Welcome to the 52nd annual conference of the Mormon History Association. This year we are meeting in Missouri, affectionately known as the “Show-Me State.” The sobriquet was
popularized
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speech
delivered
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Missouri
Congressman William Duncan Vandiver at a naval banquet in 1899. The Democratic congressman quipped, “I come from a state
that
raises
corn
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cotton
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cockleburs
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Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me.” As we gather with Mormon history enthusiasts this year in the Show-Me State, we can expect to be shown new, well-informed insights on Mormon history and a very good time, thanks to the hard work and planning of committee members, presenters, and commenters. Our program, assembled under the direction of Co-chairs David Grua and Janiece Johnson, features over three dozen sessions in which more than 100 panelists and presenters will share their research and insights regarding Mormon history and culture, viewed through a variety of prisms including politics, theology, memory, authority, space, gender, race, the environment, sports, and the arts. The program committee has planned stimulating plenary sessions. In our opening plenary Fred E. Woods and Tom Farmer, the authors of When the Saints Came Marching In, will teach us about the history of Mormonism in St. Louis. On Friday at our Membership Luncheon D. Michael Quinn, the recipient of MHA’s 2016 Arrington Award, will share insights and reflections from a lifetime of research and writing about Mormon history, drawing upon his diaries and correspondence. Later that afternoon a distinguished panel will celebrate and assess Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s recently published A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism. On Saturday morning, this year’s Smith-Pettit Lecturer, Clyde A. Milner II of the University of New Mexico, professor emeritus of history at Arkansas State University and former editor of the Western Historical Quarterly, will probe into the intersection between Mormon and southern history. He will explore why Latter-day Saints did not wind up like Latter-day Southerners with a “lost cause” interpretation of governmental policing and repression in the last half of the nineteenth century. In our Saturday luncheon, Elder Steven Snow, LDS Church Historian, will share his insider perspective on the dramatic evolution of the LDS Church History Department. To complement the rich array of concurrent and plenary conference sessions, the local arrangements committee under the direction of Rosalynde Welch and Tom Farmer has worked tirelessly to develop two outstanding tours on Thursday that will acquaint us with some of the cultural and historic highlights of St. Louis and the region’s connections to Mormonism. The local arrangements committee along with MHA’s industrious Executive Director Rob Racker have assembled two splendid post-conference tour options that will take us to key historic sites in Missouri and Illinois under the guidance of experts who know the landscape and sites intimately. Thank you for joining in this wonderful annual tradition of showcasing and advancing the study of Mormon history.
BRIAN Q. CANNON, PRESIDENT
PRESIDENTIAL WELCOME
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WELCOME TO THE MHA CONFERENCE 2 Welcome to the 2017 MHA conference in St. Louis, Missouri! The conference theme, “Crossing and Dwelling in Mormon History,” is evocative of the city’s history as the Gateway to the West as well as Mormonism’s particular connections to the place. The program committee has put together an exciting slate of papers examining topics as diverse as the constitutional theories of the Council of Fifty, Mormon women at the World’s Fairs, sports and race, the Indian Student Placement Program, and gendered anti-Mormon media in Australia. These papers demonstrate how the history of Mormonism is a history of movement and settlement, of persistence and reinvention, from the American prairies to the Rocky Mountains to the coasts of California and beyond. We are also thrilled by the star-studded line-up of plenary sessions. Leading scholars of Mormonism will appear on an Author Meets Critics panel to discuss Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s monumental A House Full of Females. LDS Church Historian Elder Steven E. Snow will discuss major initiatives of the Church History Department during his tenure. D. Michael Quinn, recipient of the 2016 Arrington Award, will reflect on his lifetime in Mormon history. The Smith-Pettit Lecturer, University of Arkansas Emeritus Professor of History Clyde Milner, will ask why the Saints of Utah lack a “lost cause” comparable to that of the South. BYU professor Fred Woods and local historian Tom Farmer will recount Mormonism’s fascinating history in the Gateway City. So meet us in St. Louis for what promises to be an invigorating 2017 MHA conference!
DAVID W. GRUA
JANIECE JOHNSON
LDS Church History Department Program Committee Co-Chair
Brigham Young University Idaho Program Committee Co-Chair
PROGRAM COMMITTEE Devery Anderson, Signature Books Rebecca de Schweinitz, Brigham Young University John Hamer, Community of Christ Christopher Jones, Brigham Young University Farina King, Northeastern State University Amy Tanner Thiriot, Independent Historian Saskia Tielens, TU Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
WELCOME TO ST. LOUIS! 3 Welcome to St. Louis, the gateway to the west! We midwesterners pride ourselves on our hospitality, and it is our pleasure to host the Mormon History Association in 2017. We hope you will enjoy the on-site events of the conference, and leave some time to explore the rich cultural offerings of the region. St. Louis is situated astride the mighty Mississippi River just downstream from its confluence with the Missouri. These waterways have driven the layered human experience in the area, from the pre-Columbian urban complex of the Cahokia mound builders, through the arrival of French fur traders in 1764, the city’s entry into the United States in the 1803 Louisiana Purchase, and the launching of the Lewis and Clark expedition the following year. Its enviable location attracted German utopian communities and waves of Irish, Italian, Serbian, Lebanese, Syrian, and Greek migrants. The city flexed its muscles at 1904 World’s Fair as a cosmopolitan center and industrial powerhouse on the international stage. The early 20 th century brought dynamic growth, fueled in part by the migration of African American workers up the Mississippi in search of economic opportunity, while the latter half of the century brought demographic shift and urban decline, resulting in racial and economic division that continues to shape the St. Louis experience. The 21 st century finds the city poised for renewal as waves of Bosnian, Middle Eastern and African immigrants arrive, together with a revitalized high-tech scene, to inaugurate a new chapter of the Gateway region. St. Louis has long been a place of crossing and meeting in Mormon history. While the hopes and traumas of the Saints in western Missouri are well known, the Mormon experience in eastern Missouri is less familiar. After Governor Boggs issued the notorious extermination order, a number of Saints came to St. Louis seeking refuge from persecution. Following the Nauvoo exodus, many Latter-day Saints moved or immigrated to St. Louis to prepare for the overland journey west. By 1849, three to four thousand Saints lived in St. Louis, and a church newspaper, The St. Louis Luminary, was published from 1854 to 1855 to serve members of newly established St. Louis Stake. St. Louis was the site of the notable Utah Pavilion at the 1904 World’s