Item Detail
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30996
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1
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24
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English
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Voicing Government : Politics and Participation
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Utah in the Twentieth Century
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Logan, UT
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Utah State University Press
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207-226
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"When members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints arrived in the Great Basin, their leaders formed a theocracy called the State of Deseret, whose proposed boundaries included all of Nevada and extended to the Pacific Coast. Those ambitious arrangements did not last. Instead, Congress took control, made Utah a territory, and progressively trimmed its size. Countering Congress’s assumption of sovereignty, Mormons in Utah Territory asserted their right to control the moral climate and discourse of their communities; in the process, they violated the constitutional rights to life, liberty, and property of some outsiders and apostates whom they regarded as their enemies. In turn federal officials, Congress, and the U.S. Supreme Court whittled away at some Latter-day Saints’ rights to practice their religion, vote, and serve in public office. Distrust ran rampant. Utah did not become a state until 1896—only after the Mormons had agreed to a constitution that prohibited polygamy and strongly separated church and state." [Author]
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A History of Salt Lake County
All Abraham's Children : Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage
An Advocate for Women : the Public Life of Emmeline B. Wells, 1870-1920
A World We Thought We Knew : Readings in Utah History
Black Saints in a White Church : Contemporary African American Mormons
Blazing Crosses in Zion : The Ku Klux Klan in Utah
"Blindside" : Utah on the Eve of Brown v. Board of Education
Hispanics in the Mormon Zion, 1912-1999
Hornets in the Hive : Socialists in Early Twentieth-Century Utah
Kidnapped from that Land : The Government Raids on the Short Creek Polygamists
Missing Stories : An Oral History of Ethnic and Minority Groups in Utah
Mormons and Gentiles : A History of Salt Lake City
Pedestals and Podiums : Utah Women, Religious Authority, and Equal Rights
Political Deliverance : The Mormon Quest for Utah Statehood
Respectable Reformers : Utah Socialists in Power, 1900-1925
Socialist Saints : Mormons and the Socialist Party in Utah, 1900-1920
The LDS Church's Campaign against the Equal Rights Amendment
The Silent Majority : Conservative Perception, Mobilization, and Rhetoric at the Utah State International Women's Year Conference
Utah in the 1990s : A Demographic Perspective
Utah Schools and the Japanese American Student Relocation Program
Utah's History
Utah : The Right Place. The Official Centennial History
Women in Politics : Power in the Public Sphere
Women in Utah History : Paradigm or Paradox?