Guardsman’s Testimony, 1918
Jens Leslie Stevenson: Called to Serve
Pahoa a Tahiaroa: Returning and Reporting
Stephen Taylor: Desiring Only a Fit Out for the Valley
Ingvald Conrad Thoresen: Taking the Gospel to Vingaker
Dorothy Utahna Tidwell, Age 12, to the Rescue
[James Tillman:] Undercover for the Lord
Two Little English Boys
Norlan G. and Sheron R. Walker: Service in the Nuclear Age
Kaimi Wenger Mugshots, 1992, 1998
Sarah Wheatcroft: Service for the Dead
Lorin Farrar Wheelwright: An Early Adventure
[Charles Henry Wilcken:] Forget Polygamists – Mitt Descends from a DESERTER!!!!
Luther M. Winsor: “My Assignment Here in Persia”
Addie May Wood and the Value of Education
Mary Hale Woolsey: Always Springtime
Nathan Young Comes Home
Geertruida Lodder Zippro: The Extra Mile (Further on Sister Zippro)

The Liberal Mormon

Introduction
A “Liberal” Label (Richard L. Evans)
The Doctrine of Non-Resistance
Hospitality and Liberality
The Social Teachings of Jesus as Applied Today
Watch for the Union Label
Wilford Woodruff on Liberality

Magazine Cover Art

American Independence:

June 27, June 28, June 29, June 30, July 1, July 2, July 3, July 4

Betsy Ross – Mormon Cover Girl
Best Wishes
The Children’s Friend:, 1950, 1951, 1952
Christmas Day
Easter Season Cover Art
Firstborn Son
Halloween Cover Art:1926 , 1951, 1960, 1961, 1964
Happy Birthday, Mr. Lincoln
Happy Independence Day! (1),
Happy Independence Day! (2)
Happy Pioneer Day!
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Improvement Era1948, 1963
In Thanksgiving Daily:

November 15, November 16, November 17, November 18, November 19, November 20, November 21, November 22, November 23, November 24, November 25, November 26, November 27, November 28, November 29, November 30

It’s Covered
Juvenile Instructor, 1915, 1926
Keeping Watch
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel:

December 1, December 2, December 3, December 4, December 5, December 6, December 7, December 8, December 9, December 10, December 11, December 12, December 13, December 14, December 15, December 16, December 17, December 18, December 19, December 20, December 21, December 22, December 23, December 24, December 25, December 26, December 27, December 28, December 29, December 30, December 31

Two of His Lambs
Veterans’ Day
We Gather Together to Ask the Lord’s Blessing
We’ll Find the Place:

July 8, July 9, July 10, July 11, July 12, July 13, July 14, July 15, July 16, July 17, July 18, July 19, July 20, July 21, July 22 (with a bonus folksong), July 23, July 24

Westward the Pioneers

Match Your Judgment

Match Your Judgment Against Brigham Young’s: The Question, The Answer
2. A Question of Silver Mines, The Answer on Silver Mines

Mission History, 1949

England
Hawaiian Islands
Latin America
Orient
Palestine
Society Islands

Mormon History Coloring Book, 1923

January: Loyalty to Principles
February Meeting Other Peoples
March: “Trade and Barter”
April: “Amusements”
May: “In Times of Distress”
June: “Response to Good Leadership”
July: “Missionary Activities”
August: “Temple Building”
September: “Industrial Growth”
October: “Improvement in Communication and Transportation”
November: “Agricultural Growth
December: “An Open Door to All”

Mormon Life and Culture

“Adjustment Problems of the Modern Woman”: What Our Parents Learned about Women in 1947
Administering the Sacrament
American Idol, 1873
And All that Jazz
And the Angel Answered
Autumn Symphony: Orchestra at Temple Square
The Awesome Task of Peace
“Barley … for Mild Drinks”: Danish Beer
Be Definite
Be Ye Perfect, Even as Mantua Ward Was Perfect
The Best Beards in Mormon History
The Best Beards in Mormon History: Best in Show
The Best Beards in Mormon History: Results Show
The Birds and the Bees: “Our Sacred Secret”
Birth of a Mormon Tradition: Jello!
The Body of a Man
Book of Mormon Geography
Brethren in Blackface
Briefing Mormon Families on the New Media: Television, 1959
“Brigham Young” (1940): 20th Century Fox Studio Publicity
The Bright New Star: A Christmas Playlet
Build Your Very Own Salt Lake City, ca. 1941
A Bundle of Bandlos; see also: Bandlos (old post, new illustrations)
A Card:

Autumn
Christmas Candles
Commemorating the Relief Society
Glory to God in the Highest
Madonna
Merry Christmas
November
Prohibition, 1933
Thrift (in honor [?] of the debt ceiling fiasco)

A Celebration of the Months:Children’s Friend, 1929

February
September
October
December

The Childless Ones
The Childless Woman: Some Correlation Needed
Christmas in the Sunday Schools, 1943
Christmas Worship, 1961
“Clear the Fort”and “Pull for Shore” Physical Activities for Young Men, 1963
Coasting in Paperville (1918)
comic strip i did over lunch
Concert Prayer
Concert Recitations
Constipation
“Corianton”: Genealogy of a Mormon Phenomenon
Costumes, We’ve Got Costumes, 1956
The Courage of the Women of Zion: A Radio Dramatization
A Creche for the Kids to Color and Cut Out
“The Credit It Deserves”: Respecting Religious Organizations
Crossing the Plains Panorama, 1921, part 1,part 2,part 3,part 4
December, 1926
Deseret: The Opera