Fair, as well as the mission experiences of young Spencer W. Kimball. The last half of the 20 th century brought steady growth in the LDS population to its current four stakes, culminating in the dedication of the St. Louis LDS Temple in 1997. The Community of Christ sponsors the Gateway Mission Center and five congregations in the St. Louis region. During your stay, we hope you will take time to discover the traces of this rich history. Pre-conference tours will explore St. Louis highlights including the Botanical Gardens, Forest Park, the historic Mercantile Library, historic cemeteries, and of course the commanding Gateway Arch. Post-conference tours will visit historic Nauvoo and the historic Latter-day Saint sites of western Missouri. Historic St. Charles offers a charming downtown district within walking distance of the convention center. A thirty-minute drive will take you to St. Louis where you can visit the world-famous City Museum (more a grown-up playground than a museum!), the free zoo and museums of Forest Park, the historic districts of Soulard and Lafayette Square, Busch Stadium, and more. Welcome to St. Louis! TOM FARMER & ROSALYNDE WELCH Local Arrangements Co-Chairs LAURIE MAFFLY-KIP, JEFF HARDY & STEVE DAVIS Local Arrangements Committee
OFFICERS & BOARD MEMBERS 4
LAURIE MAFFLY-KIPP PAST PRESIDENT
BRIAN Q. CANNON PRESIDENT
BRYON ANDREASEN
JB HAWS
FARINA KING
JOSEPH STUART
LISA OLSEN TAIT
ROBERT L. RACKER
PUBLICATIONS
STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE
AWARDS
PUBLIC RELATIONS
MEMBERSHIP
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
PATRICK MASON PRESIDENT-ELECT
QUINCY NEWELL
MICHAEL H PAULOS
EDUCATION LIAISON
FINANCE AND FUND RAISING
JESSIE EMBRY
JEFFERY O. JOHNSON
EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL OF MORMON HISTORY
HISTORIAN/ARCHIVIST
2017 MHA COMMITTEES 5 STUDENT RELATIONS
MEMBERSHIP AND DEVELOPMENT
Joseph Stuart, Chair
Farina King, Chair Robert L. Racker
NOMINATING Richard E. Bennett, Chair Barbara Jones Brown Melissa Inouye Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
EDUCATION LIAISON Quincy Newell, Chair
FINANCE AND FUND-RAISING
JOURNAL OF MORMON HISTORY EDITOR
Michael H Paulos, Chair Robert L. Racker
Jessie Embry
PUBLICATIONS
JOURNAL BOARD OF EDITORS
Bryon Andreasen, Chair
Gary J. Bergera Newell Bringhurst Rachel Cope Fr. Daniel P. Dwyer Matthew Garrett Janiece Johnson Jennifer L. Lund Colleen McDannell Marjorie Newton Patricia Lyn Scott Barbara Walden
PUBLIC RELATIONS Lisa Olsen Tait, Chair
LONG-TERM & STRATEGIC PLANNING Laurie Maffly-Kipp, Chair Brian Q. Cannon Patrick Q.Mason Paul Reeve Robert L. Racker
Brett Dowdle
- Book Review Editor
AWARDS JB Haws, Chair Tom Alexander-Arrington Subcommittee Chair Lavina Fielding Anderson Richard L.Bushman Tona Hangen-Book Subcomittee Chair Elise Boxer Wilfried Decoo Brenden Rensink Barbara Walden
Sheree Bench-Article Subcomittee Chair Janelle Higbee Mark Ashurst-McGee Susanna Morrill David Morris Matt Godfrey-Student Work Subcommittee Chair Sheree Bench Scott Esplin Boyd Petersen Greg Prince CONFERENCE PROGRAM DESIGN: BROOKE WOODALL
CONFERENCE CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS 6 OPENING PLENARY FR I D A Y , JUN E 2 � 8:0 0 - 9:0 0 AM � G R A N D B A LLR O O M C D W H E N TH E S AIN T S CAME MARCHING I N : M O R M O N H I STO R Y I N ST. LO U I S ( 1 8 3 1 - 2 0 1 7 )
FRED WOODS
Bio : F r e d E . W o o ds c o mpl e t e d a P h D in Middl e E ast Stu die s fr o m t h e U n iv e r sity o f U tah wit h a n e mph asis in He br e w B i b le i n 1 991 . He is c u r r e n tl y a p r o fe s s o r at Br igh am Y o u n g U n i v e r s i t y i n th e D e par tm e n t o f Ch ur c h Histo r y an d D o c tr in e . D r . W o o d s h as be e n a v isitin g pr o fe s s o r a t se v e r al u n iv e r sitie s and h a s l e c tu r e d e x te n siv e l y i n t h e U n ite d State s an d in t e r na t i o na lly . P r o f e sso r W o o ds h as a ls o b e e n in v o l v e d with in te r f ai t h w o r k fo r man y y e ar s an d is c ur r e nt ly a r e se ar c h f e l l o w at O x fo r d U n iv e r sity .
Bio :
T o m Fa r m e r is a l ifetime St. L o ui s r e s i d e nt a n d La tter-d a y S a i nt w h o s e roots in th e St. L o ui s c h ur c h go b a ck th ree g e ne r a t i o ns . He is a gra d u a te of W a s h i ng t o n U n ivers ity Sch ool o f D e nt i s t r y a n d B righ a m Y o ung Uni v ers ity. He is a fo und i ng m emb er of th e St. L o ui s M o r m on His torica l S o c i e t y a nd p res en tl y s erves a s t h e s o c i e t y ' s h is toria n
TOM FARMER
The r i se o f S t. Lo u i s m e a n t n ot on l y a c on fl ue nt c o sm o p o l it an c it y whe r e t he wat e r s o f t he Mi ssi ssi ppi and Mi s s o ur i Riv er in ters e c t e d , b u t i t wa s a l s o a p l ac e o f c o nv e r g e nc e o f c ul t ur e and id e as for thou sands of immi gra n ts w h o w e re m a k i n g t h e i r s t a rt i n Am e r ic a. Fo r t he e ar l y S aint s, it was a t e m p o r ar y gatheri ng place wh er e E ur o pea n c on ve rt s joi n e d h a n d s wi t h t he ir b r o t he r s and sist e r s who had m ig r at e d from the Eastern States to dr a w s tr e n g t h a n d m e a n s t o c on t inue t he ir jo ur ne y t o a ne wl y c ar v e d Zio n in t he West. Now St. Lo ui s ha s beco m e i t s own p e rm a n e n t g a t h er ing p l ac e , and t he S aint s he r e hav e b uil t t he ir ow n Zi on at thi s sa me ju n ctur e o f ‘ O l d M a n R i ve r’ a n d t h e ‘Big M ud d y’. T ho se who c o ng r e g at e he r e wil l not only f eel the ri ppli n g impa ct o f t h e R e s t ora t i on , b u t a l s o a sp ir it o f ac c e p t anc e , fo r b e ar anc e , and c har it y from thi s vi brant m etr o po l is w h ic h h a s n ot forg ot t e n h e r p a st as an o asis o f t o l e r anc e and r e fug e .
MEMBERSHIP/ PLENARY LUNCHEONS F RI D AY , JUN E 2 � 11:30 - 1:00 PM AB BALLROOM
D. MICHAEL QUINN
2016 MHA ARRINGTON AWARD RECIPIENT My J o u r n ey f r o m E SS E N T I A L S I N C H U R C H HISTO RY to THE M O R M O N H I E R A R C H Y S e rie s
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ELDER STEVEN E. SNOW LDS CHURCH HISTORIAN
“ A Gr e at e r Wo r k Wil l Be Do ne ” : The Evolu ti on o f t he LDS Chur c h H ist o r y Department
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CD B ALLR O O M
WH Y D O N ’T M O R M O N S H A VE A LO ST C A U S E ?
The po pul ar m em o r y o f t he Ci v i l W ar and i t s af t er m ath fo r ma n y w h i te Sout her n f am i l i es cent er s o n a L o st Cause m yt ho l o g y th a t r e ma i n s s u r pr i si ng l y al i v e i n t hat r eg i o n t o d ay. T he r epr esent a ti o n o f th e Conf ed er acy acr o ss t he So ut h i s sho wn i n bat t l e r e-en a c tme n ts , ma r b le s tat ues, and t he ubi q ui t o us “ St ar s and B ar s” o f t he r eb e l b a ttle fla g.
PIC TU R E
CLYDE A. MILNER II
La t t er -d ay Sai nt s i n t hei r Gr eat B asi n K i ng d o m had an o p p o r tu n i ty to f o r g e t hei r o wn L o st Cause i n t he co l l ect i v e m em o r y of fe d e r a l a c ti o n s to war d t hei r chur ch and i t s m em ber s. T he nat i o nal g ov e r n me n t’ s c a m pai g n ag ai nst t he r el i g i o us pr act i ce o f pl ur al m ar r i a ge r e a c h e d i ts c li m ax i n t he er a o f what so m e scho l ar s no w t er m t he G r e a te r Reco nst r uct i o n. B y t he 1 89 0 s, t he L o st Cause becam e w e ll e s ta b li s h e d a c r o ss t he So ut h, but i n U t ah wher e a chur ch m ani f es to e n d e d th e s a nct i o ni ng o f pl ur al m ar r i ag e and st at eho o d final l y c a me , Mo r mo n s d i d no t co nst r uct a shar ed i d ent i t y as d efiant l y unr eco nst r u c te d r e b e ls . W h y di d n’ t L at t er -d ay Sai nt s end up l i k e pr esent -d ay whi t e S o u th e r n e r s ? W h y a ren’ t M o r m o ns l o st i n t hei r o wn L o st Cause? T hi s yea r ’ s S mi th - P e tti t Le ct ur e wi l l pr o po se so m e answer s.
