Pulitzer Prize winning historian to lecture on Mormon diarists (Missouri)
COLUMBIA— Imagine a religious group on an interstate trek in the mid-1800s. What if you could read the travelers' journals? Undoubtedly, they would have more than your average story to tell.
Harvard University history professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich will uncover the personal stories of Mormon diarists as they traveled from Nauvoo, Ill., to Council Bluffs, Iowa, when she speaks at 7 p.m. Monday at MU.
"I believe I used about a dozen diaries, by men and women both, in this paper," Ulrich said in an e-mail about her recent research. "Some have been published, some digitized, some still in manuscript in various archives."
In a lecture titled "Mud and Fire: Mormon Diarists Cross Iowa," Ulrich will discuss some of the spiritual struggles faced by the group while on its treacherous journey. She will also discuss the Mormon historical connection to Missouri...
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Harvard University history professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich will uncover the personal stories of Mormon diarists as they traveled from Nauvoo, Ill., to Council Bluffs, Iowa, when she speaks at 7 p.m. Monday at MU.
"I believe I used about a dozen diaries, by men and women both, in this paper," Ulrich said in an e-mail about her recent research. "Some have been published, some digitized, some still in manuscript in various archives."
In a lecture titled "Mud and Fire: Mormon Diarists Cross Iowa," Ulrich will discuss some of the spiritual struggles faced by the group while on its treacherous journey. She will also discuss the Mormon historical connection to Missouri...