Ardis E. Parshall - 17 years blogging, 8300+ posts. Century of Black Mormons contributor. Mormon History Association has endowed its Public History Award in my name. Returning history/opinion columnist at the Salt Lake Tribunehttps://bsky.app/profile/keepapitchinin.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/keepapitchinin.bsky.social/post/3mddwkrbcdk2pUtah senator John Curtis (or his intern) describes the murder of Americans on the streets of Minneapolis as a "learning moment," in response to one of my daily messages:26 Jan 2026 19:01 +0000at://did:plc:p4anjp2vgpfnitpjebnnxc4e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mddwkrbcdk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/keepapitchinin.bsky.social/post/3mcsn5qfwnc2pMartin Luther King made a brief visit to Salt Lake City in 1961. Here's my short post about that visit, written in 2007. https://keepapitchinin.org/2017/01/16/martin-luther-king-in-deseret-reprise/19 Jan 2026 21:57 +0000at://did:plc:p4anjp2vgpfnitpjebnnxc4e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcsn5qfwnc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/keepapitchinin.bsky.social/post/3mbagc5nqls2eThis is why I wanted to beat the UPS driver back here this morning: My friend John has sent me this beautiful thing, straight to my Brigham Young-loving heart. It’s an original BY letter, 10 May 1860 to Samuel A. Woolley in Parowan. That old time carpenter had instructions for the bucket factory30 Dec 2025 22:41 +0000at://did:plc:p4anjp2vgpfnitpjebnnxc4e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbagc5nqls2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/keepapitchinin.bsky.social/post/3marl6vrrsc25Merry Christmas! (my first)25 Dec 2025 00:59 +0000at://did:plc:p4anjp2vgpfnitpjebnnxc4e/app.bsky.feed.post/3marl6vrrsc25https://bsky.app/profile/keepapitchinin.bsky.social/post/3m7olus3pts2h“We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed.” — II Corinthians 4:8 Get your mammogram, sisters.11 Dec 2025 03:08 +0000at://did:plc:p4anjp2vgpfnitpjebnnxc4e/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7olus3pts2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/keepapitchinin.bsky.social/post/3m7fzbho3322fWith the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Roscoe C. Cox, president of the Latter-day Saint Hawaiian Mission, knew parents of his missionaries, and Church leaders concerned about membership, would be desperate for information. It was the afternoon of the next day, 1/207 Dec 2025 17:14 +0000at://did:plc:p4anjp2vgpfnitpjebnnxc4e/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7fzbho3322fhttps://bsky.app/profile/keepapitchinin.bsky.social/post/3m6njjdqurs2bMy favorite Thanksgiving graphics from the old LDS magazines ... but also a terrible reminder of the false assumption that Native Americans are gone. From the Children's Friend, 194927 Nov 2025 23:28 +0000at://did:plc:p4anjp2vgpfnitpjebnnxc4e/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6njjdqurs2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/keepapitchinin.bsky.social/post/3m5uqcw3thc2oHave just scrolled through eight screens of Blue Sky and don't have the slightest idea what ANY of the posts refer to.18 Nov 2025 02:53 +0000at://did:plc:p4anjp2vgpfnitpjebnnxc4e/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5uqcw3thc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/keepapitchinin.bsky.social/post/3m4guubgxu22gThe Children's Friend, October 195530 Oct 2025 21:12 +0000at://did:plc:p4anjp2vgpfnitpjebnnxc4e/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4guubgxu22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/keepapitchinin.bsky.social/post/3m3ixacrifs2cI really shouldn't have attempted it--it was too much physically--but I wasn't going to miss it. I made it all the way up Salt Lake City's Capitol Hill, with the assistance of so many kind strangers who lent me their arms or pulled me up after I sat on curbs to recover. No Kings. A lot of love.18 Oct 2025 23:35 +0000at://did:plc:p4anjp2vgpfnitpjebnnxc4e/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3ixacrifs2chttps://bsky.app/profile/keepapitchinin.bsky.social/post/3m2ao43o3vs2iThe last letter written by Gov. Brigham Young ti Chief Wakara of the Ute Nation (1855), seeking peace between the warring peoples, arrived at Wakara's camp on the day he died. The letter was thrown into Wakara's grave, and its contents lost for all these years.02 Oct 2025 23:05 +0000at://did:plc:p4anjp2vgpfnitpjebnnxc4e/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2ao43o3vs2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/keepapitchinin.bsky.social/post/3lzjedzwpos2qTylenol has nothing to do with autism. But we should check out the Epstein files in case there's anything there about autism. Better safe than sorry!23 Sep 2025 16:39 +0000at://did:plc:p4anjp2vgpfnitpjebnnxc4e/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzjedzwpos2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/keepapitchinin.bsky.social/post/3lzeduo32lk2dThe LDS clerks who marked church membership records with "colored man," as here, almost certainly intended it as discrimination, yet those notations opened the way for them to be remembered and honored by Century of Black Mormons. https://exhibits.lib.utah.edu/s/century-of-black-mormons/page/brooks-alex-james?fbclid=IwY2xjawM9B09leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFrUUpsZGpuQkV6aDFXQmlyAR6M5yyDnWhfFeK8TgOVH7d1mGANjCM5ji0NZAhlGN-7G8VdjqAFZ-GP95SPBA_aem_131F3TY3IP3XIHV_34YEkg#?c=&m=&s=&cv=&xywh=-478%2C-379%2C9546%2C690121 