BIO:
D r . Cl yd e A. M i l ner I I i s f o und i ng d i r ect o r o f t he P h. D . p r o gr a m i n H er i t ag e St ud i es and pr o f esso r o f hi st o r y em er i t us at A r k a n s a s S ta te U ni v er si t y i n Jo nesbo r o . Ret i r ed t o Al buq uer q ue, New Me x i c o , h e h o ld s the ho no r ar y appo i nt m ent o f Vi si t i ng Scho l ar i n t he d e p a r tme n t o f hi st o r y at t he U ni v er si t y o f New M exi co .
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS SATURDAY, JUNE 3 � 7:00 - 9:00 PM � AB B ALLROOM “TO BUY UP THE LAMANITE CHILDREN AS FAST AS THEY COULD”: INDENTURED SERVITUDE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY MORMON SOCIETY I n 1 85 2 Ut ah l e g al ize d t he p ur c hase and ind e nt ur ed servi tu de of N at iv e Am e r ic an c hil d r e n. . Br ig ham Yo ung id e al ist i cally exu lted, “ This m ay b e said t o p r e se nt a ne w fe at ur e in t he t raf fic of h u m an b e ing s; it is e sse nt ial l y p ur c hasing t he m into f reedom, i nst e ad o f sl av e r y. ” O v e r t he fo l l o wing d e c ad e s hund r e d s o f Paiut e , Gosi u te, S ho sho ne and Ut e c hil d r e n we r e p l ac e d in M o r m o n homes. What b ec am e o f t he se c hil d r e n and ho w d id t he y and t hei r d e sc e nd ant s m ake se nse o f t he e x p e r ie nc e ? .
BRIAN Q. CANNON
B IO: B rian Q . Canno n is p r o fe sso r o f hist o r y and d ir e c t o r of the C har l e s Re d d Ce nt e r fo r We st e r n S t ud ie s at Br ig ham Y ou ng U niv e r sit y. H e is t he aut ho r o f o v e r t wo d o ze n ar t icles and book c hap t e r s in M o r m o n, r ur al and we st e r n U. S . hist o r y. He has s er v e d as p r e sid e nt o f t he Ag r ic ul t ur al H ist o r y S o c iety; and on t he e d it o r ial b o ar d s o f BYU S t ud ie s, t he Ut ah H ist ori cal Qu ar t e r l y, and Ag r ic ul t ur al H ist o r y .
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JESSIE EMBRY JMH EDITOR
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MOTHERS ROOM
T H U R S DA Y 1 JU NE Day at a Glance
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EXPLORE MORMON & U.S. HISTORY DOWNTOWN
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EXPLORE MORMON & U.S. HISTORY DOWNTOWN
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6:00 PM OPENING RECEPTION
STEVE EHLMAN ST. CHARLES COUNTY EXECUTIVE
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MORMON AND U.S. HISTORY IN DOWNTOWN ST. LOUIS
Join Arch historian Bob Moore while we explore Mormon and U.S. History in downtown St. Louis, travel to the top of the Gateway arch, then, lead by Bellefontaine Cemetary Master Guide Jerry Garrett, while we see two St. Louis cemeteries and discover the history of those who are interred there.
ST. LOUIS HIGHLIGHTS FOR HISTORY BUFFS
Join Christine Peterson and others while we visit historical St. Louis landmarks such as Shaw’s Garden, the St. Louis Mercantile Library, Forest Park, and much more.
*WE RECOMMEND WEARING COMFORTABLE SHOES WHILE PARTICIPATING IN THESE PRE-CONFERENCE TOURS
FRID A Y 2 JUNE Day at a Glance
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CROSSING AND DWELLING IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY PLURAL MARRIAGE
THE LDS CHURCH’S GOSPEL TOPICS ESSAYS: A ROUNDTABLE
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DWELLING IN MORMON CONTESTED SPACE (1836-1846)
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REFORMATION, MODERNIZATION, AND MIGRATION: HOW LDS WOMEN AND YOUNG WOMEN HAVE MAINTAINED IDENTITY AMIDST CHANGING ORGANIZATIONAL PRACTICE
3:30 - 5:00
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MORMON MASCULINITIES IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURY
AUTHOR MEETS CRITICS: THOMAS W. SIMPSON, AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES AND THE BIRTH OF MODERN MORMONISM, 1867-1940
INDIAN STUDENT PLACEMENT PROGRAM EXPERIENCES
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COMPETING CONCEPTIONS OF AUTHORITY IN MORMON NAUVOO
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FROM KIRTLAND TO KENYA: INSIGHTS FROM THE CHURCH HISTORIAN’S PRESS 2017 RELEASES
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STUDENT RECEPTION Embassy Suites Hotel Portland Room
EXHIBITOR HALL OPEN FROM 8:00 AM - 6:30 PM
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8:00 - 9:00 10:00 - 10:30 MORMON HISTORICAL THEOLOGY
A TROVE OF EARLY IOWA DOCUMENTS SPONSORED BY BYU STUDIES
THE GREAT-GREAT-GRANDMOTHER PROJECT: EXPLORING THE CROSSING AND DWELLING OF WOMEN WHO JOINED THE MORMON MOVEMENT
THE MEMORIALIZATION OF THE CIRCLEVILLE MASSACRE
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SONGS AND FLOWERS OF THE WASATCH: A NEW REPRESENTATION OF UTAH WOMEN FOR THE 1893 WORLD’S FAIR
THE LIFE AND ARTWORK OF ST. LOUIS CONVERT: JOSEPH PAUL VORST
1:00 - 1:30 MORMON COLONIALISM IN THE WEST AND PACIFIC
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MORMONS AND ST. LOUIS
LDS WOMEN’S STORIES: NARRATIVE JOURNEYS WITHIN MORMONISM
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CROSSING AND DWELLING IN UTAH HISTORY
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S A T URD AY 3 JUNE Day at a Glance
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CROSSING AND MAINTAINING BOUNDARIES: MORMON WOMEN’S EXPERIENCE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY UTAH
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CROSSING AND DWELLING IN MORMON MISSOURI
PERMANENT SETTLEMENT OR PENDING MIGRATION ? EXPLORING THE FRONTIER OF MORMON STUDIES
MORMONISM IN NOVELS AND ON THE STAGE
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MORMONS AND POLITICS IN 1840S ILLINOIS
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RELIGIOUS MIGRANTS
FAITHFUL HEALING: MORMONS, THE BODY, AND HEALTH
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GEORGE Q. CANNON AND SECOND-GENERATION MORMONISM: A ROUNDTABLE
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THE INTERSECTIONALITY OF RACE, GENDER, SPORTS, AND MORMONISM
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MORMONISM, GENDER, NATIONHOOD, AND WORLD’S FAIRS
JESSIE EMBRY EDITOR JOURNAL MORMON HISTORY
GATHERING FROM THE US SOUTHERN STATES
THE VISIONARY WORLDS OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY MORMONISM
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RETHINKING MORMON ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY – CRITICAL APPROACHES
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JESSIE EMBRY EDITOR JOURNAL MORMON HISTORY
SCRIPTURE IN THE AGE OF TRANSITION
3:30 - 4:00
BREAK “ON THE WAY TO SOMEWHERE ELSE”: AMERICAN ARTISTS’ OBSERVATIONS OF MORMON MIGRATION AND ESTABLISHMENT
“ZION AND THE CITY”
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JESSIE EMBRY EDITOR JOURNAL MORMON HISTORY
NATIVE ENCOUNTERS IN RESTORATIONIST HISTORY AND FOLKLORE
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S U ND AY 3 JUN E Day at a Glance
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SUNDAY CLOSING DEVOTIONAL
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Embassy Suites Portland Room Speaker Lana Gilbert, Community of Christ
9:00 - 10:00 NAUVOO POST CONFERENCE TOUR
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WESTERN MISSOURI POST CONFERENCE TOUR Shuttle Departs Bus Guide: Alex Baugh
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Lana Gilbert of the Community of Christ Nekisha Rhodes, Vocalist
DEVOTIONAL
NAUVOO
Explore the dynamic connections between Mormonism, mining, and the growth of communities along the Wasatch Front and Back Our overnight Nauvoo post-conference tour lead by Jenny Lund, Lach Mackay, and Susan Easton Black takes us by bus from St Charles, north through Hannibal, MO and Quincy, IL to the charming city of old Nauvoo.