background, Act I, Act II, Act III

The Destiny of the Unmarried
“Dialogue from the Book of Mormon,” by Susa Young Gates
Don’t Sing a Lie
Dotting the Earth with … Baptismal Fonts
“Down and Back” Immigrant Companies
Dressing the Dead
Dressing the Deacons and Teachers and Priests, Again, with Follow-up to “Dressing the Deacons”
Elves and Fairies and Brownies
“Embellished with Parks and Groves”: Washington Irving in Missouri
“Era of Youth”: A Later Issue
Eric Nielson, “The Secret Life of Earl Johnson”
“Embarrassed by Showing So Much”
Eskimoses
An Example of Anti-Intellectualism in the Church
Execution
“Father Says …”
Fathers and Sons Outings, 1926
For Mina on Her Birthday (cowgirl paper doll)
The Four Quests of Home Building, 1942
The Fourth Emphasis is Here
“Flu Time”
“For the Lord is Risen”
Games I Hope We Never See Again, 1949
Of Gifts and Rods and “Things of Nature”
Go Get a Rat Trap, Bigger than a Cat Trap
God’s Acre
Goddess of Air, 1935
The Grave Hath No Victory
Grubby Boys and Tomboy Girls: Mormon Tweens
Halloween, 1926, Halloween, 1935
Halloween Paper Dolls, 1951
Halloween Party, 1935
Handling Politics in Church Classes
Have Courage to Say “I Don’t Know”
“Health Is Abundance of Life”
Here I Raise Mine Ebenezer
Here We Come a-Caroling
“How Many Wives HaveYou Got?”
How to Be a Missionary, 1936 (1 of 2), (2 of 2)
How to Be a Missionary: Cottage Meetings
How to Be a Missionary: Hall Meetings
How to Handle Your Oxen When You Cross the Plains
How to Hold a Church Dance, circa 1917
How to Plan Your Menu After You Reach the Valley
Hugh B. Brown’s Most Famous Statement
I Am a Believer, But I Don’t “Just Believe”
“I Am the Very Model of the Modern Mormon Missionary”: 1965
I Want to Bee …
If You Had Been a Mormon Boy Born in 1915
The Improvement Era and the “Era of Youth”
Individual Aaronic Priesthood Award, 1963
“It is not true that the beard makes a man look like a bear or a monkey”
It’s Curtains for the Tabernacle
It’s Only Going to Get Worse, My Friends
J. Leo Fairbanks: Book of Mormon Pictures that my Teacher Showed to Me
Jack O’ Health and Peg O’ Joy, 1926
Keepa Goes to Family Home Evening
Kids’ Model Airplane, 1929
The Kindness of Strangers
Knowing How Much Y’all Love Scouting …
Learn This for Tonight’s FHE
A Lesson on Signs, Tokens and Symbols
A Lion House Halloween
Little Children Everywhere
A Living Faith: What You Know that Harold Bloom Doesn’t
Lonely, Bitter, Maladjusted, Highly Disagreeable, Sour, Gay, and Insane: The Unmarried Saint in the Pew Next to You
“Loud Boys,” 1930
“The machine was called an Ironrite”
Male Chastity
“March of the Salt Soldiers”: James Arrington’s New Play
Master M Men and Golden Gleaners
Melchizedek Priesthood Manual, 1939: On debt, taxation, conservation and labor
Merry Christmas from theChildren’s Friend
MIA Slogans and Themes
The Miracle of Salt Lake: A Mormon Movie You Probably Never Heard Of
The Missing Members: Reactivation, 1909
Mission Primary Leaflets: How to Organize and Operate a Primary in the Mission Field, circa 1950
Missionaries’ “Little White Bible,” 1941
Missionary Street Meetings – How Did They Work?
Mitt Romney, Blackness, and the Book of Mormon, Part 1
A Model Husband, 1894
The Model Mormon Fly-Trap
More on Deaconly Uniformity
Mormon Art Exhibit to Tour the Muslim World
Mormon Catechisms?
Mormon Kid Art, 1919,1919 (2),1919 (3)
Mormon Underwear, 1915
Mormonism and Science: A Short History (but a long blog post)
“The Mormons” on PBS
Moroni’s Purported Rambles
A Most Reprehensible Prostitution of Art
A Moving Picture
Mushrooms Old Enough for a Driver’s License
Mutual Questions
My Favorite Dinner, 1912,My Favorite Dinner, 1912 (2)
My First Sacrament Meeting Talk: Intimate Unity with God
National Anthem (… of Deseret)
“New Pioneers – On the March!”
No Time for Boredom
The Nativity: A Christmas Carol Pageant for Sunday Schools, 1939
Of Perfect Organizations
Oh, You Bean!
Old-Time Southern States Missionary Songs
The Old Written Order of Things
On Music and the Sacrament
On Not Waiting for The Suitable Moment that Never Comes
On Welcoming Home LDS Servicemen and Servicewomen
Oops
Overheard at the Family History Library: An Original Cartoon
“Pack the Books”: Evacuation Instructions for Missionaries
A Paper Doll, 1935
Papercraft Beads for Primary Girls, 1923
The Passing of Presidents
Patriarchal Blessings
The Peacemaker and Bishop’s Court
The Pine Cone Story
Pine Cone 2: The Sequel
Poll: Our Beliefs about Their Beliefs: the 1964 Civil Rights Act
Pop Quiz: Spelling
Praise the Lord with Dancing
A Prayer for All Veterans
“A Preparatory School of Intensive Teaching and Training”: The Church’s First Missionary Home
Pres. Uchtdorf: “Is It All Right to Have Questions about the Church or Its Doctrine?”
Priesthood Line of Authority
Primary Was Intended for Boys
The Qmlbwpnygax Eujugec Have Not the Power to Ktgjie the Wzznlhmpygtg: Codes and Ciphers in Mormon History (part 1), (part 2), (part 3)
Rape, Suicide, and “Loss of Virtue”: A Children’s Christmas Story
Refining the Sacrament
Relief in the Order
Relief Society Pleads for Plowshares and Pruning Hooks, 1933
The Repetition of Sacred Ordinances
Request from Zimbabwean Saints
Retiring Toscanini
Return of the Love Triangle
Road to Happiness, 1926
Roadshow Costumes You Won’t See Again Soon
“Room for Perfectly Honest and Friendly Differences of Opinion”
Rules for Congregational Singing (with Wesley’s Directions for Singing)
Sacrament Gems
The Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper
Samoan Missionary Life, 1921
Sand Tables
The Sax Education of Mormons, 1926
Scene from a Fathers’ and Sons’ Outing
The Second Annual Millard Stake MIA Track Meet
September, 1926
The Shawl of Mary Haskin Parker Richards
She BUILT her Very Own Salt Lake City, ca. 1941
A Short Story of Cooperation
Sing a Song of Halloween
Sister Missionary, 1946-48: Part One (Mission Preparation)
Sister Missionary, 1946-48: Part Two (Arrival in the Field)
Sister Missionary, 1946-48: Part Three (Tracting)
Sled Boy
Sled Girl and Friends
Slow Day at Work? (or maybe just in honor of Flag Day)
Snow Queen, 1950
The Sound of Women’s Heads Exploding
Speech Training: “How to Interest Our Audience”
Startling Stories
Stripling Warriors on Parade, 2012
“A Suitable Program Was Rendered”
Sunday School Easter Services
Suspicious Characters
Talks That Work: Charles H. Hart, 1909
Teaching Young Men About Their Military Obligation, 1967
Temples at Capacity? Temple Schedules, 1941
Ten Rules for a Real Boy, 1941
Ten Rules for a Real Girl, 1941
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving 1926
Thanksgiving Graphics, 1936
Thanksgiving Silhouette
Thanksgiving Silhouettes
Then and Now: Talking to Young Women about Possible Missionary Service
“There Shall Be a Record Kept Among You”
There was an old lady who swallowed a … lizard
They’re Talking About Us (Still) (Again) (Always)
Things We Ought to Bring Back: Speech Training
Things Worth Knowing, 1911, 1911 (2)
This Picture Needs a Caption
This Photo Is Begging for a Caption
Thomas Margetts, on Preaching the Gospel
Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery (1921)
Through Death Valley: The Mormons in Pulp Fiction, 1907
Tithing Settlement, 1896
To “Occupy the Time”? or to Teach and Bear Witness?
To the Mountains of Ephraim
To the Stable
Torn Between Two Lovers
Treasure in a Trash Can
Twisted
Two Easter Programs, 1951
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
Underground Doctrines
A Valentine, 1929
Van Camp’s Pork & Beans
Violence and Bloodshed and Mayhem
The Vision
Wanted: Mormon Folk Songs
A Ward Family
“We Have Left No One Behind”: Agents for Ourselves and for Others
“We Lose Many Young People from Activity,”1961
We Sing Those Songs to Remind Us of What We Are
Weekly Meetings of Ward Teachers and Aaronic Priesthood, 1928. Part 1, Part 2
What Latter-day Saint Men Should Know, 1914 (I)
What Latter-day Saint Women Should Know, 1906 (I),1906 (II) ,1906 (III)
What Mormon Historical Figure Would You Invite to Thanksgiving Dinner?
What Were They Thinking??! Again??!
Wheat for Man
When War Shall Cease
Winter Sports, 1926
Witchcraft
Who or What Are We Teaching?
The “Whole Armor of God”: Is This What They Mean?
The Wise Men Call
Witchcraft
“Ye Shall Do the Work Which Ye See Me Do”
Whose Fault Is It When LDS Women Marry Outside the Faith?
Woman’s Power to Remove the Cause of War
The Wooden Bushel Basket as a Mormon Religious Object
You Know You’re in Sanpete …
Your Grandmother’s Nauvoo Monument
Your Very Own Astronaut
Why Correlation Can Be a Good Thing, 1849
The Wife I Want, 1893
Wise Men Watched
Without Purse or Scrip
The Women of Easter
Your Grandfather’s Melchizedek Priesthood Manual

