Mormon Women’s History Initiative Team
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Mormon Women’s History Initiative Team
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Promoting research and networking in the field of Mormon women’s history. On IG/FB at “I Love Mormon Women’s History,” elsewhere @ MWHITcentral.
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At the end of the Mormon emigration season of 1854, the _Millennial Star_, the Church’s English newspaper, published a synopsis of the emigration that year: You see small groups, and sometimes even hundreds, sailing together on their way to Zion.

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January 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
“And Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.”

Wishing peace, hope, and joy to you all this Christmastime. Happy holidays!
December 25, 2024 at 4:29 PM
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Great to see Utah send a statue of Martha Hughes Cannon to the Capitol's Emancipation Hall.

Fun fact: not only was she the first woman state senator in the nation, but she defeated her (polygamous) husband for the seat.

You can read more about her & Mormonism's surprising history in AMERICAN ZION!
December 12, 2024 at 7:09 PM
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I could not be more excited to announce the Eugene England Summer Institute led by myself and the incredible Jana Riess and @benjaminepark.bsky.social. To apply or support this work financially, check out our website. Spread the word!

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Eugene England Summer Institute
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December 10, 2024 at 1:48 PM
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Thinking today about Chiyo Koji Shiogi (the woman in this photo, holding her firstborn). Chiyo was the first LDS Japanese convert (1909) to immigrate to the mainland US (1912). She lived in Oregon with husband Sadaji, a farmer.

At 7:30 on that other December 7, FBI agents arrested the family,
December 7, 2024 at 11:33 PM
Big fans of LTU over here. Big fans. The biggest.
A great introduction to an important historian, Harvard's Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, her work ... and her quote, "Well behaved women seldom make history."

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Well-Behaved Women, a comic strip by Dani Jones
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November 21, 2024 at 12:15 AM
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🚨CALL FOR PAPERS

Announcing the next Redd Center seminar & anthology - "Outdoor Recreation History in the North American West." The seminar will take place on August 7-8, 2025. Proposals are due January 15, 2025.

Please help us spread the word!

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#CFP 🗃️📗#AmWest
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November 13, 2024 at 6:44 PM
Bumping for Cathy and because we are also curious…
Historian friends, any recs for sources on gender/labor/photography/scrapbooks, esp in the American West? In the late 19th/early 20th cent Ellen Larson Smith had a thriving photography studio in the remote Mormon colonies of Ariz. Seen the 2020 Routledge. Photo: Mary Smith, 1908.
November 12, 2024 at 7:59 PM
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November 12, 2024 at 1:59 PM
Let’s gooooo #JuanitaCon2024
Cristina Rosetti and I are reprising #JuanitaCon! Details about how to submit and apply for funding can be found here:

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October 2, 2023 at 4:44 PM
Our job is preach.
July 29, 2023 at 12:32 PM
Let’s start here: our dear friend and colleague Kate Holbrook’s (1972-2022) final book project is available very soon!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nznBlbeMW8Y
July 26, 2023 at 4:14 PM