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A New Community : Mormon Teachers and the Separation of Church and State in Utah's Territorial Schools
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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Summer 1980
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48
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293-312
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After 1867 education in Utah changed. Its development corresponded closely with an expanding emphasis on education nationally and was hastened by the transcontinental railroad. The success of the Protestant churches in making the schoolroom a primary line in the campaign to Americanize and 'Christianize' the Mormons shook Latter-day Saint leaders out of an educational complacency induced by the demands and isolation of pioneering. Increasing importance was placed on school attendence, and the church began to give more than nominal support to higher education. Stung by the Protestant effort to entice away its young through learning, Mormon society was also forced to accept branches of learning for which there had been no enthusiasm earlier. Position and respect were opened to educational leaders, allowing them to be counted as a new elite. It is significant that the leading figures in the development of Utah's educational system were recent converts to the Mormon church, were mostly from the American Midwest, and had much in common with the Protestant missionaries and who had themselves lived through periods of frontier development similar in many respects to what was then under way in Utah.
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Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia
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Letters of Brigham Young to His Sons
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One Hundred Years of Education in a Utah Community
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The Founding and Development of Grantsville, Utah 1850-1950
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The Life and Ministry of John Morgan
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