The Mormon Past

The Abuse of Hate, 1943 / 2011
An Act of Mormon-on-Mormon Violence: The Whitecapping of William Birdsall
Adamic Language and Masons
Alaskan Odyssey
“All Belgian Saints Will Honor Our Brothers’ Graves”
Alvin C. York, Hero of World War I, Meets the Mormons
Antiques Roadshow, George Q. Cannon, Feminism, and (Gasp) Bicycle Riding
An Apostle’s Testimony in Soviet Russia, 1959
Arizona Pioneer Discovers Mexican Fast Food in 1873!
“As Swing as All Get Out”: Missionary Orchestra Hits Motor Town
“As Wonderful as It Is Glorious”: Lorenzo Snow Goes for a Spin in an Automobile
The Ashtabula Horror (The Ashtabula Horror P.S.)
The Background Details: Renewal Notice, 1935
B.H. Roberts Goes River Rafting, 1879
B.H. Roberts in Water Valley, Mississippi, 1884
[B]ear [H]unter Roberts
Before Our Journey’s Through
Before There Were Temples in California
The Beginnings of Boys’ Primary Classes
“Beware the Latter Day Saints”: Then, and Then, and Now
The Big Table: An Experiment in Communal Living
Bound for Zion, 1887
Brigham ’n’ Ethel 4Ever
Brigham Invites a Kiss
Brigham Young – Marriage Broker?
Brigham Young’s Mailbag
Brigham Young’s Swimmin’ Hole
The British Mission in World War II: “We Shall Come Through This Great Struggle Unconquered”
The Buddhas of Bamiyan
Butch Cassidy, Wayward Mormon, Surfaces Again
By Sail – By Rail – By Trail
BYU Professor Proposes Radical Dress Reform for Men, 1931 (with illustration)
A California ’49er Visits the Mormons
Catch of the Day
The Champion Checkers Player of Salt Lake City
The Chapel Built by Cigarettes
Chaplain B.H. Roberts Eulogizes the Dead
Chaplain B.H. Roberts Leads a March of the Mormon Battalion
Chaplain B.H. Roberts Leads Memorial Services
Chaplain B.H. Roberts Pleads for the Lives of His Men
A Child’s-Eye View of the Mormon Silk Experiment
A Child’s History of the Church:

part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8, part 9, part 10, part 11, part 12, part 13

