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Salt Lake City, 1957
Judy Darke DeloguPodcast version of this piece. Sunday morning in Salt Lake City, whenfaithful Mormons flock to worshipat neighborhood wards, my father’ssecret psychiatric patients slip insidethe back door of 508 East South Temple,for fifty-five-minute appointments.A nurse impersonator,…
Historic Sites Holy Envy Sara M. Patterson, Pioneers in the Attic: Place and Memory Along the Mormon Trail
John G. TurnerWhen it comes to sacred places, I feel considerable holy envy toward the Latter-day Saints. Their sacred sites stretch across the continent, from Vermont to California. Mormons can visit their founding prophet’s birthplace, the grove…
The Words and Worlds of Smith and Brown Samuel Morris Brown, Joseph Smith’s Translation: The Words and Worlds of Early Mormonism
Jonathan A. StapleyIn 1887 Albert Michelson and Edward Morley performed what was intended to be the crowning accomplishment of physics—an experiment to determine how movement through the luminiferous ether changed the speed of light. What they found…
Unpacking Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Mormonism Taylor G. Petrey, Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism
Alison HalfordInevitably at some point, due to structural white patriarchal privilege and a central and abiding concern with discrete gendered bodies and heteronormative relations, the teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will…
Review: On Truth-Telling and Positionalities P. Jane Hafen and Brenden W. Rensink, eds., Essays on American Indian and Mormon History
Roni Jo DraperI struggle with beginnings. I always just want to get to it. However, allow me to take a bit of time to introduce myself before I tell the story of my experience with the collection…
Review: Unerasing Shoshone Testaments of Survival, Faith, and Hope Darren Parry, The Bear River Massacre
Farina KingAlthough Darren Parry claims to not begrudge the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he does not hold back when addressing the injustices and wrongs that his people have faced at the expense of…
Review: Brigham Young Wanted Every Thing From the Indians Will Bagley, ed., The Whites Want Every Thing: Indian-Mormon Relations, 1847–1877
Corey SmallcanyonWill Bagley is a historian who has written and edited more than a dozen books on Mormon (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) history and the American West. His best known work is…
Roundtable: Time to Let Go of Columbus
(author)For me, as a Native American member of the Church, I approach the hero worship of Columbus perhaps more critically and apprehensively than the average member would. I was taught that he was a man…
Politicking with the Saints: On Reading Benjamin Park’s Kingdom of Nauvoo Benjamin E. Park, Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier
S. Spencer WellsIn an era awash in a sea of reboots and re-examinations, one may be forgiven for initially wondering why yet another treatment of Mormon Nauvoo is strictly necessary. The city, after all, has received its…
Salt Lake City, 1957
Judy Darke DeloguPodcast version of this piece. Sunday morning in Salt Lake City, whenfaithful Mormons flock to worshipat neighborhood wards, my father’ssecret psychiatric patients slip insidethe back door of 508 East South Temple,for fifty-five-minute appointments.A nurse impersonator,…
Historic Sites Holy Envy Sara M. Patterson, Pioneers in the Attic: Place and Memory Along the Mormon Trail
John G. TurnerWhen it comes to sacred places, I feel considerable holy envy toward the Latter-day Saints. Their sacred sites stretch across the continent, from Vermont to California. Mormons can visit their founding prophet’s birthplace, the grove…
The Words and Worlds of Smith and Brown Samuel Morris Brown, Joseph Smith’s Translation: The Words and Worlds of Early Mormonism
Jonathan A. StapleyIn 1887 Albert Michelson and Edward Morley performed what was intended to be the crowning accomplishment of physics—an experiment to determine how movement through the luminiferous ether changed the speed of light. What they found…
Unpacking Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Mormonism Taylor G. Petrey, Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism
Alison HalfordInevitably at some point, due to structural white patriarchal privilege and a central and abiding concern with discrete gendered bodies and heteronormative relations, the teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will…
Review: On Truth-Telling and Positionalities P. Jane Hafen and Brenden W. Rensink, eds., Essays on American Indian and Mormon History
Roni Jo DraperI struggle with beginnings. I always just want to get to it. However, allow me to take a bit of time to introduce myself before I tell the story of my experience with the collection…
Review: Unerasing Shoshone Testaments of Survival, Faith, and Hope Darren Parry, The Bear River Massacre
Farina KingAlthough Darren Parry claims to not begrudge the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he does not hold back when addressing the injustices and wrongs that his people have faced at the expense of…
Review: Brigham Young Wanted Every Thing From the Indians Will Bagley, ed., The Whites Want Every Thing: Indian-Mormon Relations, 1847–1877
Corey SmallcanyonWill Bagley is a historian who has written and edited more than a dozen books on Mormon (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) history and the American West. His best known work is…
Roundtable: Time to Let Go of Columbus
(author)For me, as a Native American member of the Church, I approach the hero worship of Columbus perhaps more critically and apprehensively than the average member would. I was taught that he was a man…
Politicking with the Saints: On Reading Benjamin Park’s Kingdom of Nauvoo Benjamin E. Park, Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier
S. Spencer WellsIn an era awash in a sea of reboots and re-examinations, one may be forgiven for initially wondering why yet another treatment of Mormon Nauvoo is strictly necessary. The city, after all, has received its…
Matthew L. Harris, ed., Thunder from the Right: Ezra Taft Benson in Mormonism and Politics
Russell Arben FoxThe Politics of Mormon History
Patrick MasonMormon Modernity David Walker. Railroading Religion: Mormons, Tourists, and the Corporate Spirit of the West
Dmitri BrownRailroading Religion is a welcome addition to the influx of timely scholarship published in anticipation of the 150-year anniversary of the Golden Spike ceremony. The tensions between religion, geography, and history provide a thought-provoking backdrop to…
Remembering Jane Manning James Quincy D. Newell. Your Sister in the Gospel: The Life of Jane Manning James, a Nineteenth-Century Black Mormon
Charlotte Hansen TerryIn this carefully researched work, Quincy D. Newell produces a powerful narrative of Jane Manning James’s life from limited records. Newell reveals what life was like for someone like James, whom she refers to as…
Modern Mormonism, Gender, and the Tangled Nature of History Gregory A. Prince. Gay Rights and the Mormon Church
Benjamin E. ParkFew topics have dominated modern Mormon discourse as much as those related to homosexuality. Especially following the contentious and engrossing debates surrounding Proposition 8—the electoral battle in California in 2008 over the legality of same-sex…
Latter-Day Screens: Mormonism in Popular Culture Brenda R. Weber. Latter-Day Screens: Gender, Sexuality & Mediated Mormonism
Conor Bruce HiltonLatter-day Screens is a fascinating, compelling, and, at times, frustrating look at a wide range of Mormon-related media. This is largely due to the central conceit of the book—essentially working with Mormonism as a meme and…
History Written in Celluloid Randy Astle. Mormon Cinema: Origins to 1952
Davey MorrisonIn March of 1895, in Paris, Auguste and Louis Lumière screened ten short, single-shot films for an audience of two hundred, and the movies were born. Less than ten months later, after years of petitioning,…
A Commentary on Joseph Smith’s Revision of First Corinthians
Kevin L. BarneyDialogue 53.2 (Summer 2020): 57–106
Although Smith desired to publish the new translation, circumstances were such that publication at that time was not possible.
What Size of City, and What Sort of City, Could (or Should) the City of Zion Be?
Russell Arben FoxWhy the Prophet is a Puzzle: The Challenges of Using Psychological Perspectives to Understand the Character and Motivation of Joseph Smith, Jr.
Lawrence FosterDialogue 53.2 (Summer 2020): 1–35
This article will explore how one of the most open-ended psychological interpretations of Smith’s prophetic leadership and motivation might contribute to better understanding the trajectory of this extraordinarily talented and conflicted individual whose life has so deeply impacted the religious movement he founded and, increasingly, the larger world.
A 1945 Perspective
Editor“For the Power is In Them”: Leonard Arrington and the Founders of Exponent II
Laurel Thatcher UlrichThe Other Crime: Abortion and Contraception in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Utah
Amanda Hendrix-KomotoIn this essay, I discuss this history, present evidence that Latter-day Saint men sold abortion pills in the late nineteenth century, and argue that it is likely some Latter-day Saint women took them in an…
Worthy of Their Hire? Mormon Leaders’ Relationship with Wealth D. Michael Quinn. The Mormon Hierarchy: Wealth and Corporate Power.
Christopher C. SmithProving Subcontraries: In memoriam G. Eugene England, 1933–2001
Bruce Jorgensen“There Is No Equality”: William E. Berrett, BYU, and Healing the Wounds of Racism in the Latter-day Saint Past and Present
Rebecca De Schweinitz2019: Rebecca de Schweinitz, “There is no Equality”: William E Berrett, BYU, and healing the Wounds of Racism in the Latter- Day Saint Past and Present” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 52 No. 3 (2019):62–83. De…
Feminism, Polygamy, and Murder John Bennion. An Unarmed Woman.
Helynne Hollstein HansenJohn Bennion’s work is set in the late 1880s and focuses on plural marriage through the lens of a murder mystery.
British Latter Day Saint Conscientious Objectors in World War I
Andrew BoltonWhat of the Latter Day Saint movement that claimed to prophetically discern the times and seasons of these latter days and also boldly proclaimed that they were the restoration church?
The Restoration of Conscientious Objection
Ron MadsenLetter to the Editor
Letters to the EditorReview: Priesthood Power Jonathan A. Stapley. The Power of Godliness: Mormon Liturgy and Cosmology download
Gary James BergeraReview: An Essential Conversation Matthew L. Harris and Newell G. Bringhurst, eds. The Mormon Church & Blacks: A Documentary History
Devery S. AndersonThe Pioneer Woman, St. George
Kevin KleinMartin Luther King Jr. and Mormonism: Dialogue, Race, and Pluralism
Roy WhitakerThis essay provides an outline for how to have a more robust intrafaith dialogue about race among members of the LDS church. Using principles from Martin Luther King, Jr. about dialogue on race, Whitaker argues…
Mormons & Lineage: The Complicated History of Blacks & Patriarchal Blessings, 1830–2018
Matthew L. HarrisThe priesthood revelation of 1978 eased some of the tension when the apostles affirmed that Blacks could now be “adopted into the House of Israel” as full participants in Mormon liturgical rites. But this doctrinal…
Looking Back, Looking Forward: “Mormonism’s Negro Doctrine” 45 Years Later
Lester E. Bush Jr.It has been forty-five years since Dialogue published Bush’s essay entitled “Mormonism’s Negro Doctrine: An Historical Overview”2 and forty years since Official Declaration 2 ended the priesthood/temple ban.
Remember Me: Discursive Needlework and the Sewing Sampler of Patty Bartlett Sessions
Stacey DearingThomas Aquinas Meets Joseph Smith: Toward a Mormon Ethics of Natural Law
Levi CheckettsThe Word of Wisdom in Contemporary American Mormonism: Perceptions and Practice
Jana RiessAuthority and Priesthood in the LDS Church, Part 2: Ordinances, Quorums, Nonpriesthood Authority, Presiding, Priestesses, and Priesthood Bans
Roger TerryThe Darkest Abyss in America
William MorrisYearning for Notoriety: Questionable and False Claimants to America’s Worst Emigrant Massacre
Melvin J. BashoreA History of Two Stories: Women of Covenant: The Story of Relief Society
(author)Preparation for the Kingdom
T. Edgar LyonJoseph Smith and the Sources of Love
Truman G. MadsenThe Quest for Religious Authority and the Rise of Mormonism
Mario S. De PillisThe Faith of a Psychologist: A Personal Document
Victor B. ClineThe Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt: Some Literary, Historical, and Critical Reflections
R. A. ChristmasScholarly Studies of Mormonism in the Twentieth Century
Leonard J. ArringtonThe Church and the Law
Thomas G. AlexanderMormonism and American Religion
David BertelsonBrigham Young and the American Economy
R. Joseph Monsen Jr.Anti-Intellectualism in Mormon History: Thoughts on Anti-Intellectualism: A Response
James B. AllenAnti-Intellectualism in Mormon History
Davis BittonThe Life of Brigham Young: A Biography Which Will Not Be Written
P. A. M. TaylorFederal Authority Versus Polygamic Theocracy: James B. McKean and the Mormons, 1870-1875
Thomas G. AlexanderDuring the years of the Utah Territory, outsiders got appointed to the terrority to serve in various positions. For the most part, these Gentiles weren’t sympathetic towards the church, and one of the more famous…
The Metamorphosis of the Kingdom of God: Toward a Reinterpretation of Mormon History
Klaus J. HansenWriting the Mormon Past
Robert Bruce FlandersUnderstanding Mormon history involves appreciating some of the formidable obstacles which confront throse who seek to write it. There is still sensitivity among Mormons to probing that might bring embarrassment to cherished offical views of…
The Significance of Joseph Smith’s “First Vision” in Mormon Thought
James B. AllenDialogue 1.3 (Fall 1966): 29–46
In this early article, Allen shows that the First Vision was not well known during Joseph Smith’s lifetime. It became well known after the Prophet’s death, which is when missionaries started to teach about it for the first time.
Introduction: The Future of Mormonism
Leonard J. ArringtonEarly Mormon Churches in Utah: A Photographic Essay
Douglas HillThe Legend of Porter Rockwell
Gustive O. Larson“’I Never Knew a Time When I Did Not Know Joseph Smith”: A Son’s Record Of The Life And Testimony Of Sidney Rigdon
Karl KellerDialogue 1.4 (Spring 1966): 15–42
Not very long after the death of Sidney Rigdon, the influential preacher and compatriate to Joseph Smith in the first years of the Church, his son, John Wickliffe Rigdon, wrote an apology for his father.
The “Legend” and the “Case” of Joe Hill
Vernon H. JensenChrist Without the Church: The Challenge of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Kenneth W. GodfreyStrange People in a Strange Land: The Far Southwest, 1846-1912: A Territorial History by Howard Roberts Lamar
Ted J. WarnerA Kingdom to Come: Quest for Empire: The Political Kingdom of God and the Council of Fifty in Mormon History
Richard D. PollThe Facsimile Found: The Recovery of Joseph Smith’s Papyrus Manuscripts: An Interview with Dr. Fischer
Lynn TraversThe Facsimile Found: The Recovery of Joseph Smith’s Papyrus Manuscripts: An Interview with Dr. Fischer
George D. Smith 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.
The Facsimile Found: The Recovery of Joseph Smith’s Papyrus Manuscripts: An Interview with Dr. Fischer
Norman TolkThe Facsimile Found: The Recovery of Joseph Smith’s Papyrus Manuscripts: An Interview with Dr. Fischer
Lynn TraversThe Facsimile Found: The Recovery of Joseph Smith’s Papyrus Manuscripts: A Conversation with Professor Atiya
Glen Wade Dialogue 2.4 (Winter 1967)51– 54.
Although not a member of the Church, Dr. Atiya for many years had cherished his Latter-day Saint friends and is well informed about Church beliefs. He is aware of the history of the papyri and their relationship to the Book of Abraham in the Pearl of Great Price and is acquainted with the three facsimiles.
Some Reflections on the Kingdom and the Gathering in Early Mormon History
Robert Bruce FlandersHistorical studies embrace the most extensive, intensive, and well-matured of the scholarly endeavors which have the Restoration as their subject. The paucity of critical writings in the various fields of theology and philosophy is by…
Learning to Lead: The Church Executive ; The Ten Most Wanted Men
William G. DyerOn the Mormon Trail: Mormon Trail form Vermont to Utah by Alma P. Burton, The Travelers’ Guide to Historic Mormon America
T. Edgar LyonStorybook Grandmothers: Mary Fielding Smith
Caroline AddyThe Divinity in Humanity: You Shall Be As Gods by Erich Fromm
Louis C. MidgleyThe Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri: Translations and Interpretations: Phase One
Hugh Nibley Dialogue 3.2 (Summer 1968)101 – 105
Even a casual reading of the Book of Abraham shows that the story refers not so much to unique historic events as to ritual forms and traditions—all these must be checked. So far we have heard what is wrong or at least suspect about the Book of Abraham, but as yet nobody has cared to report on the other side of the picture. It is for that we are saving our footnotes.
The Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri: Translations and Interpretations: The Book of Breathings
Richard A. Parker Dialogue 3.2 (Summer 1968)98
THE BOOK OF BREATHINGS (FRAGMENT I, THE “SENSEN” TEXT, WITH RESTORATIONS FROM LOUVRE PAPYRUS 3284) translated by Richard A. Parker
The Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri: Translations and Interpretations: The Source of the Book of Abraham Identified
Jerald TannerDialogue 3.2 (Summer 1968): 92–97
A description of the alleged Egyptain papyri used by Joseph Smith to translate the Book of Abraham
The Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri: Translations and Interpretations: The Source of the Book of Abraham Identified
Grant S. HewardThe Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri: Translations and Interpretations: A Tentative Approach to the Book of Abraham
Richard P. Howard Dialogue 3.2 (Summer 1968):89 – 92
It appears that in time the mystery of the Book of Abraham will be unveiled. Meanwhile, it is significant for the Reorganized Church that undue haste and overzealous faith did not move it in the nineteenth century to canonize this work of Joseph Smith, Jr., primarily on the basis that it was accomplished by Joseph Smith, Jr.
The Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri: Translations and Interpretations: The Joseph Smith Papyri: A Preliminary Report
Richard A. Parker Dialogue 3.2 (Summer 1968):86 – 88
The papyri need to be carefully cleaned and straightened and then rephotographed with care to illuminate the under side somewhat to eliminate all shadows in cracks and breaks, which can frequently look just like writing.
The Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri: Translations and Interpretations: A Summary Report
John A. Wilson Dialogue 3.2 (Summer 1968):67 – 85
The Joseph Smith Egyptian papyri once consisted of at least six separate documents, possibly eight or more.
The Search for Truth and Meaning in Mormon History
Leonard J. ArringtonJoseph Smith as a Student of Hebrew
Louis C. ZuckerDialogue 3.2 (Summer 1968): 41–55
Zucker describes the efforts that Joseph Smith went through to study Hebrew. Joseph Smith’s personal behavior was apparently not changed, but in other aspects in later years there is evidence that Joseph Smith was using Hebrew language structure
Mrs. Brodie and Joseph Smith: Exploding the Myth about Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet by F.L. Stewart
Max H. ParkinDialogue 3.3 (Fall 1968): 142–145
In response to Fawn Brodies’s biography of Joseph Smith, F.L. Stewart published a book called Exploding the Myth About Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet.
