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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
And You Thought It had Something to Do with Commitment and Righteousness
Baby Scofflaws
BYU Ad Campaign, 1963
BYU Is Apostrophizing Again
Cleon Skousen’s 7,000-Mile Leap
Cultural Imperialism of a Terrifying Kind
Daynes Music Advertising, 1915
Deseret Book Ads, 1956
The Deseret News Offers to Solve Your Child Discipline Problems
Fight the War, Ladies! (1942)
For All You Cleon Skousen Fans
For Laughs
Further Lessons on Mormon Sugar Patriotism
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
Juvenile 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
Men Need Not Apply (Takes Too Long to Train ‘Em)
A Mormon (Advertising!) Image
Mormondom’s Perfect Food (Sugar advertisements)
Nike Never Had an Endorsement Like This
No, the University of Utah Did Not Bribe Me to Post This
The Sax Education of Mormons, 1926
“The sexiness of innocence”
Of Toddlers, Canals and Driveways
A Postum Ad with a Keepa Connection
A Sugar Ad Worth Framing
Sweet! Crystallized Sunshine
Sweet! Good News about Between Meal Snacks
Sweet! More Extravagant Claims for Sugar
Thou Shalt Not Covet … But I Do
To Further Disrupt the Peace of the Reeve Household (Sugar advertisements)
We’re Number O–, … Er, We’re Adequate!
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
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

“Doing” History

And Yet Another Joseph Smith Photograph
Arrington Lecture: September 23, 2010, at Logan, Utah
At Sword’s Point: Order Form
At Zelph’s Mound
Before You Teach or Attend Gospel Doctrine 35 on the Handcart Rescue, Read This
Bill MacKinnon at Sam Wellers, Sept. 26 (Announcement)
Brigham Young and Father Victor Jouanneault: Evaluating Credibility of a Document
BYU Easter Conference This Saturday
Guest Post: Can I Trust Leonard Arrington? An Exercise in Historical Provenance
Church History Library Dedication
Church History Library: First Month Report Card
Church History Library Open House
Come Witness an Archaeological “Climb” this Saturday (Salt Lake City)
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
Dedication of Mormon Battalion Monument Plaza, August 21, Salt Lake City
Do You Need Records from the National Archives (Washington, D.C.)?
An Evening with Jill Mulvay Derr and Karen Lynn Davidson (Announcement)
Family History Basics

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

Finding the Missing Pioneers: A Case Study
First Ever Graduate Fellowship in Mormon Studies (Announcement)
German National Day of Mourning
Going Long: Of Clubs and Conduct
Going Long: Of Speculation and Dark Mormon Doings
Good News from the Community of Christ
Gospel Doctrine (Old Testament): How We Taught This Lesson 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

Gospel Doctrine (Doctrine and Covenants/Church History): How We Taught This Topic 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”
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
Lesson 20: 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”

In Our Ward (Relief Society/Old Testament Gospel Doctrine Lessons, After the Fact)

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
Teachings for Our Times: Acquiring and Recognizing Spiritual Guidance
Lesson 9: “God Will Provide Himself a Lamb”
Lesson 11: “How Can I Do This Great Wickedness?”
Lesson 13: Bondage, Passover and Exodus
Teachings for Our Times: “Be Ready”
Lesson 14: “Ye Shall Be a Peculiar Treasure Unto Me”
Lesson 16: “I Cannot o 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”
Gospel Principles, Lesson 15: The Life of Christ
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

Intermountain West Journal of Religious Studies
Is There a Prussian Military Expert in the House?
Joseph Smith Papers: Reference Materials Now Available
Julie’s Papers (1 of 2) (2 of 2)
Jumping the Gun with the Online Patriarchal Blessing Announcement
Kane Lecture, February 11 (Announcement)
Keepa’ninnies Sight the MHA Presidential Seer Stone in Exotic Places
LDS Archives Closure (Announcement)
A Letter to President Veazey, Community of Christ
Liftoff! The Joseph Smith Papers Are Published
“March of the Salt Soldiers”: James Arrington’s New Play
Massacre at Mountain Meadows: A Scholarly Discussion (Announcement)
Massacre Panel: Not-so-live blogged
Matt Grow to Give Last BYU Kane Lecture This Thursday (March 12)
MHA 2011 Proposal Deadline Fast Approaching: October 1, 2010
MHA Presidential Seer Stone: An Invitation
Mistrust and Verify
Mormon Studies Event in Norman, Oklahoma This Friday (Announcement)
Mormon Studies Events: Arrington Lecture, and Evans Awards
Mormon Studies: Reminders and Announcements
“The Mormons” on PBS
Mountain West Center: 2008 Annual Report
Of Massacres and Misinformation
Oh, WHOSE Mother?
On the Road to Mountain Meadows
Our Crown Jewels: The Church Archives
A Phone Call to Jan Shipps
Reeve and Parshall, Mormonism: A Historical Encyclopedia: Announcement
Rumor-Mongering: Joseph Smith Daguerreotype
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)
Utah State History Conference 2010: Mormon Content
Utah Valley University: Mormon Studies Events (Announcement)
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 the Salt Lake Tribune
You Can Do This!