Our overnight post-conference western Missouri tour lead by Alex Baugh, will take us by bus from St Charles to the historic city of Richmond, site of the vacant log house where Joseph Smith and 6 other Mormon leaders were incarcerated.
WESTERN MISSOURI
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F RID AY 2 JUNE 16 8:00 - 9:00
9:30 - 11:00
9:30 - 11:00
9:30 - 11:00
Opening Plenary Session
Crossing and Dwelling in Nineteenth-Century Plural Marriage
The LDS Church’s Gospel Topics Essays: A Roundtable
From Kirtland to Kenya: Insights from The Church Historian’s Press 2017 Releases
OP session
1A
1B
session
1C
session
session
Tom Farmer
Lawrence Foster
Newell Bringhurst
R. Eric Smith
Independent Scholar
LDS Church History Dept
Fred Woods
Georgia Institute of Technology
St. Louis, Missouri
Chair & Discussant
Chair & Discussant
Chair
Brigham Young University
When the Saints Came Marching In: Mormon History in St. Louis (1831-2017)
Gary James Bergera
Matthew L. Harris Colorado State
University-Pueblo
Smith-Pettit Foundation
“Through a Glass, Darkly”: The LDS Church’s Gospel Topics Essay on Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Plural Marriage
Stewart Davenport
Pepperdine University Latter-day Judas: The Effects of John C. Bennett’s Betrayal on Joseph Smith and Mormon Polygamy
Danny L. Jorgensen University of South Florida, Tampa
and Andrew Leary
San Jose, California The Cutlerite “Taint” of Plural Marriage: Alpheus Cutler’s Plural Wives
G RA ND
B ALLROO M 8:00 - 9:00
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Why the Gospel Topics Essays? David J. Howlett Skidmore College
The Cultural Work of the ‘First Vision Accounts’ Essay Stephen C. Taysom Cleveland State University
Translation and Historicity of the Book of Abraham Margaret Toscano University of Utah Joseph Smith’s Teachings about Priesthood, Temple and Women
J R BALL
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1 0 : 3 0 - 1 2 : 0 09 : 3 0 - 1 1 : 0 0
Riley M. Lorimer
LDS Church History Department Constructing Authority: Mormon Women’s Discourses in At the Pulpit
Christian Heimburger
LDS Church History Department Spreading (and Publicizing!) the Good News: Missionary Work during a Winter of Mormon Discontent Mark Ashurst-McGee LDS Church History Department An Introduction and Invitation to the Joseph Smith Papers, Documents Series, Volume 6: 1838-1839
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F R I DAY 2 JU NE 17 9:30 - 11:00
9:30 - 11:00
9:30 - 11:00
9:30 - 11:00
Mormon Historical Theology
A Trove of Early Iowa Documents
The Great-Great-Grandmother Project: Exploring the Crossing and Dwelling of Women who Joined the Mormon Movement
The Memorialization of the Circleville Massacre
Sponsored by BYU Studies
1D session
Loyd Isao Ericson Chair Greg Kofford Books
Lynne Hilton Wilson
LDS Seminaries and Institutes
The Power: Joseph Smith’s Interdependency Between the Spirit and Priesthood
1E
1F
Richard E. Bennett
Jeffery O. Johnson
Brigham Young University
Salt Lake City, Utah
session
session
Chair & Discussant
Chair & Discussant
1G session
Quincy Newell
Chair Hamilton College
Dorena Martineau
John W. Welch
Marie Cornwall National Science Foundation
Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah
Gems from the History of Keokuk and Autobiography of Hawkins Taylor
Different Circumstances and Diverse Women: A different approach to the study of Mormon women’s history
W. Paul Reeve
Brigham Young University
Grant Underwood Brigham Young University
Jane Bryner
Crossing and Dwelling in Mormon Theology: The Case of Soteriology
Eight Mormon Women’s Lives of Crossing and Dwelling
Brian D. Birch
Carolyn C. Jenkins
Salt Lake City, Utah
Utah Valley University
University of Utah
Jedediah Rogers Utah Historical Quarterly
Brad Westwood
Utah Division of State History
Salt Lake City, Utah
Fixing Doctrine: Reflections on the Development of Mormon Thought
How Shared Experiences of Four Mormon Women Shaped Significant Relationships
Comments: J. Spencer Fluhman Brigham Young University
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9:30 - 11:00
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FR ID A Y 2 JUN E 18 MEMBERSHIP LUNCHEON
11:30 - 1:00 Plenary/Membership Luncheon
ML session
MHA Membership Luncheon Plenary/ Business Report
1:30 - 3:00 Dwelling in Mormon Contested Space (1836-1846)
2A session
1:30 - 3:00
1:30 - 3:00
Competing Conceptions of Authority in Mormon Nauvoo
Mormon Masculinities in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century
2B
2C
session
session
Philip L. Barlow
Laurie Maffly-Kipp
Amy Hoyt
Elizabeth Kuehn
Jennifer Reeder LDS Church History Department
Independent Scholar
Contested Kirtland: Expanding Narratives of Dissent
The Nauvoo Female Relief Society Minute Book: A Politics of Personality
Chair & Discussant Utah State University
Chair & Discussant Washington University in St. Louis
Chair & Discussant University of the Pacific
D. Michael Quinn (2016 Arrington Award Recipient)
My Journey from ESSENTIALS IN CHURCH HISTORY to THE MORMON HIERARCHY Series.
LDS Church History Department
Jeffrey D. Mahas LDS Church History Department
“A Holy and Consecrated Land unto Me”: Far West and the Conflicting Definitions of Sacred Space Christopher James Blythe LDS Church History Department
“Cast Out of My Holy City”: Defiled Sacred Space in Nauvoo, Illinois
AB
BALLRO O M 11:30-1:00 PM
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Jordan T. Watkins LDS Church History Department
The Constitution in Crisis: Antislavery and Mormon Appeals, Critiques, and Creations Benjamin E. Park Sam Houston State University
The Perils of a Protestant Democracy: Mormon and Catholic Conceptions of Democratic Rule in the 1840s
J R BALL
B
10:30 - 12:00 1:30 - 3:00
Michael Haycock
Men of Promise: Masculinity in Post WW-II Mormonism and the Promise Keepers
Megan Stanton
University of Wisconsin-Madison “I Hoped to Overcome My Disposition to Speculate”: Financial Interests and Generational Change among General Authorities in the Late Nineteenth Century
Justin Bray
University of Utah Aging, Eldership, and Evangelism in Early-Twentieth-Century Mormonism
Hunter M. Hampton University of Missouri “Our Faith is Strong”: BYU Football, Muscular Christianity, and the Making of Mormon Manhood
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F R I DAY 2 JU NE 19 1:30 - 3:00
1:30 - 3:00
1:30 - 3:00
1:30 - 3:00
Mormonism in Mexico and the Southwest Borderlands
Songs and Flowers of the Wasatch: A New Representation of Utah Women for the 1893 World’s Fair
The Life and Artwork of St. Louis Convert: Joseph Paul Vorst
Mormon Colonialism in the West and Pacific
2D session
Barbara Jones Brown
Chair & Discussant Park City, UT
Steve LeSueur
2E
2F
session
session
Janet Bradford
Chair & Discussant Brigham Young University
Alan Morrell Chair LDS Church History Dept
Andrea Radke-Moss
Elizabeth Smart
Glen Nelson
Charlotte Hansen Terry
Arlington, Virginia
Brigham Young University
Ambush: The Murders of Frank LeSueur and Gus Gibbons by the Wild Bunch
Origins of Songs and Flowers of the Wasatch
Philip R. Stover
Brigham Young University
Mata Ortiz, Chihuahua, Mexico
The Exodus of 1912: A Huddle of Pros and Cons—Mormons Twice Dispossessed Barbara Morgan Gardner Brigham Young University
2G session
New York, NY
The Art of Joseph Paul Vorst (1897-1950) Laura Allred Hurtado
Connie Lamb
LDS Church History Department
Utah’s Women Poets and the 1893 World’s Fair Myrna Layton Brigham Young University
Why Joseph Paul Vorst Matters To A Mormon Audience: An Acquisition and An Exhibition
Chair BYU-Idaho
LDS Church History Department
Degraded Customs but Honest Souls: The Arguments for Building the Mormon Empire in the Pacific Elise Boxer
University of South Dakota
“Choice Above All Other Lands”: Mormon Settler Colonialism and the Making of “Zion” Brittani R. Orona
Singing the Songs and Flowers of the Wasatch
(Hupa) University of California, Davis
“All Armed to the Teeth”: Mormons, California Indians, and the Making of Zion in the Far West
“Educativa Y Cultural”: The Story of the Mormon School at San Marcos, Mexico
Comments : Amanda Hendrix-Komoto
Montana State University
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1:30 - 3:00
