Jessie L Embry
Biographic Data
| ID | 1126878 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessie L Embry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessie L |
| FAMILY NAME | Embry |
| SIGNATURE | EMBRY J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brigham Young University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Lavina Fielding Anderson
Lavina Fielding Anderson's belief in the importance of Mormon History blessed the Journal of Mormon History, its staff, and its authors. As the sole editor from 1991–2009, she expanded the journal from an annual to a quarterly. She encouraged scholars, solicited their papers, and forced them out of their comfort zones to publish ground-breaking articles. She worked with a board of editors, an executive committee, and copy editors who benefited fr…
Fiftieth Anniversary Forum
As the Journal of Mormon History starts publishing its fiftieth volume, this forum looks back at its almost half-century run. During those years, the journal has published articles about the churches that trace their beginnings to Joseph Smith Jr. In this essay, I examine the history and content as the journal grew from a small yearly volume to four quarterly issues per volume of nearly three hundred pages each, and transitioned from a privately …
The Brigham Young Journals, Volume 1
From his baptism in 1832 until his death in 1877, Brigham Young observed, participated, and led The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His journals provide very little of that information since he kept spotty brief records of his activities. Primary sources are always helpful no matter how brief, and, as a result, several editors have published Young's writings.1 The Brigham Young Center Foundation volume, edited by members of the Josep…
Writing Mormon History
How do people approach studying the past? What motivates them to select a topic, wade through all the possible sources, force them to compile all the information, and then sit down and write an article or a book? The answer is easy for students at whatever level from high school classes to PhD programs. It is a class requirement. But what about people who just have a question and are not satisfied with an internet search? Joseph W. Geisner, an in…
Polygamy
Sarah M. S. Pearsall holds a PhD from Harvard and has taught early American history at the University of Cambridge and John Hopkins University. She spent ten years researching the history of polygamy in early America to better understand ideas about marriage. She explains: “In the midst of same-sex marriage debates . . . I wondered . . . why some people felt so threatened by other people's marriages? Why has marriage seemed so foundational to the…
Murder Among the Mormons
Mark Hofmann has haunted the Mormon History Association for years. I remember a session of his finds at a conference. A panel discussed the impact of Hofmann's forgeries and murders in 1986. And in 2021, Barbara Jones Brown created a panel to discuss the Netflix documentary Murder Among the Mormons. A panel member suggested Mark Hofmann was probably laughing in his prison cell realizing that he was still being discussed.An internet search shows t…
Visiting Teaching
In A Rugged Land
Book Review| October 01 2021 In A Rugged Land: Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and the Three Mormon Towns Collaboration, 1953–1954 James R. Swensen. In A Rugged Land: Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and the Three Mormon Towns Collaboration, 1953–1954. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2018. ix + 340 pp. Illustrations, index. Softcover: $34.95. Jessie L. Embry Jessie L. Embry Reviewed by JESSIE L. EMBRY is a coeditor of the Journal of Mormon His…
RLDS and LDS 1920 Centennial Celebrations of the First Vision
Home Teaching (1963–2018)
Research Article| July 01 2020 Home Teaching (1963–2018) Jessie L. Embry Jessie L. Embry JESSIE L. EMBRY retired as the associate director of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University in 2014. She is the author of books and articles dealing with Mormon, women’s and western American history. She is currently the coeditor of the Journal of Mormon History. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journ…
Car Racing and Mobility History
Point Four, Utah State University Technicians, and Rural Development in Iran, 1950–64
In 1950 Iran and the United States signed the first Point Four agreement, establishing a program now known as USAID. It fulfilled President Harry S. Truman's desire to control the Soviet bloc and to share technology with third world countries. Utah State University contracted with the U.S. Point Four program to provide technicians in agriculture from 1951 to 1954. This paper examines the successes and the frustrations that the Utahns felt in tran…
A Wise Choice
When I signed up to take an oral history class during the summer of 1973, I had no idea what the class even was. I only knew that I was starting a graduate program, and my major professor Thomas G. Alexander, also assistant director of the newly formed Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University, wanted students in the class being taught by a guest professor, Gary L. Shumway from California State University-Fullerton. That…
We Grew up Together