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
Cornelius Gilliam: Fifty Years of Life, A Century of War
Angus Smith Hibbard: Scientist and Artist
Douglas Gordon Hook: Engineering Joy
Janos Kalapsza “…went out to the Mormons”
Father Edward Kelly: Irish Priest in Brigham’s Zion
Martin Luther King in Deseret
Jacob Moritz: Justice to the Dead
Righteous Gentiles
John Edward Rocha: Non-Mormon Champion of the Saints
[Louis A. Sayre:] The Surgeon and Brigham Young
[Harriet Grandin Titcomb:] Tickled by the Fringes
Henry D. Styer: A Sense of Fair Play
[Maria Von Trapp:] A Baroness Named Maria

From our exchanges: Reviews and Assessments

“As the Saints Go Marching By: Modern Jokelore Concerning Mormons”
“The Awful March of the Saints,” American Heritage, Fall 2008
“Basketball and the Culture-Change Process”
“The Brink of War,” Smithsonsian, June 2008
Commercial Propaganda in the Silent Film: A Case Study of “A Mormon Maid” (1917)
Emma’s Family (Review)
First Impressions of the Joseph Smith Papers: Revelations Volume
“‘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”
“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: Sally Denton, Faith and Betrayal: A Pioneer Woman’s Passage in the American West
“Transformations of Power: Mormon Women’s Visionary Narratives”
Utah Historical Quarterly: Utah War Issue

Guest Posts

Polly Aird
Fires of Faith in Great Britain, 1848

Alison
In My Own Words: Alison, 2009

Anne (U.K.)
‘As Arranged’
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”

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

Joseph Bennett
An English Music Critic Visits the Tabernacle, 1885

George Q. Cannon
Blook of Mormon Geography

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

J. Reuben Clark, Jr.
The Awesome Task of Peace

Coffinberry
Charade Challenge, 2009

Vesta P. Crawford
The Women of Easter

B.F. Cummings, Jr.
A Real, Live Mormon in Boston, 1879

Ellen
Fun in the Mission Field
Not So Fast

Richard L. Evans
A “Liberal” Label
The Passing of Presidents

Kevin Folkman
20th Century Covered Wagon Pioneers
Can I Trust Leonard Arrington? An Exercise in Historical Provenance

Josiah Francis Gibbs
God’s Acre

Michelle Glauser
John Alvon Glauser: Face to Face with History

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

William P. MacKinnon
June 26: End of the Utah War?
Long Gone: The Mystery of Gubernatorial Absences in South Carolina and Utah
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

David O. McKay
The Church and the Present War

Emma Ray Riggs McKay
Woman’s Power to Remove the Cause of War

Mina
Sled Boy

Ezra J. Poulsen
The Two Roads

Paul R.
Israel’s Netanya Academic College

Clark Ricks
Hyrum Ricks, Sr.: “For Your Own Good and For Your Salvation”

Alexander Schreiner
Rules for Congregational Singing

Janne M. Sjodahl
Signs of the Time [Albert Einstein]

Joseph F. Smith
Have Courage to Say “I Don’t Know”
The Repetition of Sacred Ordinances
Witchcraft

Joseph Soderborg
Secrets of the Cornerstone to Be Revealed This Saturday
Secrets of the Cornerstone — Revealed (with additional photo gallery)

