Hey, everyone, I just wanted to say that I'm still alive. And boy, do I have stories and adventures to tell. Things have been wonderful and challenging over the past few months, and I hope to write a bit about things in the future. But until then, I hope everyone has a great holiday season. Probably beginning in the new year, I'll get back to blogging occasionally and maybe often. Time will tell. Thanks for everyone who continues to drop by.
Richard L. Bushman: Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism
Bushman's first JS bio.
Richard Lyman Bushman: Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
Award winning biography from a Columbia University emeritus professor of history.
Dan Vogel: Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet
A pious/fraud interpretation from a detailed scholar.
Linda King Newell and Linda Avery: Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith
Great biography of the first wife of JS by two excellent scholars.
Fawn M. Brodie: No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith
A seminal classic that began the serious study of JS life.
Big Love - The Complete First Season
The HBO series following the lives of modern polygamists in Utah.
B. Carmon Hardy: Doing The Works of Abraham: Mormon Polygamy : Its Origin, Practice, and Demise
An amazing collection of original sources relating to the practice and belief in polygamy, with commentary and introductions by the author.
Todd Compton: In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith
An award winning book providing the biographies of 33 of Joseph Smith's wives.
Brian C. Hales: Modern Polygamy and Mormon Fundamentalism
An detailed study on Mormon fundamentalist polygamy in the 20th century.
Richard S. Van Wagoner: Mormon Polygamy: A History
A good introduction to polygamy from Joseph Smith to current practices.
Irwin Altman: Polygamous Families in Contemporary Society
How do modern polygamists live? This book will give some answers.
B. Carmon Hardy: Solemn Covenant: The Mormon Polygamous Passage
A well written study of the history of Mormon polygamy.
Sarah Barringer Gordon: The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America
An award winning study about polygamy and the legal issues that resulted.
Will Bagley: Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
The best recent study of MMM. An excellent book that is challenging and honest.
Judith Freeman: Red Water: A Novel
An amazing novel about the aftermath of the MMM seen through the eyes of the wives of John D. Lee.
Juanita Brooks: The Mountain Meadows Massacre
The groundbreaking book that changed Mormon history. A classic that every thinking person should read.
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