A Mirror for Mormon’s: The City of the Saints by Richard F. Burton, edited and with an introduction by Fawn M. Brodie
Samuel W. TaylorOne Man’s Utah: History of Utah by Wayne Stout
Kenneth W. GodfreyWhose Victory? Fantastic Victory by W. Cleo Skousen
James B. MayfieldA Translation of the Apparent Source of the Book of Abraham
Klaus BaerMormons in the Executive Suite
Mark W. CannonArt and the Church
Maida WithersManhattan Faces
Mary AllenMormons as City Planners
Charles L. SellersThe Challenge of Secularism
James L. ClaytonVilla Mae
Vivian H. OlsenA Time of Transition
Renee P. CarlsonA Personal Commitment to Civil Equality
Daniel H. GagonReflections at Hopkins House
Belle CluffMormons in the Urban Community
William H. RobinsonJoseph Smith’s Presidential Platform: The Political Legacy of Joseph Smith
Martin B. HickmanJoseph Smith’s Presidential Platform: Joseph Smith and the Presidency, 1844
Richard D. PollThe Changing Image of Mormonism
Dennis L. LythgoeB.H. Roberts as an Historian
Davis BittonMormons and Psychiatry
Robert D. HuntIncome and Membership Projections for the Church Through the Year 2000
Jack W. CarlsonConcern for the Urban Condition
Stanton L. HoveyThe Intellectual Tradition of the Latter-day Saints
Leonard J. ArringtonThe Joseph Smith Papyri
Benjamin UrrutiaToward a History of Ancient America
Cyrus H. GordonDialogue 4.2 (Summer 1971): 65–68
If there is no history of ancient Antarctica, there is a valid reason for it. Stone Age man penetrated every continent except Antarctica, and until modern times, Antarctica was unexplored
Governor Thomas Ford and the Murderers of Joseph Smith
Keith HuntressDialogue 4.2 (Summer 1969): 41–52
Member and non members have criticized Governor Thomas Ford of Illinois for his inability to save Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum. Huntress was arguing that Governor Ford had a lot of difficulties that he had to deal with at that time.
The Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Mormon Dilemma?
James B. MayfieldThe Reliability of the Early History of Lucy and Joseph Smith
Richard Lloyd AndersonDialogue 4.2 (Summer 1971): 13–28
Mormon history is a part of this magnificent proliferation of data and research techniques. Its own archives are in the midst of classification by professionally competent standards. There is hope for a new era, in which Mormon and non-Mormon may meet on the common ground of objective fact.
Literature in the History of the Church: The Importance of Involvement
Dale L. MorganA Commentary of Stephen G. Taggart’s Mormonism’s Negro Policy: Social and Historical Origins
Lester E. Bush Jr.Lester E Bush wrote in response to Stephen G Taggart’s book which the author tried to show that the Church came from abololonist ideas because the Church was orginially founded in New York, but when…
The Secular Relevance of the Gospel Since Cumorah by Hugh W. Nibley
Louis C. MidgleyPresident David O. McKay: 1873-1970: President McKay As a Neighbor
Lorraine PearlPresident David O. McKay: 1873-1970: On Shaking Hands with David O. McKay
Scott CameronPresident David O. McKay: 1873-1970: The Prophet is Dead
Mona Jo EllsworthPresident David O. McKay: 1873-1970: Reflections on the Ministry of President David O. McKay
Sterling M. McMurrinPresident David O. McKay: 1873-1970: “When Spirit Speaks to Spirit”
Joseph C. MurenPresident David O. McKay: 1873-1970: A Man of Love and Personal Concern
Myra ThulinPresident David O. McKay: 1873-1970: Tribute to President David O. McKay
Lafi ToelupePresident David O. McKay: 1873-1970: My Memories of President David O. McKay
Lowell BennionWillard Young: The Prophet’s Son at West Point
Leonard J. ArringtonSpiritual Problems in the Teaching of Modern Literature
Stephen L. TannerFaithful History
Richard BushmanSources of Mormon History in Illinois, 1832-48, and A Bibliographic Note
John C. AbbottThe Church and the Orient: The Church Encounters Asia by Spencer J. Palmer
Robert MorrisAnother View of the Mormons: The Mormons: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Kathleen Elgin
Samellyn WoodDialogue East: Courage: A Journal of History, Thought, and Action
Robert Bruce FlandersThe Manipulation of History: Can We Manipulate the Past? By Fawn Brodie
Marvin S. HillMarvin S Hill was responding to Fawn Brodie’s lecture at the Hotel Utah in 1970 called “Can We Manipulate the Past?” Her point in giving it was she was claiming that the people in charge…
The Coming of the Manifesto
Kenneth W. GodfreyGodfrey describes the steps leading to Wilford Woodruff issuing the First Manifesto.
The Lesson of Coalville
Paul G. SalisburyThe Last Days of the Coalville Tabernacle
Edward A. GearyA Comment on Joseph Smith’s Account of His First Vision and the 1820 Revival
Peter CrawleyDialogue 6.1 (Spring 1971): 106–107
Ever since people first heard of the First Vision, the events surrounding it has been clouded by controversy. Crawley comments with historical references that help to clarify this controversy.
Joseph Smith, An American Muhammad? An Essay On the Perils of Historical Analogy
Arnold H. GreenDialogue 6.1 (Spring 1971): 46–58
Since around the time as the martyrdom, Joseph Smith has been compared to Muhammad who was the founder of Islam. Green and Goldrup presents evidence for how Islam and the church are different.
Blessed Damozels: Women in Mormon History
Leonard J. ArringtonGod and Man in History
Richard D. PollThe Sterling M. McMurring Papers
L. G. BrownModern Biblical Scholarship: The Cambridge History of the Bible, Vol. 1
Leslie Noel SwaneyFrom Gadfly to Watchdog: The First 100 Years: A History of the Salt Lake Tribune by O.N. Malmquist
Jean WhiteA Prophet’s Goodly Grandparents: Joseph Smith’s New England Heritage by Richard Lloyd Anderson
Dean C. JesseeBrodie Revisited: A Reappraisal: No Man Knows My History by Faun Brodie
Marvin HillMormonism as an Eddy in American Religious History: A Religious History of the American People by Sydney Ahlstrom
Milton V. BackmanJames E. Talmage: A Personal History: The Talmage Story: Life of James E. Talmage by John R. Talmage
James B. AllenNew Essays on Mormon History: The Restoration Movement: Essays in Mormon History
William J. GilmoreJ. Golden Kimball: Apostle and Folk Hero: The Golden Legacy: A Folk History of J. Golden Kimball
Richard M. DorsonJudah Among the Ephriamites: History of the Jews in Utah and Idaho by Juanita Brooks
Samuel L. TaylorSome Reflections on the New Mormon History
Robert Bruce FlandersRiding Herd: A Conversation with Juanita Brooks
Juanita BrooksRiding Herd: A Conversation with Juanita Brooks
Maureen Ursenbach Beecher“No Continuing City””: Reading a Local History: Provo: A Story of People in Motion
Bruce JorgensenA Hint of an Explanation: The Message of the Joseph Smith Papyri: an Egyptian Endowment by Hugh Nibley
Eric Jay OlsonDialogue 9.4 (Winter 1974): 74–75
Review of An Egyptian Endowment by Hugh Nibley, which discusses the papyri that Joseph Smith allegedly used to help translate the Book of Abraham. Hugh Nibley decided to state his case, but allow readers to form their own conclusions after reading it.
A Little-Known Defense of Polygamy from the Mormon Press in 1842
Lawrence FosterFoster points out that in 1842 an unpublished pamphlet was written called “The Peace Maker” that expressed its support for polygamy. It is the first-known defense of polygamy before 1852.
The Law Above the Law: Carthage Conspiracy: The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith
Jerry JensenDialogue 10.1 (1975-1976): 84–86
Review of Carthage Conspiracy: The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith coauthored by Dallin H. Oaks and Marvin S. Hill regarding the trial of Joseph Smith and his brother’s Hyrum deaths. Jensen argues that this book is a mustread for anyone who is interested in ‘Mormon history, philosophy, and the law.’
Photography as History: Through Camera Eyes, Nelson B. Wadsworth
Kent WalgrenMormonism and Labor: Deseret’s Sons of Toil, A History of the Worker Movements of Territorial Utah, 1852-1896
John S. McCormickRobert Leroy Parker on Family History: Butch Cassidy, My Brother by Lulu Parker Betenson ; In Search of Butch Cassidy
William G. HartleyAn Enduring History: Utah: A Bicentennial History by Charles S. Petersen
Dean L. MayFate and the Persecutors of Joseph Smith: Transmutations of an American Myth
Richard C. PoulsenDialogue 11.4 (1977): 63-70
In the 1950s there was a book published call Fate of the Persecutors of Joseph Smith, which contains stories that have been part of folklore that have been passed down discussing what happened to the people who helped kill Joseph Smith.
Generalized Hatred: The Women’s Room by Marilyn French
Elinore Hughes PartridgeFishing for Emma: Joseph and Emma Companions by Roy A. Cheville ; Judge Me Dear Reader by Erwin E. Wirkus
Linda King NewellTwo Venturesome Women: Not By Bread Alone: The journal of Martha Spence Heywood, 1850-1856
Cheryll MayThe Cost of Living in Kirtland: The Kirtland Economy Revisited: A Market Critique of Sectarian Economics
Marcellus S. SnowFaith and History: The Snell Controversy
Richard SherlockState-of-the-Art-Mormon-History: The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-day Saints
Richard D. PollA Priestly Role for a Prophetic Church: The RLDS Church and Black Americans
William D. RussellIn recent years many RLDS Church members have been proud of the fact that the church has been ordaining blacks into the priesthood since early in its history.
Elijah Abel and the Changing Status of Blacks Within Mormonism
Newell G. BringhurstElijah Abel, a black man ordained to the priesthood, was restricted in his church participation starting in 1843, even though he was well respected by both members and leaders. Newell G. Bringhurst discusses why the…
Saint Without Priesthood: The Collected Testimonies of Ex-Slave Samuel D. Chambers
EditorThe editors of Dialogue in 1979 compiled the testimonies of a former slave, Samuel Chambers, who was a member of the church.
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Lester E. Bush Jr.Utah in One Volume: Utah’s History edited by Richard D. Poll, Thomas G. Alexander, Eugene E. Campbell and David E. Miller
Joseph B. RomneyPeripheral Mormondom: The Frenetic Frontier
Jerald R. IzattThe Orson Pratt-Brigham Young Controversies: Conflict Within the Quorums, 1853 to 1868
Gary James BergeraJoseph Smith and Thomas Paine?: Mormon Answer to Skepticism: Why Joseph Smith Wrote the Book of Mormon by Robert N. Hullinger
Gary P. GillumMormonism: From Its New York Beginnings
Leonard J. ArringtonAn Hour in the Grove
Mary Lythgoe BradfordFawn McKay Brodie: An Oral History Interview
Shirley E. StephensonLocal History, Well Done: Corinne: The Gentile Capital of Utah by Brigham D. Madsen
M. Guy BishopThe Writing of Latter-day Saints History: Problems, Accomplishments and Admonitions
Leonard J. ArringtonSensational Virtue: Nineteenth-Century Mormon Fiction and American Popular Taste
Karen LynnJoseph Smith and the Structure of Mormon Identity
Steven L. OlsenDialogue 14.3 (Fall 1981): 89–100
Joseph Smith’s 1838 account of the First Vision has taken priority in structuring Mormon identity, despite the existence of different versions. This article explores why that version is so meaningful to Latter-day Saints, reflecting on the symbolic strucutre of the account.
The Word of Wisdom: From Principle to Requirement
Thomas G. AlexanderDid the Word of Wisdom Become a Commandment in 1851?
Robert J. McCueThe Word of Wisdom in Early Nineteenth-Century Perspective
Lester E. Bush Jr.The Fading of the Pharaoh’s Curse: The Decline and Fall of the Priesthood Ban Against Blacks
Armand L. MaussMauss situates the 1978 revelation on the priesthood in modern American historical context. Everything changed for the Church during the Civil Rights Movement when people both inside and outside the Church were harshly critcizing the…
An “Inside-Outsider” in Zion
Jan ShippsJoseph Smith III’s 1844 Blessing and the Mormons of Utah
D. Michael QuinnJoseph Smith: “The Gift of Seeing”
Richard Van WagonerDialogue 15.2 (Summer 1982): 48–68
Van Wagoner and Walker focus on the seer stones that Joseph Smith used in the Book of Mormon translation process.
Thoughts on the Mormon Scriptures: An Outsider’s View of the Inspiration of Joseph Smith
William P. CollinsAn Introduction to Mormon Administrative History
David J. WhittakerThe Millennial Hymns of Parley P. Pratt
Dean L. MayA Survey of Current Theses and Dissertations
Stephen W. StathisA Bluestocking in Zion: The Literary Life of Emmeline B. Wells
Carol Cornwall MadsenForgotten Relief Societies, 1844-67
Richard L. JensenFrom Apostle to Apostate: The Personal Struggle of Amasa Mason Lyman
Loretta L. HefnerThe Seventies in the 1880s: Revelations and Reorganizing
William G. HartleyAllegiance and Stewardship: Holy War, Just War, and the Mormon Tradition in the Nuclear Age
Edwin B. Firmage“The Fullness of the Priesthood”: The Second Anointing in Latter-day Saint Theology and Practice
David John BuergerVoices from the Dust: Women in Zion: Women’s Voices: An Untold History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900
John L. SorensonA Personal Odyssey: My Encounter with Mormon History
Lawrence FosterSwarming Progeny of the Restoration: Divergent Paths of the Restoration: A History of the Latter Day Saint Movement
William D. RussellSaints You Can Sink Your Teeth Into: Kindred Saints: The Mormon Immigrant Heritage of Alvin and Kathryn Christensen
Richard Van WagonerSaints You Can Sink Your Teeth Into: Kindred Saints: The Mormon Immigrant Heritage of Alvin and Kathryn Christensen
Steven C. WalkerNotes on Brigham Young’s Aesthetics
Michael HicksFaithful History/Secular Faith
Melvin T. SmithRx With a Historical Slant: Medicine and the Mormons: An Introduction to the History of Latter-day Saint Health Care
N. Lee SmithMoving Swiftly Upon the Waters: Saints on the Seas: A Maritime History of Mormon Migration 1830-1890 by Conway B. Sonne
Richard L. JensenA Physician’s Reflections on Old Testament Medicine
Roderick SaxeyRefracted Visions and Future Worlds: Mormonism and Science Fiction
Michael R. CollingsEmma Smith Through Her Writings
Valeen Tippetts AveryThe Emma Smith Lore Reconsidered
Linda King NewellJoseph Smith and Process Theology
Garland E. TickemyerBook of Mormon Usage in Early LDS Theology
Grant UnderwoodDialogue 17.3 (Fall 1984): 37–75
As one step in that direction, this article explores Book of Mormon usage in the pre-Utah period (1830—46), and seeks answers to the following questions: Which passages from the Book of Mormon were cited and with what frequency? How were they understood?
Religious Accommodation in the Land of Racial Democracy
Mark L. GroverBrazil, with a high concentration of African heritage, was a difficult place for the Church (because of the Church’s racial policy) to make headway among native members. Due to the high risk of Brazilians potentially…
A Shaded View: Suribonnet Sisters: True Stories of Mormon Women and Frontier Life
Susan Sessions RughBleaker by the Dozen?: Life in Large Families: View of Mormon Women, by H. M. Bahr, S. J. Condie, and K. Goodman
Godfrey J. EllisPaul: Early-Day Saint: Understanding Paul by Richard Lloyd Anderson
Horace M. McMullenEmigrant Guides: The Latter-day Saints’ Emigrants’ Guide by W. Clayton, ed. by Stanley B. Kimball
Alan Kent Powell“The Same Organization?”: The First Urban Christians by Wayne A. Meeks
Robert R. KingMeet the Author of The Prophet of Palmyra: Thomas Gregg: Early Illinois Journalist and Author by John W. Hallwas
Stanley B. KimballGenealogical Blockbuster: The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy, ed. by Arlene H. Eakle and Johni Cerny
Gary ToppingSister Sense and Hard Facts: Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith by Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery
Maureen Ursenbach BeecherMissionary to the Mind: Dialogues with Myself: Personal Essays on Mormon Experience by Eugene England
William Clayton KimballFast and Loose Freemasonry: Mormonism and Freemasonry
Kent WalgrenFaithful History: The Heavens Resound: A History of the Latter-day Saints in Ohio, 1830-1838 by Milton V. Backman, Jr.
William D. RussellIn Silence She Speaks: Not in Vain by Susan Evans McCloud
Carolynne Cecil BerrettExiles for the Principle: LDS Polygamy in Canada
Jessie L. EmbryEmbry describes the role that polygamy played in the forming of Cardston Canada, both Pre-Manifesto and Post Manifesto.
Mothers and Daughters in Polygamy
Jessie L. EmbryAn analysis of what the individual wives’ roles are in the 19th century among plural marriages. Embry and Bradley make the argument that the daughters in a polygamous relationship pay attention to how their own…
Women’s Response to Plural Marriage
Kahlile MehrMehr shares stories of polygamy in late 19th century and early 20th century. He especially focused on LDS women’s opinions of polygamy when they entered into polygamous relationsips.
Mormon Polyandry in Nauvoo
Richard Van WagonerVan Wagoner defines polyandry as having two or more husbands at the same time. He identifies women who ended up marrying members of the Twelve or Joseph Smith while they were were already married to…
Government-Sponsored Prayer in the Classroom
Robert RiggsLDS Women and Priesthood: An Expanded Definition of Priesthood: Some Present and Future Consequences
Margaret WheatleyIn seeking to predict what might occur in the Church if priesthood were extended to women, it is helpful to focus attention on some of these organizational dynamics.
LDS Women and Priesthood: The Historical Relationship of Mormon Women and Priesthood
Linda King NewellWhile an examination of that history leaves unanswered the question of women’s ordination to the priesthood, the historical overview of LDS women’s relationship to priesthood suggests a more expansive view than many members now hold.
LDS Women and Priesthood: Scriptural Precedents for Priesthood
Melodie Moench CharlesI have heard many LDS women approach the issue of women and the priesthood by protesting that they do not want to hold the priesthood because they have no interest in passing the sacrament or…
The Ultimate Stegner Interview: Conversations with Wallace Stegner on Western History and Literature
Gary ToppingThe Benefits of Partisanship: Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism by Richard L. Bushman
Dean C. JesseeJoseph Smith and the Clash of Sacred Cultures
Keith ParryDialogue 18.4 (Winter 1984): 65–80
Shortly after the church was organized, one of Joseph Smith’s main priorities during his lifetime was preaching to the Native Americans, who he believed to be the descendants of the Lamanites.