The Christchurch Earthquake on Facebook
The Church and the Present War
“Church officials do tell us how to vote”
Confidential: Have I Got a Deal for You
“Conspicuous Service, at the Risk of Their Lives”: An American Consul Praises LDS Missionaries, 1906
Cover Girl, 60 Years Ago
Covered Wagon Days … in Denmark
“A Creaking Noise Was Heard, Followed by a Sound Like the Crash of Thunder”
“Crossing the Threshold of the Preexistent State”: Hugh J. Cannon, David O. McKay, and the Seasick World Tour
“A Curious and Interesting Enterprise”
Cut Off by War: The Norwegian Saints Report, 1944
David O. McKay Envisions Zion
The Day the Angel Moroni Almost Lost His Horn
“The Day the Mormons Came”: A BBC Broadcast, 1956
The Deacons’ Meeting, 1925
Deerskins and Church Security among LDS Shoshones, 1938
Deporting Undesirables
Deseret Book’s First Catalog, 1922
Dictating Politics: The Election of 1912
“Died in the Service of Their Fatherland”: Latter-day Saints in Germany, World War I – part one, part two (with images: Death Notices in Der Stern, World War I)
“A Display of No Ordinary Character”
Does a Tree Still Grow in Beijing?
A Doggie Would A-Tractin’ Go, Mm-hmm, Mm-hmm
Dr. Pack and the Common Six-Pack
Early Days of the Anchorage, Alaska Branch
“Echoes of Lives Wrecked”
The Elders and Saints of Europe, 1912
Electing the Bishop, 1895 (senile retelling of same story a year later:Electing the Bishop)
En Route to the Field: Missionaries Aboard theS.S. Vestris, 1928, and, Letters of Condolence
An English Music Critic Visits the Tabernacle, 1885
Envied by a King: Mormon Boys, 1916-17
A Family by the Numbers
Fielding Academy Catalog: LDS Education, 1902-03
The Fire and Light Was Always Free: A Case of Pioneer Hospitality
Fires of Faith in Great Britain, 1848
Five Thousand Zulu Warriors, One Prince of Wales, and Two Mormon Missionaries
“Fleeing Back to America from the War Zone of Europe” (1915)
Flight from Mexico
Foreshadowing in France
A French View of Mormonism, 1941
Gaston L. Braley, “Leaves from a Life’s Journal”:

part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, A Sequel

A “Gathering” Storm (1 of 3), (2 of 3), (3 of 3)
Generous Scots
Genesis and Geology: A Dialogue
George Albert Smith: “Shut It!”
George Bernard Shaw on Mormon Polygamy
George Henry Mecham Pays a “Debt”
George Q. Cannon Speaks Out Against Internet Snark
A Good Word for the Elders, 1884
Gordon B. Hinckley Unexpectedly Finds Himself in a War Zone
The Gospel of the House Fly
The Gospel Unites Us All (Dutch potatoes for post-war Germany):

part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5

El Gran Terremoto de Valdivia, 1960
The Great Mormon Marijuana Myth
Haere Mai ki te Hui Tau! (with full text of Hui Tau, 1911 letter)
“Harmony and Sweetness”: The Tabernacle Choir (by proxy) in Alaska, 1913
“He Got Well But Never Paid Us”: The Carthage Medical Bill of John Taylor
Henry Ballard’s Miraculous Newspaper Delivery
“Here, kitty, kitty,” or, The Lions of the Lion House
Hinc Lucem et Pocula Sacra
Holger Danskes Briller
Hooper Young’s Murder of Anna Pulitzer
A House of Dreams (for you and 39 of your closest friends’ families)
How John F. Kennedy Learned about the 1,100 Missionaries in Germany, 1963
Humane Sermon in Three Parts, 1917
“I Have Not Seen or Heard an Elder or a Member of the Church for Over Seventeen Years”
“If There Is No Laundry Tub, Then Take a Swim in the Wash Basin”
In Case You Missed the Solution to the Mormon Problem
Investigation Made by the British Government of the Mormon Question
“It’s Still Tough Going West”: Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1961
J. Golden Kimball Speaks in Conference, 1926
James J. Strang to John Taylor and Orson Hyde, with Reply, 1846
Janne M. Sjodahl vs. Albert Einstein
“Jim the Penman”
John Alvon Glauser: An Elder in Nazi Germany
John Dempsey: “They Kick Better Men Out of Hell Every Day”
John Garratt Chambers: An Englishman’s Emigration, 1853 (withfull text of his letters)
“Junior Council”: The Church Steps before the Television Camera
Just for a Few Hours, Brethren. You Know, While You’re in Church
The Kanes Have a Mormon Thanksgiving
The King is Dead, Long Live the King! (1936)
Last Week: Provo Tabernacle Interior
Law of Adoption (1894 Talks by Wilford Woodruff and George Q. Cannon
An LDS Woman at the Dawn of War, 1914
Lethbridge, Alberta: “Ye Shall Obtain Riches …to Feed the Hungry
The Lockerbie Rail Disaster, 1883
Long Gone: The Mystery of Gubernatorial Absences in South Carolina and Utah
“The Lord Would Have Eliminated Bigotry and Class Distinction”
“The Main Church of Liverpool, England”
Majesty in Chains
Meeting an Obligation: Temple Receipt, 1926
Memorial Day Comes to Deseret, 1873
Miracle of the Quail
Missionaries Mobbed in Mexico, 1925
The Missionary and the London Air Raid
Missionary Evacuation, 1939: A First Person Account
Missionary Home Training Schedule, 1936
“Missouri People Were Not All Mobbers in Those Terrible Days”
A Mormon Abroad
A Mormon Collectible, 1901
Mormon Family Profiled in New York Press, 1884
The “Mormon Highball” and Other 19th Century Mormon Home Remedies
Mormon History à la Grecque
A Mormon in the Family Tree
Mormon Invasion!!! :The Onion in London, 1927
Mormon Newspapers of the 19th Century
Mormon Teachings on Race Relations, 1935
MormonUSA, 1910,1933
A Mormon View of Islam, 1874
The Mormon What????
The Mormons’ First Memorial Day
Mother’s Day Carnations, 1920
The Mountain of the Lord’s House
“The Mountains Shout”: Evan Stephens and the Recording of Mormon Hymns
Murder in the Metropolis (1 of 4) (2 of 4) (3 of 4) (4 of 4)
New Issue of the Book of Mormon, 1921
New Leadership for the Washington, D.C., Branch, 1929
The New York Times’ First Crossword Puzzle
New Zealand’s Pioneering Relief Society Presidency
No, no, no, NO! (Provo Tabernacle fire)
“Not Humiliation, But Heroism”: Mormon Refugees in El Paso, 1912
A Note about Brigham’s Beard
The Number One Very First Earliest Original LDS British Sunday School
An Occurrence at the Tabernacle, 1890
Oliver Cowdery’s Last Testimony
On the Eve of War, 1940
One Hungry Missionary
“Only a little newsboy”
The Opening Up of Africa
Origin of the “Threefold Mission of the Church” Statement
“Our Foreign-Born Friends”
“Out of the Realm of Despair”: Famine Relief in 1940
Palmyra Pilgrimage, 1922
A Photograph:

