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Like A Fiery Meteor: The Life Of Joseph F. Smith By Stephen C. Taysom, Matthew B. Christensen
Like A Fiery Meteor: The Life Of Joseph F. Smith By Stephen C. Taysom, Matthew B. Christensen
BYU Studies Quarterly
Like a Fiery Meteor: The Life of Joseph F. Smith by Stephen C. Taysom dives into the extraordinary life of Joseph F. Smith, the sixth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Taysom expertly navigates the complexities of Smith’s life, offering readers a comprehensive and insightful biography of this important Church leader.
Both Things Are True By Kate Holbrook, Katie Lewis
Both Things Are True By Kate Holbrook, Katie Lewis
BYU Studies Quarterly
Kate Holbrook was a professional historian (PhD, Boston University), a gospel scholar (MTS, Harvard Divinity School), a mother of three daughters, and a champion of Latter-day Saint women’s voices. She worked for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as the managing historian of women’s history and edited several books in her efforts to amplify women in the Church. Before Holbrook’s life ended, Rosalynde Welch from the Maxwell Institute asked Holbrook if she would provide her own voice as well. Both Things Are True is Holbrook’s collection of personal essays edited and compiled by Rosalynde Welch, Jana Reiss, Jenny …
Restless Pilgrim: Andrew Jenson’S Quest For Latter-Day Saint History By Reid L. Neilson And Scott D. Marianno, Matthew B. Christensen
Restless Pilgrim: Andrew Jenson’S Quest For Latter-Day Saint History By Reid L. Neilson And Scott D. Marianno, Matthew B. Christensen
BYU Studies Quarterly
Restless Pilgrim: Andrew Jenson’s Quest for Latter-day Saint History, written by Reid L. Neilson and Scott D. Marianno, is a captivating biography that delves into the remarkable life and passionate quest of Andrew Jenson, an assistant church historian of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, from 1886 until his death in 1941.
Slavery In Zion: A Documentary And Genealogical History Of Black Lives And Black Servitude In Utah Territory, 1847– 1862 By Amy Tanner Thiriot, Matthew B. Christensen
Slavery In Zion: A Documentary And Genealogical History Of Black Lives And Black Servitude In Utah Territory, 1847– 1862 By Amy Tanner Thiriot, Matthew B. Christensen
BYU Studies Quarterly
Slavery in Zion: A Documentary and Genealogical History of Black Lives and Black Servitude in Utah Territory, 1847–1862 is an important and carefully researched book by Amy Tanner Thiriot. Delving deep into an often-overlooked and lesser-known aspect of Utah’s history, Thiriot explores the intricate dynamics of slavery and servitude in the region during the period spanning from the Saints’ arrival in the mountain west to 1862. Thiriot is an independent historian and adjunct instructor in the BYU– Idaho Family History Research program.
Writing Mormon History: Historians And Their Books, Tina Hawley
Writing Mormon History: Historians And Their Books, Tina Hawley
BYU Studies Quarterly
In Writing Mormon History: Historians and their Books, edited by Joseph W. Geisner, well-known historians reflect on their influential publications in the field of Mormon studies. These historians describe their interest in their respective topics, key points and resources they discovered, and their obstacles and successes on the path to publication.
The Annals Of The Southern Mission: A Record Of The History Of The Settlement Of Southern Utah, Alec Joseph Harding
The Annals Of The Southern Mission: A Record Of The History Of The Settlement Of Southern Utah, Alec Joseph Harding
BYU Studies Quarterly
Author James Godson Bleak (1829–1918) was a British convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and veteran of the Edward Martin handcart company. In the early 1860s, Bleak accepted President Brigham Young’s charge to be a clerk and historian for the Utah South Mission in St. George. The Annals of the Southern Mission is the result of decades of Bleak’s fulfillment of this commission.
