Item Detail
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29327
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English
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'I Intend to Get Up a Whistling School' : The Nauvoo Whistling and Whittling Movement, American Vigilante Tradition, and Mormon Theocratic Thought
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Journal of Mormon History
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October 2017
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43
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Champaign, IL
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University of Illinois Press; Mormon History Association
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37-67
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[2018 John Whitmer Historical Association winner for Best Historical Article Award]
The article analyzes the whistling and whittling movement in a historical context with contemporary vigilante movements in the U.S. and the Mormon quest for social order in Nauvoo, Illinois. Topics covered include the transformation of the whistlers into a vigilante mob when the group was organized by Mormon Church leaders to create a theocratic structure to replace the Nauvoo charter, and the connection between Mormonism and vigilantism in the U.S.
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"Archives of the Better World": The Nineteenth-Century Historian's Office and Mormonism's Archival Flexibility
Kingdom of Nauvoo : The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier
Mormonism and Violence : The Battles of Zion
The Joseph Smith Papers Documents, Volume 13: August-December 1843
Turning Type into Pi: The Destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor in Historical Context