Beside the Golden Door
Conference Crowds, ca. 1940
Ezra Taft Benson, 1946
Halloween at Primary Childrens Hospital, ca. 1934
In the Land of Egypt, 1921
A Moon Fallen Low
Oliver Cowdery Monument Dedication
The President and His Pal
The Prophet’s Birth Place
Rail Meets Trail
South Temple and Main
Southern States Missionaries
Those Cotton Pickin Mormons
The Washing of Feet, 1914

April 6th, at Sea
The Pioneers: Our Models of Faith, Courage, Endurance – War?
Polynesians in the Desert
President Uchtdorf, Elder Benson, and Keepa
Raising Funds for Relief Society in London, England
Raising the House in San Antonio, 1949
Random Reasons Why I Like Brigham Young: One
Random Reasons Why I Like Brigham Young: Two
Random Reasons Why I Like Brigham Young: Three
A Real, Live Mormon in Boston, 1879
Realignment of French-speaking Missions in Europe
The Recovery of Clark Hamblin
Relic of an Old Tragedy
“Relief of the Needy Cannot be Immoral or Unlawful”: Justice for Mormon Widows and Orphans, 1892
Rented Light Bulbs
Riverview Ward Anniversary, 1948
Rochester, New York Hears from Elders Millward and Driggs, 1926
Rudger Clawson Takes a Bath, 1912
The Saints Gather in Breslau/Wroclaw, 1924
“Scared Straight”: 1926 Mormon Edition
Second International Hygiene Exhibition, Dresden, 1930
“Self Abuse” and “Self Destruction”: Frank Talk in Relief Society, 1927
The Shingle Sisters of Lake Elsinore, California
“A Sight to Make Strong Men Weep”: Rudger Clawson, World Traveler
Signs of the Time [Janne M. Sjodahl on Albert Einstein]
Smells Like …
So You Think You Can Dance, 1851 Edition
Somali Pirates, Mormon Militiamen, and the U.S. Military
Stories from the Construction of the Laie Temple
The Story of a Stone: Miriam Works Young
Sunday School at Scipio
The Swiss Saints Contact the Church, 1944
The Tabernacle under Attack, 1938
Technology in the Service of the Gospel
A Terrifying Proposal
That 1937 Illinois Documents Purchase
They Lived to See Sputnik, Yet They Remembered Brigham Young
They “Shipped the Books”: World War II Missionary Evacuation
Three Musketeers: Servicemen’s Meetings in the Canal Zone, 1942
Through the Fire
Through These Gates
“To Appreciate Our Homes When Once We Are Permitted to Return”: Sister Missionaries in Samoa, 1892
To Members Far from Temples, 1916
Tracting in Newark, New Jersey, 1905
“A Tragic, Solemn and Dark Day”
20th Century Covered Wagon Pioneers
Two Presidents Meet, 1919
The Two Roads
The Ugliest Post Keepa Has Ever Published
Unexpected Tenderness: Joseph F. Smith on the Death of George A. Smith
A Utah War Primer
The Way We Were: July 1942, July 1942 (German edition), March 1961, February 1985
We got ’em coming and going
“Well Known Facts”
We’re dead! Dead, I tell you! (Why won’t we stay dead?!)
What an Irishman Thought of Us in 1851
What Happens to English Girl Converts Who Emigrate to Utah
What If This Were Your Introduction to the Church?
What Was Burned in the Privy Vault?
“When Baked Potatoes and Milk Are Needed,” 1945-46
When One Prophet Supersedes an Earlier One
When Words Fail
When the Gas Lights Flickered
Where Is a Mormon’s Abode?
“T he ‘Wild West’ Has Ceased to Be”
A Wild West Train Robbery – With a Mormon Twist
Wilford Woodruff’s First Mission (Graphic History):

part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8, part 9, part 10, part 1 1, part 12, part 13, part 14, part 15, part 16, part 17, part 18

William W. Phelps’s Mad Poetry: “The Apostates’ New Names”
The Winds and the Waves, 1903
Winston Churchill Investigates the Mormon Question, 1910-1911
A Winter Walk from Solingen to Kassel, 1902
Without Purse or Scrip: First Tracting of the Argentine Countryside, 1931
“Women Do Not Hold the Priesthood,” 1914
The Work of Their Own Hands
Wrecking Ball Blues
“You Can’t Go to Heaven in Cologne Water”: A Missionary Talk by J. Golden Kimball
“Young Man, Do You Want SAL-vation?”: Joseph E. Taylor’s 1849 Mission (with Joseph Edward Taylor’s Obituary)

Music

Advent 2009:

Introduction
Digital Sound Files
“All Hail the New-Born Year,” Parley P. Pratt, George Careless
“Bethlehem’s Song of Triumph ,” B.H. Winslow, Alfred M. Durham
“A Child’s Merriest Christmas ,” Lula Greene Richards, Willy Reske
“Christ Is Born, the Joyful Story,” Evan Stephens
“Christmas Babe,” Frances K. Taylor
“Christmas Bells,” George Hugh Thomas
“Christmas Carol,” Mildred Tanner Pettit
“Christmas Carol,” Willy Reske
“Christmas Eve,” Myles B. Foster
“Christmas is Coming,” Hazel Washburn, Lorenzo Mitchell
“Christmas Night,” Inez R. Preece, Inez Jean Preece
“Christmas Song,” Evan Stephens
“Dear Little Stranger,” Charles H. Gabriel
“Glory Be to God,” Evan Stephens
“The First Christmas Night,” Moiselle Renstrom
“The Holy Child,” Mildred Tanner Pettit
“In the Star-Light,” Mary Hale Woolsey, Robert Sauer
“Mortals Awake! with Angels Join,” Samuel Medley, John Rippon
“Sing the Sweet and Touching Story,” Emmeline B. Wells, George Careless
“A Stranger Star,” Orson F. Whitney, Evan Stephens
“A Stranger Star O’er Bethlehem,” Orson F. Whitney, Edwin F. Parry
“To the Land of Judea,” Frances K. Taylor
“We Must Adore Thee,” Willy Reske (arranger)
“When Christ Was Born in Bethlehem,” Ebenezer Beesley
“While Shepherds Watched,” Frank Moore Jeffrey
“The Wrinkled Brow of Time,” Orson F. Whitney, Samuel B. Mitton

