Gary James Bergera

Review: A Private Revelation William Victor Smith. Textual Studies of the Doctrine and Covenants: The Plural Marriage Revelation

Review: Priesthood Power Jonathan A. Stapley. The Power of Godliness: Mormon Liturgy and Cosmology download

Review: The History that Dares Speak Its Name J. Seth Anderson. LGBT Salt Lake

Seth Anderson’s slim book, part of Arcadia Publishing’s multi-volume Images of Modern America photographic series, is much more than an important new contribution to Utah and LDS history. It is a revelation— a surprising, unexpected…

The Orson Pratt-Brigham Young Controversies: Conflict Within the Quorums, 1853 to 1868

Grey Matters

Orson Pratt: Prolific Pamphleteer

What You Leave Behind: Six Years at the MTC

God’s Hand in Mormon History: The Church in the Twentieth Century: The Impressive Story of the Advancing Kingdom

A Strange Phenomena: Ernest L. Wilkinson, the LDS Church, and Utah Politics

B.H. Roberts’s Autobiography

Building Wilkinson’s University

Friendly History: Nauvoo: A Place of Peace, A People of Promise, by Glen M. Leonard

The Earliest Eternal Sealing for Civilly Married Couples Living and Dead

Identifying the Earliest Mormon Polygamists, 1841-1844

Dialogue 38.3 (Spring 2004): 1–74
Bergera uses evidence from plural wives to show who some of the first polygamists were in the church.

“Rising above Principle”: Ezra Taft Benson as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture 1953-61 Part 1

“Weak-Kneed Republicans and Socialist Democrats”: Ezra Taft Benson as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture 1953-61

The Richard D. Poll and J. Kenneth Davies Cases: Politics and Religion at BYU during the Wilkinson Years