The “New Social History” and the “New Mormon History”: Reflections on Recent Trends

1994: Roger D. Launius, “The “New Social History” and the “New Mormon History”: Reflections on Recent Trends” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 27 No. 1 (1994): 109-123.

My own analysis of the state of Mormon history suggests that the field, while other factors have also been at work, suffers from some of the exclusiveness and intellectual imperialism that were nurtured during the glory days of the “New Mormon History ” in the 1970s.