Journal Article We Grew Up Together: Brothers and Sisters in Nineteenth-Century America Get access We Grew Up Together: Brothers and Sisters in Nineteenth-Century America. By Atkins Annette. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001. xviii +194 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.) Jessie L. Embry Jessie L. Embry Brigham Young University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Vo…
Oral History and Mormon Women Missionaries
L'A. de cet article se sert des histoires missionnaires des femmes qu'elle a interviewees pour montrer comment les narratrices sont preconditionnees dans la facon dont elles se souviennent de leur vie. Au fil des interviews qu'elle effectuait aupres de mormons hommes et femmes pour recueillir des temoignages de vie, l'A. a pris conscience que les groupes relataient certains evenements de la meme maniere, en suivant des modeles specifiques, alors …
Black Saints in a White Church
Journal Article Black Saints in a White Church: Contemporary African American Mormons Get access Black Saints in a White Church: Contemporary African American Mormons. By Embry Jessie L.. (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1994. xv + 270 pp. Appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $18.95, paper.) Antonette Chambers Noble Antonette Chambers Noble Cora, Wyoming Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical…
Black Saints in a White Church
Mormon Odyssey
Journal Article Mormon Odyssey: The Story of Ida Hunt Udall, Plural Wife Get access Mormon Odyssey: The Story of Ida Hunt Udall, Plural Wife. Edited by Ellsworth Maria S.. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992. xiv. + 296 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.) Jessie L. Embry Jessie L. Embry Brigham Young University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical…
Chinese American Portraits
Community Development in the American West
Journal Article Community Development in the American West: Past and Present Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Frontiers Get access Community Development in the American West: Past and Present Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Frontiers. Edited by Embry Jessie L. Christy Howard A.. (Provo, UT: Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, Brigham Young University, 1985. viii + 237 pp. Tables, notes. $8.95, paper.) Richard W. Sadler Richard W. Sadler W…
Grain Storage
Toward a Twentieth-Century Synthesis
Research Article| November 01 1981 Toward a Twentieth-Century Synthesis: The Historiography of Utah and Idaho Thomas G. Alexander, Thomas G. Alexander Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Jessie L. Embry Jessie L. Embry Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1981) 50 (4): 475–498. https://doi.org/10.2307/3639160 Views Icon Views Article contents Fig…
Car Racing and Mobility History
Toward a Twentieth-Century Synthesis
Research Article| November 01 1981 Toward a Twentieth-Century Synthesis: The Historiography of Utah and Idaho Thomas G. Alexander, Thomas G. Alexander Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Jessie L. Embry Jessie L. Embry Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1981) 50 (4): 475–498. https://doi.org/10.2307/3639160 Views Icon Views Article contents Fig…
Toward a Twentieth-Century Synthesis
Research Article| November 01 1981 Toward a Twentieth-Century Synthesis: The Historiography of Utah and Idaho Thomas G. Alexander, Thomas G. Alexander Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Jessie L. Embry Jessie L. Embry Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1981) 50 (4): 475–498. https://doi.org/10.2307/3639160 Views Icon Views Article contents Fig…
Grain Storage
Community Development in the American West
Journal Article Community Development in the American West: Past and Present Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Frontiers Get access Community Development in the American West: Past and Present Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Frontiers. Edited by Embry Jessie L. Christy Howard A.. (Provo, UT: Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, Brigham Young University, 1985. viii + 237 pp. Tables, notes. $8.95, paper.) Richard W. Sadler Richard W. Sadler W…
Chinese American Portraits
Mormon Odyssey
Journal Article Mormon Odyssey: The Story of Ida Hunt Udall, Plural Wife Get access Mormon Odyssey: The Story of Ida Hunt Udall, Plural Wife. Edited by Ellsworth Maria S.. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992. xiv. + 296 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.) Jessie L. Embry Jessie L. Embry Brigham Young University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical…
Black Saints in a White Church
Journal Article Black Saints in a White Church: Contemporary African American Mormons Get access Black Saints in a White Church: Contemporary African American Mormons. By Embry Jessie L.. (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1994. xv + 270 pp. Appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $18.95, paper.) Antonette Chambers Noble Antonette Chambers Noble Cora, Wyoming Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical…
Black Saints in a White Church
Oral History and Mormon Women Missionaries
L'A. de cet article se sert des histoires missionnaires des femmes qu'elle a interviewees pour montrer comment les narratrices sont preconditionnees dans la facon dont elles se souviennent de leur vie. Au fil des interviews qu'elle effectuait aupres de mormons hommes et femmes pour recueillir des temoignages de vie, l'A. a pris conscience que les groupes relataient certains evenements de la meme maniere, en suivant des modeles specifiques, alors …
