2011 John Whitmer Historical Association

John Whitmer Historical Association annual meeting.
September 22-25, Nauvoo Ill.

Papers & Panels

• "Community of Christ and LDS Church Responses to Social Issues of the Modern Era" --Presenter: F. Ross Peterson, Utah State University, Logan, Utah; Editor Emeritus, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
• "On the Nauvoo Legion" --Presenter: Richard Bennett, BYU, Provo, Utah
• "The Twelve Had Swallowed Up the Thirty-Eight: Minority Views of the Council of Fifty" --Presenter: Christopher J. Blythe, Florida State University
• "Early Canadian Converts Who Chose the Midwest" --Presenter: Allen LeBaron, Logan, Utah
• "Alpheus Cutler's Role in the Succession Crisis: Sustaining 'Joseph's Measures'" --Presenter: Danny L. Jorgensen, University of South Florida
• "Tales from the Stone House: A view of Strangite hsitory from 'The Stone House' on Mormon Road in Voree, Wisconsin" --Presenter: Lauren Rick, Voree, Wisconsin
• "Debating Joseph Smith's Legacy: An 1846 Brighamite-Strangite Debate and the Battle over Early Mormon Theology" --Presenters: Benjamin E. Park, University of Cambridge and Robin S. Jensen, Joseph Smith Papers Project
• "Nauvoo's Inner Circle of 32 Men That Took 'Celestial Wives' Into the West" --Presenter: George D. Smith, Smith-Pettit Foundation
• "Rockland Ranch: A Case Study of Independent Mormon Fundamentalism and the Development of Utopian Communities" --Presenter: Christine E. Blythe, Tallahassee, Florida,
• "Oliver Olney" --Presenter: Richard G. Moore, LDS Church Educational System
• "Lyman Wight: Wild Ram of the Mountains" --Presenter: Melvin Johnson
• "The African American Experience in Mormon Nauvoo, 1839-1846" --Presenter: Joseph Johnstun, Hancock County, Illinois
• "Harvest Hills: From Pioneer Monoculture to Heterogeneous Community" --Presenter: Bryan R. Monte, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
• "The Hymns of David Hyrum Smith, Nauvoo's Tragic 'Sweet Singer'" --Presenter: Richard Clothier, Emeritus Professor of Music, Graceland University, Lamoni, Iowa
• "Life in Nauvoo" --Chair: William D. Russell
• "Presiding in Zion: The Almost Forgotten Missouri Presidency, 1834-1838" --Presenter: Alex Baugh, BYU, Provo, Utah
• "The Duty of the Lord's Clerk: A Partial Analysis of Joseph Smith's Nauvoo Journals" --Presenter: Alex Smith, LDS Church History Department, Salt Lake City, Utah
• "John C. Bennett and Nauvoo 'Spiritual Wifery': Sifting the 'Cyprian Saints'" --Presenter: Brian Hales, Independent Researcher, Layton, Utah
• "Augustine Spencer" --Presenter: Richard Sadler, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah
• "The Church of Christ (Temple Lot): Its geographical beginnings and historical settings" --Presenter: Jean Addams
• "A Sneak Peak at Volume Two of The Persistence of Polygamy" --Presenters: Newell Bringhurst and Craig Foster
• "Dealing with Religious Diversity at Kirtland Temple: 'Strategies' and 'Tactics' since 1965" --Presenter: David J. Howlett, Bowdoin College
• "Standing High Council" --Presenter: Gwendolyn Blue Hawks, Community of Christ
• "Law and The Prophet: William Law the 'Reformer' vs. Joseph Smith the 'Restorer'" --Presenter: Adam Christing
• "Sidestepping Revealed Truth" --Presenter: David Landrith, Milton, Massachusetts,
• "On the Separation of 'Church' and 'History': Proposing an Academic Name for the Movement" --Presenter: Steven L. Shields, Community of Christ, Lee's Summit, Missouri
• "A Glimpse into the Dark Side of Nauvoo: How Real and Imagined Mormon Stealing Affected the Mormon Diaspora from Nauvoo" --Presenter: Bill Shepard, Burlington Wisconsin
• "Looking After the First Family of Mormonism: LDS Church Leaders' Efforts to Support the Smith Family after the Martyrdom" --Presenter: Kyle R. Walker
• "Roots of Division in the Nauvoo Era" --Chair: Newell Bringhurst --Chair: John Hamer, JWHA President "The RLDS Church's Anti-Polygamy Stance Adapted/Canonized 1967-1972: The Specter of Impending Schism" --Presenter: Richard P. Howard, Church Historian Emeritus, Community of Christ
• "Community of Christ's Journey into the National Council of Churches (NCC)" --Presenter: Dale Luffman, Council of Twelve Apostles, Community of Christ
• "Reforming the Reorganization: The impact of the RLDS Leadership on Theological Changes, 1958–1970" --Presenters: Mitchell McClellan and Keith Wilson, BYU, Provo, Utah
• "Brahman Has Many Faces: Embracing Religious Pluralism" --Presenter: Bob Mesle, Graceland University, Lamoni, Iowa
• "Seven Secular Pre-Restoration Prophets" --Presenter: Loftes Tryk, Frazier Park, California
• "The 'Rosetta Stone' Discovery Leading to the "Caractors' (Anthon) Transcript Translation" --Presenter: Blair B. Bryant, Community of Christ
• "Nauvoo During the Civil War: Different Mormons, Different Joseph Smith, Different City" --Presenter: Kevin Bryant, Bowie, Maryland
• "20th Century Nauvoo History" --Presenter: Scott Esplin, Brigham Young University
• "Mobsters and Masons" --Presenter: Debra J. Marsh
• "Arson and Mobocracy in Southern Hancock County: The Burning of Yelrome as a Prelude to Expulsion from Illinois" --Presenter: Doug Major
• "Mark Hoffmann 25 Years Later" --Presenter: Steven L. Mayfield, Layton, Utah
• "Shi'ite Mormons; We've been here before" --Presenter: Michael L. Humiston, Vernal, Utah
• "Mapping Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint Movement" --Presenter: John Hamer, JWHA President