Joseph Smith, Sr., Dreams of His Namesake
Michael HicksIn loco parentis — Alive and Well in Provo: Brigham Young University: A House of Faith
Anthony W. MorganThe United Order of Joseph Smith’s Times
Kent W. HuffThe Restoration and History: New Testament Christianity
C. Robert MesleJoseph Smith and the Plurality of Worlds Idea
Robert E. PaulA Survey of Current Dissertations
Stephen W. StathisHistoriography and the New Mormon History: A Historian’s Perspective
Thomas G. AlexanderEastward to Eden: The Nauvoo Rescue Missions
Richard E. BennettObjectivity and History
Kent E. RobsonLeadership and the Ethics of Prophecy
Paul EdwardsThe role of leadership within the Mormon community is vastly interrelated, and thus often confused, with management.
Document Dealing: A Dealer’s Response
Curt BenchThe Document Diggers and Their Discoveries: A Panel
Cheryll MayMartin Harris: Mormonism’s Early Convert
Ronald W. WalkerDale Morgan’s Unfinished Mormon History: Dale Morgan on Early Mormonism: Correspondence and a New History
Gary ToppingPolygamy Examined: Mormon Polygamy: A History by Richard Van Wagoner
Linda King NewellDetermining and Defining “Wife”: The Brigham Young Households
Jeffery Ogden JohnsonRefugee Converts: One Stake’s Experience
Sharyn H. LarsenBrave New Bureaucracy
Warner P. WoodworthBIG D/little d: The View from the Basement
Mary Lythgoe BradfordBalance and Faith: The Latter-day Saints: A Contemporary History of the Church of Jesus Christ by William E. Berrett
Kenneth W. Godfrey“The Truth Is the Most Important Thing””: The New Mormon History According to Mark Hofmann
Allen D. RobertsGod’s Hand in Mormon History: The Church in the Twentieth Century: The Impressive Story of the Advancing Kingdom
Gary James BergeraWho Came in Second?
Garth N. JonesWhy Were Scholars Misled? What Can We Learn From This?
Richard P. HowardThe “New Mormon History” Reassessed in Light of Recent Book on Joseph Smith and Mormon Origins
Marvin HillThe Need for a New Mormon Heaven
Melodie Moench CharlesDialogue 21.3 (Fall 1988): 73–85
I used to love this description because my Mormon heaven seemed far superior to this standard Christian heaven that Twain’s Satan describes. Sexual intercourse does have a place in Mormon heaven, though not as an end in itself. Heavenly residents are busy with activities. Those righteous individuals who become gods in Mormon heaven will certainly be using their intellects as they create worlds and keep them running, and they will undoubtedly be learning continuously. Mormonism never suggested there would be continual music, nor continual church or Sabbath days in heaven.
Voyage of the Brooklyn
Lorin HansenThe Trial of the French Mission
Kahlile MehrFreeways, Parking Lots, and Ice Cream Stands: The Three Nephites in Contemporary Society
William A. WilsonHonoring Arrington: New Views of Mormon History: Essays in Honor of Leonard J. Arrington
F. Ross PetersonThe Case for the New Mormon History: Thomas G. Alexander and His Critics
M. Gerald BradfordHistory of Historians: Mormons and Their Historians by Davis Bitton and Leonard J. Arrington
Gary ToppingHistory for the People: Utah: A People’s History by Dean May
M. Guy BishopOn the Edge of Solipsism: The Edge of the Reservoir by Larry E. Morris
Helen Beach CannonA Double Dose of Revisionism: The 1838 Mormon War in Missouri
Stanley B. KimballLatter-day Saints, Lawyers, and the Legal Process: Zion in the Courts
Michael W. HomerTwin Contributions: Establishing Zion: The Mormon Church in the American West, 1847-1869 by Eugene E. Campbell
Richard W. SadlerMormondom’s Second Greatest King: King of Beaver Island: The Life and Assassination of James Jesse Strang by Roger Van Noord
William D. RussellLiving the Principle: Mormon Polygamous Families: Life in the Principle by Jessie L. Embry
Joan S. IversenReply to “Forever Tentative”
David H. BaileyForever Tentative
Charles L. BoydJews in the Columns of Joseph’s Times and Seasons
Steven EppersonHearkening Unto Other Voices: To Be Learned Is Good If… edited by Robert L. Millet
Robert J. WoolleyPassion Poems: How Much for the Earth? by Emma Lou Thayne
Linda SillitoeNew Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century St. George: A Sermon in the Desert: Belief and Behavior in Early St. George, Utah
Alan Kent PowellMormon Splinter Groups: Recreating Utopia in the Desert: A Sectarian Challenge to Modern Mormonism by Hans A. Baer
Mark P. Leone“What Has Become of Our Fathers?” Baptism for the Dead at Nauvoo
M. Guy BishopDialogue 23.2 (Summer 1990): 85–97
Chronicling the history of baptizing for the dead during the Nauvoo Period, this article introduces the practice from the first baptizers to how it was altered after Joseph Smith’s death.
An Ambivalent Rejection: Baptism for the Dead and the Reorganized Church Experience
Roger D. LauniusDialogue 23.2 (1990): 61–83
Launius shares how the Reorganized Church has changed their stance on baptisms for the dead.
Fundamentalist Attitudes Toward the Church: The Sermons of Leroy S. Johnson
Ken DriggsDriggs shares what an early fundamentalist leader by the name of Leory S. Johnson taught about the church and polygamy.
The Women of Fundamentalism: Short Creek, 1953
Martha S. BradleyBradley describes how even after the Short Creek Raids happened, the women there still believed in plural marriage.
Nothing New Under the Sun: New Religions and the Theological Imagination in America by Mary Farrell Bednarowski
Gary ToppingReligious Themes in American Culture: Illusions of Innocence: Protestantism in America, 1630-1875
Robert C. WoodwardPlight and Promise: Windows on the Sea and Other Stories by Linda Sillitoe
Levi S. PetersonKimball’s Diaries: On the Potter’s Wheel: The Diaries of Heber C. Kimball edited by Stanley B. Kimball
Ronald W. WalkerStrange Love: The School of Love by Phillis Barber
Helen B. CannonA Reasonable Approach to History and Faith: History and Faith: Reflections of a Mormon Historian by Richard D. Poll
F. Ross Peterson“A Profound Sense of Community”: Mormon Values in Wallace Stegner’s Recapitulation
Richard CracroftThe Temple in Zion: A Reorganized Perspective on a Latter Day Saint Institution
Richard A. BrownDialogue 24.1 (Spring 1991): 86–98
In preparation for the Independence Temple that was dedicated in 1994, an RLDS member shares ideas about temples in general.
The Development of the Mormon Concept of Grace
Blake T. Ostler“All Alone and None to Cheer Me”: The Soughern States Mission Diary of J. Golden Kimball
David BuiceSpeaking in Tongues in the Restoration Churches
Lee CopelandHowever, during the mid-1800s, speaking in tongues was so commonplace in the LDS and RLDS churches that a person who had not spoken in tongues, or who had not heard others do so, was a…
The Paradox of Paradox: Strangers in Paradox: Explorations in Mormon Theology by Margaret and Paul Toscano
Helen B. CannonAffidavits Revisited: Joseph Smith’s New York Reputation Reexamined by Rodger I. Anderson
Roger D. LauniusScripture in the Reorganization: Exegesis, Authority, and the “Prophetic Mantle”
Larry W. ConradDale Morgan, Writer’s Project, and Mormon History as a Regional Study
Charles S. PetersonThe Eastern Edge: LDS Missionary Work in Hungarian Lands
Kahlile MehrA Teenager’s Mormon Battalion Journal: The Gold Rush Diary of Azariah Smith edited by David L. Bigler
Alan Kent PowellA New Synthesis: Exiles in a Land of Liberty: Mormons in America, 1830-1846 by Kenneth H. Winn
M. Guy BishopMormonism’s First Theologian: The Essential Parley P. Pratt foreword by Peter L. Crawley
David L. BiglerUtah’s Original “”Mr. Republican””: Reed Smoot: Apostle in Politics by Milton R. Merrill
John SillitoA Poetic Legacy: The Owl on the Aerial by Clarice Short
Bethany ChaffinClawson and the Mormon Experience: The Making of a Mormon Apostle: The Story of Rudger Clawson
David Rich LewisDelusion as an Exceedingly Fine Art: Bones by Franklin Fisher
Lavina Fielding AndersonTwo Covenant Systems: Promises Made to the Father: Mormon Covenant Organization by Rex Eugene Cooper
Marianne PerciaccanteA Song Worth Singing: Mormonism and Music: A History by Michael Hicks
Elaine ThatcherWhy Ane Wept: A Family History Fragment
Stan AndersonThe New Zealand Mission During the Great Depression: Reflections of a Former Acting President
Harold T. ChristensenA Mormon View of Life
Lowell BennionSelf-Blame and the Manifesto
B. Carmon HardyBefore the Manifesto was first read in conference, members and church leaders fully believed in plural marriage as being a commandment from God. Once the Manifesto was read, over time members started wondering if it…
The Political Background of the Woodruff Manifesto
Edward Leo LymanLyman discusses the political pressures from the United Government which led to the church issuing the First Manifesto.
“Almost Like Us”: The American Socialization of Australian Converts
Marjorie NewtonMy Ghosts
G. G. VandagriffIs There Such a Thing as a “Moral War”?
Marc A. SchindlerThe Moral Failures of Operation Desert Storm
Jeffery S. TolkThe Thoughtful Patriot — 1991
David P. VandagriffThe Building of Mormon History in Italy: Le nuove religioni, Le sette cristiane: Dai Testimoni di Geova al Reverendo Moon
Michael W. Homer“And They Shall Be One Flesh”: Sexuality and Contemporary Mormonism
Romel W. MackelprangComments on the Theological and Philosophical Foundations of Christianity
Sterling M. McMurrinOn Becoming a Universal Church: Some Historical Perspectives
James B. AllenA historical analysis of the globalization of the Church. Under President David O McKay, the Church was able to reach out to more people beyond North America and Europe, which led to an increase in…
Unnatural History: Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams
Helen B. CannonWilford Woodruff and the Mormon Reformation of 1855-57
Thomas G. AlexanderThe Wake of a Media Crisis: Guilt by Association or Innocence by Proclamation?
Rebecca ChandlerA Closer Focus: Challenges in Doing Local History
Fayone B. WillesSeeking the Past: Nobel Quest of Fool’s Errand: Faithful History: Essays on Writing Mormon History edited by George D. Smith
Richard D. PollIs There a New Mormon History?: The New Mormon History: Revisionist Essays on the Past edited by D. Michael Quinn
Roger D. LauniusSpeaking for Themselves: LDS Ethnic Groups Oral History Project
Jessie L. EmbryAn oral history project on ethnic wards and branches.
Great Basin Kingdom Revisited
Leonard J. ArringtonTelling It Slant: Aiming for Truth in Contemporary Mormon Literature
William MulderHow Common the Principle? Women as Plural Wives in 1860
Marie CornwallA study done to see how many polygamous wives there were at the peak of polygamy in the church.
Each in Her Own Time: Four Zinas
Maureen Ursenbach BeecherB.H. Roberts’s Autobiography
Gary James BergeraThe B.H. Roberts Papers at the University of Utah
Everett L. CooleyIntellectuals in Mormon History: An Update
Stan LarsonApologetic and Critical Assumptions About Book of Mormon Historicity
Brent Lee MetcalfeDialogue 26.3 (Summer 1995):163–180
FOR TRADITION-MINDED MEMBERS of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints the Book of Mormon’s historicity is a given: Book of Mormon events actually occurred and its ancient participants existed in ancient history
Watching
V. Stanley Benfell IIIYou Are Not Alone: A Plea for Understanding the Homosexual Condition
T. J. OBrienDialogue 26.3 (Fall 1993): 119–140
In fall 1993, TJ O’Brian wrote, “You are Not Alone: A Please for Understanding the Homosexual Condition.” O’Brian was a gay man and this esay addresses how church members should treat LGBT members. He points to Jan Stout’s article among other influential pieces that were beginning to soften LDS attitudes and change practices in the early 90s. But he also notes several examples of terrible things that LDS members were still saying and doing, not including an imfamous homophobic rant from Orson Scott Card in Sunstone magazine in 1990.
Hannah Grover Hegsted and Post-Manifesto Plural Marriage
Julie Hemming SavageThe Ordeal of Lowry Nelson and the Mis-spoken Word
Samuel W. TaylorB.H. Roberts’s Studies of the Book of Mormon
Brigham D. MadsenRemembering B.H. Roberts
Sterling M. McMurrinDoes Paying Tithing Make You a Voting Shareholder? BYU’s Worldwide Board of Trustees
Paul C. RichardsFree Expression: The LDS Church and Brigham Young University
Omar M. KaderPatriarchal Blessings and the Routinization of Charisma
Irene M. BatesTelling the Tales and Telling the Truth: Writing the History of Widtsoe
Karl SandbergThe Mormon Struggle with Assimilation and Identity: Trends and Developments Since Midcentury
Armand L. MaussThe “New Social History” and the “New Mormon History”: Reflections on Recent Trends
Roger D. LauniusMy own analysis of the state of Mormon history suggests that the field, while other factors have also been at work, suffers from some of the exclusiveness and intellectual imperialism that were nurtured during the…
Intellect and Faith: The Controversy Over Revisionist Mormon History
Clara V. DobayPersonality and Motivation in Utah Historiography
Gary ToppingNauvoo Roots of Mormon Polygamy, 1841-46: A Preliminary Demographic Report
George D. SmithSmith discusses the importance of plural marriage in Nauvoo to church history. He shows that after Joseph Smith passed away, Nauvoo polygamy numbers rose.
Memory and Familiarity: Voices from the Bottom of the Bowl: A Folk History of Teton Valley, Idaho, from 1823-1952
Elaine ThatcherFrom Temple to Anti-Mormon: The Ambivalent Odyssey of Increase Van Dusen
Craig L. FosterToward an Introduction to a Psychobiography of Joseph Smith
Robert D. AndersonOne Face of the Hero: In Search of the Mythological Joseph Smith
Edgar C. Snow Jr.Dialogue 27.3 (Fall 1994): 233–247
Snow puts Joseph Smith squarely within Joseph Campbell’s famous work The Hero with a Thousand Faces, which is also known as the heroes journey.
The Locations of Joseph Smith’s Early Treasure Quests
Dan VogelDialogue 27.3 (Fall 1994): 197–231
Vogel uses firsthand accounts of people’s reactions to Joseph Smith’s treasure digging.
Joseph Smith and Kabbalah: The Occult Connection
Lance S. Owens“Critical” Book of Mormon Scholarship: New Approaches to the Book of Mormon
Stephen E. ThompsonWelfare as Warfare: The Mormons’ War on Poverty: A History of LDS Welfare, 1830-1990 by Garth L. Mangum and Bruce D. Blumell
Armand L. Mauss“My Father’s Business””: Thomas Taylor and Mormon Frontier Economic Enterprise
Brent D. CorcoranA Granddaughter Remembers
Suzzanne F. BigelowThe Noon of Life: Mid-Life Transition in the Married LDS Priesthood Holder
Vincent C. Rampton“Come Ye Disconsolate”: Is There a Mercy Seat in Mormon Theology and Practice?
Stanley B. KimballThe Law That Brings Life
Doug WardWallace Stegner: The Unwritten Letter
Karen RosenbaumThe Education of a BYU Professor
Brigham D. MadsenSterling Moss McMurrin: A Philosopher in Action
L. Jackson Newell“The Strange Mixture of Emotion and Intellect”: A Social History of Dale L. Morgan 1933-42
Richard SaundersMormon Static: Differing Visions: Dissenters in Mormon History edited by Roger D. Launius and Linda Thatcher
J. Boyer JarvisNew Paradigms for Understanding Mormonism and Mormon History
Lawrence FosterScripture, History, and Faith: A Round Table Discussion
Todd M. ComptonHow the History Is Told: My Best for the Kingdom: History and Autobiography of John Lowe Butler, A Mormon Frontiersman
Robert M. HoggeEditing William Clayton and the Politics of Mormon History
James B. AllenReflections on LDS Disbelief in the Book of Mormon as History
Brigham D. MadsenDialogue 30.3 (Fall 1999):90–103
To average LDS church members in 1909, Roberts’s New Witnesses for God substantiated their beliefs and further embellished his stature for them as a historian and defender of the Book of Mormon. But only thirteen years later Roberts was to change his mind and that dramatically.