Sep 2025 16:47 +0000at://did:plc:p4anjp2vgpfnitpjebnnxc4e/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzeduo32lk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/keepapitchinin.bsky.social/post/3lz5goaq55s2cMy mother on Antifa duty, 1944.18 Sep 2025 22:48 +0000at://did:plc:p4anjp2vgpfnitpjebnnxc4e/app.bsky.feed.post/3lz5goaq55s2chttps://bsky.app/profile/keepapitchinin.bsky.social/post/3lybwfdcfy22zObama's IQ + Trump's IQ = Obama's IQ08 Sep 2025 00:15 +0000at://did:plc:p4anjp2vgpfnitpjebnnxc4e/app.bsky.feed.post/3lybwfdcfy22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/keepapitchinin.bsky.social/post/3lxzhufkles2zI'm seeing so much online indignation about "Why can that old guy/fat woman/diabetic get the Covid booster when I can't??" that I wonder if human contrariness might actually spur a lot of people to get the booster just because somebody told them they couldn't!04 Sep 2025 15:34 +0000at://did:plc:p4anjp2vgpfnitpjebnnxc4e/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxzhufkles2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/keepapitchinin.bsky.social/post/3lxv4rnafgc2dI have a piece in the Salt Lake Tribune at the end of this month telling a significant story using an important "missing" (never published) letter from Brigham Young to a great Ute chief. If Native American history, and the history of slavery, are important to you, you'll want to read it.02 Sep 2025 22:05 +0000at://did:plc:p4anjp2vgpfnitpjebnnxc4e/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxv4rnafgc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/keepapitchinin.bsky.social/post/3lwx6djrov22jI learned a very long time ago the errors anyone falls into by tarring an entire class with the worst traits of one truly evil member of that class. It’s shocking to see a scholar I have greatly admired fall into that trap, and double down after the most mild of challenges.22 Aug 2025 00:13 +0000at://did:plc:p4anjp2vgpfnitpjebnnxc4e/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwx6djrov22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/keepapitchinin.bsky.social/post/3lwurx5nmq223Another year, another published volume in _On This Day: The Armenian Church Synaxarion_ / Edward G. Mathews Jr. One more volume (December) to come next year!21 Aug 2025 01:26 +0000at://did:plc:p4anjp2vgpfnitpjebnnxc4e/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwurx5nmq223https://bsky.app/profile/keepapitchinin.bsky.social/post/3lwtmcwr47k2bActually, slavery WAS that bad.20 Aug 2025 14:12 +0000at://did:plc:p4anjp2vgpfnitpjebnnxc4e/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwtmcwr47k2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/keepapitchinin.bsky.social/post/3lwcy6pugrs2p _A Light in the Northern Sea: Denmark’s Incredible Rescue of Their Jewish Citizens During WWII_ / Tim Brady A newly published history, which undoubtedly speaks to our day, too.13 Aug 2025 23:30 +0000at://did:plc:p4anjp2vgpfnitpjebnnxc4e/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwcy6pugrs2phttps://bsky.app/profile/keepapitchinin.bsky.social/post/3lv7pk2t6x22p_Judeophobia and the New Testament: Texts and Contexts_ / Sarah E. Rollens, et al., eds.30 Jul 2025 22:52 +0000at://did:plc:p4anjp2vgpfnitpjebnnxc4e/app.bsky.feed.post/3lv7pk2t6x22phttps://bsky.app/profile/keepapitchinin.bsky.social/post/3luxsu52r522pI remember a Relief Society (LDS women's organization) lesson where the teacher went on at great length faulting Joseph Smith for actions the Nauvoo city government had taken in 1844 to destroy a newspaper, and how unconstitutional and anti-American he was. Really weird for a church lesson, 1/2 [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Jul 2025 19:30 +0000at://did:plc:p4anjp2vgpfnitpjebnnxc4e/app.bsky.feed.post/3luxsu52r522phttps://bsky.app/profile/keepapitchinin.bsky.social/post/3luqt6ytazk2oThis baby-name website says “Sedatious” is a unisex name meaning “calm or tranquil.” It represents someone who is “peaceful, composed and serene.” Hunh. That *does* fit President Obama ... www.nameslook.com/sedatious https://www.nameslook.com/sedatious25 Jul 2025 00:47 +0000at://did:plc:p4anjp2vgpfnitpjebnnxc4e/app.bsky.feed.post/3luqt6ytazk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/keepapitchinin.bsky.social/post/3luft5mg6hk2cTwenty years after that unforgettable day, I embroidered this wall hanging, with words by the great filker Leslie Fish. HOPE EYRIE / Leslie Fish 1/620 Jul 2025 15:47 +0000at://did:plc:p4anjp2vgpfnitpjebnnxc4e/app.bsky.feed.post/3luft5mg6hk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/keepapitchinin.bsky.social/post/3lu44zkl7vs2c_Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America_ / Karin Wulf16 Jul 2025 19:17 +0000at://did:plc:p4anjp2vgpfnitpjebnnxc4e/app.bsky.feed.post/3lu44zkl7vs2chttps://bsky.app/profile/keepapitchinin.bsky.social/post/3ltzyrbymcc2iUtah's limp dishrag of a senator, John Curtis, queried Threads a couple of days ago for suggestions on decorating his Senate conference room. 100% of the comments, seemingly uniformly from Utahns, rightfully beat the bejeezus out of him for focusing on such nonsense during These Times.15 Jul 2025 22:56 +0000at://did:plc:p4anjp2vgpfnitpjebnnxc4e/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltzyrbymcc2i