Journal of Undergraduate Research

Joshua Wheatley and Dr. Grant Underwood, History Department I focused my research on an effort to better understand Joseph Smith’s process of revelation, in light of the many revisions that he later made to his own revelations. I decided that my primary source material would be the revelations that Joseph recorded between 1828 and 1831. […]

Jeffrey Tucker and Professor Paul E. Kerry, History Perhaps the most difficult thing about doing scholastic research is coming up with a good question. The philosopher Imre Lakatos has suggested that the modern research programme works by establishing positive and negative heuristics which dictate the questions that are and are not profitable to ask. As Thomas […]

Ardis Smith and Dr. Rebecca de Schweinitz, History Department Over the week of 11-15 February 1959, the front page of Brigham Young University’s the Daily Universe featured four articles on a campus anti-littering campaign. Organized by several freshmen, the campaign was for the winter and spring quarters, and it emphasized the significance of keeping the […]

April Reber “Whatever their fate in life, the burghers of Endigen succeeded in constructing a meaningful and moving story out of what would otherwise have been just another reminder of the violence and meaningless of life. Fragmented events now acquired a unifying structure in the ritual murder discourse; violence transformed into relics, tragedy into triumph, […]

J. Mark Hiatt and Dr. Richard D. Draper, History After the Saints were forced out of Nauvoo, angry vandals, fearing the Saints would return, destroyed the magnificent temple left behind. The temple the mobsters destroyed took five years to build and every sacrifice imaginable for the Saints to complete. Since the temple does not exist […]

Erin K. Knutson and Dr. Rebecca de Schweinitz, History Department Feminism is a global phenomenon but not a monolith. Its goal of a more liberated, self-directed existence for women is common, but the methods employed to make this a reality vary among cultures and individuals. The United States, though full of radical feminist activity, has […]

Deborah Gurtler and Professor George R. Ryskamp, History Garganta la Olla is a small town in the Extremadura region in Spain where partible inheritance was practiced. Each child received an equal share of the family inheritance which had economic implications for the women of the village. Their share of the inheritance often included property. This project […]

Bruce W. Hall and Dr. Douglas F. Tobler, History In November 1968, Elder Thomas S. Monson, a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints leader, promised LDS members in then Communist German Democratic Republic (GDR) that “every blessing any member of the Church enjoys in any other country will be yours.” 1 This included the […]

Andrew S. Gustafson and Dr. H. Carl Marlow, History Discussion on how to govern Germany began as early as November 15, 1943, when officials from the Soviet Union, England, and the United States met together in England for a short conference. 1 While there, participants divided post-war Germany into zones, and split up zonal governing […]

Thayne R. Ford and Professor Lee Butler, History Jose de Acosta’s Historia Natural y Moral de Las Indias 1 is both a reflection of and a response to the scientific turmoil that the New World had caused in Renaissance Europe. While Italy and France were overtaken by the Scientific Revolution, Spain was left stewing in its […]