Keepapitchinin
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Ardis E. Parshall - 17 years blogging, 8300+ posts. Century of Black Mormons contributor. Mormon History Association has endowed its Public History Award in my name. Returning history/opinion columnist at the Salt Lake Tribune
The Children's Friend, October 1955
October 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
The Children's Friend, October 1955
The LDS clerks who marked church membership records with "colored man," as here, almost certainly intended it as discrimination, yet those notations opened the way for them to be remembered and honored by Century of Black Mormons.
exhibits.lib.utah.edu/s/century-of...
exhibits.lib.utah.edu/s/century-of...
September 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The LDS clerks who marked church membership records with "colored man," as here, almost certainly intended it as discrimination, yet those notations opened the way for them to be remembered and honored by Century of Black Mormons.
exhibits.lib.utah.edu/s/century-of...
exhibits.lib.utah.edu/s/century-of...
My mother on Antifa duty, 1944.
September 18, 2025 at 10:49 PM
My mother on Antifa duty, 1944.
Another year, another published volume in _On This Day: The Armenian Church Synaxarion_ / Edward G. Mathews Jr. One more volume (December) to come next year!
August 21, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Another year, another published volume in _On This Day: The Armenian Church Synaxarion_ / Edward G. Mathews Jr. One more volume (December) to come next year!
_A Light in the Northern Sea: Denmark’s Incredible Rescue of Their Jewish Citizens During WWII_ / Tim Brady
A newly published history, which undoubtedly speaks to our day, too.
A newly published history, which undoubtedly speaks to our day, too.
August 13, 2025 at 11:30 PM
_A Light in the Northern Sea: Denmark’s Incredible Rescue of Their Jewish Citizens During WWII_ / Tim Brady
A newly published history, which undoubtedly speaks to our day, too.
A newly published history, which undoubtedly speaks to our day, too.
_Judeophobia and the New Testament: Texts and Contexts_ / Sarah E. Rollens, et al., eds.
July 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
_Judeophobia and the New Testament: Texts and Contexts_ / Sarah E. Rollens, et al., eds.
Twenty years after that unforgettable day, I embroidered this wall hanging, with words by the great filker Leslie Fish.
HOPE EYRIE / Leslie Fish
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HOPE EYRIE / Leslie Fish
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July 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Twenty years after that unforgettable day, I embroidered this wall hanging, with words by the great filker Leslie Fish.
HOPE EYRIE / Leslie Fish
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HOPE EYRIE / Leslie Fish
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_Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America_ / Karin Wulf
July 16, 2025 at 7:17 PM
_Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America_ / Karin Wulf
June 19, 2025 at 11:42 PM
My creed as a Latter-day Saint:
LGBT folks are children of God. He loves them and desires their happiness at least as much as my own.
I have no calling to make their lives more difficult through my words or actions.
Happy Pride Month! You are safe with me.
LGBT folks are children of God. He loves them and desires their happiness at least as much as my own.
I have no calling to make their lives more difficult through my words or actions.
Happy Pride Month! You are safe with me.
June 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
My creed as a Latter-day Saint:
LGBT folks are children of God. He loves them and desires their happiness at least as much as my own.
I have no calling to make their lives more difficult through my words or actions.
Happy Pride Month! You are safe with me.
LGBT folks are children of God. He loves them and desires their happiness at least as much as my own.
I have no calling to make their lives more difficult through my words or actions.
Happy Pride Month! You are safe with me.
_The Bible Says So: What We Get Right (and Wrong) about Scripture’s Most Controversial Issues_ / Dan McClellan
April 28, 2025 at 11:20 PM
_The Bible Says So: What We Get Right (and Wrong) about Scripture’s Most Controversial Issues_ / Dan McClellan
Then they're REALLY not going to like this illustration from the LDS magazine for its Sunday Schools, August 1906.
April 28, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Then they're REALLY not going to like this illustration from the LDS magazine for its Sunday Schools, August 1906.
_Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands_ / Brenden W. Rensink
This 2018 book looking at border crossings of Indigenous peoples from Canada to the US, and from Mexico to the US,
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This 2018 book looking at border crossings of Indigenous peoples from Canada to the US, and from Mexico to the US,
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April 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
_Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands_ / Brenden W. Rensink
This 2018 book looking at border crossings of Indigenous peoples from Canada to the US, and from Mexico to the US,
1/3
This 2018 book looking at border crossings of Indigenous peoples from Canada to the US, and from Mexico to the US,
1/3
April 22, 2025 at 12:14 AM
_A Fool’s Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump_ / Lonnie G. Bunch III
April 1, 2025 at 1:34 AM
_A Fool’s Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump_ / Lonnie G. Bunch III
As impossible as it may seem, we will conquer when we continue to do our best.
March 28, 2025 at 3:41 PM
As impossible as it may seem, we will conquer when we continue to do our best.
Seems like a good week to read this little book of essays.
March 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Seems like a good week to read this little book of essays.
_The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915_ / Jon Grinspan
March 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
_The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915_ / Jon Grinspan
March 7, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Land of the Free, and Home of the Brave
March 1, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Land of the Free, and Home of the Brave
Bishop Budde is back in print.
_How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith_ / Mariann Edgar Budde
_How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith_ / Mariann Edgar Budde
February 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Bishop Budde is back in print.
_How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith_ / Mariann Edgar Budde
_How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith_ / Mariann Edgar Budde
Unlock family stories? How about unlocking that poor girl with the table running through her midsection?
February 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Unlock family stories? How about unlocking that poor girl with the table running through her midsection?
_The Slow Work of God: What the past can teach us about loss, grace, and conversion_ / Rachel Cope
Two sisters uncovered by Century of Black Mormons have roles in this book. Slowly, gradually, their stories are entering our awareness and are no longer merely curiosities on an academic website.
Two sisters uncovered by Century of Black Mormons have roles in this book. Slowly, gradually, their stories are entering our awareness and are no longer merely curiosities on an academic website.
February 14, 2025 at 1:15 AM
_The Slow Work of God: What the past can teach us about loss, grace, and conversion_ / Rachel Cope
Two sisters uncovered by Century of Black Mormons have roles in this book. Slowly, gradually, their stories are entering our awareness and are no longer merely curiosities on an academic website.
Two sisters uncovered by Century of Black Mormons have roles in this book. Slowly, gradually, their stories are entering our awareness and are no longer merely curiosities on an academic website.
_Between the Temple and the Tax Collector: The Intersection of Mormonism and the State_ / Samuel D. Brunson
February 12, 2025 at 12:52 AM
_Between the Temple and the Tax Collector: The Intersection of Mormonism and the State_ / Samuel D. Brunson