
George D. Smith
GEORGE D. SMITH is a founder of Signature Books and the author of books and articles on American and Mormon history. He edited An Intimate Chronicle: The Journals of William Clayton (1991,1995), Faithful History: Essays in Writing Mormon History (1992), Religion, Feminism, and Freedom of Conscience (1994, a joint publication with Prometheus Books), and consulted on the award-winning film for PBS, "Mormons: Missionaries to the World" (1988). He has published in numerous journals. With an AB degree from Stanford and an MBA from New York University, he is a married father of five, living in San Francisco.
The Facsimile Found: The Recovery of Joseph Smith’s Papyrus Manuscripts: An Interview with Dr. Fischer
Articles/Essays – Volume 2, No. 4
The Facsimile Found: The Recovery of Joseph Smith’s Papyrus Manuscripts: An Interview with Dr. Fischer
Articles/Essays – Volume 2, No. 4
Dialogue 2.4 (Winter 1967)57.
here are eleven documents. In addition, there is a letter of presentation from the family of Joseph Smith. The documents in question are fragments of funerary papyri; that is, fragments of long scrolls containing texts intended for the benefit of the deceased and placed in the dead man’s tomb.
Opposition in All Things: A State of Siege a film by Constantin Costa-Gavras
Articles/Essays – Volume 8, No. 2
Moral Tales for Our Times: Chloe in the Afternoon a film by Eric Rohmer
Articles/Essays – Volume 8, No. 2
Isaiah Updated
Articles/Essays – Volume 16, No. 2
Dialogue 16.2 (Summer 1983): 39–45
This paper examines Isaiah’s prophecies in their historical context and compares their meaning as a message for his time with the expanded meaning that Christians — and specifically Mormons — have since applied to them thousands of years later.
“Is There Any Way to Escape These Difficulties?”: The Book of Mormon Studies of B.H. Roberts
Articles/Essays – Volume 17, No. 2
Dialogue 17.2 (Summer 1984): 96–105
In 1979 and 1981, members of the Roberts family gave copies of these works to the University of Utah and Brigham Young University. Roberts’s two studies, with descriptive correspondence, will be published this year by the University of Illinois Press.4
Humanity or Divinity?: The Last Temptation of Christ a film by Martin Scorsese
Articles/Essays – Volume 22, No. 1
Nauvoo Roots of Mormon Polygamy, 1841-46: A Preliminary Demographic Report
Articles/Essays – Volume 27, No. 1
Dialogue 27.1(Spring 1994): 1–72
Smith discusses the importance of plural marriage in Nauvoo to church history. He shows that after Joseph Smith passed away, Nauvoo polygamy numbers rose.
Editing William Clayton and the Politics of Mormon History
Articles/Essays – Volume 30, No. 2
Nauvoo Roots of Mormon Polygamy, 1841-46: A Preliminary Demographic Report
Articles/Essays – Volume 34, No. 1