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Brigham Young University

2018

Church history

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Saints At Devil's Gate: Landscapes Along The Mormon Trail, Herman Du Toit Jan 2018

Saints At Devil's Gate: Landscapes Along The Mormon Trail, Herman Du Toit

BYU Studies Quarterly

Laura Allred Hurtado and Bryon C. Andreasen. Saints at Devil's Gate: Landscapes along the Mormon Trail.

Salt Lake City: Church Historian's Press, 2016.


Saints, Slaves, And Blacks: The Changing Place Of Black People Within Mormonism, Alison Palmer Jan 2018

Saints, Slaves, And Blacks: The Changing Place Of Black People Within Mormonism, Alison Palmer

BYU Studies Quarterly

Saints, Slaves, and Blacks: The Changing Place of Black People within Mormonism, by Newell G. Bringhurst, 2d ed. (Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2018)


Leonard Arrington And The Writing Of Mormon History, James B. Allen Jan 2018

Leonard Arrington And The Writing Of Mormon History, James B. Allen

BYU Studies Quarterly

Gregory A. Prince. Leonard Arrington and the Writing of Mormon History.

Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2016.


Out Of Obscurity: Mormonism Since 1945, Roger Terry Jan 2018

Out Of Obscurity: Mormonism Since 1945, Roger Terry

BYU Studies Quarterly

Patrick Q. Mason and John G. Turner, eds., Out of Obscurity: Mormonism since 1945 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016)


Joseph Smith's Iowa Quest For Legal Assistance: His Letters To Edward Johnstone And Others On Sunday, June 23, 1844, John W. Welch Jan 2018

Joseph Smith's Iowa Quest For Legal Assistance: His Letters To Edward Johnstone And Others On Sunday, June 23, 1844, John W. Welch

BYU Studies Quarterly

When Joseph and Hyrum Smith were threatened with arrest on June 22, 1844, they left Nauvoo, Illinois, and went across the Mississippi River in the very early morning hours of Sunday, June 23. As evidenced by the letters and records of that crucial day, Joseph and Hyrum were considering several options that pointed in divergent directions. Recently found sources give new information about a little-known and underestimated purpose for their midnight rowing across the Mississippi River to Montrose, Iowa—namely, to seek and retain the legal assistance of experienced lawyers necessary before submitting to a warrant requiring them to go to …


Martin Harris Comes To Utah, 1870, Susan Easton Black, Larry C. Porter Jan 2018

Martin Harris Comes To Utah, 1870, Susan Easton Black, Larry C. Porter

BYU Studies Quarterly

[The following is an excerpt from chapter 14 of the new biography Martin Harris: Uncompromising Witness of the Book of Mormon by Susan Easton Black and Larry C. Porter. This biography, published by BYU Studies, will be available in October 2018. For further information, see the advertisement on page 208 of this issue.]