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Reconstruction and Mormon America (Paperback)
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Reconstruction and Mormon America (Paperback)
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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.
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