Directions For Mormon Studies In The Twenty-First Century, Isabella Markert
Directions For Mormon Studies In The Twenty-First Century, Isabella Markert
BYU Studies Quarterly
Patrick Q. Mason, ed., Directions for Mormon Studies in the Twenty-First Century (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2016)
Foundations Of The Restoration: Fulfillment Of The Covenant Purposes, Richard Neitzel Holzapfel
Foundations Of The Restoration: Fulfillment Of The Covenant Purposes, Richard Neitzel Holzapfel
BYU Studies Quarterly
Craig James Ostler, Michael Hubbard MacKay, and Barbara Morgan Gardner, eds., Foundations of the Restoration: Fulfillment of the Covenant Purposes (Provo, Utah: BYU Religious Studies Center; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2016)
At The Pulpit: 185 Years Of Discourses By Latter-Day Saint Women, Jennifer Hurlbut
At The Pulpit: 185 Years Of Discourses By Latter-Day Saint Women, Jennifer Hurlbut
BYU Studies Quarterly
Jennifer Reeder and Kate Holbrook, eds., At the Pulpit: 185 Years of Discourses by Latter-day Saint Women (Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2017)
Religion And Families: An Introduction, Alison Palmer
Religion And Families: An Introduction, Alison Palmer
BYU Studies Quarterly
Loren D. Marks and David C. Dollahite, Religion and Families: An Introduction, Textbooks in Family Studies Series (New York: Routledge, 2017)
Lengthening Our Stride: Globalization Of The Church, Jacob Rennaker
Lengthening Our Stride: Globalization Of The Church, Jacob Rennaker
BYU Studies Quarterly
Reid L. Nielson and Wayne D. Crosby, eds., Lengthening Our Stride: Globalization of the Church (Provo, Utah: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2018)
Women And Mormonism: Historical And Contemporary Perspectives, Alison Palmer
Women And Mormonism: Historical And Contemporary Perspectives, Alison Palmer
BYU Studies Quarterly
Kate Holbrook and Matthew Bowman, eds., Women and Mormonism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2016)
To Be Learned Is Good: Essays On Faith And Scholarship In Honor Of Richard Lyman Bushman, Hannah Charlesworth
To Be Learned Is Good: Essays On Faith And Scholarship In Honor Of Richard Lyman Bushman, Hannah Charlesworth
BYU Studies Quarterly
J. Spencer Fluhman, Kathleen Flake, and Jed Woodworth, eds., To Be Learned Is Good: Essays on Faith and Scholarship in Honor of Richard Lyman Bushman (Provo, Utah: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Brigham Young University, 2017)
A Modest Homestead: Life In Small Adobe Homes In Salt Lake City, 1850-1897, Veronica Anderson
A Modest Homestead: Life In Small Adobe Homes In Salt Lake City, 1850-1897, Veronica Anderson
BYU Studies Quarterly
J. Spencer Fluhman, Kathleen Flake, and Jed Woodworth, eds., To Be Learned Is Good: Essays on Faith and Scholarship in Honor of Richard Lyman Bushman (Provo, Utah: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Brigham Young University, 2017)
Foundational Texts Of Mormonism: Examining Major Early Sources, Gerrit Van Dyk
Foundational Texts Of Mormonism: Examining Major Early Sources, Gerrit Van Dyk
BYU Studies Quarterly
Foundational Texts of Mormonism: Examining Major Early Sources, edited by Mark Ashurst-McGee, Robin Scott Jensen, and Sharalyn D. Howcroft (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018)
Abinadi: He Came Among Them In Disguise, Neal Rappleye
Abinadi: He Came Among Them In Disguise, Neal Rappleye
BYU Studies Quarterly
Abinadi: He Came among Them in Disguise, edited by Shon D. Hopkin (Provo, Utah: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2018)
Saints, Slaves, And Blacks: The Changing Place Of Black People Within Mormonism, Alison Palmer
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)
Pioneer Women Of Arizona, Hannah Charlesworth
Pioneer Women Of Arizona, Hannah Charlesworth
BYU Studies Quarterly
Pioneer Women of Arizona, by Roberta Flake Clayton, Catherine H. Ellis, and David F. Boone, 2d ed. (Provo, Utah: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2017)
At Sword's Point, Part 1: A Documentary History Of The Utah War To 1858; Part 2: A Documentary History Of The Utah War, 1858-1859; Vols. 10 And 11 Of Kingdom In The West: The Mormons And The American Frontier, Devan Jensen
