Jonathan Dillon Kuhl Utah State University— Member ΦΑθ-ΔΞ Published in Utah Historical Review, Vol IV. The Blitzkrieg was the combined use of tanks, air craft and infantry hitting hard and fast to seize the initiative in World War II. While there have been other avenues pursued by historians for understanding the Blitzkrieg, few have focused on the role of the environment played one of...

Christopher Phil McAbee University of Utah — Member ΦΑθ-AP Published in Utah Historical Review, Vol IV. Using official church documents from the Early Stuart era, broadsides, and pamphlets this article demonstrates how the church set official codes for worship and how the laity responded to that code. Eucharistic table manners and how lay persons behaved during Divine Service created complex multi-tiered relationships with the...

Gregory Jackson University of Utah — Member ΦΑθ-BƖ Published in Utah Historical Review, Vol IV. When the defunct Ottoman Empire’s Middle-Eastern territory was divided by Britain and France in the early 1920s as League of Nations Mandates, Britain received Iraq. Ostensibly, the French and British were to assist the people living within their respective mandates in nation-building. In reality, these mandates amounted to little...

Melinda R. Hortin University of Utah — Member ΦΑθ-AP Published in Utah Historical Review, Vol IV. This essay focuses on the Victory Garden movement in the US during World War II. Victory Gardens were not a new idea for the American public. The gardening movement as subsistence for the home front had actually been implemented during World War I as “War Gardens” by the...

Hadyn B. Call Utah State University — Member ΦΑθ-AΓΟ Published in Utah Historical Review, Vol IV. In his article, “Infallible Proofs, Both Human and Divine: The Persuasiveness of Mormonism for Early Converts,” Steven C. Harper argues that Mormon conversion was a rational commitment and that Mormonism was an attractive, newly restored religion. He states that Mormon conversions did not come, “from the ranks of...