Item Detail
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30847
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1
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1
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English
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After the Golden Age
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Journal of Mormon History
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2015
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38
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3
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Layton, Utah
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Mormon History Association
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225-31
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"ALL OF US, AND I MORE THAN ANYONE, owe a great deal to the committee who organized this conference and to Vernon Swanson, director of the Springville Museum of Art, who generously offered this beautiful space. My heartfelt thanks to them and to each of you who prepared papers. I interpret your labors as acts of friendship, and I happily accept your good wishes in this form. Actually I think that all of the papers and books we produce are implicitly acts of friendship. All scholarship, in effect, says I wish to be part of the company of scholars. I want to join you. Historians are criticized for writing for each other rather than for the general public; but in trying to please one another, we are saying we would like to be friends. Through our books and articles we form ties with one another, and it is these invisible bonds among Mormon studies scholars that are celebrated today. Nothing makes me happier than to see the company of Mormon scholars flourish"[Author]