Robert A. Goldberg

ROBERT A. GOLDBERG {[email protected]} is Professor of His￾tory and Director of the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah. He is the author of eight books with his last two, Barry Goldwater and Enemies Within: The Culture of Conspiracy in Modern America pub￾lished by Yale University Press. Forthcoming from the University of Utah Press is an edited work with Jack and Linda Newell titled: Conscience and Community: Sterling McMurrin, Obert C. Tanner, and Lowell Ben￾nion. In 2003, he held the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies at the Swedish Institute for North American Studies, Uppsala University. He was awarded the Rosenblatt Prize for Excellence in 2008.

Can Mormons be White in America?

Articles/Essays – Volume 50, No. 4

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Mountain Meadows: Not Yet Gone | Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley Jr., and Glen M. Leonard, Massacre at Mountain Meadows: An American Tragedy

Articles/Essays – Volume 42, No. 1

After more than thirty years as a historian and after writing dozens of book reviews, I confess that this one has been the most difficult response that I have ever had to write. Perhaps it…

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Roundtable on Massacre at Mountain Meadows

Articles/Essays – Volume 42, No. 1

The publication of Massacre at Mountain Meadows (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008) by Glen M. Leonard, Richard E. Turley Jr., and Ronald W. Walker, a history of Mormonism’s darkest hour, is itself a history-making event. A scholarly discussion of their book and its significance in Mormon and Western studies was held at the Salt Lake Public Library on September 5, 2008, sponsored by the Charles Redd Center for Western History at Brigham Young University, the Mormon History Association, the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah, the Tanner Center for Non-Violent Human Rights also at the University of Utah, and the Salt Lake City Public Library. 

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