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A Test Case for Heresy and Gender Discourse | Terryl L. Givens, The Viper on the Hearth: Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy, and Joan Smyth Iversen, The Antipolygamy Controversy in U.S. Women’s Movements, 1880-1925: A Debate on the American Home

March 31, 2018

The nineteenth century saw the rise and fall of many “crusades” that have been painstakingly examined by scholars, including abolition, temperance, and nativism. Yet the equally important campaigns to eradicate polygamy and stem […]

Coupé

March 30, 2018

In winter, you get onto the train to Moscow at dusk or at first dark. From the Tallinn train station, you can almost see the lights of the harbor. The train station, though, smells […]

Bringing Balance to Our Historical Writing | Valeen Tippetts Avery, From Mission to Madness: Last Son of the Mormon Prophet

March 29, 2018

[…] church” began out of op position to polygamy, a social practice that is reviled in the western world. Imagine that his mother and brother are publicly committed to the proposition that his father, the […]

Intricate, Lucid, Generous | Robert Hodgson Van Wagoner, Dancing Naked

March 29, 2018

[…] her family together after the death of their son. All these situations add up to one complex world for a young writer to tackle. And Van Wagoner tackles it competently. Dancing Naked is an […]

Out of the Woods

March 28, 2018

[…] church.” For a minute, Carma realizes, Natalie has forgotten her. Then she remembers and laughs nervously. “Their world is so different from the world I grew up in.” Carma lowers herself into her seat. […]

Confessions of a Modern Day Mobber

March 27, 2018

[…] “5 Kinds of Mormons.” It offered the theory that of all the millions of Mormons in the world, there were only five basic types: liberal, genuine, conservative, orthodox, and Nazi. As I recall it […]

On Being a Mormon Woman

March 26, 2018

[…] the battle for women’s rights may be lost in the church, but there is a whole wide world of political and social rights still to be won for women. She has shifted her energy […]

Sisterhaters

March 26, 2018

[…] news, I knew I was in deep trouble. Suddenly I, the biggest, most willing sisterhater in the world, found myself trapped by my own guile into going on a mission. In an effort to […]

Identifying the Sites at Mountain Meadows | A New Look at Old Sites on Mountain Meadows: Historical Topography, by Morris A. Shirts and Frances Anne Smeath

March 26, 2018

This slim volume is intended by its publisher to inaugurate a series of monographs devoted to the study of the infamous 1857 massacre of over 100 emigrants by misguided Mormons and their Indian allies in southern Utah. The massacre was […]

Another Death

March 26, 2018

[…] about himself as he lay in bed instead of watching cartoons on TV or shooting baskets through the hoop under the eaves. They didn’t have a garage, but they didn’t need one since they […]