Michael Packer and Dr. Mary Stovall Richards, History During the Civil War disease was a major problem. Many different diseases combined to cause immense problems for civilians and army personnel alike. More soldiers died from disease than from battle. While medical knowledge was growing, physicians had neither the knowledge nor the understanding to combat most […]
The Journals of Reba Booth, First LDS Sister Missionary to the Middle East
Laura R Ostler and Dr. James A Toronto, Asian and Near Eastern Languages Even before September 11, 2001 exploded the region onto global consciousness, the Middle East had a special fascination for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Church doctrine ties modern Saints with ancient Israel. The “gathering of Israel” is […]
B. H. Schettler: The Personification of Mormon Sainthood and Bankrupt “Buccaneer”
Jacob Wayne Olmstead and Dr. Ignacio Garcia, Department of History Bernhard Herman Schettler strolled down the dusty streets of Salt Lake City for the first time in the autumn of 1861, after making the three and a half month journey from New York City. Having made favorable impressions on George Q. Cannon, Orson Pratt, and […]
Poetry of the River Tietê
Rex P Nielson and Dr. George Handley, Humanities, Classics and Comparative Literature In an essay entitled “Quantity and Quality” written in 1990, Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz bespeaks the importance of poetry in our contemporary society. He contends that during classical times poetry provided an ethical code that significantly influenced the organization of society and government. […]
The Portuguese Presence in Early Cartographical Toponymics of the United States
Jason Y Moyes and Dr. Christopher C Lund, Spanish and Portuguese Although many individuals of varying nationalities are responsible for the eventual exploration and mapping of what is now the United States, it was the Portuguese who played the primary role in the discovery of the New World during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Portugueseborn […]
Sophie: A Digital Library of Early German Women’s Writing
Megan S Morris and Dr. Robert McFarland, Germanic and Slavic Languages The purpose of my research was to help with the development of the Sophie Project. It was conceived by members of the Germanic and Slavic Languages Department who had been confronted by the difficulties of the lack of usable German-language texts written by early […]
The Price of Polygamy: Economic Impact of Federal Prosecution Upon Families of Incarcerated Polygamists
Timothy Merrill and Dr. Brian Cannon, History In recent decades many scholars have put polygamy under the spyglass of inquiry—filling volumes with their findings—yet surprisingly little has been written on the Mormon Underground and the prison life of polygamists in the 1880s and 1890s. The extant literature devoted to this important era of Mormon history […]
The Voice Behind the Crown: Gender and Power in the Literary Legacy of Maria Theresia
Elizabeth McFarland and Dr. Michelle Stott James, Germanic and Slavic Languages As one of the most powerful and charismatic leaders of Enlightenment-era Europe, Maria Theresia von Habsburg is well-known for her widespread political and social reforms and for her skillful political maneuvering which centralized the disintegrating Austrian Empire and led to a golden age of […]
Cross-Cultural Acceptance in Post-September 11th America: A Recital of Middle-Eastern Music
Sarah McDonald and Dr. James Toronto, Near Eastern Studies The attacks of September 11th were designed to strike fear into the hearts of Americans, but the terrorists did not take into account the fact that the blanket term “Americans” includes many of Middle Eastern descent. The aftermath of the hijackings found Muslims, Sikhs, and others […]
French Utopian Socialists Coming to America: The Transformation of Etienne Cabet’s Icarian Colony in Nauvoo
John McCorquindale and Dr. Daryl Lee, French and Italian While many of the definitively American utopian groups have received a good deal of curious attention in the past century, the Icarian colonies are relatively unknown. Maybe it is because of their less accessible French background, or because their iconoclastic leader Etienne Cabet (who once garnered […]
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