American Indians
Angela Pulley Hudson
Brent M. Rogers
Brett D. Dowdle
Brian Q. Cannon
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Cathleen Cahill
Christine Talbot
Crystal Feimster
Elliott West
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Eric A. Eliason
Greater Reconstruction
historical memory
Jared Farmer
Lost Cause
Mormon violence
Mountain Meadows massacre
Patrick Q. Mason
polygamy
polygamy and slavery
Rachel St. John
Reconstruction
removal
slavery
Trail of Tears
Utah Territory
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- ISBN 9780806163536
- Weight: 550g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 03 Oct 2019
- Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The South has been the standard focus of Reconstruction, but reconstruction following the Civil War was not a distinctly Southern experience. In the post-Civil War West, American Indians also experienced reconstruction through removal to reservations and assimilation to Christianity, and Latter-day Saints - Mormons - saw government actions to force the end of polygamy under threat of disestablishing the church. These efforts to bring nonconformist Mormons into the American mainstream figure in the more familiar scheme of the federal government's reconstruction - aimed at rebellious white Southerners and uncontrolled American Indians. In this volume, more than a dozen contributors look anew at the scope of the reconstruction narrative and offer a unique perspective on the history of the Latter-day Saints.
Marshaled by editors Clyde A. Milner II and Brian Q. Cannon, these writers explore why the federal government wanted to reconstruct Latter-day Saints, when such efforts began, and how the initiatives compare with what happened with white Southerners and American Indians. Other contributions examine the effect of the government's policies on Mormon identity and sense of history. Why, for example, do Latter-day Saints not have a Lost Cause? Do they share a resentment with American Indians over the loss of sovereignty? And were nineteenth-century Mormons considered to be on the ""wrong"" side of a religious line, but not a ""race line""? The authors consider these and other vital questions and topics here. Together, and in dialogue with one another, their work suggests a new way of understanding the regional, racial, and religious dynamics of reconstruction - and, within this framework, a new way of thinking about the creation of a Mormon historical identity.
Marshaled by editors Clyde A. Milner II and Brian Q. Cannon, these writers explore why the federal government wanted to reconstruct Latter-day Saints, when such efforts began, and how the initiatives compare with what happened with white Southerners and American Indians. Other contributions examine the effect of the government's policies on Mormon identity and sense of history. Why, for example, do Latter-day Saints not have a Lost Cause? Do they share a resentment with American Indians over the loss of sovereignty? And were nineteenth-century Mormons considered to be on the ""wrong"" side of a religious line, but not a ""race line""? The authors consider these and other vital questions and topics here. Together, and in dialogue with one another, their work suggests a new way of understanding the regional, racial, and religious dynamics of reconstruction - and, within this framework, a new way of thinking about the creation of a Mormon historical identity.
Clyde A. Milner II is Emeritus Professor of History at Arkansas State University and the author or editor of numerous books, including The Oxford History of the American West, coedited with Carol A. O'Connor and Martha A. Sandweiss.
Brian Q. Cannon is Professor of History at Brigham Young University and author or editor of numerous books, including The Awkward State of Utah: Coming of Age in the Nation, 1896-1945, coauthored with Charles S. Peterson.
Brian Q. Cannon is Professor of History at Brigham Young University and author or editor of numerous books, including The Awkward State of Utah: Coming of Age in the Nation, 1896-1945, coauthored with Charles S. Peterson.
