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• Danites
  ...i. But opposition was far from over. By the summer of 1838, leaders of the Church witnessed the rise of similar threats to their communities in Missouri. Som ...rganization is unclear."[https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/topic/danites] "Historians generally concur that Joseph Smith approved of the Danites but that he prob
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• Abomination of Desolation
  ...us Christ of Latter-day Saints], sometimes inadvertently called the Mormon Church), said: ...st saw the signs and fled to Pella. The scriptures do not record this, but historians do.<ref> George A. Horton, [http://www.lds.org/ensign/1989/06/be-ye-also-re
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• Vardis Fisher
  ...his family foundation and upbringing was in [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints], Fisher could not be categorized as a ...on of Fisher as a “Mormon writer,” that she wrote a letter to then LDS-church president [[Spencer W. Kimball]] demanding that he direct the scholars to r
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• Patty Bartlett Sessions
  ...ronicled her life and bore her testimony of [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]. Her first entry read: “I am now fi ...hree of the eight children born to them lived to adulthood. She joined the Church in 1834 and gathered with the Saints to Far West, Missouri, then Nauvoo, Il
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• John Menzies Macfarlane
  ...f The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1985 book)|Hymns of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]]. ...grant wagon train that became known as the [[Mountain Meadows massacre]]. Historians attribute the massacre “to a combination of factors, including war hyster
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• Mauli Junior Bonner
  ...rist of Latter-day Saints], which commemorated the 40th anniversary of the Church’s lift of the priesthood ban. ...wung the door wide open for me to want to learn more. I began meeting with historians. Reading turned into writing.” In the short summer months, he became a sc
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• Susan Rugh: Mormon Scholar
  ...y and Women’s Studies. She is a member of [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]. ...s, including the Mormon History Association, the Organization of American Historians, the American History Association, the ''Western Historical Quarterly'', an
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