“Be Thrifty,” Tra-la-la
“Don’t Be a Forgetter, Write the Soldier Boy a Letter”
Every Movement Needs a Good Theme Song
“The Gushing Rill”
“Israel Reigns”: A Song by William W. Phelps
“Our Mother in Heaven”
A Sissy Boy
Song of the Wheat (1915)
A Temple Hymn
Two Mormon Folk Songs, One Tune to Learn
“Winter,” with Evan Stephens and Our Phantom
There’s No Such Thing as a Witch

On This Date

February 4, 1949

Personal

Being a 50-Something Single in the Church
An American Mormon? or a Mormon American?
Another Fourfold Purpose Thought, or, Why I Follow Prophets Instead of Trying to Lead Them
Ardishood: The View from 2010
Braggernacle
Calling on Old Friends I Haven’t Yet Met
Carefully Taught
Completely Off-Topic: Help My Friends Win a Year’s Free Milk Delivery
Confessions of My Father’s Daughter
Creating My Own Edition of the Scriptures
Cutting Stones, or Building a Cathedral? A Minor Rant
Daryl’s Integrity
Does Jesus Understand Postpartum Depression?
An Extraordinary Gospel Doctrine Moment
The Father She Never Knew
“Grieved: For He Had Many Possessions”
How I Got Hooked: My Confession
I Don’t Know It All, But I Know Some Things
In Which a Secretary Outshines a Police Department
A Lecture I Know I’ll Have to Give
“I left the church because I found out all the history that they never taught”
In Which I Suddenly Understand
Joseph Smith Again for the First Time
Justice for Peggy
Les Arabes
Living with Another’s Agency
The Missionary at Mass
My Mission’s Brightest Moment
My Philosophy of Teaching Gospel Doctrine
Needling Grandma
Pillars of My Faith
A Rant about Scriptural Literalism
The New Year a-Knocking
Poll: Tender Mercy? or Two Stupids Cancelling Each Other?
A Prayer for Jenny Reeder
Prayers for a Brave Little Boy
Remembrance of Things Fast
Stray Thoughts During a Testimony Meeting on the Fourth of July
This is the Son of God. These are Men in Uniform. Don’t Confuse the Two
To My Ward Members
To Touch the Face of God
What I Learned at the UVSC Bus Stop
Words for Life
“Why I Chose to Convert to Islam,” by my niece

Photograph Collections

(Beehive) Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, 1916
Flocks of Seagulls, 1923
Latter-day Missionaries, 1912
Latter-day Saint Children, 1927,1940
Latter-day Saint Images

1902 (double issue),1903, 1904, 1905, 1908, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1914 (2), 1915, 1915 (2), 1916, 1916 (2), 1917, 1918, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1923 (2), 1924, 1924 (2) (Women’s Edition, Mostly), 1925, 1925 (2), 1926, 1927, 1927 (2), 1927 (3), 1928, 1928 (2), 1928 (3), 1929, 1930, 1931, 1934, 1934 (2), 1935, 1935 (2), 1936, 1936 (2), 1937, 1937 (2), 1938, 1940, 1942, 1943, 1949, 1950

Snapshots of Mormon Life, 1938, 1959
We Are the Beehive Girls, 1918

Poetry

7 December 1941
The Acorn
Around These Emblems Bowed
Awake! Ye Royal Sons!
Beautiful Waters of Mormon
Brown-Crusted Bread
Cardston’s Jubilee
Christmas Eve on the Desert
Cooks and Cooks
The Constant Generation
Death of Teancum
An Ephemeral Thing
Father! Lead Me Out of Darkness
First Real Treasures
Four Hopes
The Freckle-Faced Kid
Gandhi
The Glory of War
God Must Love the Autumn
Goodbye
Gypsy Soul
Heavenly Voices
Holy Affection and Undying Love
If Joseph Came
Immigrants
It’s Christmas Eve
The Kiss
Land-Bound Gulls
Last Call to Vacation
Let Me Remember
Lien on the Land
Little Boy Blue
Metamorphosis
Mirror, Mirror
Moan Alone
A Mocking Bird
Mother’s Evening Prayer
My Apology
My Child and Thine
My Mother’s Hand
My Shangri-la
Night Nurse
Old Things
On and On
Our Golden Wedding
Pictures of Juarez
Pilgrim’s Progress
Pioneer Father
Playtime
Please Don’t
Poems and Trees
Prayer
Prayer for Banging Doors
Quick Forgiveness
Reaping We Wonder
Shall We Know Our Own Once More?
Since Mother Went Away
The Snooks, 1 and 2, 3 and 4
Sonnet to the Bride and Groom
The Sparrows’ Thanksgiving Feast
Star of Gold Removed
The Story Hour
Strength
Temple Gardener
The Temple Site
Testimony?
Thanksgiving Memories
’Tis Well with Him
To My Grandmother’s Portrait
Truth’s Message
The Understanding Heart: A Tribute to George Albert Smith
“Valentine”
the Value of Silence
The Vision
Wakeful Winter Nights
“We” Not “You”
What of Tnhy Victory, O Woman?
Who Watched in Faith
A Wish
You Have Not Failed
Zintka Latuni

Problems of the Age

Preface
Notice
1: An Interpretation of the War
2: The Ashes of the World’s Conflagration
3: The World’s Leveling Processes
4: The Spirit of Destruction
5: Religion and the War
6: Conservation of Life
7: A Real Danger to the Middle Class
8: Value of Child Life
9: Co-operation
10: Extravagance
11: Inequalities a Besetting Sin of Present Day Life
12: The Future of the Holy Land
13. The Reaction of War Weapons on Civil Life
14: Intemperance
15: A Pleasure-Loving Age
16. Financial Respectability
17: Survival of the Fittest
18: The New Education
19: The Home
20: Woman’s World
21: Dependent Mothers
22: Sexual Life
23: Divorce
24-25. Race Suicide /a>
26: Music
27: Dancing
29: Heredity
30: Eugenics
31-32: Back to the Land
33: Fast Offerings
34. Business Life
35: The Negro Question