History
Philip WhiteQuilts as Women’s History: Quilts and Women of the Mormon Migrations: Treasures of Transition
Judy ElsleyMore Than Just a Battle for the Ballot: Battle for the Ballot: Essays on Woman Suffrage in Utah, 1870-1896
Janet EllingsonNew York City Rain
Ryck TannerMadeline McQuown, Dale Morgan, and the Great Unfinished Brigham Young Biography
Craig L. FosterSimilar yet Different: How Wide the Divide? by Craig L. Blomberg and Stephen E. Robinson
Robert M. SivulkaIssues of Individual Freedoms: Friendly Fire: The ACLU in Utah by Linda Sillitoe
F. Ross PetersonA Part of History Overlooked: Missing Stories: An Oral History of Ethnic and Minority Groups in Utah
Jessie L. EmbryReflections on Mormon History: Zion and the Anti-Legal Tradition
Edwin B. FirmageLeonard J. Arrington: Reflections on a Humble Walk
Maureen Ursenbach BeecherMormon Psychohistory: Psychological Insights into the Latter-day Saint Past, Present, and Future
Mark Koltko-RiveraA History of Dialogue, Part One: The Early Years, 1965-1971
Devery S. AndersonMission Complexities in Asia: From the East: The History of the Latter-day Saints in Asia, 1851-1996 by R. Lanier Britsch
Glen M. CooperPlural Marriage, Singular Lives: In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith by Todd Compton
Lawrence FosterA Welcome Arrival, A Promising Standard: The Pioneer Camp of the Saints
Richard E. BennettMaking the Mormon Trek Come Alive: We’ll Find the Place: The Mormon Exodus, 1846-1848 by Richard E. Bennett
Craig L. FosterMormonism and the Radical Religious Movement in Early Colonial New England
Val D. RustThe Discovery of Native “Mormon” Communities in Russia
Tania Rands LyonBusing to Kolob: Leaving the Fold: Candid Conversations with Inactive Mormons by James W. Ure
Maureen E. LeavittGood Book about the Good Book: An American Bible: A History of the Good Book in the United States, 1777-1880
Grant T. SmithOne Well-Wrought Side of the Story: Sagwitch: Shoshone Chieftain, Mormon Elder, 1822-1887 by Scott R. Christensen
P. Jane HafenMissionary Roots of Change: What E’er Thou Art, Act Well Thy Part: The Missionary Diaries of David O McKay
Frederick S. BuchanonThe Life of a Controversial Biographer: Fawn McKay Brodie: A Biographer’s Life by Newell G. Bringhurst
M. Guy BishopBeing Joseph Smith: The Sword of Laban: Joseph Smith, Jr., and the Dissociated Mind
Janet BrighamA History of Dialogue, Part Two: Struggle Toward Maturity, 1971-1982
Devery S. AndersonProtocols of the (Other) Elders of Zion: The History of the Saints, 3d edition, by John C. Bennett, ed. Andrew F. Smith
Terryl L. GivensFinitism and the Problem of Evil
Dennis R. PotterMormonism and the Idea of Progress
David H. BaileyMormon Membership Trends in Europe Among People of Color: Present and Future Assessment
Gary C. LobbPreaching the Gospel of Church and Sex: Mormon Women’s Fiction in the Young Woman’s Journal, 1889-1910
Rebecca De SchweinitzEdward Tullidge and the Women of Mormondom
Claudia L. BushmanHistory of the Church — Part One
Robin RussellDavid O. McKay and the “Twin Sisters” Free Agency and Tolerance
Gregory A. PrinceThe Search for Truth and Meaning in Mormon History
Leonard J. ArringtonMormonism’s Worldwide Aspirations and its Changing Conceptions of Race and Lineage
Armand L. MaussRoot and Branch: An Abstract of the Structuralist Analysis of the Allegoryof the Olive Tree
Seth KuninHistory, Memory and Imagination in Virginia Eggertsen Sorensen’s Kingdom Come
William MulderAn Other Mormon History: Hispanics in the Mormon Zion, 1912-1999 by Jorge Iber
Thomas W. MurphyA History of Dialogue, Part Three: The Utah Experience, 1982-1989
Devery S. AndersonLucy’s Own Voice: Lucy’s Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith’s Family Memoir
Susan Sessions RughBook of Mormon Stories: Digging in Cumorah: Reclaiming Book of Mormon Narratives
Jana RiessFriendly History: Nauvoo: A Place of Peace, A People of Promise, by Glen M. Leonard
Gary James BergeraCritique of a Limited Geography for Book of Mormon Events
Earl M. WunderliDialogue 35.3 (Fall 2003):127–168
DURING THE PAST FEW DECADES, a number of LDS scholars have developed various “limited geography” models of where the events of the Book of Mormon occurred. These models contrast with the traditional western hemisphere model, which is still the most familiar to Book of Mormon readers.
Form Criticism of Joseph Smith’s 1823 Vision of the Angel Moroni
Mark D. ThomasA Uniform and Common Recollection: Joseph Smith’s Legacy, Polygamy, and the Creation of Mormon Public Memory
Stephen TaysomJoseph Smith, the Book of Mormon, and the American Renaissance
Robert A. ReesDialogue 35.3 (Fall 2003):9a–128
I am a literary critic who has spent a professional lifetime reading, teaching, and writing about literary texts. Much of my interest in and approach to the Book of Mormon lies with the text—though not just as a field for scholarly exploration.
Prophecy and Palimpsest
Robert M. PriceThe Earliest Eternal Sealing for Civilly Married Couples Living and Dead
Gary James BergeraMartin Harris: The Kirtland Years, 1831-1870
H. Michael MarquardtA Patchwork Biography: Mormon Healer and Folk Poet: Mary Susannah Fowler’s Life of “Unselfish Usefulness”
Deborah Fillerup WeagelStudies in Mormon History, 1830-1897
John SillitoProstitution, Polygamy and Power: Salt Lake City, 1847-1918, by Jeffrey Nichols
Helynne Hollstein HansenBlood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows, by Will Bagley
M. Guy Bishop“Not Invite but Welcome”: The History and Impact of Church Policy on Sister Missionaries
Tania Rands LyonAll Abraham’s Children: Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage, by Armand L. Mauss
(author)Joseph Smith, by Robert V. Remini
Paul GuajardoA New Look at Old Sites on Mountain Meadows: Historical Topography, by Morris A. Shirts and Frances Anne Smeath
(author)Power and Powerlessness: A Personal Perspective
Robert A. ReesThe LDS Church and Community of Christ: Clearer Differences, Closer Friends
William D. RussellIn this paper I will briefly discuss what I see as the six major differences between the two churches during the first century of their existence, and then I will look at eight new differences…
On Being Adopted: Julia Murdock Smith
Sunny McClellan MortonSidney Rigdon’s 1820 Ministry: Preparing the Way for Mormonism in Ohio
Richard McClellanThe Search for the Seed of Lehi: How Defining Alternative Models Helps in the Interpretation of Genetic Data
Jonathon C. MarshallThe Search for the Seed of Lehi: How Defining Alternative Models Helps in the Interpretation of Genetic Data
Dean H. LeavittThe Search for the Seed of Lehi: How Defining Alternative Models Helps in the Interpretation of Genetic Data
Kieth A. CrandallSimply Implausible: DNA and a Mesoamerican Setting for the Book of Mormon
Thomas W. MurphyDialogue 36.4 (Winter 2004):129–167
Instead of lending support to an Israelite origin as posited by Mormon scripture, genetic data have confirmed already existing archaeological, cultural, linguistic, and biological data, pointing to migrations from Asia as “the primary source of American Indian origins
A Biographer’s Burden: Evaluating Robert Remini’s Joseph Smith and Will Bagley’s Brigham Young
Newell G. BringhurstJoseph Smith in the Book of Mormon
Robert M. PriceDialogue 36.4 (Winter 2004):109–128
DID JOSEPH SMITH WRITE the Book of Mormon? To this over-familiar question the orthodox Latter-day Saint answer is a resounding “No” because the official belief is that a series of men with quasi-biblical names wrote the book over many centuries.
“There Really is a God and He Dwells in the Temporal Parietal Lobe of Joseph Smith’s Brain”
William J. HamblinScrying for the Lord: Magic, Mysticism, and the Origins of the Book of Mormon
Clay L. ChandlerDialogue 36.4 (Winter 2004):109–128
JOSEPH SMITH GREW UP in a time and place where folk magic was an accepted part of the landscape. Before he was a prophet, he was a diviner, or more specifically, a scryer who used his peepstone to discover the location of buried treasure.
From Captain Kidd’s Treasure Ghost to the Angel Moroni: Changing Dramatis Personae in Early Mormonism
Ronald V. HugginsThe Prophet’s Fall: A Note in Response to Lawrence Foster’s “The Psychology of Prophetic Charisma”
Len OaksThe Psychology of Prophetic Charisma
Lawrence FosterWicks, Modems, and the Winds of War
Karen Marguerite MoloneyA Tribute for Service Well Rendered
Molly BennionThe Freiberg Temple: An Unexpected Legacy of a Communist State and a Faithful People
Raymond M. KuehneThe Red Peril, the Candy Maker, and the Apostle: David O. McKay’s Confrontation with Communism
Gregory A. PrinceLiving and Dying with Fallout
Mary DicksonUtah Historians: Utah Historians and the Reconstruction of Western History by Gary Topping
Peter H. DeLafosseRelief Society’s Golden Years: The Magazine
Jean Anne Waterstradt“Changing times Bring Changing Conditions”: Relief Society 1960 to the Present
Tina HatchWhat Does God Write in His Franklin Planner? The Paradoxes of Providence, Prophecy, and Petitionary Prayer
Dennis R. PotterMormons and the Omnis: The Dangers of Theological Speculation
David H. BaileyImprisonment, Defiance, and Division: The History of Mormon Fundamentalism in the 1940s and 1950s
Ken DriggsSaving the Germans from Themselves?: In Search of the Supernal: Pre-Existence, Eternal Marriage, and Apotheosis in German Literary, Operatic, and Cinematic Texts by Alan Keele
Sandy StrughaarTriptych-History of the Church
Robin RussellWomen in a Time Warp: Discoveries: Two Centuries of Poems by Mormon Women, Edited by Sheree Maxwell Bench and Susan Elizabeth Howe
Danielle Beazer DubraskyThe Open Canon and Innovation: Conflict in the Quorum: Orson Pratt, Brigham Young, Joseph Smith by Gary James Bergera
Michael W. HomerBelief, Respect, and an Elbow to the Ribs: Believing History: Latter-day Saint Essayism by Richard Lyman Bushman
Byron C. Smith“He Was ‘Game'”: Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet by Dan Vogel
William D. RussellThe First Piece in the Puzzle: Walking in the Sand: A History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Ghana by Emmanuel Abu Kissi
Mark T. DeckerThe Weight of Priesthood
Stephen CarterThe Remnant Church: An RLDS Schismatic Group Finds a Prophet of Joseph’s Seed
William D. RussellWhen the 1984 conference approved Section 156 , which also indicated that the soon-to-be-built temple in Independence would be dedicated to the pursuit of peace, it became clear that the largest “schism”—separation from the unity…
Identifying the Earliest Mormon Polygamists, 1841-1844
Gary James BergeraBergera uses evidence from plural wives to show who some of the first polygamists were in the church.
Tending the Desert: John A. Widtsoe: A Biography by Alan K. Parish
Samuel M. BrownThe Un-Hagiography: David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism by Gregory A. Prince and Wm. Robert Wright
Mark T. DeckerA Scholarly Tribute to Leonard Arrington: The Collected Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lectures, Special Collections and Archives – Utah State University Libraries
Newell G. BringhurstA Trader and His Friends: Along Navajo Trails: Recollections of a Trader by Will Evans
Deb ThorntonA National Conspiracy?: Junius & Joseph: presidential Politics and the Assassination of the First Mormon Prophet by Robert S. Wicks and Fred R. Foister
Michael W. HomerA Forty-Year View: Dialogue and the Sober Lessons of History
Frances Lee MenloveThe Death and Resurrection of the RLDS Zion: A Case Study in “Failed Prophecy” 1930-70
David J. HowlettOn Resurrection Sunday, April 1930, Bishop J. A. Koehler of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints attended a priesthood prayer meeting at the Stone Church RLDS congregation in Independence, Missouri.
A Novel with a Lot of Way-Out-There Ideas : D. Michael Martindale, Brother Brigham
Matt A. ThurstonBalancing Faith and Honesty : Segullah: Writings by Latter-day Saint Women
Darlene YoungA Must-Read on Gender Politics : Martha Sonntag Bradley, Pedestals, Podiums: Utah Women, Religious Authority, and Equal Rights
Deborah Farmer KrisBuilding “as Great a Temple as Ever Solomon Did” : Matthew McBrid A House for the Most High: The Story of the Original Nauvoo Temple
William ShepardThe Kind of Woman Future Historians Will Study : Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
Jana Bouck RemyInnocent Hooligan : Douglas Thayer, Hooligan: A Morman Boyhood
Edward A. GearyGood Stories Told Well : A Survey of Mainstream Children’s Books by LDS Authors
Stacy WhitmanPolygamy, Mormonism, and Me
B. Carmon HardyHardy describes the long, difficult process of researching polygamy during a time that the church wasn’t open about polygamy.
“A New Future Requires a New Past”
Ken DriggsMy Madness
Steven L. PeckThe Scholar as Celebrant : Terryl L. Givens, People of Paradox: A History of Mormon Culture
Nathan B. OmanA History of Dialogue, Part Four: A Tale in Two Cities, 1987-92
Devery S. AndersonTribute to Levi S. Peterson
Molly BennionA Most Amazing Gift
Amy McOmberRevelations from a Silent Angel
Howard McOmberNot Your Parents’ Mormonism
David X. BanackThe Remembering and Forgetting of Utah County’s Landmarks
Ethan YorgasonDixie Heart of Darkness
Patricia Gunter KaramesinesMountain Meadows: Not Yet Gone
Robert A. GoldbergA Missive on Mountain Meadows
Jonathan A. StapleyRoundtable on Massacre at Mountain Meadows
Robert A. GoldbergTime Tabled by Mormon History
Karen D. AustinThe Beginnings of Latter-day Plurality Nauvoo Polygamy: “…but we called it celestial marriage.” by George D. Smith
Todd M. ComptonNauvoo Polygamy: The Latest Word Nauvoo Polygamy: “…but we called it celestial marriage.” by George D. Smith
Brian C. HalesComplete History of the Church
(author)A Small History of Joseph Smith; Biography of Eugene England
(author)Mordred Had a Good Point Gary Topping, Leonard J. Arrington: A Historian’s Life
Nathan B. OmanProphet, Seer, Revelator, American Icon Reid L. Neilson and Terryl L. Givens, eds., Joseph Smith Jr.: Reappraisals after Two Centuries
Kirsten M. ChristensenFormulas and Facts: A Response to John Gee
Andrew Cook Dialogue 45.3 (Fall 2012): 1–10
In Winter 2010, Chris Smith and I published an article in Dialogue demonstrating that no more than ~56 cm of papyrus can be missing from the interior of the scroll of Hôr—the papyrus Joseph Smith identified as the Book of Abraham. John Gee has responded by claiming that our method is “anything but accurate” and that it “glaringly underestimates the length of the scroll.” He states that “Two different formulas have been published for estimating the original length of a scroll,” then attempts to show that “Hoffmann’s formula approximates the actual length of the papyrus,” whereas “Cook and Smith’s formula predicts a highly inaccurate length.” The fact is, the two formulas are completely equivalent. They are both exact expressions of an Archimedean spiral and they yield precisely the same results, if correctly applied.
Mormon Pulp with a Reading Group Guide David Ebershoff. The 19th Wife: A Novel
Mark T. DeckerTwilight and Dawn: Turn-of-the-Century Mormonism Lu Ann Faylor Snyder and Phillip A. Snyder, eds. Post-Manifesto Polygamy: The 1899–1904 Correspondence of Helen, Owen, and Avery Woodruff
Stephen TaysomResponse to Post-Manifesto Polygamy: The 1899–1904 Correspondence of Helen, Owen, and Avery Woodruff that contains letter correspondence between Apostle Owen Woodruff and his wives after Woodruff’s father issued the Manifesto.
Loving Truthfully Benedict XVI. Caritas in Veritate
Jeremiah JohnLegacy of a Lesser-Known Apostle Edward Leo Lyman. Amasa Mason Lyman, Mormon Apostle and Apostate: A Study in Dedication
Blair Dee HodgesMormon Women in the History of Second-Wave Feminism
Laurel Thatcher UlrichReading these books in relation to my own life taught me something I should already have known. Mormon women weren’t passive recipients of the new feminism. We helped to create it.
In Lieu of History: Mormon Monuments and the Shaping of Memory
Barry LagaFinding the Presence in Mormon History: An Interview with Susanna Morrill, Richard Lyman Bushman,and Robert Orsi
Robert OrsiReid L. Neilson, Early Mormon Missionary Activities in Japan, 1901–1924
Andrew R. HallPatrick Q. Mason, The Mormon Menace: Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South
Mark BrownThe Persistence of Mormon Plural Marriage
B. Carmon HardyReview: Edward Leo Lyman, Candid Insights of a Mormon Apostle: The Diaries of Abraham H. Cannon, 1889–1895
Jonathan A. StapleyReview: The Truth Will Set You Free Errol Morris, Tabloid
Randy Astle“There Is Always a Struggle”: An Interview with Chieko N. Okazaki
Chieko N. OkazakiThe Richard D. Poll and J. Kenneth Davies Cases: Politics and Religion at BYU during the Wilkinson Years
Gary James BergeraMapping Manifest Destiny: Lucile Cannon Bennion (1891–1966)
John BennionHome and Adventure: An LDS Contribution to the Virtues and Vices Tradition
Shawn R. TuckerDear Diary: Joseph F. Smith’s Mission Journals Nathaniel R. Ricks, ed. “My Candid Opinion”: The Sandwich Island Diaries of Joseph F. Smith, 1856–1857
Steve EvansErrand Out of the Wilderness Matthew Bowman. The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith
Robert ElderMaking Visible the Hand of Ritual: Devery S. Anderson and Gary James Bergera, eds., Joseph Smith’s Quorum of the Anointed, 1842–1845: A Documentary History; Devery S. Anderson and Gary James Bergera, eds., The Nauvoo Endowment Companies, 1845–1846: A Docu
Stephen TaysomMormon Authoritarianism and American Pluralism
David CampbellReview: Terryl L. Givens, Matthew J. Grow Parley P. Pratt: The Apostle Paul of Mormonism
John G. TurnerMormon History Association Conference: Comment on “Conversion in 19th Century Mormonism: Identities and Associations in the Atlantic World”
Richard BushmanMormon History Association Conference: The Theology of a Career Convert: Edward Tullidge’s Evolving Identities
Benjamin E. ParkMormon History Association Conference: To Forsake Thy Father and Mother: Mary Fielding Smith and the Familial Politics of Conversion
Amanda Hendrix-KomotoUVU Mormon Studies Conference: Mormon Blogs, Mormon Studies, and the Mormon Mind
Patrick MasonConference Report: Editor’s Introduction
Kristine HaglundReview: Hugh J. Cannon. To the Peripheries of Mormondom. Edited by Reid Neilson
Erica EastleyReview: Kim Östman. The Introduction of Mormonism to Finnish Society, 1840–1900
(author)Reviews: Dean C. Jessee, Mark Ashurst-McGee, and Richard L. Jensen, eds. Journals, Volume 1: 1832–1839Dean C. Jessee, Mark Ashurst-McGee, and Richard L. Jensen, eds. Journals, Volume 2: December 1841–April 1843
Jonathan A. Stapley“And Now It Is the Mormons”: The Magazine Crusade against the Mormon Church, 1910–1911
Kenneth L. Cannon IIOur Bickering Founding Fathers and Their Messy, Flawed, Divinely Inspired Constitution
Michael AustinReview: Reid L. Neilson, ed. In the Whirlpool: The Pre-Manifesto Letters of President Wilford Woodruff to the William Atkin Family, 1885–1890
(author)Review: Brock Cheney. Plain but Wholesome: Foodways of the Mormon Pioneers
Christy SpackmanReview: J. Spencer Fluhman. “A Peculiar People”:Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America
(author)Review: Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey, The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America
John G. Turner“My Principality on Earth Began”: Millennialism and the Celestial Kingdom in the Development of Mormon Doctrine
Blair Dee Hodges“The Highest Class of Adulterers and Whoremongers”: Plural Marriage, the Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerite), and the Construction of Memory
Christopher James BlytheBlythe shows the denial among Culterites followers that the founder was involved in plural marriage.