Evan Stephens
The Vision
We Sing Those Songs to Remind Us of What We Are

Tatiana
Ghosts

Amy Tanner Thiriot
The Big Table: An Experiment in Communal Living

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

Frederick Daniel Worlton
Tracting in Newark, New Jersey, 1905

David Young
Sled Girl and Friends

Humor

19th Century Knock Knock Jokes
Adam and His Nerve
Funny Bones, 1876, 1885-1889-1890, 1886, 1890, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1894 (2), 1895, 1904, 1907, 1907 (2), 1908, 1909, 1909 (2), 1909 (3), 1910 (Mekalekahi-Mekahiniho), 1911, 1922 (2), 1912, 1912 (2), 1913, 1914, 1914 (2), 1914 (3), 1914 (4), 1915, 1915 (2), 1915 (3), 1915 (4), 1916, 1917, 1918, 1918 (Special edition: World War I), 1919, 1919 (2), 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1923 (2), 1924, 1925, 1926, 1926 (2), 1927, 1928, 1928 (2), 1928 (3), 1929, 1930, 1931, 1931 (2), 1931 (3), 1932, 1933, 1933 (2), 1933 (3), 1933 (4), 1934, 1935, 1936, 1938, 1938 (2), 1938 (3), 1938 (4), 1938 (5), 1939, 1940, 1940 (2), 1940 (3), 1941, 1941 (2), 1941 (3), 1941 (4), 1942, 1942 (2), 1942 (3), 1943, 1943 (2), 1943 (3), 1944, 1944 (2), 1945, 1946, 1946 (2), 1946 (3), 1946 (4), 1947, 1947 (2), 1948, 1948 (2), 1949, 1949 (2), 1950, 1950 (2), 1951, 1951 (2), 1953, 1962, 1964, 1968, 1970
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
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
Jay Welch, Former Mormon Tabernacle Choir Director, Has Died
[Mountain Meadows:] “The most difficult of all the many subjects”
Joseph B. Wirthlin, age 91, Has Passed Away

In Their Own Words

Alison: My Conversion Story, 2009
Annie Abels, 1899
Arnold Ga—n, 1950
Sarah Granger Kimball, 1884
Ei (Asano) Nachie Nagao, 1916
Henry Joseph James Nielson, 1897
Walter Lee Noblin, 1908
Ralph Watson, 1897
Kimi Yamada, 1907

Keepapitchinin

Coming Next Week at Keepapitchinin
Cornerstone Post is Coming
Keepa Cometh
Keepa Goes a-Twittering
Keepa is Now on Facebook
Keepa Kuriosities
Keepa: On Hiatus
Keepa, Pitch, ‘n’ Indy
Keepa’s Back on Line
Keepa’s Topical Guide
Keepa’s Wordle
Navel-Gazing Fun
The Niblets Are Back
A Note to RSS Subscribers
One Thousand \ˈwən ˈthau˙-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
What was happening in the Church when you were born?
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
[Orestes Utah Bean:] Oh, You Bean!
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
Carl Clifton Booth: The Good Shepherd of West Dallas
Annie Griffith Burbank: Among the Gentiles
Douglas C. Busath: Finding “Home” in New Guinea
North to Alaska: Edward G. Cannon and Kedzie N. Winnie and Kedzie Noble Winnie Writes from Nome, 1912
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
John Philip Dalby: Musician Storyteller, Artist (COMIC STRIPS!!)
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
John the Baptist Gayler: “Come In!”
John Alvon Glauser: Face to Face with History
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
Tahauri a Hutihuti: Thirty Years
Hubert Huysecom: “I Did All I Could”
Eulah Marie Jewett: Queen for a Day, Daughter Forever
William Alonzo Hyde: More Than the Author of an Article
Clifford F.D. Kangas, 1947-1967
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
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
Johanna Tippett Porter: In Active Service to the End
[Harry Reid:] A Good Man
[Roy Lee Richardson:] Will They Remember Me?
Guest Post: 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)
Jens Leslie Stevenson: Called to Serve
Pahoa a Tahiaroa: Returning and Reporting
Ingvald Conrad Thoresen: Taking the Gospel to Vingaker
[James Tillman:] Undercover for the Lord
Two Little English Boys
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!!!!
Mary Hale Woolsey: Always Springtime
Geertruida Lodder Zippro: The Extra Mile (Further on Sister Zippro)

Magazine Cover Art

American Independence: Mormon Cover Art, 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
The Children’s Friend, 1951
The Children’s Friend, 1952
Easter Season Cover Art
Firstborn Son
Happy Birthday, Mr. Lincoln
Happy Independence Day!
Happy Pioneer Day!
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Improvement Era, 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
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’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

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
Autumn Symphony: Orchestra at Temple Square
Be Honest With Yourself