Proprieties and Usages of Good Society

Preliminary
Lesson I. Introduction
Lesson II. Visitors in the Home
Lesson III. Dress
Lesson IV. Traveling
Lesson V.: Suggestions for Travel by Sea
Lesson VI.: Ball Room Etiquette
Lesson VII. Table Manners
Lesson VIII. Proper Street Deportment
Lesson IX. Shopping
Lesson X. Social Observances in Calling, at Weddings, and Funerals
Lesson XI. Picnics, Excursions, Parties, and Winter and Summer Outings
Lesson XII. Conduct in Places of Worship

Puzzles

An 1872 Charade: Another Keepa Puzzle
Charade Challenge, 2009
Christmas Themed Puzzler
Conference Wordle Puzzles, April 2011
Conference Wordles, April 2012
Conference Wordles, October 2010
Conference Wordles! October 2011
Crosspatch Puzzle, 1959
An Enigma – Children Solved It; Can We?
An “Enigma” for Friends at Another Blog
“Honored and Famous”: Another Keepa Enigma
How’s Your Walk and Your Talk? Another Keepa Puzzle
October Conference Wordles: A Keepa Puzzle
Rogues Gallery: A Keepa Puzzle
Scripture Riddle
The Word Made Visible: A Keepa Puzzle

Questions and Answers

He Had a Question, 1894-95
She Had a Question:

1897, 1897 (2), 1909, 1909 (2), 1909 (3), 1910, 1910 (2), 1911, 1911 (2), 1911 (3), 1912, 1912 (2), 1912 (3), 1912 (4), 1913, 1913 (2), 1913 (3), 1913 (4), 1913 (5), 1914, 1915, 1915 (2), 1915 (3), 1916, 1916 (2), 1917, 1917 (2), 1917 (3), 1917 (4), 1918, 1918 (2), 1918 (3), 1919, 1919 (2), 1919 (3), 1920, 1920 (2), 1921, 1921 (2), 1921 (3)

They Asked Him Questions, 1947
I Have a Question:

1840, 1841, 1890, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1899, 1902, 1903, 1905, 1907, 1908-09, 1912-13, 1930

I Have Even More Questions:

1890, 1894, 1896, 1898

I Have More Questions:

1890, 1892, 1894 , 1895, I Have More Questions, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1902, 1903, 1930

Questions from the Grass Roots, 1948:

part 1,[part 2] Curse of Cain Edition, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8, part 9, part 10, part 11, part 12, part 13, part 14, part 15, part 16, part 17, part 18

They Had Questions:

1953, 1955, 1959

They Had Questions, Too, 1939
We Have Answers: St. George, 1898

Recipes

Birth of a Mormon Tradition: Jello!
Dilly Bread
Gingerbread, the Scent of Christmas
Hot Cross Buns for Good Friday
Little White Lab Rat
Little White Lab Rat Gets Juiced
Little White Lab Rat Goes Fruity
Little White Lab Rat Has Bean Loafing Around
Little White Lab Rat Loses Courage
Little White Lab Rat Tries Again
Pea-Shell Beer
Thrifty Cakes

Relief Society History

A Building for the Women of the Church
A Home for Women and Girls
Little Houses of Their Own: Relief Society Halls
The Jefferson Ward Bedding Project
The Scope of Relief Society, 1915

Stories of the Book of Mormon (Phil Darby’s Graphic Novel)

The Story of Lehi

parts 1 and 2, parts 3 and 4, parts 5 and 6, parts 7 and 8, parts 9 and 10, parts 11 and 12, parts 13 and 14, parts 15 and 16, parts 17 and 18, parts 19 and 20, parts 21 and 22, parts 23 and 24, parts 25 and 26, parts 27 and 28, parts 29 and 30, parts 31 and 32, parts 33 and 34, parts 35 and 36

The Story of Nephi

parts 1 and 2, parts 3 and 4, parts 5 and 6, parts 7 and 8, parts 9 and 10, parts 11 and 12, parts 13 and 14

Jacob

parts 1 and 2, parts 3 and 4, part 5

Enos

part 1, parts 2 and 3

The Book of Jarom
Omni

parts 1 and 2, parts 3 and 4

The Story of Mosiah

parts 1 and 2, parts 3 and 4, parts 5 and 6, parts 7 and 8, parts 9 and 10, parts 11 and 12, parts 13 and 14, parts 15 and 16, parts 17 and 18, parts 19 and 20, parts 21 and 22, parts 23 and 24, parts 25 and 26, parts 27 and 28, parts 29 and 30, parts 31 and 32, parts 33, 34, and 35

The Rebellion

parts 1 and 2, parts 3 and 4, parts 5 and 6, parts 7 and 8

The Missions of Alma

parts 1 and 2, parts 3 and 4, parts 5 and 6, parts 7 and 8, parts 9 and 10, parts 11 and 12, part 13

The Destruction of Ammonihah

part 1, parts 2 and 3

Peace in Zarahemla
The Adventures of the Sons of Mosiah

part 1, parts 2 and 3, parts 4 and 5, parts 6 and 7, parts 8 and 9, parts 10 and 11, parts 12 and 13, parts 14 and 15, parts 16 and 17, parts 18 and 19, part 20

People of the Lord
A Great War
Korihor the Evil

parts 1 and 2, parts 3 and 4

Alma Among the Zoramites

parts 1 and 2, parts 3, 4, and 5

The Commandments of Alma to His Sons: Helaman and Shiblon, and Corianton
The Story of Moroni

parts 1 and 2, parts 3 and 4, parts 5 and 6, parts 7, 8 and 9

The Title of Liberty

parts 1 and 2

The Treachery of Amalickiah

parts 1 and 2, parts 3, 4 and 5

The Title of Liberty

parts 1 and 2, parts 3 and 4

The Defenders

parts 1 and 2, parts 3

The Story of Morianton

part 1, parts 2 and 3, parts 3 and 4

The 25th Year of the Judges

parts 1 and 2

Tale of the City of Mulek

parts 1 and 2, parts 3 and 4, parts 5 and 6

The Stripling Soldiers

parts 1 and 2

Territorial Library of Utah (1852 catalog)

