Excavating Mormon pasts : the new historiography of the last half century / edited by Newell G. Bringhurst and Lavina Fielding Anderson

CONTENTS: Mormon history and the conundrum of culture : American and beyond / Klaus J. Hansen -- The search for cultural origins of Mormon doctrines / David Paulsen -- The church in New York and Ohio : writing the history of Mormonism's early period / Roger D. Launius -- The Mormon experience in Missouri, 1830-39 / Stephen C. Lesueur -- The Nauvoo experience / Glen M. Leonard -- Mormonism on the frontier : the saints of the Great Basin, 1846-90 / Craig L. Foster -- Mormonism in transition, 1890-1945 / Guy Bishop -- Growth and internationalization : the LDS Church since 1945 / Kahlile mehr ... [et al.] -- Studies of Mormon fissiparousness : conflict, dissent, and schism in the early church / Danny L. Jorgensen -- Travelers on the new Mormon history trail : reorganized church contributions / Mark A. Scherer -- The new Mormon women's history / Todd Compton -- Out of the closet and into the fire : the new Mormon historians' take on polygamy / Martha Sonntag Bradley -- Mormon biography : paradoxes, progress, and problems / Newell G. Bringhurst -- Mormon society and culture / Davis Bitton -- Fictional pasts : Mormon historical novels / Lavina Fielding Anderson

Salt Lake City : Greg Kofford Books, 2004

2004

xiv, 442 p. ; 26 cm.

1st ed.

Includes bibliographical references and index