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FRID AY 2 JUN E 20 3:30 - 5:00
3:30 - 5:00
3:30 - 5:00
3:30 - 5:00
Reformation, Modernization, and Migration: How LDS Women and Young Women Have Maintained Identity amidst Changing Organizational Practice
Author Meets Critics: Thomas W. Simpson, American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism, 1867-1940
Indian Student Placement Program Experiences
Settling and Unsettling Zion in Jackson County, Missouri
3A session
3B
3C
session
session
Rebecca de Schweinitz
Brett D. Dowdle
Spencer Wells
Thomas G. Alexander
Chair Brigham Young University
College of William and Mary
As Judges in Zion: The Relief Society and the Reformation of Church Discipline, 1842-1844 Kate Holbrook
LDS Church History Department
When Time Isn’t Money: The Spirit of Personal Progress Heather J. Stone University of Utah
Chair & Discussant Texas Christian University
Kristine Wright
Princeton University
Richard Lyman Bushman
Columbia University
Jed Woodworth LDS
Response: Thomas W. Simpson
Moderator Journal of Mormon History
Farina King (Navajo)
The Acquisition of the Original Temple Lot Property in Independence, Jackson County, Missouri
Northeastern State University
Tyson King (Navajo) Former student in the Indian Student Placement Program
Edouardo Zendejas (Omaha) Former student in the Indian Student Placement Program/ University of Nebraska-Omaha
Philips Exeter Academy
Alexander L. Baugh Brigham Young University Laying the Foundation of Zion: Joseph Smith’s 1831 Mission to Western Missouri Tiffany Taylor Bowles LDS Church History Department Martyr or Menace? The Curious Case of Elijah Lovejoy and the Mormons Comment: Matthew C. Godfrey LDS Church History Department
Comment: Lisa Olsen Tait
LDS Church History Department
D
Chair & Discussant LDS Church History Dept R. Jean Addams Woodinville, WA
“It was like going to Mars!”: Narratives from LDS Young Women Who Gathered to Zion in the Late 20th Century
J R BA LL
Mark Ashurst-McGee
Matthew Garrett
Bakersfield College
Brigham Young University
Church History Department
Jessie Embry
3D session
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F R I DA Y 2 JU NE 21 SPECIAL EVENTS
3:30 - 5:00
3:30 - 5:00
3:30 - 5:00
5:15 - 6:45 PM
Mormons and St. Louis
LDS Women’s Stories: Narrative Journeys within Mormonism
Crossing and Dwelling in Utah History
Author Meets Critics: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism
3E session
Fred Woods
Chair & Discussant Brigham Young University
Jonathan Neville
Salt Lake City
Mormon Interactions with Native American Mounds
Susan Easton Black Brigham Young University
St. Louis Luminary: The Later-day Saint Experience at the Mississippi, 1854-1855
John Sillito Weber State University Shaping Mormonism’s Public Image and Building Faith: B.H. Roberts’Mission to the Midwest, 1896
3F session
Sarah Clement Reed
Chair & Discussant University of Wisconsin–Madison Elisa Findlay
University of Wisconsin-Madison
No More Strangers: Identity Negotiation in Late Twentieth-Century Mormon Women’s Writing Heidi Reed
Mapleton, Utah
Expound and Exhort: Women’s Influence through Primary Songs Jennifer Crow
Middle Tennessee State University
3G session
Janiece Johnson Chair & Discussant BYU-Idaho
Robert H. Briggs
Independent Scholar
Builders of Modern Mormonism: John Cradlebaugh, J.H. Beadle, and Robert N. Baskin JAB effrey J. Turner University of Utah
Polygamy, Immigration, and the Negotiation of Mormon Ethnicity
Ryan G. Tobler Moderator Harvard University Claudia Bushman Independent Scholar Sarah Barringer Gordon University of Pennsylvania W. Paul Reeve University of Utah Christine Talbot University of Northern Colorado Response: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Harvard University Room: D1-D3 Ballroom
7:15 - 9:00 PM
AWARDS BANQUET
Mary Campbell University of Tennessee
Saints in Space
Social Responses to Mormon Feminist Activism and Ordain Women in the LDS Church
Room: AB Ballroom JB Haws, Master of Ceremonies
9:15 - 10:30 PM
STUDENT RECEPTION
Room: Embassy Suite Portland Room
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3:30 - 5:00
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S A T URD AY 3 JUNE 22 7:30 - 9:00
9:00 - 10:30
9:00 - 10:30
9:00 - 10:30
MWHIT Breakfast Speaker: Anna Purna Murala
Crossing and Maintaining Boundaries: Mormon Women’s Experience in Nineteenth-Century Utah
The Intersectionality of Race, Gender, Sports, and Mormonism
George Q. Cannon and Second-Generation Mormonism: A Roundtable
Room: AB Ballroom
4A
4B
session
session
Elizabeth Kuehn
Chair LDS Church History Dept
Jessica Nelson Utah State University
Scribbling Women in Zion: Mormon Women’s Fascination With Fanny Fern
“Let’s Give Basket Ball Back to the White Boys”: African Americans, Athletics, and Mormonism and the Negro at Utah State University, 1960-1961
Lisa Olsen Tait
Darron T. Smith University of Memphis
Susa Young Gates: The Divorce
The Unfinished Business of Civil Rights: Historical Understandings on Contemporary Struggles of Black Student Athletes at BYU
LDS Church History Department
Hannah Jung
Brandeis University
“Woman, Know Thyself!”: Mormon Women’s Spiritual and Medical Care of the Sick Comments: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Harvard University
AB
7:30 - 9:00
Chair University of Utah
Lori Wilkinson
University of Utah
BALLRO O M
Joseph Stuart
J R B A LL
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Craig Yugawa Washington University in St. Louis
4C session
Christopher C. Jones Moderator Brigham Young University
Kathryn Tanner Burnside
LDS Church History Department
Ben Godfrey
LDS Church History Department
Matthew J. Grow LDS Church History Department
Robin Scott Jensen LDS Church History Department
Jed Woodworth LDS Church History
Department
Rise and Shout the Cougars Are Out (of the Big 12): The 1968-1972 BYU Sports Boycotts and the 2016 Big 12 Snub
Comments: Russell Stevenson Michigan State University
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Mormonism, Gender, Nationhood, and World’s Fairs
Gathering from the US Southern States
4D session
4E Heidi Reed
Konden Smith
Ryan Combs
University of Arizona
Mormon Assimilation and the Frontier Spirit at the World’s Fair 1893 Andrea G. Radke-Moss BYU-Idaho
Mormon Women, World’s Fairs, and the Politics of Polygamy: From Chicago in 1893 to the St. Louis World’s Fair of 1904 Joshua M. Matson Florida State University
Re-Appropriating Mormonism to the World: A Spatial Analysis of the Mormon Pavilion at the 1964-1965 World’s Fair RO O M
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Chair Independent Scholar
9:00 - 10:30 The Visionary Worlds of Nineteenth-Century Mormonism
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Reid L. Neilson
Chair & Discussant LDS Church History Dept
9:00 - 10:30
Journal of Mormon History, Editor Jessie Embry
4G session
David Golding
Chair & Discussant LDS Church History Dept
Stephen J. Fleming Independent Scholar
LDS Church History Department
“To Perfect What Was Left Behind”: How Joseph Smith Might Have Come In Contact with Jane Lead’s Writings
The Arkansas Travelers: Missionaries, Converts, and a Southern Trail to Arizona
Bruce Crow
Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Cristina Rosetti University of California-Riverside
A Place for the Un-Gathered: The Home of Abraham and Mary Church of Hickman County Tennessee
From Summerland to Zion: Theorizing Mormon Interaction with Spiritualism in the Nineteenth-Century West
Joah Fussell
Independent Scholar The Gospel Tent Campaign of the Florida Conference in the Southern States Mission
John J. Hammond Geneva, Ohio The Mormon Hawaiian Mission and the Smallpox Epidemic of 1853
Joseph Trevor Antley Provo, Utah
Baptisms in the Bayou: A History of the Mormon Church at Rugg’s Bluff
Comments: Christopher James Blythe LDS Church History Department
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Patrick Mason
Claremont Graduate University
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SP session
2:00 - 3:30
2:00 - 3:30
2:00 - 3:30
Faithful Healing: Mormons, the Body, and Health
Religious Migrants
Crossing and Dwelling in Mormon Missouri
5A
5B
session
11:00 - 12:00 Smith-Pettit Lecture
Why Don’t Mormons Have a Lost Cause?
