tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645379631135547997.post6014246131639815517..comments2024-03-21T07:58:02.168-05:00Comments on Amateur Mormon Historian: Church Archives - Another updateBrucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01543519825711760773noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645379631135547997.post-77232667886211201182009-01-23T09:40:00.000-06:002009-01-23T09:40:00.000-06:00That's wonderful Susan. I haven't seen this articl...That's wonderful Susan. I haven't seen this article in any of the other reading I have done. Of course I still have much to read, but this will go on my short list.<BR/><BR/>Last night I was reading Arrington's Great Basin Kingdom (I know, I know. I am so behind the curve on this one). In it Arrington noted that at the beginning of his career the Church History office was unfriendly to scholars. Times have changed.Brucehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01543519825711760773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645379631135547997.post-9240360596421681182009-01-22T23:31:00.000-06:002009-01-22T23:31:00.000-06:00I came across an article in the Journal of Mormon ...I came across an article in the Journal of Mormon History that I haven't seen mentioned on your blog, "Backcountry Missionaries in the Post-Bellum South: Thomas Ephraim Harper's Experience" by Reid L. Harper. Thomas Harper was a missionary in the Southern States Mission from October 1884 to March, 1887. The paper introduces his diaries, which the author says have been heretofore unknown to LDS historians. For those not familiar with the article, it is in the Winter 2008 issue of the JMH, Vol. 34, No. 1.<BR/><BR/>I spent nearly two days at the Church Archives two summers ago. The librarians gave me invaluable help. I didn't find what I went looking for, but I did order three photos of my great-grandfather I had never before seen. The photos arrived on a CD with a bill for $8. Definitely a bargain.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com