Review: Patrick Q. Mason, J. David Pulsipher, and Richard L. Bushman, eds. War and Peace in Our Time: Mormon Perspectives
Rachel Esplin OdellReview: Robert S. McPherson, Jim Dandy, and Sarah E. Burak. Navajo Tradition, Mormon Life: The Autobiography and Teachings of Jim Dandy
Patricia Gunter KaramesinesReview: Irene M. Bates and E. Gary Smith. Lost Legacy: The Mormon Office of the Presiding Patriarch H. Michael Marquardt, ed. Early Patriarchal Blessings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints H. Michael Marquardt, ed. Later Patriarchal Blessi
Susanna MorrillThe Kirtland Temple as a Shared Space: A Conversation with David J. Howlett
Hugo N. OlaizDialogue 47.1 (Spring 2014): 104–123
An oral interview between an LDS Member and a Community of Christ member regarding the history of the Kirtland Temple. They explain that despite differences in religious beliefs, people can still form friendships and cooperate.
Review: Stephen H. Webb. Mormon Christianity: What Other Christians Can Learn from the Latter-day Saints
John W. MoreheadDialoguing Online: The Best of 10+ Years of Mormons Blogging
Emily W. JensenA Swelling Tide: Nineteen-Year-Old Sister Missionaries in the Twenty-First Century
Courtney L. RabadaMormon Feminism: The Next Forty Years
Joanna BrooksReview: Full Lives but Not Fulfilling Paula Kelly Harline. The Polygamous Wives Writing Club: From the Diaries of Mormon Pioneer Women
Polly AirdThe Present, Past, and Future of LDS Financial Transparency
Samuel D. BrunsonReview: Confident Interpretations of Silence David Conley Nelson. Moroni and the Swastika: Mormons in Nazi Germany
Jonathan GreenThe Last Memory: Joseph F. Smith and Lieux de Mémoire in Late Nineteenth-Century Mormonism
Stephen TaysomSalt Lake City, 1957
Judy Darke DeloguPodcast version of this piece. Sunday morning in Salt Lake City, whenfaithful Mormons flock to worshipat neighborhood wards, my father’ssecret psychiatric patients slip insidethe back door of 508 East South Temple,for fifty-five-minute appointments.A nurse impersonator,…
Historic Sites Holy Envy Sara M. Patterson, Pioneers in the Attic: Place and Memory Along the Mormon Trail
John G. TurnerWhen it comes to sacred places, I feel considerable holy envy toward the Latter-day Saints. Their sacred sites stretch across the continent, from Vermont to California. Mormons can visit their founding prophet’s birthplace, the grove…
The Words and Worlds of Smith and Brown Samuel Morris Brown, Joseph Smith’s Translation: The Words and Worlds of Early Mormonism
Jonathan A. StapleyIn 1887 Albert Michelson and Edward Morley performed what was intended to be the crowning accomplishment of physics—an experiment to determine how movement through the luminiferous ether changed the speed of light. What they found…
Unpacking Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Mormonism Taylor G. Petrey, Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism
Alison HalfordInevitably at some point, due to structural white patriarchal privilege and a central and abiding concern with discrete gendered bodies and heteronormative relations, the teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will…
Review: On Truth-Telling and Positionalities P. Jane Hafen and Brenden W. Rensink, eds., Essays on American Indian and Mormon History
Roni Jo DraperI struggle with beginnings. I always just want to get to it. However, allow me to take a bit of time to introduce myself before I tell the story of my experience with the collection…
Review: Unerasing Shoshone Testaments of Survival, Faith, and Hope Darren Parry, The Bear River Massacre
Farina KingAlthough Darren Parry claims to not begrudge the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he does not hold back when addressing the injustices and wrongs that his people have faced at the expense of…
Review: Brigham Young Wanted Every Thing From the Indians Will Bagley, ed., The Whites Want Every Thing: Indian-Mormon Relations, 1847–1877
Corey SmallcanyonWill Bagley is a historian who has written and edited more than a dozen books on Mormon (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) history and the American West. His best known work is…
Roundtable: Time to Let Go of Columbus
(author)For me, as a Native American member of the Church, I approach the hero worship of Columbus perhaps more critically and apprehensively than the average member would. I was taught that he was a man…
Politicking with the Saints: On Reading Benjamin Park’s Kingdom of Nauvoo Benjamin E. Park, Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier
S. Spencer WellsIn an era awash in a sea of reboots and re-examinations, one may be forgiven for initially wondering why yet another treatment of Mormon Nauvoo is strictly necessary. The city, after all, has received its…
Matthew L. Harris, ed., Thunder from the Right: Ezra Taft Benson in Mormonism and Politics
Russell Arben FoxThe Politics of Mormon History
Patrick MasonMormon Modernity David Walker. Railroading Religion: Mormons, Tourists, and the Corporate Spirit of the West
Dmitri BrownRailroading Religion is a welcome addition to the influx of timely scholarship published in anticipation of the 150-year anniversary of the Golden Spike ceremony. The tensions between religion, geography, and history provide a thought-provoking backdrop to…
Remembering Jane Manning James Quincy D. Newell. Your Sister in the Gospel: The Life of Jane Manning James, a Nineteenth-Century Black Mormon
Charlotte Hansen TerryIn this carefully researched work, Quincy D. Newell produces a powerful narrative of Jane Manning James’s life from limited records. Newell reveals what life was like for someone like James, whom she refers to as…
Modern Mormonism, Gender, and the Tangled Nature of History Gregory A. Prince. Gay Rights and the Mormon Church
Benjamin E. ParkFew topics have dominated modern Mormon discourse as much as those related to homosexuality. Especially following the contentious and engrossing debates surrounding Proposition 8—the electoral battle in California in 2008 over the legality of same-sex…
Latter-Day Screens: Mormonism in Popular Culture Brenda R. Weber. Latter-Day Screens: Gender, Sexuality & Mediated Mormonism
Conor Bruce HiltonLatter-day Screens is a fascinating, compelling, and, at times, frustrating look at a wide range of Mormon-related media. This is largely due to the central conceit of the book—essentially working with Mormonism as a meme and…
History Written in Celluloid Randy Astle. Mormon Cinema: Origins to 1952
Davey MorrisonIn March of 1895, in Paris, Auguste and Louis Lumière screened ten short, single-shot films for an audience of two hundred, and the movies were born. Less than ten months later, after years of petitioning,…
A Commentary on Joseph Smith’s Revision of First Corinthians
Kevin L. BarneyDialogue 53.2 (Summer 2020): 57–106
Although Smith desired to publish the new translation, circumstances were such that publication at that time was not possible.
What Size of City, and What Sort of City, Could (or Should) the City of Zion Be?
Russell Arben FoxWhy the Prophet is a Puzzle: The Challenges of Using Psychological Perspectives to Understand the Character and Motivation of Joseph Smith, Jr.
Lawrence FosterDialogue 53.2 (Summer 2020): 1–35
This article will explore how one of the most open-ended psychological interpretations of Smith’s prophetic leadership and motivation might contribute to better understanding the trajectory of this extraordinarily talented and conflicted individual whose life has so deeply impacted the religious movement he founded and, increasingly, the larger world.
A 1945 Perspective
Editor“For the Power is In Them”: Leonard Arrington and the Founders of Exponent II
Laurel Thatcher UlrichThe Other Crime: Abortion and Contraception in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Utah
Amanda Hendrix-KomotoIn this essay, I discuss this history, present evidence that Latter-day Saint men sold abortion pills in the late nineteenth century, and argue that it is likely some Latter-day Saint women took them in an…
Worthy of Their Hire? Mormon Leaders’ Relationship with Wealth D. Michael Quinn. The Mormon Hierarchy: Wealth and Corporate Power.
Christopher C. SmithProving Subcontraries: In memoriam G. Eugene England, 1933–2001
Bruce Jorgensen“There Is No Equality”: William E. Berrett, BYU, and Healing the Wounds of Racism in the Latter-day Saint Past and Present
Rebecca De Schweinitz2019: Rebecca de Schweinitz, “There is no Equality”: William E Berrett, BYU, and healing the Wounds of Racism in the Latter- Day Saint Past and Present” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 52 No. 3 (2019):62–83. De…
Feminism, Polygamy, and Murder John Bennion. An Unarmed Woman.
Helynne Hollstein HansenJohn Bennion’s work is set in the late 1880s and focuses on plural marriage through the lens of a murder mystery.
British Latter Day Saint Conscientious Objectors in World War I
Andrew BoltonWhat of the Latter Day Saint movement that claimed to prophetically discern the times and seasons of these latter days and also boldly proclaimed that they were the restoration church?
The Restoration of Conscientious Objection
Ron MadsenLetter to the Editor
Letters to the EditorReview: Priesthood Power Jonathan A. Stapley. The Power of Godliness: Mormon Liturgy and Cosmology download
Gary James BergeraReview: An Essential Conversation Matthew L. Harris and Newell G. Bringhurst, eds. The Mormon Church & Blacks: A Documentary History
Devery S. AndersonThe Pioneer Woman, St. George
Kevin KleinMartin Luther King Jr. and Mormonism: Dialogue, Race, and Pluralism
Roy WhitakerThis essay provides an outline for how to have a more robust intrafaith dialogue about race among members of the LDS church. Using principles from Martin Luther King, Jr. about dialogue on race, Whitaker argues…
Mormons & Lineage: The Complicated History of Blacks & Patriarchal Blessings, 1830–2018
Matthew L. HarrisThe priesthood revelation of 1978 eased some of the tension when the apostles affirmed that Blacks could now be “adopted into the House of Israel” as full participants in Mormon liturgical rites. But this doctrinal…
Looking Back, Looking Forward: “Mormonism’s Negro Doctrine” 45 Years Later
Lester E. Bush Jr.It has been forty-five years since Dialogue published Bush’s essay entitled “Mormonism’s Negro Doctrine: An Historical Overview”2 and forty years since Official Declaration 2 ended the priesthood/temple ban.
Remember Me: Discursive Needlework and the Sewing Sampler of Patty Bartlett Sessions
Stacey DearingThomas Aquinas Meets Joseph Smith: Toward a Mormon Ethics of Natural Law
Levi CheckettsThe Word of Wisdom in Contemporary American Mormonism: Perceptions and Practice
Jana RiessAuthority and Priesthood in the LDS Church, Part 2: Ordinances, Quorums, Nonpriesthood Authority, Presiding, Priestesses, and Priesthood Bans
Roger TerryThe Darkest Abyss in America
William MorrisYearning for Notoriety: Questionable and False Claimants to America’s Worst Emigrant Massacre
Melvin J. BashoreA History of Two Stories: Women of Covenant: The Story of Relief Society
(author)Preparation for the Kingdom
T. Edgar LyonJoseph Smith and the Sources of Love
Truman G. MadsenThe Quest for Religious Authority and the Rise of Mormonism
Mario S. De PillisThe Faith of a Psychologist: A Personal Document
Victor B. ClineThe Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt: Some Literary, Historical, and Critical Reflections
R. A. ChristmasScholarly Studies of Mormonism in the Twentieth Century
Leonard J. ArringtonThe Church and the Law
Thomas G. AlexanderMormonism and American Religion
David BertelsonBrigham Young and the American Economy
R. Joseph Monsen Jr.Anti-Intellectualism in Mormon History: Thoughts on Anti-Intellectualism: A Response
James B. AllenAnti-Intellectualism in Mormon History
Davis BittonThe Life of Brigham Young: A Biography Which Will Not Be Written
P. A. M. TaylorFederal Authority Versus Polygamic Theocracy: James B. McKean and the Mormons, 1870-1875
Thomas G. AlexanderDuring the years of the Utah Territory, outsiders got appointed to the terrority to serve in various positions. For the most part, these Gentiles weren’t sympathetic towards the church, and one of the more famous…
The Metamorphosis of the Kingdom of God: Toward a Reinterpretation of Mormon History
Klaus J. HansenWriting the Mormon Past
Robert Bruce FlandersUnderstanding Mormon history involves appreciating some of the formidable obstacles which confront throse who seek to write it. There is still sensitivity among Mormons to probing that might bring embarrassment to cherished offical views of…
The Significance of Joseph Smith’s “First Vision” in Mormon Thought
James B. AllenDialogue 1.3 (Fall 1966): 29–46
In this early article, Allen shows that the First Vision was not well known during Joseph Smith’s lifetime. It became well known after the Prophet’s death, which is when missionaries started to teach about it for the first time.
Introduction: The Future of Mormonism
Leonard J. ArringtonEarly Mormon Churches in Utah: A Photographic Essay
Douglas HillThe Legend of Porter Rockwell
Gustive O. Larson“’I Never Knew a Time When I Did Not Know Joseph Smith”: A Son’s Record Of The Life And Testimony Of Sidney Rigdon
Karl KellerDialogue 1.4 (Spring 1966): 15–42
Not very long after the death of Sidney Rigdon, the influential preacher and compatriate to Joseph Smith in the first years of the Church, his son, John Wickliffe Rigdon, wrote an apology for his father.
The “Legend” and the “Case” of Joe Hill
Vernon H. JensenChrist Without the Church: The Challenge of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Kenneth W. GodfreyStrange People in a Strange Land: The Far Southwest, 1846-1912: A Territorial History by Howard Roberts Lamar
Ted J. WarnerA Kingdom to Come: Quest for Empire: The Political Kingdom of God and the Council of Fifty in Mormon History
Richard D. PollThe Facsimile Found: The Recovery of Joseph Smith’s Papyrus Manuscripts: An Interview with Dr. Fischer
Lynn TraversThe Facsimile Found: The Recovery of Joseph Smith’s Papyrus Manuscripts: An Interview with Dr. Fischer
George D. Smith 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.
The Facsimile Found: The Recovery of Joseph Smith’s Papyrus Manuscripts: An Interview with Dr. Fischer
Norman TolkThe Facsimile Found: The Recovery of Joseph Smith’s Papyrus Manuscripts: An Interview with Dr. Fischer
Lynn TraversThe Facsimile Found: The Recovery of Joseph Smith’s Papyrus Manuscripts: A Conversation with Professor Atiya
Glen Wade Dialogue 2.4 (Winter 1967)51– 54.
Although not a member of the Church, Dr. Atiya for many years had cherished his Latter-day Saint friends and is well informed about Church beliefs. He is aware of the history of the papyri and their relationship to the Book of Abraham in the Pearl of Great Price and is acquainted with the three facsimiles.
Some Reflections on the Kingdom and the Gathering in Early Mormon History
Robert Bruce FlandersHistorical studies embrace the most extensive, intensive, and well-matured of the scholarly endeavors which have the Restoration as their subject. The paucity of critical writings in the various fields of theology and philosophy is by…
Learning to Lead: The Church Executive ; The Ten Most Wanted Men
William G. DyerOn the Mormon Trail: Mormon Trail form Vermont to Utah by Alma P. Burton, The Travelers’ Guide to Historic Mormon America
T. Edgar LyonStorybook Grandmothers: Mary Fielding Smith
Caroline AddyThe Divinity in Humanity: You Shall Be As Gods by Erich Fromm
Louis C. MidgleyThe Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri: Translations and Interpretations: Phase One
Hugh Nibley Dialogue 3.2 (Summer 1968)101 – 105
Even a casual reading of the Book of Abraham shows that the story refers not so much to unique historic events as to ritual forms and traditions—all these must be checked. So far we have heard what is wrong or at least suspect about the Book of Abraham, but as yet nobody has cared to report on the other side of the picture. It is for that we are saving our footnotes.
The Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri: Translations and Interpretations: The Book of Breathings
Richard A. Parker Dialogue 3.2 (Summer 1968)98
THE BOOK OF BREATHINGS (FRAGMENT I, THE “SENSEN” TEXT, WITH RESTORATIONS FROM LOUVRE PAPYRUS 3284) translated by Richard A. Parker
The Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri: Translations and Interpretations: The Source of the Book of Abraham Identified
Jerald TannerDialogue 3.2 (Summer 1968): 92–97
A description of the alleged Egyptain papyri used by Joseph Smith to translate the Book of Abraham
The Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri: Translations and Interpretations: The Source of the Book of Abraham Identified
Grant S. HewardThe Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri: Translations and Interpretations: A Tentative Approach to the Book of Abraham
Richard P. Howard Dialogue 3.2 (Summer 1968):89 – 92
It appears that in time the mystery of the Book of Abraham will be unveiled. Meanwhile, it is significant for the Reorganized Church that undue haste and overzealous faith did not move it in the nineteenth century to canonize this work of Joseph Smith, Jr., primarily on the basis that it was accomplished by Joseph Smith, Jr.
The Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri: Translations and Interpretations: The Joseph Smith Papyri: A Preliminary Report
Richard A. Parker Dialogue 3.2 (Summer 1968):86 – 88
The papyri need to be carefully cleaned and straightened and then rephotographed with care to illuminate the under side somewhat to eliminate all shadows in cracks and breaks, which can frequently look just like writing.
The Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri: Translations and Interpretations: A Summary Report
John A. Wilson Dialogue 3.2 (Summer 1968):67 – 85
The Joseph Smith Egyptian papyri once consisted of at least six separate documents, possibly eight or more.
The Search for Truth and Meaning in Mormon History
Leonard J. ArringtonJoseph Smith as a Student of Hebrew
Louis C. ZuckerDialogue 3.2 (Summer 1968): 41–55
Zucker describes the efforts that Joseph Smith went through to study Hebrew. Joseph Smith’s personal behavior was apparently not changed, but in other aspects in later years there is evidence that Joseph Smith was using Hebrew language structure
Mrs. Brodie and Joseph Smith: Exploding the Myth about Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet by F.L. Stewart
Max H. ParkinDialogue 3.3 (Fall 1968): 142–145
In response to Fawn Brodies’s biography of Joseph Smith, F.L. Stewart published a book called Exploding the Myth About Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet.