The Background
Can You Pass This Test?
Danger, Curves Ahead!
Fresh Up with Sunday
Great Men Pray
The Joy of Work
Keep Faith with Your Family
Live and Learn Forever
The Long and Short of Marriage
Nothing Worth Having Is Free
The Right Circles
“Oh, Say What Is Truth!” — with a Keepa Twist
This Is the Life
Virtue Is Its Own Reward

Be Ye Perfect, Even as Mantua Ward Was Perfect
The Birds and the Bees: “Our Sacred Secret”
The Body of a Man
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
Centennial Lessons: Church History for Women

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

The Childless Ones
The Childless Woman: Some Correlation Needed
Christmas in the Sunday Schools, 1943
Coasting in Paperville (1918)
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
“The Credit It Deserves”: Respecting Religious Organizations
Crossing the Plains Panorama, 1921, part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4
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
Dressing the Dead
Dressing the Deacons and Teachers and Priests, Again, with Follow-up to “Dressing the Deacons”
Elves and Fairies and Brownies
“Era of Youth”: A Later Issue
Eric Nielson, “The Secret Life of Earl Johnson”
An Example of Anti-Intellectualism in the Church
Execution
“Father Says …”
The Four Quests of Home Building, 1942
“Flu Time”
“For the Lord is Risen”
Games I Hope We Never See Again, 1949
Go Get a Rat Trap, Bigger than a Cat Trap
The Grave Hath No Victory
Grubby Boys and Tomboy Girls: Mormon Tweens
Handling Politics in Church Classes
“Health Is Abundance of Life”
He Had a Question, 1894-95
“How Many Wives Have You 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
If You Had Been a Mormon Boy Born in 1915 …
The Improvement Era and the “Era of Youth”
Individual Aaronic Priesthood Award, 1963

It’s Only going to Get Worse, My Friends
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
Lonely, Bitter, Maladjusted, Highly Disagreeable, Sour, Gay, and Insane: The Unmarried Saint in the Pew Next to You
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
MIA Slogans and Themes
“The Missing Members”: Reactivation, 1909
Missionary Street Meetings – How Did They Work?
A Model Husband, 1894
The Model Mormon Fly-Trap
More on Deaconly Uniformity
Mormon Catechisms?
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”

Mormonism and Science: A Short History (but a long blog post)
“The Mormons” on PBS
A Moving Picture
Mushrooms Old Enough for a Driver’s License
Mutual Questions
“New Pioneers … On the March!”
No Time for Boredom
Of Perfect Organizations
Oh, You Bean!
Old-Time Southern States Missionary Songs
The Old Written Order of Things
On Music and the Sacrament
On Welcoming Home LDS Servicemen and Servicewomen
Overheard at the Family History Library: An Original Cartoon
“Pack the Books”: Evacuation Instructions for Missionaries
A Paper Doll, 1935
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
“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?”
President Hinckley Came by it Honestly
Priesthood Line of Authority
Primary Was Intended for Boys
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

“The Qmlbwpnygax Eujugec Have Not the Power to Ktgjie the Wzznlhmpygtg”: Codes and Ciphers in Mormon History (part 1) (part 2) (part 3)
Refining the Sacrament
Relief in the Order
Relief Society Pleads for Plowshares and Pruning Hooks, 1933
Request from Zimbabwean Saints
Retiring Toscanini
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
The Shawl of Mary Haskin Parker Richards
She BUILT her Very Own Salt Lake City, ca. 1941
She Had a Question, 1897, 1897 (2), 1909, 1909 (2), 1909 (3), 1910, 1910 (2), 1911, 1911 (2), 1911 (3), 1912, 1913, 1913 (2), 1913 (3), 1914, 1915, 1915 (2), 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1919 (2), 1919 (3), 1920, 1920 (2), 1921, 1921 (2), 1921 (3)
A Short Story of Cooperation
Sled Boy
Sled Girl and Friends
The Sound of Women’s Heads Exploding
Speech Training: “How to Interest Our Audience”
Startling Stories
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 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 Asked Him Questions, 1947
They Had Questions, 1953, 1959
Things We Ought to Bring Back: Speech Training
This Photo Is Begging for a Caption
To the Mountains of Ephraim
Torn Between Two Lovers
Treasure in a Trash Can
Twisted
Two Easter Programs, 1951
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
Van Camp’s Pork & Beans
Wanted: Mormon Folk Songs
A Ward Family
Warmth and Story-Telling in the Spanish-American Mission, ca. 1949
“We Have Left No One Behind”: Agents for Ourselves and for Others
What Latter-day Saint Men Should Know, 1914 (I)
What Latter-day Saint Women Should Know, 1906 (I), 1906 (II), 1906 (III)
What Were They Thinking??! Again??!
Wheat for Man
Who or What Are We Teaching?
The “Whole Armor of God”: Is This What They Mean?
Witchcraft
You Have Been Listening to the Sunday Evening Broadcast