We Grew up Together
Journal Article We Grew Up Together: Brothers and Sisters in Nineteenth-Century America Get access We Grew Up Together: Brothers and Sisters in Nineteenth-Century America. By Atkins Annette. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001. xviii +194 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.) Jessie L. Embry Jessie L. Embry Brigham Young University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Vo…
A Wise Choice
When I signed up to take an oral history class during the summer of 1973, I had no idea what the class even was. I only knew that I was starting a graduate program, and my major professor Thomas G. Alexander, also assistant director of the newly formed Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University, wanted students in the class being taught by a guest professor, Gary L. Shumway from California State University-Fullerton. That…
Point Four, Utah State University Technicians, and Rural Development in Iran, 1950–64
In 1950 Iran and the United States signed the first Point Four agreement, establishing a program now known as USAID. It fulfilled President Harry S. Truman's desire to control the Soviet bloc and to share technology with third world countries. Utah State University contracted with the U.S. Point Four program to provide technicians in agriculture from 1951 to 1954. This paper examines the successes and the frustrations that the Utahns felt in tran…
Car Racing and Mobility History
Home Teaching (1963–2018)
Research Article| July 01 2020 Home Teaching (1963–2018) Jessie L. Embry Jessie L. Embry JESSIE L. EMBRY retired as the associate director of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University in 2014. She is the author of books and articles dealing with Mormon, women’s and western American history. She is currently the coeditor of the Journal of Mormon History. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journ…
Visiting Teaching
In A Rugged Land
Book Review| October 01 2021 In A Rugged Land: Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and the Three Mormon Towns Collaboration, 1953–1954 James R. Swensen. In A Rugged Land: Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and the Three Mormon Towns Collaboration, 1953–1954. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2018. ix + 340 pp. Illustrations, index. Softcover: $34.95. Jessie L. Embry Jessie L. Embry Reviewed by JESSIE L. EMBRY is a coeditor of the Journal of Mormon His…
RLDS and LDS 1920 Centennial Celebrations of the First Vision
Writing Mormon History
How do people approach studying the past? What motivates them to select a topic, wade through all the possible sources, force them to compile all the information, and then sit down and write an article or a book? The answer is easy for students at whatever level from high school classes to PhD programs. It is a class requirement. But what about people who just have a question and are not satisfied with an internet search? Joseph W. Geisner, an in…
Polygamy
Sarah M. S. Pearsall holds a PhD from Harvard and has taught early American history at the University of Cambridge and John Hopkins University. She spent ten years researching the history of polygamy in early America to better understand ideas about marriage. She explains: “In the midst of same-sex marriage debates . . . I wondered . . . why some people felt so threatened by other people's marriages? Why has marriage seemed so foundational to the…
Murder Among the Mormons
Mark Hofmann has haunted the Mormon History Association for years. I remember a session of his finds at a conference. A panel discussed the impact of Hofmann's forgeries and murders in 1986. And in 2021, Barbara Jones Brown created a panel to discuss the Netflix documentary Murder Among the Mormons. A panel member suggested Mark Hofmann was probably laughing in his prison cell realizing that he was still being discussed.An internet search shows t…
Lavina Fielding Anderson
Lavina Fielding Anderson's belief in the importance of Mormon History blessed the Journal of Mormon History, its staff, and its authors. As the sole editor from 1991–2009, she expanded the journal from an annual to a quarterly. She encouraged scholars, solicited their papers, and forced them out of their comfort zones to publish ground-breaking articles. She worked with a board of editors, an executive committee, and copy editors who benefited fr…
Fiftieth Anniversary Forum
As the Journal of Mormon History starts publishing its fiftieth volume, this forum looks back at its almost half-century run. During those years, the journal has published articles about the churches that trace their beginnings to Joseph Smith Jr. In this essay, I examine the history and content as the journal grew from a small yearly volume to four quarterly issues per volume of nearly three hundred pages each, and transitioned from a privately …
The Brigham Young Journals, Volume 1
From his baptism in 1832 until his death in 1877, Brigham Young observed, participated, and led The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His journals provide very little of that information since he kept spotty brief records of his activities. Primary sources are always helpful no matter how brief, and, as a result, several editors have published Young's writings.1 The Brigham Young Center Foundation volume, edited by members of the Josep…
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