A Mirror for Mormon’s: The City of the Saints by Richard F. Burton, edited and with an introduction by Fawn M. Brodie
Samuel W. TaylorOne Man’s Utah: History of Utah by Wayne Stout
Kenneth W. GodfreyWhose Victory? Fantastic Victory by W. Cleo Skousen
James B. MayfieldA Translation of the Apparent Source of the Book of Abraham
Klaus BaerMormons in the Executive Suite
Mark W. CannonArt and the Church
Maida WithersManhattan Faces
Mary AllenMormons as City Planners
Charles L. SellersThe Challenge of Secularism
James L. ClaytonVilla Mae
Vivian H. OlsenA Time of Transition
Renee P. CarlsonA Personal Commitment to Civil Equality
Daniel H. GagonReflections at Hopkins House
Belle CluffMormons in the Urban Community
William H. RobinsonJoseph Smith’s Presidential Platform: The Political Legacy of Joseph Smith
Martin B. HickmanJoseph Smith’s Presidential Platform: Joseph Smith and the Presidency, 1844
Richard D. PollThe Changing Image of Mormonism
Dennis L. LythgoeB.H. Roberts as an Historian
Davis BittonMormons and Psychiatry
Robert D. HuntIncome and Membership Projections for the Church Through the Year 2000
Jack W. CarlsonConcern for the Urban Condition
Stanton L. HoveyThe Intellectual Tradition of the Latter-day Saints
Leonard J. ArringtonThe Joseph Smith Papyri
Benjamin UrrutiaToward a History of Ancient America
Cyrus H. GordonDialogue 4.2 (Summer 1971): 65–68
If there is no history of ancient Antarctica, there is a valid reason for it. Stone Age man penetrated every continent except Antarctica, and until modern times, Antarctica was unexplored
Governor Thomas Ford and the Murderers of Joseph Smith
Keith HuntressDialogue 4.2 (Summer 1969): 41–52
Member and non members have criticized Governor Thomas Ford of Illinois for his inability to save Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum. Huntress was arguing that Governor Ford had a lot of difficulties that he had to deal with at that time.
The Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Mormon Dilemma?
James B. MayfieldThe Reliability of the Early History of Lucy and Joseph Smith
Richard Lloyd AndersonDialogue 4.2 (Summer 1971): 13–28
Mormon history is a part of this magnificent proliferation of data and research techniques. Its own archives are in the midst of classification by professionally competent standards. There is hope for a new era, in which Mormon and non-Mormon may meet on the common ground of objective fact.
Literature in the History of the Church: The Importance of Involvement
Dale L. MorganA Commentary of Stephen G. Taggart’s Mormonism’s Negro Policy: Social and Historical Origins
Lester E. Bush Jr.Lester E Bush wrote in response to Stephen G Taggart’s book which the author tried to show that the Church came from abololonist ideas because the Church was orginially founded in New York, but when…
The Secular Relevance of the Gospel Since Cumorah by Hugh W. Nibley
Louis C. MidgleyPresident David O. McKay: 1873-1970: President McKay As a Neighbor
Lorraine PearlPresident David O. McKay: 1873-1970: On Shaking Hands with David O. McKay
Scott CameronPresident David O. McKay: 1873-1970: The Prophet is Dead
Mona Jo EllsworthPresident David O. McKay: 1873-1970: Reflections on the Ministry of President David O. McKay
Sterling M. McMurrinPresident David O. McKay: 1873-1970: “When Spirit Speaks to Spirit”
Joseph C. MurenPresident David O. McKay: 1873-1970: A Man of Love and Personal Concern
Myra ThulinPresident David O. McKay: 1873-1970: Tribute to President David O. McKay
Lafi ToelupePresident David O. McKay: 1873-1970: My Memories of President David O. McKay
Lowell BennionWillard Young: The Prophet’s Son at West Point
Leonard J. ArringtonSpiritual Problems in the Teaching of Modern Literature
Stephen L. TannerFaithful History
Richard BushmanSources of Mormon History in Illinois, 1832-48, and A Bibliographic Note
John C. AbbottThe Church and the Orient: The Church Encounters Asia by Spencer J. Palmer
Robert MorrisAnother View of the Mormons: The Mormons: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Kathleen Elgin
Samellyn WoodDialogue East: Courage: A Journal of History, Thought, and Action
Robert Bruce FlandersThe Manipulation of History: Can We Manipulate the Past? By Fawn Brodie
Marvin S. HillMarvin S Hill was responding to Fawn Brodie’s lecture at the Hotel Utah in 1970 called “Can We Manipulate the Past?” Her point in giving it was she was claiming that the people in charge…
The Coming of the Manifesto
Kenneth W. GodfreyGodfrey describes the steps leading to Wilford Woodruff issuing the First Manifesto.
The Lesson of Coalville
Paul G. SalisburyThe Last Days of the Coalville Tabernacle
Edward A. GearyA Comment on Joseph Smith’s Account of His First Vision and the 1820 Revival
Peter CrawleyDialogue 6.1 (Spring 1971): 106–107
Ever since people first heard of the First Vision, the events surrounding it has been clouded by controversy. Crawley comments with historical references that help to clarify this controversy.
Joseph Smith, An American Muhammad? An Essay On the Perils of Historical Analogy
Arnold H. GreenDialogue 6.1 (Spring 1971): 46–58
Since around the time as the martyrdom, Joseph Smith has been compared to Muhammad who was the founder of Islam. Green and Goldrup presents evidence for how Islam and the church are different.
Blessed Damozels: Women in Mormon History
Leonard J. ArringtonGod and Man in History
Richard D. PollThe Sterling M. McMurring Papers
L. G. BrownModern Biblical Scholarship: The Cambridge History of the Bible, Vol. 1
Leslie Noel SwaneyFrom Gadfly to Watchdog: The First 100 Years: A History of the Salt Lake Tribune by O.N. Malmquist
Jean WhiteA Prophet’s Goodly Grandparents: Joseph Smith’s New England Heritage by Richard Lloyd Anderson
Dean C. JesseeBrodie Revisited: A Reappraisal: No Man Knows My History by Faun Brodie
Marvin HillMormonism as an Eddy in American Religious History: A Religious History of the American People by Sydney Ahlstrom
Milton V. BackmanJames E. Talmage: A Personal History: The Talmage Story: Life of James E. Talmage by John R. Talmage
James B. AllenNew Essays on Mormon History: The Restoration Movement: Essays in Mormon History
William J. GilmoreJ. Golden Kimball: Apostle and Folk Hero: The Golden Legacy: A Folk History of J. Golden Kimball
Richard M. DorsonJudah Among the Ephriamites: History of the Jews in Utah and Idaho by Juanita Brooks
Samuel L. TaylorSome Reflections on the New Mormon History
Robert Bruce FlandersRiding Herd: A Conversation with Juanita Brooks
Juanita BrooksRiding Herd: A Conversation with Juanita Brooks
Maureen Ursenbach Beecher“No Continuing City””: Reading a Local History: Provo: A Story of People in Motion
Bruce JorgensenA Hint of an Explanation: The Message of the Joseph Smith Papyri: an Egyptian Endowment by Hugh Nibley
Eric Jay OlsonDialogue 9.4 (Winter 1974): 74–75
Review of An Egyptian Endowment by Hugh Nibley, which discusses the papyri that Joseph Smith allegedly used to help translate the Book of Abraham. Hugh Nibley decided to state his case, but allow readers to form their own conclusions after reading it.
A Little-Known Defense of Polygamy from the Mormon Press in 1842
Lawrence FosterFoster points out that in 1842 an unpublished pamphlet was written called “The Peace Maker” that expressed its support for polygamy. It is the first-known defense of polygamy before 1852.
The Law Above the Law: Carthage Conspiracy: The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith
Jerry JensenDialogue 10.1 (1975-1976): 84–86
Review of Carthage Conspiracy: The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith coauthored by Dallin H. Oaks and Marvin S. Hill regarding the trial of Joseph Smith and his brother’s Hyrum deaths. Jensen argues that this book is a mustread for anyone who is interested in ‘Mormon history, philosophy, and the law.’
Photography as History: Through Camera Eyes, Nelson B. Wadsworth
Kent WalgrenMormonism and Labor: Deseret’s Sons of Toil, A History of the Worker Movements of Territorial Utah, 1852-1896
John S. McCormickRobert Leroy Parker on Family History: Butch Cassidy, My Brother by Lulu Parker Betenson ; In Search of Butch Cassidy
William G. HartleyAn Enduring History: Utah: A Bicentennial History by Charles S. Petersen
Dean L. MayFate and the Persecutors of Joseph Smith: Transmutations of an American Myth
Richard C. PoulsenDialogue 11.4 (1977): 63-70
In the 1950s there was a book published call Fate of the Persecutors of Joseph Smith, which contains stories that have been part of folklore that have been passed down discussing what happened to the people who helped kill Joseph Smith.
Generalized Hatred: The Women’s Room by Marilyn French
Elinore Hughes PartridgeFishing for Emma: Joseph and Emma Companions by Roy A. Cheville ; Judge Me Dear Reader by Erwin E. Wirkus
Linda King NewellTwo Venturesome Women: Not By Bread Alone: The journal of Martha Spence Heywood, 1850-1856
Cheryll MayThe Cost of Living in Kirtland: The Kirtland Economy Revisited: A Market Critique of Sectarian Economics
Marcellus S. SnowFaith and History: The Snell Controversy
Richard SherlockState-of-the-Art-Mormon-History: The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-day Saints
Richard D. PollA Priestly Role for a Prophetic Church: The RLDS Church and Black Americans
William D. RussellIn recent years many RLDS Church members have been proud of the fact that the church has been ordaining blacks into the priesthood since early in its history.
Elijah Abel and the Changing Status of Blacks Within Mormonism
Newell G. BringhurstElijah Abel, a black man ordained to the priesthood, was restricted in his church participation starting in 1843, even though he was well respected by both members and leaders. Newell G. Bringhurst discusses why the…
Saint Without Priesthood: The Collected Testimonies of Ex-Slave Samuel D. Chambers
EditorThe editors of Dialogue in 1979 compiled the testimonies of a former slave, Samuel Chambers, who was a member of the church.
Introduction
Lester E. Bush Jr.Utah in One Volume: Utah’s History edited by Richard D. Poll, Thomas G. Alexander, Eugene E. Campbell and David E. Miller
Joseph B. RomneyPeripheral Mormondom: The Frenetic Frontier
Jerald R. IzattThe Orson Pratt-Brigham Young Controversies: Conflict Within the Quorums, 1853 to 1868
Gary James BergeraJoseph Smith and Thomas Paine?: Mormon Answer to Skepticism: Why Joseph Smith Wrote the Book of Mormon by Robert N. Hullinger
Gary P. GillumMormonism: From Its New York Beginnings
Leonard J. ArringtonAn Hour in the Grove
Mary Lythgoe BradfordFawn McKay Brodie: An Oral History Interview
Shirley E. StephensonLocal History, Well Done: Corinne: The Gentile Capital of Utah by Brigham D. Madsen
M. Guy BishopThe Writing of Latter-day Saints History: Problems, Accomplishments and Admonitions
Leonard J. ArringtonSensational Virtue: Nineteenth-Century Mormon Fiction and American Popular Taste
Karen LynnJoseph Smith and the Structure of Mormon Identity
Steven L. OlsenDialogue 14.3 (Fall 1981): 89–100
Joseph Smith’s 1838 account of the First Vision has taken priority in structuring Mormon identity, despite the existence of different versions. This article explores why that version is so meaningful to Latter-day Saints, reflecting on the symbolic strucutre of the account.
The Word of Wisdom: From Principle to Requirement
Thomas G. AlexanderDid the Word of Wisdom Become a Commandment in 1851?
Robert J. McCueThe Word of Wisdom in Early Nineteenth-Century Perspective
Lester E. Bush Jr.The Fading of the Pharaoh’s Curse: The Decline and Fall of the Priesthood Ban Against Blacks
Armand L. MaussMauss situates the 1978 revelation on the priesthood in modern American historical context. Everything changed for the Church during the Civil Rights Movement when people both inside and outside the Church were harshly critcizing the…
An “Inside-Outsider” in Zion
Jan ShippsJoseph Smith III’s 1844 Blessing and the Mormons of Utah
D. Michael QuinnJoseph Smith: “The Gift of Seeing”
Richard Van WagonerDialogue 15.2 (Summer 1982): 48–68
Van Wagoner and Walker focus on the seer stones that Joseph Smith used in the Book of Mormon translation process.
Thoughts on the Mormon Scriptures: An Outsider’s View of the Inspiration of Joseph Smith
William P. CollinsAn Introduction to Mormon Administrative History
David J. WhittakerThe Millennial Hymns of Parley P. Pratt
Dean L. MayA Survey of Current Theses and Dissertations
Stephen W. StathisA Bluestocking in Zion: The Literary Life of Emmeline B. Wells
Carol Cornwall MadsenForgotten Relief Societies, 1844-67
Richard L. JensenFrom Apostle to Apostate: The Personal Struggle of Amasa Mason Lyman
Loretta L. HefnerThe Seventies in the 1880s: Revelations and Reorganizing
William G. HartleyAllegiance and Stewardship: Holy War, Just War, and the Mormon Tradition in the Nuclear Age
Edwin B. Firmage“The Fullness of the Priesthood”: The Second Anointing in Latter-day Saint Theology and Practice
David John BuergerVoices from the Dust: Women in Zion: Women’s Voices: An Untold History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900
John L. SorensonA Personal Odyssey: My Encounter with Mormon History
Lawrence FosterSwarming Progeny of the Restoration: Divergent Paths of the Restoration: A History of the Latter Day Saint Movement
William D. RussellSaints You Can Sink Your Teeth Into: Kindred Saints: The Mormon Immigrant Heritage of Alvin and Kathryn Christensen
Richard Van WagonerSaints You Can Sink Your Teeth Into: Kindred Saints: The Mormon Immigrant Heritage of Alvin and Kathryn Christensen
Steven C. WalkerNotes on Brigham Young’s Aesthetics
Michael HicksFaithful History/Secular Faith
Melvin T. SmithRx With a Historical Slant: Medicine and the Mormons: An Introduction to the History of Latter-day Saint Health Care
N. Lee SmithMoving Swiftly Upon the Waters: Saints on the Seas: A Maritime History of Mormon Migration 1830-1890 by Conway B. Sonne
Richard L. JensenA Physician’s Reflections on Old Testament Medicine
Roderick SaxeyRefracted Visions and Future Worlds: Mormonism and Science Fiction
Michael R. CollingsEmma Smith Through Her Writings
Valeen Tippetts AveryThe Emma Smith Lore Reconsidered
Linda King NewellJoseph Smith and Process Theology
Garland E. TickemyerBook of Mormon Usage in Early LDS Theology
Grant UnderwoodDialogue 17.3 (Fall 1984): 37–75
As one step in that direction, this article explores Book of Mormon usage in the pre-Utah period (1830—46), and seeks answers to the following questions: Which passages from the Book of Mormon were cited and with what frequency? How were they understood?
Religious Accommodation in the Land of Racial Democracy
Mark L. GroverBrazil, with a high concentration of African heritage, was a difficult place for the Church (because of the Church’s racial policy) to make headway among native members. Due to the high risk of Brazilians potentially…
A Shaded View: Suribonnet Sisters: True Stories of Mormon Women and Frontier Life
Susan Sessions RughBleaker by the Dozen?: Life in Large Families: View of Mormon Women, by H. M. Bahr, S. J. Condie, and K. Goodman
Godfrey J. EllisPaul: Early-Day Saint: Understanding Paul by Richard Lloyd Anderson
Horace M. McMullenEmigrant Guides: The Latter-day Saints’ Emigrants’ Guide by W. Clayton, ed. by Stanley B. Kimball
Alan Kent Powell“The Same Organization?”: The First Urban Christians by Wayne A. Meeks
Robert R. KingMeet the Author of The Prophet of Palmyra: Thomas Gregg: Early Illinois Journalist and Author by John W. Hallwas
Stanley B. KimballGenealogical Blockbuster: The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy, ed. by Arlene H. Eakle and Johni Cerny
Gary ToppingSister Sense and Hard Facts: Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith by Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery
Maureen Ursenbach BeecherMissionary to the Mind: Dialogues with Myself: Personal Essays on Mormon Experience by Eugene England
William Clayton KimballFast and Loose Freemasonry: Mormonism and Freemasonry
Kent WalgrenFaithful History: The Heavens Resound: A History of the Latter-day Saints in Ohio, 1830-1838 by Milton V. Backman, Jr.
William D. RussellIn Silence She Speaks: Not in Vain by Susan Evans McCloud
Carolynne Cecil BerrettExiles for the Principle: LDS Polygamy in Canada
Jessie L. EmbryEmbry describes the role that polygamy played in the forming of Cardston Canada, both Pre-Manifesto and Post Manifesto.
Mothers and Daughters in Polygamy
Jessie L. EmbryAn analysis of what the individual wives’ roles are in the 19th century among plural marriages. Embry and Bradley make the argument that the daughters in a polygamous relationship pay attention to how their own…
Women’s Response to Plural Marriage
Kahlile MehrMehr shares stories of polygamy in late 19th century and early 20th century. He especially focused on LDS women’s opinions of polygamy when they entered into polygamous relationsips.
Mormon Polyandry in Nauvoo
Richard Van WagonerVan Wagoner defines polyandry as having two or more husbands at the same time. He identifies women who ended up marrying members of the Twelve or Joseph Smith while they were were already married to…
Government-Sponsored Prayer in the Classroom
Robert RiggsLDS Women and Priesthood: An Expanded Definition of Priesthood: Some Present and Future Consequences
Margaret WheatleyIn seeking to predict what might occur in the Church if priesthood were extended to women, it is helpful to focus attention on some of these organizational dynamics.
LDS Women and Priesthood: The Historical Relationship of Mormon Women and Priesthood
Linda King NewellWhile an examination of that history leaves unanswered the question of women’s ordination to the priesthood, the historical overview of LDS women’s relationship to priesthood suggests a more expansive view than many members now hold.
LDS Women and Priesthood: Scriptural Precedents for Priesthood
Melodie Moench CharlesI have heard many LDS women approach the issue of women and the priesthood by protesting that they do not want to hold the priesthood because they have no interest in passing the sacrament or…
The Ultimate Stegner Interview: Conversations with Wallace Stegner on Western History and Literature
Gary ToppingThe Benefits of Partisanship: Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism by Richard L. Bushman
Dean C. JesseeJoseph Smith and the Clash of Sacred Cultures
Keith ParryDialogue 18.4 (Winter 1984): 65–80
Shortly after the church was organized, one of Joseph Smith’s main priorities during his lifetime was preaching to the Native Americans, who he believed to be the descendants of the Lamanites.
Joseph Smith, Sr., Dreams of His Namesake
Michael HicksIn loco parentis — Alive and Well in Provo: Brigham Young University: A House of Faith
Anthony W. MorganThe United Order of Joseph Smith’s Times
Kent W. HuffThe Restoration and History: New Testament Christianity
C. Robert MesleJoseph Smith and the Plurality of Worlds Idea
Robert E. PaulA Survey of Current Dissertations
Stephen W. StathisHistoriography and the New Mormon History: A Historian’s Perspective
Thomas G. AlexanderEastward to Eden: The Nauvoo Rescue Missions
Richard E. BennettObjectivity and History
Kent E. RobsonLeadership and the Ethics of Prophecy
Paul EdwardsThe role of leadership within the Mormon community is vastly interrelated, and thus often confused, with management.
