Mormon History Lecture - Fatal Convergence: The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American History
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Religion and violence converged in southern Utah in 1857 when a Mormon militia attacked a wagon train bound for California. Sarah Barringer Gordon, professor of law and history at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses how recognition of the importance of religion to the Mountain Meadows Massacre yields vitally connected histories.
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