session
Kristine Wright
Chair & Discussant Princeton University
Clyde A. Milner II
Emeritus, Arkansas State University/ Visiting Scholar, University of New Mexico
Room: Ballroom CD
PL session
12:15 - 1:45 Plenary/Lunch
“A Greater Work Will Be Done”: The Evolution of the LDS Church History Department Elder Steven E. Snow LDS Church Historian
Room: AB Ballroom
Seth Cannon
Provo, Utah
Arsenic and God’s Grace: Healing in Early Mormonism Amanda Hendrix-Komoto Montana State University
Modern Medicine and the Mormon Mother: Obstetrics and the Management of Pregnancy in Nineteenth-Century Utah Joseph R. Stuart University of Utah
“We Should Produce a Race of Men”: Gender, Eugenics, and the Making of the Mormon Race
5C session
Christopher C. Jones
David W. Grua
Richard Bennett
Angela D. Bell
As A Hen Gathereth Her Chickens
“Protect Yourselves”: Migration of the Saints to Missouri between Independence and Far West
Chair Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University
Jan Shipps
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Sarah Barringer Gordon University of Pennsylvania
Fatal Convergence: John D Lee and Alexander Fancher as Religious Migrants Comments: Richard E. Turley Jr. LDS Public Affairs Department
Chair LDS Church History Dept
Lone Star College-CyFair
Peter J. Wosnik Emory University
“It Shall Be Between Us and Them a War of Extermination”: Sovereignty, the Higher Law and Sidney Rigdon’s July Fourth Oration
Stephen S. Davis
Independent Scholar Joseph Smith and the 1839 Grand Jury Proceedings in Daviess County, Missouri
Comments: Stephen C. LeSueur Arlington, Virginia
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Tensions in Modern(izing) Mormonism
5D session
J.B. Haws
Chair Brigham Young University
Mary Jane Woodger Brigham Young University
David O. McKay: Innovator of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Sunday School
Cory L. Nimer
Brigham Young University The Old Guard and the Professionalization of the Historian’s Office
Taunalyn F. Rutherford
Claremont Graduate University Crossing Cultural Borders and Dwelling in Wasatch-front Culture
Comments: James Allen
Brigham Young University
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2:00 - 3:30
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Rethinking Mormon Environmental History – Critical Approaches
JMH Editor Consultation
Scripture in the Age of Transition
5E
5F
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session
Jedediah Rogers
5G session
Jordan Watkins
Chair & Discussant Utah Historical Quarterly
Journal of Mormon History, Editor Jessie Embry
Chair LDS Church History Dept
James M. McLachlan Western Carolina University
Darcee Barnes Sandy, UT
Mormon Settlers in Wyoming’s Bighorn Basin
The St. Louis Hegelians and William Chamberlin’s Personalist Jesus
Brian Frehner
University of Missouri, Kansas City
Ben Spackman Claremont Graduate University
The Lost City of St. Thomas: Mormons, Water, and Hydraulic Societies
Early LDS Attempts to Reconcile Scripture with Science: Pre-Mormon Pre-Adamites and Intellectual (In)Dependence
Betsy Gaines Quamman
Montana State University
Kenneth L. Cannon II Salt Lake City, Utah
American Zion: Mormon Homeland and Utah’s First National Park
The Surprising Relationship of James E. Talmage, Ph.D., and James E. Homans a/k/a Robert C. Webb, Ph.D.
Rebecca Andersen Arizona State University
The Valleys of Ephraim are Full: Stewardship, Sustainability, and the Mormon McMansion
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4:00 - 5:30
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Mormons and Politics in 1840s Illinois
Permanent Settlement or Pending Migration?
Mormonism in Novels and on the Stage
“On the Way to Somewhere Else”: American Artists’ Observations of Mormon Migration and Establishment
Exploring the Frontier of Mormon Studies
6A session
6B
6C
session
session
6D session
Jeffrey D. Mahas
Patrick Mason
David Nielsen
Jana Riess
Byron D. Holdiman
Gerrit van Dyk
Michael Austin
Brooke Kathleen Brassard
Chair LDS Church History Dept
Quincy University
Quincy, Illinois: The Benevolent City Alex D. Smith LDS Church History Department
Untouchable: Joseph Smith’s Use of the Law as Catalyst for Assassination Daniel Gullotta Yale University
Joseph Smith, Jacksonian America: The 1844 Election and the Politics of Antebellum America Comments: Bryon Andreasen
Chair Claremont Graduate University
Brigham Young University “We’ve Only Scratched the Surface”: The Untamed Territory of Mormon Studies
Trevan G. Hatch
Brigham Young University Wissenschaft des Mormonism: “Jewish Studies” as a Framework for Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of Mormon Studies
J.B. Haws
Brigham Young University The Doing of Mormon History in the Past Two Decades: Institutional Actions and Reactions Comments:
Andrea Radke-Moss BYU-Idaho
Patrick Mason
Claremont Graduate University
LDS Church History Department
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Chair LDS Church History Dept
University of Evansville
The Dime Novel Hero in Salt Lake City: Popular Fiction and the Contested Mormon Embrace of Modernity, 1890-1903 Sarah C. Reed
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Karl May and the Mormons: An American Religion in World Literature Sherrie L. M. Gavin
Queensland, Australia
Masculinity and Anti-Mormon Media in Australia’s Federation Era
Chair Religion News Service
University of Waterloo
Capturing the Crossing: Visual Artists’ Documentation of Nineteenth-century Mormon Migration Barbara Jones Brown Park City, UT Roughing It: Mark Twain’s 1861 Crossing Through Utah Comments: Michael W. Homer
Center for Studies on New Religions
Comments: Megan Sanborn Jones Brigham Young University
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4:00 - 5:30 Zion and the City
6E session
Benjamin E. Park
Chair and Discussant Sam Houston State University
4:00 - 5:30
JMH Editor consultation
6F session
Jessie Embry Editor, Journal of Mormon History
4:00 - 5:30
7:00 - 9:00 PM
Native Encounters in Restorationist History and Folklore
Presidential Banquet
6G session
Brent Rogers
Chair & Discussant LDS Church History Dept
MHA Presidential Address by President Brian Cannon “To Buy up the Lamanite Children as Fast as They Could”: Indentured Servitude in Nineteenth-Century Mormon Society Room: AB Ballroom
Christopher C. Smith
D. Christian Harrison
Salt Lake City, Utah
Utah State University
The Streets of Zion: Consecrated Infrastructure and the Consecrated Soul
“Chastising” Shoshones and Goshutes: Pioneer Religious Violence against Native Peoples in 1851 and 1852
Samuel D. Brunson Loyola University School of Law
9:00 - 10:00 Closing Reception Room: AB Ballroom
Daniel Stone
Wyandotte, Michigan
Zion in the Big City
Reestablishing the Gathering: William Bickerton, the American Indians, and the Quest to Find the Real Choice Seer
Russell Arben Fox Friends University
What Size of City, and What Sort of City, Could (or Should) the City of Zion Be?
Sondra G. Jones University of Utah
Romance, Riches, and Religion: Fusing Fact and Folklore in Utah History
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CONFERENCE SUPPORT/SPECIAL GIVING 28 We express our sincere appreciation to those who generously give to the Mormon History Association, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.