Document Dealing: A Dealer’s Response
Curt BenchThe Document Diggers and Their Discoveries: A Panel
Cheryll MayMartin Harris: Mormonism’s Early Convert
Ronald W. WalkerDale Morgan’s Unfinished Mormon History: Dale Morgan on Early Mormonism: Correspondence and a New History
Gary ToppingPolygamy Examined: Mormon Polygamy: A History by Richard Van Wagoner
Linda King NewellDetermining and Defining “Wife”: The Brigham Young Households
Jeffery Ogden JohnsonRefugee Converts: One Stake’s Experience
Sharyn H. LarsenBrave New Bureaucracy
Warner P. WoodworthBIG D/little d: The View from the Basement
Mary Lythgoe BradfordBalance and Faith: The Latter-day Saints: A Contemporary History of the Church of Jesus Christ by William E. Berrett
Kenneth W. Godfrey“The Truth Is the Most Important Thing””: The New Mormon History According to Mark Hofmann
Allen D. RobertsGod’s Hand in Mormon History: The Church in the Twentieth Century: The Impressive Story of the Advancing Kingdom
Gary James BergeraWho Came in Second?
Garth N. JonesWhy Were Scholars Misled? What Can We Learn From This?
Richard P. HowardThe “New Mormon History” Reassessed in Light of Recent Book on Joseph Smith and Mormon Origins
Marvin HillThe Need for a New Mormon Heaven
Melodie Moench CharlesDialogue 21.3 (Fall 1988): 73–85
I used to love this description because my Mormon heaven seemed far superior to this standard Christian heaven that Twain’s Satan describes. Sexual intercourse does have a place in Mormon heaven, though not as an end in itself. Heavenly residents are busy with activities. Those righteous individuals who become gods in Mormon heaven will certainly be using their intellects as they create worlds and keep them running, and they will undoubtedly be learning continuously. Mormonism never suggested there would be continual music, nor continual church or Sabbath days in heaven.
Voyage of the Brooklyn
Lorin HansenThe Trial of the French Mission
Kahlile MehrFreeways, Parking Lots, and Ice Cream Stands: The Three Nephites in Contemporary Society
William A. WilsonHonoring Arrington: New Views of Mormon History: Essays in Honor of Leonard J. Arrington
F. Ross PetersonThe Case for the New Mormon History: Thomas G. Alexander and His Critics
M. Gerald BradfordHistory of Historians: Mormons and Their Historians by Davis Bitton and Leonard J. Arrington
Gary ToppingHistory for the People: Utah: A People’s History by Dean May
M. Guy BishopOn the Edge of Solipsism: The Edge of the Reservoir by Larry E. Morris
Helen Beach CannonA Double Dose of Revisionism: The 1838 Mormon War in Missouri
Stanley B. KimballLatter-day Saints, Lawyers, and the Legal Process: Zion in the Courts
Michael W. HomerTwin Contributions: Establishing Zion: The Mormon Church in the American West, 1847-1869 by Eugene E. Campbell
Richard W. SadlerMormondom’s Second Greatest King: King of Beaver Island: The Life and Assassination of James Jesse Strang by Roger Van Noord
William D. RussellLiving the Principle: Mormon Polygamous Families: Life in the Principle by Jessie L. Embry
Joan S. IversenReply to “Forever Tentative”
David H. BaileyForever Tentative
Charles L. BoydJews in the Columns of Joseph’s Times and Seasons
Steven EppersonHearkening Unto Other Voices: To Be Learned Is Good If… edited by Robert L. Millet
Robert J. WoolleyPassion Poems: How Much for the Earth? by Emma Lou Thayne
Linda SillitoeNew Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century St. George: A Sermon in the Desert: Belief and Behavior in Early St. George, Utah
Alan Kent PowellMormon Splinter Groups: Recreating Utopia in the Desert: A Sectarian Challenge to Modern Mormonism by Hans A. Baer
Mark P. Leone“What Has Become of Our Fathers?” Baptism for the Dead at Nauvoo
M. Guy BishopDialogue 23.2 (Summer 1990): 85–97
Chronicling the history of baptizing for the dead during the Nauvoo Period, this article introduces the practice from the first baptizers to how it was altered after Joseph Smith’s death.
An Ambivalent Rejection: Baptism for the Dead and the Reorganized Church Experience
Roger D. LauniusDialogue 23.2 (1990): 61–83
Launius shares how the Reorganized Church has changed their stance on baptisms for the dead.
Fundamentalist Attitudes Toward the Church: The Sermons of Leroy S. Johnson
Ken DriggsDriggs shares what an early fundamentalist leader by the name of Leory S. Johnson taught about the church and polygamy.
The Women of Fundamentalism: Short Creek, 1953
Martha S. BradleyBradley describes how even after the Short Creek Raids happened, the women there still believed in plural marriage.
Nothing New Under the Sun: New Religions and the Theological Imagination in America by Mary Farrell Bednarowski
Gary ToppingReligious Themes in American Culture: Illusions of Innocence: Protestantism in America, 1630-1875
Robert C. WoodwardPlight and Promise: Windows on the Sea and Other Stories by Linda Sillitoe
Levi S. PetersonKimball’s Diaries: On the Potter’s Wheel: The Diaries of Heber C. Kimball edited by Stanley B. Kimball
Ronald W. WalkerStrange Love: The School of Love by Phillis Barber
Helen B. CannonA Reasonable Approach to History and Faith: History and Faith: Reflections of a Mormon Historian by Richard D. Poll
F. Ross Peterson“A Profound Sense of Community”: Mormon Values in Wallace Stegner’s Recapitulation
Richard CracroftThe Temple in Zion: A Reorganized Perspective on a Latter Day Saint Institution
Richard A. BrownDialogue 24.1 (Spring 1991): 86–98
In preparation for the Independence Temple that was dedicated in 1994, an RLDS member shares ideas about temples in general.
The Development of the Mormon Concept of Grace
Blake T. Ostler“All Alone and None to Cheer Me”: The Soughern States Mission Diary of J. Golden Kimball
David BuiceSpeaking in Tongues in the Restoration Churches
Lee CopelandHowever, during the mid-1800s, speaking in tongues was so commonplace in the LDS and RLDS churches that a person who had not spoken in tongues, or who had not heard others do so, was a…
The Paradox of Paradox: Strangers in Paradox: Explorations in Mormon Theology by Margaret and Paul Toscano
Helen B. CannonAffidavits Revisited: Joseph Smith’s New York Reputation Reexamined by Rodger I. Anderson
Roger D. LauniusScripture in the Reorganization: Exegesis, Authority, and the “Prophetic Mantle”
Larry W. ConradDale Morgan, Writer’s Project, and Mormon History as a Regional Study
Charles S. PetersonThe Eastern Edge: LDS Missionary Work in Hungarian Lands
Kahlile MehrA Teenager’s Mormon Battalion Journal: The Gold Rush Diary of Azariah Smith edited by David L. Bigler
Alan Kent PowellA New Synthesis: Exiles in a Land of Liberty: Mormons in America, 1830-1846 by Kenneth H. Winn
M. Guy BishopMormonism’s First Theologian: The Essential Parley P. Pratt foreword by Peter L. Crawley
David L. BiglerUtah’s Original “”Mr. Republican””: Reed Smoot: Apostle in Politics by Milton R. Merrill
John SillitoA Poetic Legacy: The Owl on the Aerial by Clarice Short
Bethany ChaffinClawson and the Mormon Experience: The Making of a Mormon Apostle: The Story of Rudger Clawson
David Rich LewisDelusion as an Exceedingly Fine Art: Bones by Franklin Fisher
Lavina Fielding AndersonTwo Covenant Systems: Promises Made to the Father: Mormon Covenant Organization by Rex Eugene Cooper
Marianne PerciaccanteA Song Worth Singing: Mormonism and Music: A History by Michael Hicks
Elaine ThatcherWhy Ane Wept: A Family History Fragment
Stan AndersonThe New Zealand Mission During the Great Depression: Reflections of a Former Acting President
Harold T. ChristensenA Mormon View of Life
Lowell BennionSelf-Blame and the Manifesto
B. Carmon HardyBefore the Manifesto was first read in conference, members and church leaders fully believed in plural marriage as being a commandment from God. Once the Manifesto was read, over time members started wondering if it…
The Political Background of the Woodruff Manifesto
Edward Leo LymanLyman discusses the political pressures from the United Government which led to the church issuing the First Manifesto.
“Almost Like Us”: The American Socialization of Australian Converts
Marjorie NewtonMy Ghosts
G. G. VandagriffIs There Such a Thing as a “Moral War”?
Marc A. SchindlerThe Moral Failures of Operation Desert Storm
Jeffery S. TolkThe Thoughtful Patriot — 1991
David P. VandagriffThe Building of Mormon History in Italy: Le nuove religioni, Le sette cristiane: Dai Testimoni di Geova al Reverendo Moon
Michael W. Homer“And They Shall Be One Flesh”: Sexuality and Contemporary Mormonism
Romel W. MackelprangComments on the Theological and Philosophical Foundations of Christianity
Sterling M. McMurrinOn Becoming a Universal Church: Some Historical Perspectives
James B. AllenA historical analysis of the globalization of the Church. Under President David O McKay, the Church was able to reach out to more people beyond North America and Europe, which led to an increase in…
Unnatural History: Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams
Helen B. CannonWilford Woodruff and the Mormon Reformation of 1855-57
Thomas G. AlexanderThe Wake of a Media Crisis: Guilt by Association or Innocence by Proclamation?
Rebecca ChandlerA Closer Focus: Challenges in Doing Local History
Fayone B. WillesSeeking the Past: Nobel Quest of Fool’s Errand: Faithful History: Essays on Writing Mormon History edited by George D. Smith
Richard D. PollIs There a New Mormon History?: The New Mormon History: Revisionist Essays on the Past edited by D. Michael Quinn
Roger D. LauniusSpeaking for Themselves: LDS Ethnic Groups Oral History Project
Jessie L. EmbryAn oral history project on ethnic wards and branches.
Great Basin Kingdom Revisited
Leonard J. ArringtonTelling It Slant: Aiming for Truth in Contemporary Mormon Literature
William MulderHow Common the Principle? Women as Plural Wives in 1860
Marie CornwallA study done to see how many polygamous wives there were at the peak of polygamy in the church.
Each in Her Own Time: Four Zinas
Maureen Ursenbach BeecherB.H. Roberts’s Autobiography
Gary James BergeraThe B.H. Roberts Papers at the University of Utah
Everett L. CooleyIntellectuals in Mormon History: An Update
Stan LarsonApologetic and Critical Assumptions About Book of Mormon Historicity
Brent Lee MetcalfeDialogue 26.3 (Summer 1995):163–180
FOR TRADITION-MINDED MEMBERS of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints the Book of Mormon’s historicity is a given: Book of Mormon events actually occurred and its ancient participants existed in ancient history
Watching
V. Stanley Benfell IIIYou Are Not Alone: A Plea for Understanding the Homosexual Condition
T. J. OBrienDialogue 26.3 (Fall 1993): 119–140
In fall 1993, TJ O’Brian wrote, “You are Not Alone: A Please for Understanding the Homosexual Condition.” O’Brian was a gay man and this esay addresses how church members should treat LGBT members. He points to Jan Stout’s article among other influential pieces that were beginning to soften LDS attitudes and change practices in the early 90s. But he also notes several examples of terrible things that LDS members were still saying and doing, not including an imfamous homophobic rant from Orson Scott Card in Sunstone magazine in 1990.
Hannah Grover Hegsted and Post-Manifesto Plural Marriage
Julie Hemming SavageThe Ordeal of Lowry Nelson and the Mis-spoken Word
Samuel W. TaylorB.H. Roberts’s Studies of the Book of Mormon
Brigham D. MadsenRemembering B.H. Roberts
Sterling M. McMurrinDoes Paying Tithing Make You a Voting Shareholder? BYU’s Worldwide Board of Trustees
Paul C. RichardsFree Expression: The LDS Church and Brigham Young University
Omar M. KaderPatriarchal Blessings and the Routinization of Charisma
Irene M. BatesTelling the Tales and Telling the Truth: Writing the History of Widtsoe
Karl SandbergThe Mormon Struggle with Assimilation and Identity: Trends and Developments Since Midcentury
Armand L. MaussThe “New Social History” and the “New Mormon History”: Reflections on Recent Trends
Roger D. LauniusMy own analysis of the state of Mormon history suggests that the field, while other factors have also been at work, suffers from some of the exclusiveness and intellectual imperialism that were nurtured during the…
Intellect and Faith: The Controversy Over Revisionist Mormon History
Clara V. DobayPersonality and Motivation in Utah Historiography
Gary ToppingNauvoo Roots of Mormon Polygamy, 1841-46: A Preliminary Demographic Report
George D. SmithSmith discusses the importance of plural marriage in Nauvoo to church history. He shows that after Joseph Smith passed away, Nauvoo polygamy numbers rose.
Memory and Familiarity: Voices from the Bottom of the Bowl: A Folk History of Teton Valley, Idaho, from 1823-1952
Elaine ThatcherFrom Temple to Anti-Mormon: The Ambivalent Odyssey of Increase Van Dusen
Craig L. FosterToward an Introduction to a Psychobiography of Joseph Smith
Robert D. AndersonOne Face of the Hero: In Search of the Mythological Joseph Smith
Edgar C. Snow Jr.Dialogue 27.3 (Fall 1994): 233–247
Snow puts Joseph Smith squarely within Joseph Campbell’s famous work The Hero with a Thousand Faces, which is also known as the heroes journey.
The Locations of Joseph Smith’s Early Treasure Quests
Dan VogelDialogue 27.3 (Fall 1994): 197–231
Vogel uses firsthand accounts of people’s reactions to Joseph Smith’s treasure digging.
Joseph Smith and Kabbalah: The Occult Connection
Lance S. Owens“Critical” Book of Mormon Scholarship: New Approaches to the Book of Mormon
Stephen E. ThompsonWelfare as Warfare: The Mormons’ War on Poverty: A History of LDS Welfare, 1830-1990 by Garth L. Mangum and Bruce D. Blumell
Armand L. Mauss“My Father’s Business””: Thomas Taylor and Mormon Frontier Economic Enterprise
Brent D. CorcoranA Granddaughter Remembers
Suzzanne F. BigelowThe Noon of Life: Mid-Life Transition in the Married LDS Priesthood Holder
Vincent C. Rampton“Come Ye Disconsolate”: Is There a Mercy Seat in Mormon Theology and Practice?
Stanley B. KimballThe Law That Brings Life
Doug WardWallace Stegner: The Unwritten Letter
Karen RosenbaumThe Education of a BYU Professor
Brigham D. MadsenSterling Moss McMurrin: A Philosopher in Action
L. Jackson Newell“The Strange Mixture of Emotion and Intellect”: A Social History of Dale L. Morgan 1933-42
Richard SaundersMormon Static: Differing Visions: Dissenters in Mormon History edited by Roger D. Launius and Linda Thatcher
J. Boyer JarvisNew Paradigms for Understanding Mormonism and Mormon History
Lawrence FosterScripture, History, and Faith: A Round Table Discussion
Todd M. ComptonHow the History Is Told: My Best for the Kingdom: History and Autobiography of John Lowe Butler, A Mormon Frontiersman
Robert M. HoggeEditing William Clayton and the Politics of Mormon History
James B. AllenReflections on LDS Disbelief in the Book of Mormon as History
Brigham D. MadsenDialogue 30.3 (Fall 1999):90–103
To average LDS church members in 1909, Roberts’s New Witnesses for God substantiated their beliefs and further embellished his stature for them as a historian and defender of the Book of Mormon. But only thirteen years later Roberts was to change his mind and that dramatically.
History
Philip WhiteQuilts as Women’s History: Quilts and Women of the Mormon Migrations: Treasures of Transition
Judy ElsleyMore Than Just a Battle for the Ballot: Battle for the Ballot: Essays on Woman Suffrage in Utah, 1870-1896
Janet EllingsonNew York City Rain
Ryck TannerMadeline McQuown, Dale Morgan, and the Great Unfinished Brigham Young Biography
Craig L. FosterSimilar yet Different: How Wide the Divide? by Craig L. Blomberg and Stephen E. Robinson
Robert M. SivulkaIssues of Individual Freedoms: Friendly Fire: The ACLU in Utah by Linda Sillitoe
F. Ross PetersonA Part of History Overlooked: Missing Stories: An Oral History of Ethnic and Minority Groups in Utah
Jessie L. EmbryReflections on Mormon History: Zion and the Anti-Legal Tradition
Edwin B. FirmageLeonard J. Arrington: Reflections on a Humble Walk
Maureen Ursenbach BeecherMormon Psychohistory: Psychological Insights into the Latter-day Saint Past, Present, and Future
Mark Koltko-RiveraA History of Dialogue, Part One: The Early Years, 1965-1971
Devery S. AndersonMission Complexities in Asia: From the East: The History of the Latter-day Saints in Asia, 1851-1996 by R. Lanier Britsch
Glen M. CooperPlural Marriage, Singular Lives: In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith by Todd Compton
Lawrence FosterA Welcome Arrival, A Promising Standard: The Pioneer Camp of the Saints
Richard E. BennettMaking the Mormon Trek Come Alive: We’ll Find the Place: The Mormon Exodus, 1846-1848 by Richard E. Bennett
Craig L. FosterMormonism and the Radical Religious Movement in Early Colonial New England
Val D. RustThe Discovery of Native “Mormon” Communities in Russia
Tania Rands LyonBusing to Kolob: Leaving the Fold: Candid Conversations with Inactive Mormons by James W. Ure
Maureen E. LeavittGood Book about the Good Book: An American Bible: A History of the Good Book in the United States, 1777-1880
Grant T. SmithOne Well-Wrought Side of the Story: Sagwitch: Shoshone Chieftain, Mormon Elder, 1822-1887 by Scott R. Christensen
P. Jane HafenMissionary Roots of Change: What E’er Thou Art, Act Well Thy Part: The Missionary Diaries of David O McKay
Frederick S. BuchanonThe Life of a Controversial Biographer: Fawn McKay Brodie: A Biographer’s Life by Newell G. Bringhurst
M. Guy BishopBeing Joseph Smith: The Sword of Laban: Joseph Smith, Jr., and the Dissociated Mind
Janet BrighamA History of Dialogue, Part Two: Struggle Toward Maturity, 1971-1982
Devery S. AndersonProtocols of the (Other) Elders of Zion: The History of the Saints, 3d edition, by John C. Bennett, ed. Andrew F. Smith
Terryl L. GivensFinitism and the Problem of Evil
Dennis R. PotterMormonism and the Idea of Progress
David H. BaileyMormon Membership Trends in Europe Among People of Color: Present and Future Assessment
Gary C. LobbPreaching the Gospel of Church and Sex: Mormon Women’s Fiction in the Young Woman’s Journal, 1889-1910
Rebecca De SchweinitzEdward Tullidge and the Women of Mormondom
Claudia L. BushmanHistory of the Church — Part One
Robin RussellDavid O. McKay and the “Twin Sisters” Free Agency and Tolerance
Gregory A. PrinceThe Search for Truth and Meaning in Mormon History
Leonard J. ArringtonMormonism’s Worldwide Aspirations and its Changing Conceptions of Race and Lineage
Armand L. MaussRoot and Branch: An Abstract of the Structuralist Analysis of the Allegoryof the Olive Tree
Seth KuninHistory, Memory and Imagination in Virginia Eggertsen Sorensen’s Kingdom Come
William MulderAn Other Mormon History: Hispanics in the Mormon Zion, 1912-1999 by Jorge Iber
Thomas W. MurphyA History of Dialogue, Part Three: The Utah Experience, 1982-1989
Devery S. AndersonLucy’s Own Voice: Lucy’s Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith’s Family Memoir
Susan Sessions RughBook of Mormon Stories: Digging in Cumorah: Reclaiming Book of Mormon Narratives
Jana RiessFriendly History: Nauvoo: A Place of Peace, A People of Promise, by Glen M. Leonard
Gary James BergeraCritique of a Limited Geography for Book of Mormon Events
Earl M. WunderliDialogue 35.3 (Fall 2003):127–168
DURING THE PAST FEW DECADES, a number of LDS scholars have developed various “limited geography” models of where the events of the Book of Mormon occurred. These models contrast with the traditional western hemisphere model, which is still the most familiar to Book of Mormon readers.