Come, Come Ye Saints
The Hymns of John Jaques
“The Morning Breaks, the Shadows Flee”
Three Hymns by Charles W. Penrose

The Whole Year Through

BYU Ad Campaign, 1963
The Children’s Friend, 1950
The Children’s Friend, 1951
The Children’s Friend, 1952
The Children’s Friend, 1965
Daynes Music Advertising, 1915
Deseret Book Ads, 1956
Educational Opportunities, 1923
Gaynotes, 1959-1968
Hotel Utah Advertising, 1944
Improvement Era, 1963
The Instructor, 1949
Juvenile Instructor, 1914
Juvenile Instructor, 1915
KSL Advertising, 1937
LDS Business College, 1944
Melchizedek Priesthood, 1938
Relief Society, 1976-77
Relief Society Magazine, 1939
The Sax Education of Mormons, 1926
Teachers’ Quorum, 1940

Whose Fault Is It When LDS Women Marry Outside the Faith?
Why Correlation Can Be a Good Thing, 1849
The Wife I Want, 1893
Without Purse or Scrip
The Women of Easter
Your Grandfather’s Melchizedek Priesthood Manual

The Mormon Past

Alaskan Odyssey
Antiques Roadshow, George Q. Cannon, Feminism, and (Gasp) Bicycle Riding
An Apostle’s Testimony in Soviet Russia, 1959
A Photograph:

Beside the Golden Door
Ezra Taft Benson, 1946
Oliver Cowdery Monument Dedication
Those Cotton Pickin’ Mormons

April 6th, at Sea
“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.)
[B]ear [H]unter Roberts
Before Our Journey’s Through
Before There Were Temples in California
The Beginnings of Boys’ Primary Classes
The Big Table: An Experiment in Communal Living
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
By Sail – By Rail – By Trail
A California ‘49er Visits the Mormons
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
Confidential: Have I Got a Deal for You
“Conspicuous Service, at the Risk of Their Lives”: An American Consul Praises LDS Missionaries, 1906
Covered Wagon Days … in Denmark
“A Creaking Noise Was Heard, Followed by a Sound Like the Crash of Thunder”
“A Curious and Interesting Enterprise”
Cut Off by War: The Norwegian Saints Report, 1944
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
Deseret Book’s First Catalog, 1922
Dictating Politics: The Election of 1912
Does a Tree Still Grow in Beijing?
Dr. Pack and the Common Six-Pack
Early Days of the Anchorage, Alaska Branch
“Echoes of Lives Wrecked”
Electing the Bishop, 1895 (senile retelling of same story a year later: Electing the Bishop)
En Route to the Field: Missionaries Aboard the S.S. Vestris, 1928, and, Letters of Condolence
Envied by a King: Mormon Boys, 1916-17
A Family by the Numbers
Fielding Academy Catalog: LDS Education, 1902-03
Fires of Faith in Great Britain, 1848
Five Thousand Zulu Warriors, One Prince of Wales, and Two Mormon Missionaries
Flocks of Seagulls, 1923
A French View of Mormonism, 1941
A “Gathering” Storm (1 of 3) (2 of 3) (3 of 3)
Generous Scots
Genesis and Geology: A Dialogue
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
El Gran Terremoto de Valdivia, 1960
The Great Mormon Marijuana Myth
“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
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 a Question, 1890, 1891, 1893, 1894, 1896, 1897, 1899, 1905, 1912-13, 1930
I Have Even More Questions, 1898
I Have More Questions, 1896, 1897, 1898
Investigation Made by the British Government of the Mormon Question
Janne M. Sjodahl vs. Albert Einstein
“Jim the Penman”
John Dempsey: “They Kick Better Men Out of Hell Every Day”
John Garratt Chambers: An Englishman’s Emigration, 1853 (with full text of his letters)
“Junior Council”: The Church Steps before the Television Camera
The Kanes Have a Mormon Thanksgiving
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
Long Gone: The Mystery of Gubernatorial Absences in South Carolina and Utah
“The Main Church of Liverpool, England”
Memorial Day Comes to Deseret, 1873
Missionaries Mobbed in Mexico, 1925
Missionary Evacuation, 1939: A First Person Account
A Mormon Collectible, 1901
The “Mormon Highball” and Other 19th Century Mormon Home Remedies
Mormon History à la Grecque
A Mormon in the Family Tree
Mormon Newspapers of the 19th Century
Mormon Teachings on Race Relations, 1935
MormonUSA, 1910, 1933
A Mormon View of Islam, 1874
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
The Number One Very First Earliest Original LDS British Sunday School
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
The Pioneers: Our Models of Faith, Courage, Endurance … War?
Polynesians in the Desert
President Uchtdorf, Elder Benson, and Keepa
Questions from the Grass Roots, 1948, [part 2] Curse of Cain Edition, part 3
Raising Funds for Relief Society in London, England
Random Reasons Why I Like Brigham Young: One
Random Reasons Why I Like Brigham Young: Two
Random Reasons Why I Like Brigham Young: Three
The Recovery of Clark Hamblin
Relic of an Old Tragedy
Rented Light Bulbs
Rochester, New York Hears from Elders Millward and Driggs, 1926
Rogues’ Gallery:A Keepa Puzzle
The Saints Gather in Breslau/Wrocław, 1924
“Scared Straight”: 1926 Mormon Edition
Second International Hygiene Exhibition, Dresden, 1930
Smells Like …
So You Think You Can Dance, 1851 Edition
Somali Pirates, Mormon Militiamen, and the U.S. Military
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
They Had Questions, Too – 1939
They “Shipped the Books”: World War II Missionary Evacuation
Three Musketeers: Servicemen’s Meetings in the Canal Zone, 1942
To Members Far from Temples, 1916
“A Tragic, Solemn and Dark Day”
Guest Post: 20th Century Covered Wagon Pioneers
Two Presidents Meet, 1919
The Ugliest Post Keepa Has Ever Published
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”
What an Irishman Thought of Us in 1851
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
Where Is a Mormon’s Abode?
“The ‘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 11, part 12, part 13, part 14, part 15, part 16, part 17, part 18
The Winds and the Waves, 1903
Winston Churchill Investigates the Mormon Question, 1910-1911
“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”
A Sissy Boy
A Temple Hymn
Two Mormon Folk Songs, One Tune to Learn
“Winter,” with Evan Stephens and Our Phantom