BENEFACTORS OF MHA AWARDS AND SPECIAL GIVING Curtis T. Atkisson Jr, Gary James Bergera and Turner Family Robert Jones Family The Hartley Foundation G. Kevin Jones Gerald L. Jones Gregory A. and JaLynn Prince
Smith-Pettit Foundation Joseph H. and Julia Todd Dawn P. Thurston and Morris A. Thurston Lola Van Wagenen and George Burrill Wilfried and Carine Decoo-Vanwelkenhuysen
2017 CONFERENCE SPONSORS Opening Reception: Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, BYU Durham Jones & Pinegar / Kenneth Cannon Student Reception: BYU History Dept, Claremont Grad University, Dialogue, University of Virginia Bushman Chair, Maxwell Institute
University of Utah Tanner Humanities, Sat. Plenary Lunch: Interamerican Quality Foods/Gary Payne Closing Reception: Sunmark Charitable Trust / Menlo Smith Conference Tote Bags: Neil A. Maxwell Institute, BYU Student Travel: Religious Studies Center, BYU Special Donation: LDS Church History Dept.
DONOR MEMBERSHIP ($500) Douglas & Elaine Alder Curtis & Ann Atkisson Michael Byrne
Brian & Anna Lea Cannon Glen M. & Karen Leonard Rob & Arlene Racker Anna & Frank Rolapp
Edwina & Marcellus Snow Morris and Dawn Thurston Karen & Joseph Torgesen Morris A. & Dawn Thurston
PATRON MEMBERSHIP ($275) Newell & Mary Ann Bringhurst Jill & Greg Brim Jill Mulvay & Brooklyn Derr
Garaldine & Ken Hanni William P. MacKinnon Ron Priddis
Evan & Rhea Racker
SUSTAINING MEMBERSHIP ($150) Polly Aird Thomas & Marilyn Alexander Joseph & Barbara. Bentley Gordon Bissegger Brent Briggs Robert & Linda Briggs Aileen Clyde Steven Crump Jessie Embry Steve Evans Layle & Don Erickson Sherman Feher
Lawrence & Julia Foster John Hatch Robert Jones Greg Kofford Books Jon Lear Jenny & Anthony Lund Francis Madsen Armand L. & Ruth Mauss Kahlile Bliss & Marolyn Mehr Anne Miller Julie & Bruce Molen Thomas D. & Kaaren Parkes
Waldo & Angela Perkins Eldred Gary Smith David & Natalie Tanner Myrna Taylor Georgia Thompson Jeniveve Wahlquist Sam & Judy Weston
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Our sincere thanks fo the many who have contributed to the success of this conference. The Program Committee listed on page 2, co-chaired by David Grua and Janiece Johnson have crafted and assembled an exceptional array of papers and plenary sessions. Much follow-up is always required and the committee has performed most ably and diligently. Our Local Arrangements Committee and volunteers (on page 2), co-chaired by Tom Farmer and Rosalynde Welch, have planned and executed a very ambitious and multi-faceted conference plan. The result is a remarkable opportunity for MHA attendees to enjoy the outstanding pre- and post-conference tours, excellent receptions and meals, and the rich history and charm of the mid-west and St. Louis area. We have witnessed the great generosity of conference sponsors and donors who have given money to fund the Opening, Student, Plenary Lunches and Closing receptions. A record number of students this year delivering papers, have had their travel expenses partially offset by the Student Travel Fund. There have been other conference expenses, including our entertainment, certain meals, and devotionals that many others have stepped up and contributing to an enjoyable and entertaining conference. For our exhibitors and advertisers whose financial support and loyalty can’t be overstated. We ask you to kindly support these exhibitors by purchasing their fine products, publications and in supporting kindred organizations who support MHA. Of course, there is no conference without the scores of presenters who have engaged in research, the assembly of their investigation, and the writing and delivery of their papers and panel discussions. For the session chairs and commenters/discussants who add so much to our unique format and interest in the sessions. The 2017 St Louis Area MHA Conference will certainly go down as one of the finest and most diverse presented in recent memory. MHA is so very appreciative to all those who have participated and added so much to fostering the study and presentation of Mormon history. We also want to thank again and recognize the generosity of the Award Sponsors for their funding of the MHA awards and enabling our organization in carrying out it’s mission. For the many committees that serve MHA, all voluntarily, have added so much to the success of the conference. In the absence of such devotion and commitment, MHA goes nowhere. We also express thanks to the MHA Officers and Board (past, current) for their tireless work in helping to plan and execute not only the conference but also the ongoing work of the Mormon History Association
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M O R M O N HI S T ORY AS S OCI AT I ON
CAL L FO R P AP ERS – 20 18 ANNUAL C ONF ERENC E B O I SE, I D A H O “HOME LAN D S A N D B O R D ER ED LA N D S” The fi ft y - t hird c o nf e r e nc e o f the M o r mon H i st o r y Asso ci at i o n wi l l be hel d June 7 – 1 0 , 20 1 8, a t th e Grove Hot el a nd Co nv e ntio n Ce nte r in Bo i se, I d aho . T he 20 1 8 co nf er ence t hem e “ H o m el and s a n d Bordered Lands ” r a is e s qu e s tio ns a bo u t ho w bo r d er s bo t h d i sr upt and g ener at e i d eas abo u t in dividual s’ and c o mmu nitie s ’ “ ho me s ,” br o ad l y co nst r ued . T he t hem e hi g hl i g ht s t he ways i n w h i c h t he dy n am ic inte r a c tio ns be twe e n pe o pl es, pl aces, and i d ent i t i es hav e al ways been cent r al to Mormon hist o r ie s . The con feren c e the me “ Ho me la nds a nd B o r d er ed L and s” co nnect s t he hi st o r y o f t he L at t er - d a y S a i n ts t o Idaho’s dive r s e pa s t. Ida h o is fir s t a nd f o r em o st a Nat i v e ho m el and . T he fir st M o r m o n settle me n t i n t he Idaho w as c r e a te d ne a r pr e s e nt-da y Sal m o n, I d aho , at F o r t L em hi i n 1 85 5 . I m m i g r at i o n b y Mormon s an d o the r Eu r o -Ame r ic a ns c a used co nfl i ct wi t h Nat i v e co m m uni t i es and l ed t o t h e dep l et ion of na tu r a l r e s o u r c e s a s we ll as o ut br eak s o f v i o l ence. O n t he o t her hand , t her e ha v e a ls o b een man y ins ta nc e s o f c o o pe r a tio n a nd m ut ual r espect bet ween t he v ar i o us co m m uni t i es . Idaho has al so a lwa ys be e n a pla c e whe r e t he bo und ar i es o f M o r m o n i d ent i t y hav e been ne go ti a te d . The st at e has be e n a r e f u ge a nd high wa y f o r t ho se seek i ng t o pr act i ce pl ur al m ar r i ag e. P o l y ga my con t rib ut ed t o a pr o no u nc e d s tr a in o f a nt i -M o r m o ni sm i n I d aho po l i t i cs and l aw i n t he l at e n in et een t h ce ntu r y. Ida ho a ls o h a s a h eal t hy t r ad i t i o n o f M o r m o n ed ucat i o n, i nt el l ect ual i sm , a n d dissen t . Ricks C o lle ge , no w BYU-Ida h o , has been f o und at i o nal i n L D S hi g her ed ucat i o n. F urth e r mo r e , Leon ard Arringto n wa s bo r n in Twin F a ll s and g r ad uat ed f r o m t he U ni v er si t y o f I d aho , So ni a J o h n s o n w as b orn in Ma la d, M a xine Ha nks a tte n d ed Ri ck s, and t he bl o g F em i ni st M o r m o n H o usewi v e s w a s foun ded in Bo is e . Whil e Idaho pr o v ide s a r ic h ta ble a u f o r t he st ud y o f M o r m o ni sm i n t he co nt ext o f t he st at e ’ s h i s to r y as a mul t iracia l, mu lti-e th ic , a nd mu ltirel i g i o us pl ace, we al so seek paper s and panel s t hat a d d r e s s t he t hem e of “ Ho me la nds a nd Bo r de r e d L and s” f r o m any v ant ag e po i nt i n t he M o r m o n past. I n addit ion t o p a pe r s a nd pa ne ls tha t a dd r ess t he co nf er ence t hem e, t he pr o g r am co m m i t t ee a ls o w el comes p ropo s a ls o n a ny to pic in M o r m o n hi st o r y. The Mormon His to r y As s o c ia tio n inte nti o nal l y em br aces bo t h acad em i c