Agriculture and Gardening
American History
Antiquities, Ethnology, Genealogy, Heraldry, Mythology, Numismatics
Architecture, and Engineering
Arts, Manufactures, and Domestic Economy
Asiatic and African History
Biography
Botany
Chemistry, Meteorology, Electricity, &c.
Collective Authors, and Polite Literature
Dictionaries, Grammars, and Alphabets
Domestic Animals and Veterinary
Drawing, Painting, Engraving, Sculpture and Music
Education
Encyclopaedias and General Dictionaries
European History
General, and Literary History, and Chronology
Geography and Topography
Law, Government, Political Economy, Statistics, &c.
Maps, Atlases, Globes and Busts
Mathematics; Astronomy, Navigation, and Surveying
Mechanics, Hydraulics, and Hydrostatics
Medicine, Surgery, Anatomy and Physiology
Memoirs, Transactions, and Publications of Literary and Scientific Institutions
Mineralogy and Geology
Natural History
Natural Philosophy; Ethics, Logic, Rhetoric and Criticism
Novels, Tales, Games and Sports
Orations, Addresses, Eulogies, Speeches, Lectures, and Letters
Periodicals and Newspapers; Catalogues
Poetry and Drama
Registers, Directories, Almanacs, and Guides
Theology, Ecclesiastical History and Law
Trade and Commerce
Voyages and Travels

Utah History

July 24, 1857
An 1870 Ghost Story
The Bones in the Pit
A Country of Magnificent Distances
Dashing Through the Snow
Edgardo and Bertha; or, Chief White Elk Weds Princess Ah-Tra-ah-Saun
Emancipation Day
Grave Robbing, Abraham Lincoln, and Polygamy
Hatchtown Dam Collapse
Heroes in the Desert, 1916 (Utah history)
Honor the Civil War Nurse
It’s a Gas, Gas, Gas
Justice for Hing Sing
The Liberty Bell
My Love Letter to Boy Scouts (Republished)
National Guard, 1916
An Occurrence at St. Mark’s Cathedral
Our Women Veterans (reposted asOur Mothers Answered the Call)
The Raucous Election of 1888
A Salvation Army Christmas
“To Succor Their Fellow Men”
Utah’s First Annapolis Cadet
Willard Flood, 1923
Wizard of the Wasatch

The View From … (Expressions of the roles of women, women vis-a-vis the Church, etc.)

Ardishood: The View from 2010
“Called to Her Calling”: The View from 1903
Daughters of Zion: The View from 1903
Girls and Missionaries: The View from 1964
Girls and the Priesthood: The View from 1937
Girls and the Sacrament Table: the View from 1950
Girls at Home and Abroad: The View from 1903
Lessons on Women and the Priesthood: The View from 2012
Only an Old Maid: The View from 1900
Priesthood and Girlhood: The View from 1933
Priesthood and Womanhood: The View from 1933
Womanhood and Priesthood: The View from 1943
Women and the Church: The View from 1840
Women, Leisure, and Salvation: The View from 1937

“What Shall I Do?” Paid Employment for Mormon Girls, 1927

Part 1, The Nurse
Part 2: The Teacher
Part 3: The Salesgirl
Part 4: The Musician
Part 5: Domestic Art and Science
Part 6: The Beauty Operator
Part 7: The Stenographer
Part 8: The Artist
part 9: The Doctor
part 10: The Writer

The Whole Year Through

Beneficial Life, 1958
Bookcraft, 1954
BYU Ad Campaign, 1963
The Children’s Friend, 1950
The Children’s Friend, 1951
The Children’s Friend, 1952
Children’s Friend, 1957
The Childrens Friend, 1965
Daynes Music Advertising, 1915
Deseret Book Ads, 1956
The Deseret News Advertises in the Children’s Friend, 1949
Educational Opportunities, 1923
Gaynotes, 1959-1968
Whole Year Through: Home Fire Insurance Company, 1905
Hotel Utah Advertising, 1944
Improvement Era, 1963
Instructor, 1948
Instructor, 1949
Juvenile Instructor, 1914
Juvenile Instructor, 1915
Juvenile Instructor, 1926
KSL Advertising, 1937
LDS Business College, 1944
The Whole Year Through: LDS Business College, 1954
Melchizedek Priesthood, 1938
Relief Society, 1976-77
Relief Society Magazine, 1939
The Sax Education of Mormons, 1926
Teachers’ Quorum, 1940

Without Purse or Scrip in Texas

1899

20 October – 8 November, 9 November – 30 November, 1 December-19 December, 22 December 1899-14 January 1900

1900

15 January-4February, 5 February-18 February, 20 February – 5 March, 6 March – 18 March, 19 March – 31 March, 1 April – 16 April, 17 April – 4 May, 5 May – 17 May, 18 May – 2 June, 1 June – 18 June, 19 June – 8 July, 9 July – 31 July1 August – 20 August, 21 August – 10 September

“You Have Been Listening …”

… to an LDS Radio Broadcast: Visiting a Primary Meeting, 1933
… to an M.I.A. Broadcast: Indian Lore for the Vanguards, 1933
… to a Relief Society Broadcast: Memories (1933)
… to the Sunday Evening Broadcast

“Come, Come Ye Saints”
Early Hymns of the Restoration
History of LDS Hymns
The Hymns of John Jaques
“The Morning Breaks, the Shadows Flee”
Our Missions in Wartime Europe, 1941
“The Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief,” 1933
Three Hymns by Charles W. Penrose

… to the Sunday Morning Church of the Air

The Young Man and His Vocation, 1925-26

Introduction
Lesson 1: Succeeding in Life
Lesson 2: The Need of Vocations
Lesson 3: Kinds of Vocations
Lesson 4: The Vocational Situation
Lesson 5: The Agricultural Pursuits
Lesson 6: The Trades
Lesson 7: Manufacturing
Lesson 8: Business
Lesson 9: Engineering – Architecture
Lesson 10: Medical and Legal Professions
Lesson 11: Teaching– Librarian
Lesson 12: Art – Music – The Stage
Lesson 13: Mining
Lesson 14: Research – Science – Expert Service
Lesson 15: Journalism – Authorship
Lesson 16: Vocations Developed in Recent Years
Lesson 17: Vocations for the Disabled and for Special Conditions
Lesson 18: Choosing the Right Vocation
Lesson 19: Preparation for a Vocation
Lesson 20: Securing and Keeping a Position
Lesson 21: Keeping Fit
Lesson 22: Efficiency in Work
Lesson 23: Some Vocational Problems
Lesson 24: The Vocational Outlook



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