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In Real vs. Rumor I share a variety of interesting reactions from people to these findings of forgery. Further, I use this forgery to illustrate how developing good thinking skills can help protect us from being faked (see pp. 136-137).
My 9,000-word analysis of the forged Elvis Presley annotations in a Book of […]
This article was published online in the Church News on November 14, 2018, and a notice appeared the same day in the Deseret News. The story ran in the print version of the Church News on November 18 (pages 18-19) and was posted on lds.org on […]
[This was originally published on May 21, 2018, on the Church History Library’s blog The Historical Record.]
June 2018 marks 40 years since President Spencer W. Kimball announced that the priesthood could be conferred on “all worthy male members of the Church” (Official Declaration 2). The announcement provided new opportunities to members […]
Public historian Sheila Brennan rightly observed that “public digital humanities work requires an intentional decision from the beginning of the project that identifies, invites in, and addresses audience needs in the design, as well as the approach and content, long before the outreach for a finished project begins.” This post presents recent initiatives in […]
This summary is reposted from the LDS Perspectives website where they also offer the full audio file and a transcript.
Keith Erekson, current director of the LDS Church History Library, has worked really wherever history could be found or needed. When faced with new opportunities, he’s thought, “let’s go […]
This text is re-posted from the Juvenile Instructor blog, published today. Visit the blog for questions and my responses.
One of the most common tropes in Mormon literature asserts that Mormon practices are veiled in secrecy. In the realm of historical practice, the trope has been employed to describe the archival and historical collections […]