Personal

Another Fourfold Purpose Thought, or, Why I Follow Prophets Instead of Trying to Lead Them
Calling on Old Friends I Haven’t Yet Met
Completely Off-Topic: Help My Friends Win a Year’s Free Milk Delivery
Confessions of My Father’s Daughter
Does Jesus Understand Postpartum Depression?
I Don’t Know It All, But I Know Some Things
Gospel Doctrine Lesson 35: Reporting on My Lesson
How I Got Hooked: My Confession
Joseph Smith Again for the First Time
Justice for Peggy
Les Arabes
Living with Another’s Agency
“The Long-Promised Day” (with slides and PowerPoint download)
The Missionary at Mass
My Mission’s Brightest Moment
Needling Grandma
The New Year a-Knocking
Poll: Tender Mercy? or Two Stupids Cancelling Each Other?
Prayers for a Brave Little Boy
Remembrance of Things Fast
Stray Thoughts During a Testimony Meeting on the Fourth of July
To My Ward Members
Want to Write a Guest Post?
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
Latter-day Missionaries, 1912
Latter-day Saint Children, 1927, 1940
Latter-day Saint Images, 1902 (double issue), 1903, 1904, 1908, 1910, 1914, 1915, 1917, 1918, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1931, 1934, 1938, 1942
Snapshots of Mormon Life, 1938, 1959
We Are the Beehive Girls, 1918

Puzzles

An 1872 Charade: Another Keepa Puzzle
Charade Challenge, 2009
Christmas Themed Puzzler
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

Recipes

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 Loses Courage
Little White Lab Rat Tries Again
Thrifty Cakes

Utah History

July 24, 1857
An 1870 Ghost Story
A Country of Magnificent Distances
Dashing Through the Snow
Emancipation Day
Grave Robbing, Abraham Lincoln, and Polygamy
Hatchtown Dam Collapse
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 as Our Mothers Answered the Call)
A Salvation Army Christmas
Territorial Library

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

“To Succor Their Fellow Men”
Willard Flood, 1923
Wizard of the Wasatch