Charlotte Hansen Terry

CHARLOTTE HANSEN TERRY is a PhD student in US history at the University of California, Davis. She focuses on gender, race, religion, and imperialism in the American West and Pacific.

Roots and Responsibilities

Articles/Essays – Volume 54, No. 4

A few years ago, I had the opportunity to take a seminar from a professor at my university in the Native American and Indigenous Studies Department, focused on religious and/or spiritual traditions, belief systems, and…

Remembering Jane Manning James | Quincy D. Newell, Your Sister in the Gospel: The Life of Jane Manning James, a Nineteenth-Century Black Mormon

Articles/Essays – Volume 53, No. 3

In this carefully researched work, Quincy D. Newell produces a powerful narrative of Jane Manning James’s life from limited records. Newell reveals what life was like for someone like James, whom she refers to as…

Tipping the Scales: LDS Women and Power in Recent Scholarship

Articles/Essays – Volume 53, No. 1

How history is framed and whose stories are told by an institution reveals much about its paradigms and priorities. From a survey of the past few years of history and Mormon studies materials published about…