Mormon Artists Group invited member-authors around the world merely to go to church and write down what they experienced on Sunday. We were curious to know what their buildings looked like, how people arrived at church, who were the members, what they did for a living, what they looked like, how they treated each other, what they talked about, what worried them, what inspired them, how they sang, how they worshipped: what went on. Our authors wrote from their home congregations in Singapore, Australia, Angola, Kuwait, Brazil, and in North America, in Pasadena, Seattle, Mesa, Provo, Chicago, and Harlem, eleven essays altogether. We commonly hear the phrase, "The Church is the same everywhere you go." We set out to explore that idea. The authors don't speak for the world, but their portraits of their congregations offer a hint of what the world of our Church is like and how we are alike (or not) right now.

As a poet, author, and keen observer of life in 1870s Boston, Harriet Robinson played an essential - if occasionally underappreciated - role in the women's suffrage movement during Boston's golden age. Robinson flourished after leaving behind her humble roots in the mill town of Lowell, Massachusetts, deciding to spend a year in Boston discovering the culture and politics of America's Athens. An honest, bright, and perceptive witness, she meets with Emerson and Julia Ward Howe, with whom she organizes the New England Women's Club, and drinks deeply of the city's artistic and cultural offerings. Noted historian Claudia L. Bushman proves a wonderful guide as she weaves together Robinson's journal entries, her own learned commentary, and selections from other nineteenth-century writers to reveal the impact of the industrial revolution and the rise of women's suffrage as seen through the experience of one articulate, engaged participant. Going to Boston will appeal to readers interested in both the history of Boston and the history of American progress itself.