BYU Studies Quarterly
William P. MacKinnon, ed., At Sword’s Point, Part 1: A Documentary History of the Utah War to 1858, and Part 2: A Documentary History of the Utah War, 1858– 1859, vols. 10 and 11 of Kingdom in the West: The Mormons and the American Frontier, ed. Will Bagley and David L. Bigler (Norman, Okla.: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2008, 2016)
Let Us Reason Together: Essays In Honor Of The Life's Work Of Robert L. Millet, Austin A. Tracy
Let Us Reason Together: Essays In Honor Of The Life's Work Of Robert L. Millet, Austin A. Tracy
BYU Studies Quarterly
J. Spencer Fluhman and Brent L. Top, eds., Let Us Reason Together: Essays in Honor of the Life’s Work of Robert L. Millet (Provo, Utah: BYU Religious Studies Center, 2016)
The Council Of Fifty: What The Records Reveal About Mormon History, Alison Palmer
The Council Of Fifty: What The Records Reveal About Mormon History, Alison Palmer
BYU Studies Quarterly
Matthew J. Grow and R. Eric Smith, eds., The Council of Fifty: What the Records Reveal about Mormon History (Provo, Utah: BYU Religious Studies Center; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2017)
Settling The Valley, Proclaiming The Gospel: The General Epistles Of The Mormon First Presidency, Gerrit Van Dyk
Settling The Valley, Proclaiming The Gospel: The General Epistles Of The Mormon First Presidency, Gerrit Van Dyk
BYU Studies Quarterly
Reid L. Neilson and Nathan N. Waite, eds., Settling the Valley, Proclaiming the Gospel: The General Epistles of the Mormon First Presidency (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017)
Out Of Obscurity: Mormonism Since 1945, Roger Terry
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)
From The Outside Looking In: Essays On Mormon History, Theology, And Culture, Emily Cook
From The Outside Looking In: Essays On Mormon History, Theology, And Culture, Emily Cook
BYU Studies Quarterly
Reid L. Neilson and Matthew J. Grow, eds., From the Outside Looking In: Essays on Mormon History, Theology, and Culture (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016)
The Worldwide Church: Mormonism As A Global Religion, Emily Cook
The Worldwide Church: Mormonism As A Global Religion, Emily Cook
BYU Studies Quarterly
The Worldwide Church: Mormonism as a Global Religion, edited by Michael A. Goodman and Mauro Properzi (Provo, Utah: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2016)
Canadian Mormons: History Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints In Canada, Brian Champion
Canadian Mormons: History Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints In Canada, Brian Champion
BYU Studies Quarterly
Roy A. Prete and Carma T. Prete, eds., Canadian Mormons: History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Canada (Provo, Utah: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2017)
Far Away In The West: Reflections On The Mormon Pioneer Trail, Veronica J. Anderson
Far Away In The West: Reflections On The Mormon Pioneer Trail, Veronica J. Anderson
BYU Studies Quarterly
Far Away in the West: Reflections on the Mormon Pioneer Trail, edited by Scott C. Esplin, Richard E. Bennett, Susan Easton Black, and Craig K. Manscill (Provo, Utah: BYU Religious Studies Center, 2015)
Let Your Hearts And Minds Expand: Reflections On Faith, Reason, Charity, And Beauty, Roger Terry
Let Your Hearts And Minds Expand: Reflections On Faith, Reason, Charity, And Beauty, Roger Terry
BYU Studies Quarterly
Let Your Hearts and Minds Expand: Reflections on Faith, Reason, Charity, and Beauty, by Thomas F. Rogers (Provo, Utah: Maxwell Institute, 2016)
The Awkward State Of Utah: Coming Of Age In The Nation, 1896-1945
The Awkward State Of Utah: Coming Of Age In The Nation, 1896-1945
BYU Studies Quarterly
The Awkward State of Utah: Coming of Age in the Nation, 1896–1945, by Charles S. Peterson and Brian Q. Cannon (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2015)
Against The Wall: Johann Huber And The First Mormons In Austria, Melissa Howland
Against The Wall: Johann Huber And The First Mormons In Austria, Melissa Howland
BYU Studies Quarterly
Against the Wall: Johann Huber and the First Mormons in Austria, by Roger P. Minert (Provo, Utah: Religious Studies Center; Salt Lake City, Deseret Book, 2015)