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Latino Studies January 20, 2021

The Spiritual Evolution of Margarito Bautista

Mexican Mormon Evangelizer, Polygamist Dissident, and Utopian Founder, 1878-1961

Elisa Pulido

Hosted by David-James Gonzales
The Spiritual Evolution of Margarito Bautista: Mexican Mormon Evangelizer, Polygamist Dissident, and Utopian Founder, 1878-1961 (Oxford University Press, 2020) provides the first full-length biography of a celebrated Latino Mormon leader …

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American Studies October 1, 2020

Terrible Revolution

Latter-day Saints and the American Apocalypse

Christopher James Blythe

Hosted by Daniel Stone
In Terrible Revolution: Latter-day Saints and the American Apocalypse (Oxford UP, 2020), Christopher James Blythe examines apocalypticism across the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, particularly …
American Studies September 1, 2020

The Writings of Oliver Olney

April 1842 to February 1843-Nauvoo, Illinois

Richard G. Moore

Hosted by David Stone
Oliver H. Olney, an early convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, fled to Nauvoo, Illinois, following persecution in Missouri. In Nauvoo, Olney became disgruntled with church …
American Studies August 5, 2020

Breakaway Americas

The Unmanifest Future of Jacksonian America

Thomas Richards Jr.

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
In Breakaway Americas: The Unmanifest Future of Jacksonian America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020), Thomas Richards Jr., a history teacher at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy, argues that the map of …
American Studies August 5, 2020

Joseph Smith's Translation

The Words and Worlds of Early Mormonism

Samuel Morris Brown

Hosted by Daniel Stone
Mormonism's founder, Joseph Smith, claimed to have translated ancient scriptures. He dictated an American Bible from metal plates reportedly buried by ancient Jews in a nearby hill, and produced an …
American Studies June 23, 2020

Storming the Nation

The Unknown Contributions of Joseph Smith’s Political Missionaries

Derek R. Sainsbury

Hosted by Daniel Stone
Derek R. Sainsbury's, Storming the Nation: The Unknown Contributions of Joseph Smith’s Political Missionaries (BYU RSC, 2020), uncovers the significant but previously unknown contributions of the electioneers who advocated for …
American Studies June 17, 2020

Writing Mormon History

Historians and Their Books

Joe Geisner

Hosted by Daniel Stone
Every great book has a great backstory. In Joe Geisner’s new edited work, Writing Mormon History: Historians and Their Books (Signature Books, 2020), well-known historians describe their journeys of writing …
American Studies January 27, 2020

Return to the City of Joseph

Modern Mormonism’s Contest for the Soul of Nauvoo

Scott C. Esplin

Hosted by Daniel Stone
In the mid-twentieth century, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) returned to Nauvoo, Illinois, home to the thriving religious community led by Joseph Smith before his murder …
American Studies September 17, 2019

A Documentary History of the Book of Mormon

Larry E. Morris

Hosted by Daniel Stone
The story of the creation of the Book of Mormon has been told many times, and often ridiculed. A Documentary History of the Book of Mormon (Oxford University Press, 2019) …
American West July 8, 2019

Life and Times of John Pierce Hawley

A Mormon Ulysses of the American West

Melvin C. Johnson

Hosted by Daniel Stone
Life and Times of John Pierce Hawley: A Mormon Ulysses of the American West (Greg Kofford Books, 2019) narrates the wide-ranging life of John Hawley’s search for an authentic Mormon …
American Studies June 12, 2019

Confidence Amid Change

The Presidential Diaries of David O. McKay, 1951-1970

Harvard S. Heath

Hosted by Daniel Stone
The diaries of the ninth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are a collaboration between David O. McKay and his long-time secretary Clare Middlemiss. During the …
African American Studies May 21, 2019

Your Sister in the Gospel

The Life of Jane Manning James, a Nineteenth-Century Black Mormon

Quincy D. Newell

Hosted by Daniel Stone
"Dear Brother," Jane Manning James wrote to Joseph F. Smith in 1903, "I take this opportunity of writing to ask you if I can get my endowments and also finish …
American Studies April 23, 2019

Healing the Breach

Mormonism, Metaphors, and the Pieces of the Puzzle

Patrick S. McKay

Hosted by Daniel Stone
Patrick S. McKay, an apostle of the Joint Conference of Restoration Branches, believes that the Latter Day Saint movement is fractured. But one day soon, he hopes, that will change …
Literary Studies April 8, 2019

The New Testament

A Translation for Latter-day Saints

Thomas A. Wayment

Hosted by Daniel Stone
Dr. Thomas A. Wayment, professor of Classics at Brigham Young University, has done something remarkable — he has retranslated the New Testament. This new translation from the best available Greek …
American Studies March 29, 2019

We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout

The Life and Times of W. W. Phelps

Bruce Van Orden

Hosted by Daniel Stone
If you’re a Latter Day Saint, you’ve probably heard of W. W. Phelps, and no doubt, you’ve probably sung some of his hymns. But did you know that he printed …
American Studies February 22, 2019

The Joseph Smith Papers

Documents, Volume 7

Matthew C. Godfrey et al., eds.

Hosted by Daniel Stone
Joseph Smith, the nineteenth-century American prophet who founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, can, at times, be considered an elusive historical figure. There were many forces that …