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Ardis E. Parshall - 17 years blogging, 8300+ posts. Century of Black Mormons contributor. Mormon History Association has endowed its Public History Award in my name. Returning history/opinion columnist at the Salt Lake Tribune

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · Nov 27

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 5d

If you’re going to put words in a stranger’s mouth, try not to be so dumb.

Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 6d

That would have been dreadful (but entirely plausible)!

No, it was in the papers of the Church History Library, but not in an obvious place so it had been overlooked in historians' searches.

Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 6d

The retained copy of that letter has been found.

Want to know what the two great leaders discussed in their final exchange?

See www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

(Behind a paywall; a $3/month Patreon subscription unlocks it and all other locked content.)

Commentary: How LDS leader Brigham Young and a great Ute chief strived for peace in a time of war

Research historian Ardis E. Parshall sheds light on the efforts of LDS pioneer-prophet Brigham Young and Ute Chief Wakara to stem 19th-century hostilities in early Utah.

www.sltrib.com

Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 6d

The last letter written by Gov. Brigham Young ti Chief Wakara of the Ute Nation (1855), seeking peace between the warring peoples, arrived at Wakara's camp on the day he died. The letter was thrown into Wakara's grave, and its contents lost for all these years.

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 12d

I don't see the sentient part.

Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 15d

Tylenol has nothing to do with autism.

But we should check out the Epstein files in case there's anything there about autism. Better safe than sorry!

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 17d

The LDS clerks who marked church membership records with "colored man," as here, almost certainly intended it as discrimination, yet those notations opened the way for them to be remembered and honored by Century of Black Mormons.

exhibits.lib.utah.edu/s/century-of...

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 20d

My mother on Antifa duty, 1944.

Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 23d

If the "flags were ordered," isn't it the responsibility of the flags themselves to comply, or not?

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 28d

A dear friend of mine who's a multimedia artist has finally, after much encouragement, opened an Etsy shop featuring his jewelry designs and art pieces. He's hoping to make a few small sales so he can get some reviews of his shop.

www.etsy.com/shop/marplebot

A geometric freestanding 3D art piece lit up in blue with intricate square and rectangular shapes

Pearlescent acrylic earrings in a geometric design

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 28d

Those earrings! Wow!

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · Sep 8

Obama's IQ + Trump's IQ = Obama's IQ

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · Sep 4

I'm seeing so much online indignation about "Why can that old guy/fat woman/diabetic get the Covid booster when I can't??" that I wonder if human contrariness might actually spur a lot of people to get the booster just because somebody told them they couldn't!

Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · Sep 2

I'm unusually pleased with this one!

Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · Sep 2

I have a piece in the Salt Lake Tribune at the end of this month telling a significant story using an important "missing" (never published) letter from Brigham Young to a great Ute chief. If Native American history, and the history of slavery, are important to you, you'll want to read it.

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · Aug 27

That is horrifying. I had no idea. I don’t see a single post on that page that has any vestige of humanity.

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · Aug 22

I learned a very long time ago the errors anyone falls into by tarring an entire class with the worst traits of one truly evil member of that class. It’s shocking to see a scholar I have greatly admired fall into that trap, and double down after the most mild of challenges.

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · Aug 21

Not what I expected from you.

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · Aug 21

Another year, another published volume in _On This Day: The Armenian Church Synaxarion_ / Edward G. Mathews Jr. One more volume (December) to come next year!

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · Aug 20

Actually, slavery WAS that bad.

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · Aug 19

I've forgotten the book, but not this: There's a book about an English boys' school, with an adult school figure named Alcock. The boys referred to him as Nobles.

Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · Aug 14

I’d have to check all but one box — for goons who want to say that someone with American great-grandparents is more American than a second- generation American, they don’t realize that they’re telling on themselves by not recognizing just how many points of origin REALLY long-term families have.

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · Aug 13

_A Light in the Northern Sea: Denmark’s Incredible Rescue of Their Jewish Citizens During WWII_ / Tim Brady

A newly published history, which undoubtedly speaks to our day, too.

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · Jul 30

_Judeophobia and the New Testament: Texts and Contexts_ / Sarah E. Rollens, et al., eds.

Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · Jul 27

and I could tell how restless class members were getting. I finally spoke up and explained pretty much as this quote has it, except I expanded it to city/county action -- I think no one else in the room understood this.

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