The Pinto Ward chapel and school, built in 1866, illustrates the tendency to merge church and state in early Utah history. USHS collections.
A New Community: Mormon Teachers and the Separation of Church and State in Utah's Territorial Schools BY C H A R L E S S . P E T E R S O N
1978 U T A H N S OBSERVED an extended court case dealing with released time and public school credit for religious instrucI N
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Dr. Peterson is professor of history at U t a h State University a n d a Fellow of the U t a h State Historical Society. This article is a revised version of a paper delivered at the Mormon History Association meeting in San Francisco, December 1978.
