Arrington Lecture Series

Usu Special Collections Special

• Publisher: Utah State Special Collection
• Year: 2005
• ISBN:
  9780874215274
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

The first ten lectures in Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lecture Series are here collected in one volume. The series, established by one of the twentieth-century West's most distinguished historians, Leonard Arrington, has become a leading forum for prominent historians to address topics related to Mormon history. The first lecturer was Arrington himself. He was followed by Richard Lyman Bushman, Richard E. Bennett, Howard R. Lamar, Claudia L. Bushman, Kenneth W. Godfrey, Jan Shipps, Donald Worster, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, and F. Ross Peterson. Utah State University hosts the Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lecture Series. The University Libraries' Special Collections and Archives houses the Arrington collection. The state's land grant university began collecting records very early, and in the 1960s became a major depository for Utah and Mormon records. Leonard and his wife Grace joined the USU faculty and family in 1946, and the Arringtons and their colleagues worked to collect original diaries, journals, letters, and photographs.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Introduction
• 1 Faith and Intellect as Partners in Mormon History
• 2 Making Space for the Mormons
• 3 "My Idea Is to Go Right Through Right Side Up with Care": The Exodus as Reformation
• 4 The Theater in Mormon Life and Culture
• 5 Mormon Domestic Life in the 1870s: Pandemonium or Arcadia?
• 6 The Importance of the Temple in Understanding the Latter-day Saint Nauvoo Experience: Then and Now
• 7 Signifying Sainthood, 1830–2001
• 8 Encountering Mormon Country: John Wesley Powell, John Muir, and the Nature of Utah
• 9 Rachel's Death: How Memory Challenges History
• 10 "I Didn't Want to Leave the House, but He Compelled Me To": A Personal Examination of a Mormon Family
• Notes
• About the Authors