Item Detail
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6105
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11
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2
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English
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The Failure of the Kirtland Safety Society
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BYU Studies
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Summer 1972
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12
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437-54
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"The argument over the Kirtland Safety Society is typical of historical discussions in which much is made about the "facts" of a situation. It is as if the truth were somewhere "out there" and if we could somehow manage to separate fact from opinion, we would know what really happened. This idea neglects to consider the point that the facts of history seldom come to us in pure form, since they are always filtered through the mind of the historian who wrote them. There are no "facts" waiting in splendid isolation for discovery by the historian, but only the observations of earlier writers who had their own prejudices. Thus, the anti-Mormon writer who sees the "facts" as damning to the Church and the pro-Mormon writer who sees them as further proof of the validity of his own argument might be wise in working to obtain a broader perspective of the problem in order to reevaluate that which they have come to accept as fact. The purpose of this paper is to reexamine the story of the Kirtland Safety Society." [Publisher's abstract]
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A Study of the Mormon Practice of Plural Marriage before the Death of Joseph Smith
"Dictated by Christ" : Joseph Smith and the Politics of Revelation
Differing Visions : Dissenters in Mormon History
East of Nauvoo: Benjamin Winchester and the Early Mormon Church
Eighth Witness : The Biography of John Whitmer
Joseph Smith as a Jacksonian Man of Letters : His Literary Development as Evidenced in His Newspaper Writings
'Many Mansions' : The Dynamics of Dissent in the Nineteenth-Century Reorganized Church
Mormon Envoy: The Diplomatic Legacy of Dr. John Milton Bernhisel
The Kirtland Economy Revisited : A Market Critique of Sectarian Economics
The Kirtland Safety Society and the Fraud of Grandison Newell : A Legal Examination
The Life of Dr. Frederick G. Williams :
Counselor to the Prophet Joseph Smith