and am at eur hi st o r i a n s . T h e con feren ce orga nize r s e nc o u r a ge s u bmi ssi o ns t hat t hi nk o ut si d e o f t he t r ad i t i o nal f o r m at f o r con feren ce ses s io ns . We e nc o u r a ge pe opl e t o o r g ani ze r o und t abl es, “ caf és” i n whi ch par t i ci p a n ts a r e arran g ed in sma ll gr o u ps to dis c u s s a topi c, pr e-ci r cul at ed paper s, and so f o r t h. Ad d i t i o nal i d e a s fo r al t ern at ive se s s io n f o r ma ts c a n be f o u n d at : ht t p :// sol vefor inte r e s ting.c o m/c a te go r y/g o o d -co nf er ence/ev ent -sessi o ns/ P l ease sen d 1) a 30 0 -wo r d a bs tr a c t f o r each paper o r pr esent at i o n and 2) a br i ef 1 -2 pag e C V fo r e a c h p resen t er, in c lu ding e ma il c o nta c t inf o r m at i o n. Sessi o n pr o po sal s sho ul d al so i ncl ud e t he s e s s i o n ti tle an d a 3 00- w o r d s e s s io n a bs tr a c t, a lo ng wi t h a co nfir m ed chai r and /o r co m m ent at o r , i f app li c a b le . P reviousl y p ublis h e d pa pe r s a r e no t e ligi bl e f o r pr esent at i o n at M H A. An i nd i v i d ual m ay o nly s u b mi t on e p rop osal a s a s e s s io n pr e s e nte r , a ltho ug h i t i s accept abl e f o r a pr esent er i n o ne sessi o n to b e a chair or com me nta to r in a no the r . Limited financi al assi st ance i s av ai l abl e t o so m e st ud ent p r e s e n te r s an d p resen t er s f r o m le s s e c o no mic a lly- d ev el o ped nat i o ns. T ho se who wi sh t o appl y f o r f und i n g shoul d in cl ud e e s tima te d tr a v e l e xpe ns es wi t h t hei r pr o po sal s. The deadl in e f o r pr o po s a ls is N o v e mbe r 1 5 , 20 1 7. P r o po sal s sho ul d be sent t o t he pr o g r am c o - c h a i r s a t m hab oise201 8@ gma il.c o m. N o tific a tio n o f accept ance o r r ej ect i o n wi l l be m ad e by D ecem b e r 1 5 , 201 7 . E LISE BO XE R , U NI V E R S I T Y O F S O UT H D AKO T A | C O - C H AI R A N A N D A HE N D R IX- K O M O T O , M O N T AN A S T AT E UN I V E R S I T Y | C O - C H AI R CR IS B AI R D , I N D E P E N D E N T S C H O L AR LIN D S AY H AN S E N P AR K, S UN S T O N E D A VID P U LSIP HE R , B R I GH AM Y O UN G UN I V E R S I T Y - I D AH O BR E N T RO GE R S , J O S E P H S M I T H P AP E R S CHR ISTO P HE R C S M I T H , C L AR E M O N T GR AD UAT E UN I V E R S I T Y SU J E Y VEGA, AR I Z O N A S T AT E UN I V E R S I T Y
AWARDS 31 LEONARD J. ARRINGTON AWARD Awarded annually to a scholar whose contributions are truly outstanding for distinguished service to Mormon history. The selection committee will consider the influence of certain individual works by nominees for this award, as well as their cumulative records of meritorious scholarship in general. Awarded since 1999, this award is named and given in memory and recognition of a founding father of the Mormon History Association and premier mentor and promoter of Mormon history. This award replaces the Grace Fort Arrington Award for Historical Excellence that was offered from 1981 through 1998 . BEST BOOK AWARD ($2,000) Sponsored by: Curtis T. Atkisson Awarded for the best book published on Mormon history. Given to honor and encourage the sense of purpose, dedication, excellence of study, research and scholarship in the field of Mormon history. Funded by Curtis T. Atkisson in memory of his wife, Mary Ann Atkisson, a lover of history, an accomplished artist, and MHA member. BEST BIOGRAPHY ($1,000) Sponsored by: Turner and Bergera Families Awarded for the best published biography in the field of Mormon history. Funded in honor of Ella Larsen Turner, a published historian and genealogist,and her daughter, Ella Ruth Turner Bergera, a published family historian, novelist, and poet. BEST FIRST BOOK - ($1,500) Sponsored by: The Hartley Foundation Awarded biennially (next 2018) for an author’s first book published on Mormon history. BEST DOCUMENTARY HISTORY/BIBLIOGRAPHY - ($1,200) Awarded biennially (next 2018) for the best published book of documentary editing or bibliography on Mormon History. BEST BOOK ON INTERNATIONAL MORMON HISTORY AWARD ($1,200) S p o n s ore d b y Wi l f ri e d and C arine Dec c o-V anwelkenhuysent
Awarded biennially for the best book on international Mormon history (awarded 2017, next awarded 2019) BEST PERSONAL HISTORY/MEMOIR AWARD- Biennial ($1,200,) Sponsored by: Dawn Parrett Thurston and Morris Ashcroft Thurston Awarded biennially (next 2017) for the best published Mormon memoir or personal history. Funded in honor of Barbara Ashcroft Thurston and Morris Alma Thurston, whose dedication to preserving family history and genealogy was an inspiration to their childrens’ mission to promote well-written and compelling personal life stories. BEST ARTICLE AWARD ($500) Sponsored by: The Hartley Foundation Awarded for the best published article on Mormon history. Funded by the Hartley Foundation to honor noted Mormon historian William G. Hartley. ARTICLE AWARD O F EXCELLENCE ($400) Sponsored by: The Robert Jones Family Awarded in memory of Christopher Talmage Jones, an MHA member of nearly forty years who dedicated much of his life to the preservation and scholarship of Mormon history.
BEST ARTICLE ON MORMON WOMEN'S HISTORY ($400) Sponsored by: Mormon Women's History Initiative Team Awarded for an outstanding article on the experiences of Mormon women in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Sponsored by the Mormon Women’s History Initiative Team (MWHIT), an independent group of scholars from around the United States who encourage research, writing, and publications on Mormon women’s history. BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTICLE AWARD ($350) Sponsored by: Joseph and Julia Todd Awarded for the best article on international Mormon history (in print or online journals), in honor of Andrew Jenson, Assistant LDS Church Historian, for his outstanding contribution in documenting nearly every LDS congregation around the world. BEST DISSERTATION AWARD ($800) Sponsored by: Gerald E Jones’ son Gerald L Jones Awarded for the best doctoral dissertation on a Mormon historical theme. Funded in honor and memory of the many students of Gerald Edward. Jones, who served for many years as an administrator and instructor for the LDS Church Educational System. BEST THESIS AWARD ($500) Sponsored by: Gregory A. Prince Award for the best master’s thesis on a Mormon historical theme. Funded in honor of Lester E. Bush who served for five years as Associate Editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought and wrote many articles and one book. His most noteworthy achievement was a Dialogue article published in 1973 on blacks and the priesthood. He spent his career as a physician working for the federal government and is now retired. BEST GRADUATE PAPER ($400) Sponsored by: Lola Van Wagenen The Best Graduate Paper is funded to honor Juanita Brooks for her life of dedication, scholarship and for the courage with which she led the way in an honest and professional approach to the study of the Mormon past.
STUDENT RESEARCH PAPER AWARDS OF MERIT ($300 TO EACH RECIPIENT) Sponsored by: G. Kevin Jones One of MHA’s primary objectives - fostering research and publication of Mormon history - is met by encouraging young scholars in undergraduate and graduate programs to participate in the process. In November 2013, long-time MHA member G. Kevin Jones agreed to fund an annual student paper competition at the university level. Kevin’s generosity has allowed for an expansion of this kind of competition from to seven universities with programs specific to Mormon studies. This award is given in honor of Professor Davis Bitton. SPECIAL CITATION Presented to persons or institutions who have made a significant contribution to Mormon history.
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