February 19, 1965 by •
angel(s),
angel(s) Moroni,
anti-Mormon writers,
apostles,
Apostolic Fathers,
Book of Mormon,
Christian(s),
E. D. Howe,
E. L. Lewis,
Edinburgh Review,
Eduard Meyer,
Father,
Fawn M. Brodie,
First Vision,
G. Townsend,
God the Father,
Gold Plates,
Henry Caswell,
Hill Cumorah,
J. D. McMillan,
J.B. Turner,
James T. Cobb,
Jesus Christ and the First Vision,
Jewish sectaries,
John C. Bennett,
John Hyde,
John Quincy Adams,
Joseph Smith Jr. and the First Vision,
Joseph Smith Sr.,
Lehi,
Manchester England,
Martin Harris,
Methodism,
Missouri,
Mohammed,
Mormon (the Book of Mormon prophet),
Moroni,
Mr. Lind,
Nephite scripture,
New Education York,
Obadiah Dogberry,
Oliver Cowdery,
Painesville Telegraph,
Palmyra New York,
Palmyra Reflector,
prophet(s),
R. W. Beer,
Rev. Nathaniel Lewis,
Rochester Advertiser and Telegraph,
Rochester Gem,
Sidney Rigdon,
Stone Box,
the Savior,
the Son,
the Spirit of the Almighty,
Transfiguration
33 pp. typed transcript of an address given on February 18, 1961 at a Seminar on Joseph Smith held at BYU. Nibley sets forth various reasons for believing that there had been a suppression of the story of the initial vision of Joseph Smith by his enemies between 1820 and 1838. See also the series …
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February 17, 1962 by •
alternative,
Analiza Ann Eliza Young,
Analiza Brigham Young,
Analiza Young,
Ann Eliza Young,
anti-Mormon,
argument,
association,
attack,
bargain,
Brigham Young,
controversy,
credentials,
criminal charges,
education,
evidence,
exploit,
Fawn M. Brodie,
folksy,
geographical gap,
homey,
images,
imposing appendix,
intrigue,
Irving Wallace,
Joseph Smith,
Mormon(s),
Mormonism,
mysteries,
name-dropper,
pictures,
polemic,
probabilities,
purity,
purity of motives,
rhetoric,
rules of advertising,
scholar(s),
schoolmen,
sources,
Stenhouse,
thesis
Lecture II, February 17, 1962 in Seminar on the Prophet Joseph Smith (BYU Extension Publications, 1962): 30-41. This was reprinted (1964), pp. 31-42. Essentially a preview of Sounding Brass (1963). A long satirical list of informal rules commonly followed by those anxious to attack Mormon things. — Midgley Listen to recording: MP3 Right-click (cntrl-click for …
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January 2, 1949 by •
Analiza Brigham Young,
anti-Mormon,
Brigham Young,
Fawn M. Brodie,
gossip,
Gregg Thomas Larson,
John H. Beadle,
Joseph Smith,
Mrs. A. E.,
Stenhouse Mrs.,
tales
(Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1963): 249 pp.; CWHN 11:407-727. This book carries the subtitle “Informal Studies in the Lucrative Art of Telling Stories About Brigham Young and the Mormons” and is a response to Irving Wallace’s The Twenty-seventh Wife (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961). A few historians have been annoyed because Nibley pointed out …
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January 1, 1946 by •
atheism,
Bible,
Book of Mormon,
dream(s),
Eduard Meyer,
Egyptian texts,
Egyptian(s),
Eight Witnesses,
evolution,
evolutionary scheme,
Fawn M. Brodie,
First Vision,
Gold Plates,
identical anecdotes,
imposter,
insinuation,
Joseph Smith,
King James Bible,
kingdom(s),
law of parsimony,
Mormon(s),
Mormonism,
original religion,
parallels,
persecution,
plausible,
power(s),
preconceived ideas,
prejudice(d),
Rev. Character Caswell,
revealed religion,
revelation(s),
stable doctrine,
temple(s) rites,
Ursprung und Geschichte der Mormonen,
Walters,
witnesses
No Ma’am, That’s Not History: A Brief Review of Mrs. Brodie’s Reluctant Vindication of a Prophet She Seeks to Expose (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1946): 62 pp.; CWHN 11:1. Subsequently reissued without changes at various times. This is a short, witty reply to Fawn M. Brodie’s No Man Knows My History (New York: Knopf, 1945; …
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