Form Criticism of Joseph Smith’s 1823 Vision of the Angel Moroni
Mark D. ThomasA Uniform and Common Recollection: Joseph Smith’s Legacy, Polygamy, and the Creation of Mormon Public Memory
Stephen TaysomJoseph Smith, the Book of Mormon, and the American Renaissance
Robert A. ReesDialogue 35.3 (Fall 2003):9a–128
I am a literary critic who has spent a professional lifetime reading, teaching, and writing about literary texts. Much of my interest in and approach to the Book of Mormon lies with the text—though not just as a field for scholarly exploration.
Prophecy and Palimpsest
Robert M. PriceThe Earliest Eternal Sealing for Civilly Married Couples Living and Dead
Gary James BergeraMartin Harris: The Kirtland Years, 1831-1870
H. Michael MarquardtA Patchwork Biography: Mormon Healer and Folk Poet: Mary Susannah Fowler’s Life of “Unselfish Usefulness”
Deborah Fillerup WeagelStudies in Mormon History, 1830-1897
John SillitoProstitution, Polygamy and Power: Salt Lake City, 1847-1918, by Jeffrey Nichols
Helynne Hollstein HansenBlood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows, by Will Bagley
M. Guy Bishop“Not Invite but Welcome”: The History and Impact of Church Policy on Sister Missionaries
Tania Rands LyonAll Abraham’s Children: Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage, by Armand L. Mauss
(author)Joseph Smith, by Robert V. Remini
Paul GuajardoA New Look at Old Sites on Mountain Meadows: Historical Topography, by Morris A. Shirts and Frances Anne Smeath
(author)Power and Powerlessness: A Personal Perspective
Robert A. ReesThe LDS Church and Community of Christ: Clearer Differences, Closer Friends
William D. RussellIn this paper I will briefly discuss what I see as the six major differences between the two churches during the first century of their existence, and then I will look at eight new differences…
On Being Adopted: Julia Murdock Smith
Sunny McClellan MortonSidney Rigdon’s 1820 Ministry: Preparing the Way for Mormonism in Ohio
Richard McClellanThe Search for the Seed of Lehi: How Defining Alternative Models Helps in the Interpretation of Genetic Data
Jonathon C. MarshallThe Search for the Seed of Lehi: How Defining Alternative Models Helps in the Interpretation of Genetic Data
Dean H. LeavittThe Search for the Seed of Lehi: How Defining Alternative Models Helps in the Interpretation of Genetic Data
Kieth A. CrandallSimply Implausible: DNA and a Mesoamerican Setting for the Book of Mormon
Thomas W. MurphyDialogue 36.4 (Winter 2004):129–167
Instead of lending support to an Israelite origin as posited by Mormon scripture, genetic data have confirmed already existing archaeological, cultural, linguistic, and biological data, pointing to migrations from Asia as “the primary source of American Indian origins
A Biographer’s Burden: Evaluating Robert Remini’s Joseph Smith and Will Bagley’s Brigham Young
Newell G. BringhurstJoseph Smith in the Book of Mormon
Robert M. PriceDialogue 36.4 (Winter 2004):109–128
DID JOSEPH SMITH WRITE the Book of Mormon? To this over-familiar question the orthodox Latter-day Saint answer is a resounding “No” because the official belief is that a series of men with quasi-biblical names wrote the book over many centuries.
“There Really is a God and He Dwells in the Temporal Parietal Lobe of Joseph Smith’s Brain”
William J. HamblinScrying for the Lord: Magic, Mysticism, and the Origins of the Book of Mormon
Clay L. ChandlerDialogue 36.4 (Winter 2004):109–128
JOSEPH SMITH GREW UP in a time and place where folk magic was an accepted part of the landscape. Before he was a prophet, he was a diviner, or more specifically, a scryer who used his peepstone to discover the location of buried treasure.
From Captain Kidd’s Treasure Ghost to the Angel Moroni: Changing Dramatis Personae in Early Mormonism
Ronald V. HugginsThe Prophet’s Fall: A Note in Response to Lawrence Foster’s “The Psychology of Prophetic Charisma”
Len OaksThe Psychology of Prophetic Charisma
Lawrence FosterWicks, Modems, and the Winds of War
Karen Marguerite MoloneyA Tribute for Service Well Rendered
Molly BennionThe Freiberg Temple: An Unexpected Legacy of a Communist State and a Faithful People
Raymond M. KuehneThe Red Peril, the Candy Maker, and the Apostle: David O. McKay’s Confrontation with Communism
Gregory A. PrinceLiving and Dying with Fallout
Mary DicksonUtah Historians: Utah Historians and the Reconstruction of Western History by Gary Topping
Peter H. DeLafosseRelief Society’s Golden Years: The Magazine
Jean Anne Waterstradt“Changing times Bring Changing Conditions”: Relief Society 1960 to the Present
Tina HatchWhat Does God Write in His Franklin Planner? The Paradoxes of Providence, Prophecy, and Petitionary Prayer
Dennis R. PotterMormons and the Omnis: The Dangers of Theological Speculation
David H. BaileyImprisonment, Defiance, and Division: The History of Mormon Fundamentalism in the 1940s and 1950s
Ken DriggsSaving the Germans from Themselves?: In Search of the Supernal: Pre-Existence, Eternal Marriage, and Apotheosis in German Literary, Operatic, and Cinematic Texts by Alan Keele
Sandy StrughaarTriptych-History of the Church
Robin RussellWomen in a Time Warp: Discoveries: Two Centuries of Poems by Mormon Women, Edited by Sheree Maxwell Bench and Susan Elizabeth Howe
Danielle Beazer DubraskyThe Open Canon and Innovation: Conflict in the Quorum: Orson Pratt, Brigham Young, Joseph Smith by Gary James Bergera
Michael W. HomerBelief, Respect, and an Elbow to the Ribs: Believing History: Latter-day Saint Essayism by Richard Lyman Bushman
Byron C. Smith“He Was ‘Game'”: Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet by Dan Vogel
William D. RussellThe First Piece in the Puzzle: Walking in the Sand: A History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Ghana by Emmanuel Abu Kissi
Mark T. DeckerThe Weight of Priesthood
Stephen CarterThe Remnant Church: An RLDS Schismatic Group Finds a Prophet of Joseph’s Seed
William D. RussellWhen the 1984 conference approved Section 156 , which also indicated that the soon-to-be-built temple in Independence would be dedicated to the pursuit of peace, it became clear that the largest “schism”—separation from the unity…
Identifying the Earliest Mormon Polygamists, 1841-1844
Gary James BergeraBergera uses evidence from plural wives to show who some of the first polygamists were in the church.
Tending the Desert: John A. Widtsoe: A Biography by Alan K. Parish
Samuel M. BrownThe Un-Hagiography: David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism by Gregory A. Prince and Wm. Robert Wright
Mark T. DeckerA Scholarly Tribute to Leonard Arrington: The Collected Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lectures, Special Collections and Archives – Utah State University Libraries
Newell G. BringhurstA Trader and His Friends: Along Navajo Trails: Recollections of a Trader by Will Evans
Deb ThorntonA National Conspiracy?: Junius & Joseph: presidential Politics and the Assassination of the First Mormon Prophet by Robert S. Wicks and Fred R. Foister
Michael W. HomerA Forty-Year View: Dialogue and the Sober Lessons of History
Frances Lee MenloveThe Death and Resurrection of the RLDS Zion: A Case Study in “Failed Prophecy” 1930-70
David J. HowlettOn Resurrection Sunday, April 1930, Bishop J. A. Koehler of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints attended a priesthood prayer meeting at the Stone Church RLDS congregation in Independence, Missouri.
A Novel with a Lot of Way-Out-There Ideas : D. Michael Martindale, Brother Brigham
Matt A. ThurstonBalancing Faith and Honesty : Segullah: Writings by Latter-day Saint Women
Darlene YoungA Must-Read on Gender Politics : Martha Sonntag Bradley, Pedestals, Podiums: Utah Women, Religious Authority, and Equal Rights
Deborah Farmer KrisBuilding “as Great a Temple as Ever Solomon Did” : Matthew McBrid A House for the Most High: The Story of the Original Nauvoo Temple
William ShepardThe Kind of Woman Future Historians Will Study : Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
Jana Bouck RemyInnocent Hooligan : Douglas Thayer, Hooligan: A Morman Boyhood
Edward A. GearyGood Stories Told Well : A Survey of Mainstream Children’s Books by LDS Authors
Stacy WhitmanPolygamy, Mormonism, and Me
B. Carmon HardyHardy describes the long, difficult process of researching polygamy during a time that the church wasn’t open about polygamy.
“A New Future Requires a New Past”
Ken DriggsMy Madness
Steven L. PeckThe Scholar as Celebrant : Terryl L. Givens, People of Paradox: A History of Mormon Culture
Nathan B. OmanA History of Dialogue, Part Four: A Tale in Two Cities, 1987-92
Devery S. AndersonTribute to Levi S. Peterson
Molly BennionA Most Amazing Gift
Amy McOmberRevelations from a Silent Angel
Howard McOmberNot Your Parents’ Mormonism
David X. BanackThe Remembering and Forgetting of Utah County’s Landmarks
Ethan YorgasonDixie Heart of Darkness
Patricia Gunter KaramesinesMountain Meadows: Not Yet Gone
Robert A. GoldbergA Missive on Mountain Meadows
Jonathan A. StapleyRoundtable on Massacre at Mountain Meadows
Robert A. GoldbergTime Tabled by Mormon History
Karen D. AustinThe Beginnings of Latter-day Plurality Nauvoo Polygamy: “…but we called it celestial marriage.” by George D. Smith
Todd M. ComptonNauvoo Polygamy: The Latest Word Nauvoo Polygamy: “…but we called it celestial marriage.” by George D. Smith
Brian C. HalesComplete History of the Church
(author)A Small History of Joseph Smith; Biography of Eugene England
(author)Mordred Had a Good Point Gary Topping, Leonard J. Arrington: A Historian’s Life
Nathan B. OmanProphet, Seer, Revelator, American Icon Reid L. Neilson and Terryl L. Givens, eds., Joseph Smith Jr.: Reappraisals after Two Centuries
Kirsten M. ChristensenFormulas and Facts: A Response to John Gee
Andrew Cook Dialogue 45.3 (Fall 2012): 1–10
In Winter 2010, Chris Smith and I published an article in Dialogue demonstrating that no more than ~56 cm of papyrus can be missing from the interior of the scroll of Hôr—the papyrus Joseph Smith identified as the Book of Abraham. John Gee has responded by claiming that our method is “anything but accurate” and that it “glaringly underestimates the length of the scroll.” He states that “Two different formulas have been published for estimating the original length of a scroll,” then attempts to show that “Hoffmann’s formula approximates the actual length of the papyrus,” whereas “Cook and Smith’s formula predicts a highly inaccurate length.” The fact is, the two formulas are completely equivalent. They are both exact expressions of an Archimedean spiral and they yield precisely the same results, if correctly applied.
Mormon Pulp with a Reading Group Guide David Ebershoff. The 19th Wife: A Novel
Mark T. DeckerTwilight and Dawn: Turn-of-the-Century Mormonism Lu Ann Faylor Snyder and Phillip A. Snyder, eds. Post-Manifesto Polygamy: The 1899–1904 Correspondence of Helen, Owen, and Avery Woodruff
Stephen TaysomResponse to Post-Manifesto Polygamy: The 1899–1904 Correspondence of Helen, Owen, and Avery Woodruff that contains letter correspondence between Apostle Owen Woodruff and his wives after Woodruff’s father issued the Manifesto.
Loving Truthfully Benedict XVI. Caritas in Veritate
Jeremiah JohnLegacy of a Lesser-Known Apostle Edward Leo Lyman. Amasa Mason Lyman, Mormon Apostle and Apostate: A Study in Dedication
Blair Dee HodgesMormon Women in the History of Second-Wave Feminism
Laurel Thatcher UlrichReading these books in relation to my own life taught me something I should already have known. Mormon women weren’t passive recipients of the new feminism. We helped to create it.
In Lieu of History: Mormon Monuments and the Shaping of Memory
Barry LagaFinding the Presence in Mormon History: An Interview with Susanna Morrill, Richard Lyman Bushman,and Robert Orsi
Robert OrsiReid L. Neilson, Early Mormon Missionary Activities in Japan, 1901–1924
Andrew R. HallPatrick Q. Mason, The Mormon Menace: Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South
Mark BrownThe Persistence of Mormon Plural Marriage
B. Carmon HardyReview: Edward Leo Lyman, Candid Insights of a Mormon Apostle: The Diaries of Abraham H. Cannon, 1889–1895
Jonathan A. StapleyReview: The Truth Will Set You Free Errol Morris, Tabloid
Randy Astle“There Is Always a Struggle”: An Interview with Chieko N. Okazaki
Chieko N. OkazakiThe Richard D. Poll and J. Kenneth Davies Cases: Politics and Religion at BYU during the Wilkinson Years
Gary James BergeraMapping Manifest Destiny: Lucile Cannon Bennion (1891–1966)
John BennionHome and Adventure: An LDS Contribution to the Virtues and Vices Tradition
Shawn R. TuckerDear Diary: Joseph F. Smith’s Mission Journals Nathaniel R. Ricks, ed. “My Candid Opinion”: The Sandwich Island Diaries of Joseph F. Smith, 1856–1857
Steve EvansErrand Out of the Wilderness Matthew Bowman. The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith
Robert ElderMaking Visible the Hand of Ritual: Devery S. Anderson and Gary James Bergera, eds., Joseph Smith’s Quorum of the Anointed, 1842–1845: A Documentary History; Devery S. Anderson and Gary James Bergera, eds., The Nauvoo Endowment Companies, 1845–1846: A Docu
Stephen TaysomMormon Authoritarianism and American Pluralism
David CampbellReview: Terryl L. Givens, Matthew J. Grow Parley P. Pratt: The Apostle Paul of Mormonism
John G. TurnerMormon History Association Conference: Comment on “Conversion in 19th Century Mormonism: Identities and Associations in the Atlantic World”
Richard BushmanMormon History Association Conference: The Theology of a Career Convert: Edward Tullidge’s Evolving Identities
Benjamin E. ParkMormon History Association Conference: To Forsake Thy Father and Mother: Mary Fielding Smith and the Familial Politics of Conversion
Amanda Hendrix-KomotoUVU Mormon Studies Conference: Mormon Blogs, Mormon Studies, and the Mormon Mind
Patrick MasonConference Report: Editor’s Introduction
Kristine HaglundReview: Hugh J. Cannon. To the Peripheries of Mormondom. Edited by Reid Neilson
Erica EastleyReview: Kim Östman. The Introduction of Mormonism to Finnish Society, 1840–1900
(author)Reviews: Dean C. Jessee, Mark Ashurst-McGee, and Richard L. Jensen, eds. Journals, Volume 1: 1832–1839Dean C. Jessee, Mark Ashurst-McGee, and Richard L. Jensen, eds. Journals, Volume 2: December 1841–April 1843
Jonathan A. Stapley“And Now It Is the Mormons”: The Magazine Crusade against the Mormon Church, 1910–1911
Kenneth L. Cannon IIOur Bickering Founding Fathers and Their Messy, Flawed, Divinely Inspired Constitution
Michael AustinReview: Reid L. Neilson, ed. In the Whirlpool: The Pre-Manifesto Letters of President Wilford Woodruff to the William Atkin Family, 1885–1890
(author)Review: Brock Cheney. Plain but Wholesome: Foodways of the Mormon Pioneers
Christy SpackmanReview: J. Spencer Fluhman. “A Peculiar People”:Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America
(author)Review: Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey, The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America
John G. Turner“My Principality on Earth Began”: Millennialism and the Celestial Kingdom in the Development of Mormon Doctrine
Blair Dee Hodges“The Highest Class of Adulterers and Whoremongers”: Plural Marriage, the Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerite), and the Construction of Memory
Christopher James BlytheBlythe shows the denial among Culterites followers that the founder was involved in plural marriage.
Review: Patrick Q. Mason, J. David Pulsipher, and Richard L. Bushman, eds. War and Peace in Our Time: Mormon Perspectives
Rachel Esplin OdellReview: Robert S. McPherson, Jim Dandy, and Sarah E. Burak. Navajo Tradition, Mormon Life: The Autobiography and Teachings of Jim Dandy
Patricia Gunter KaramesinesReview: Irene M. Bates and E. Gary Smith. Lost Legacy: The Mormon Office of the Presiding Patriarch H. Michael Marquardt, ed. Early Patriarchal Blessings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints H. Michael Marquardt, ed. Later Patriarchal Blessi
Susanna MorrillThe Kirtland Temple as a Shared Space: A Conversation with David J. Howlett
Hugo N. OlaizDialogue 47.1 (Spring 2014): 104–123
An oral interview between an LDS Member and a Community of Christ member regarding the history of the Kirtland Temple. They explain that despite differences in religious beliefs, people can still form friendships and cooperate.