Joseph W. Geisner

JOSEPH W. GEISNER {[email protected]} is an independent Mormon researcher. He has published in the Journal of Mormon History, Sunstone, John Whitmer Historical Journal, Irreantum, and elsewhere. With Lavina Fielding Anderson, he created the chronologies for Confessions of a Mormon Historian: The Diaries of Leonard J. Arrington, 1971–1997. Two of his edited works were released by Signature Books, Writing Mormon History: Historians and Their Books and Writing Mormon History 2: Authors’ Stories Behind Their Works. He served three years on the board of directors for the John Whitmer Historical Association.

Secret, Not Sacred | Cheryl L. Bruno, ed., Secret Covenants: New Insights on Early Mormon Polygamy

Articles/Essays – Volume 59, No. 02

Cheryl Bruno’s edited volume, Secret Covenants: New Insights on Early Mormon Polygamy, gives us an important resource about Mormonism’s early implementation and practice of Joseph Smith’s secret practice of polygamy. As Bruno points out in…

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