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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  11/17/2022
  

  Mormon Support for Same-Sex Marriage isn't a Total Surprise

  by Benjamin E. Park

  A historian of the Latter Day Saints explains that the church has become more willing to tolerate general expansions of rights for LGBTQ Americans at the same time as it reserves the right to dictate sexual mores within its own ranks. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  10/4/2021
  

  The Appeal of Multilevel Marketing to Latter-Day Saints Women

  by Janiece Johnson

  A popular documentary on the LuLaRoe company highlights how the history and gender norms of the Mormon church have made LDS women particularly attracted and vulnerable to multilevel marketing schemes promising income without forsaking domestic obligation.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/13/2021
  

  Has BYU Canceled a Leading Historian of Mormonism?

  The Neal A. Maxwell Institute appears to be disavowing its previous connections to historian Benjamin Park. Is it because of his objections to some LDS leaders' positions on LGBTQ issues and masking and vaccination in response to COVID? 

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• SOURCE: Religion News Service
  5/9/2020
  

  Mormon Women are Finding — and Using — Their Voices. Are Men in the Church Listening?

  by Jana Riess

  A new collection of essays should spark consideration of long struggles by Mormon women to claim and exercise influence in the faith. The author fears that it won't. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  3/23/2020
  

  How Joseph Smith and the Early Mormons Challenged American Democracy

  by Casey Cep

  In Nauvoo, Illinois, Smith established a theocracy, ran for President, and tested the limits of religious freedom.

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• SOURCE: Salt Lake Tribune
  5-10-18
  

  Leonard Arrington’s vast journals show battles the Mormon historian had with LDS leaders

  He wanted to expose the truth about the past they wanted to keep secret. 

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• SOURCE: Religion News Service
  12-21-17
  

  Mormons perform baptisms on Holocaust victims

  Mormons are posthumously baptizing Holocaust victims as well as grandparents of public figures like Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Steven Spielberg, despite church rules intended to restrict the ceremonies to a member's ancestors.

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• SOURCE: The Salt Lake Tribune
  10-15-17
  

  Historian digs into the hidden world of Mormon finances

  In a new book D. Michael Quinn shows how church went from losing money to making money — lots of it.

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• SOURCE: The Salt Lake Tribune
  9-20-17
  

  $35 million Book of Mormon manuscript sale called the ‘biggest game-changer in Mormon history’

  It was sold to the LDS church by the break-off sect, the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9-18-17
  

  “I’m white with the exception of the color of my skin.”

  by Emma Green

  In a new book Max Perry Mueller profiles blacks who became Mormons.

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• SOURCE: The Herald Journal
  7-12-17
  

  Conference celebrates 100 years of late Mormon scholar Leonard Arrington

  Arrington was appointed church historian by LDS Church in 1972.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  1-26-17
  

  Laurel Thatcher Ulrich out with a new book about Mormon women

  by Beverly Gage

  It answers the question: How the women came to embrace polygamy.

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• SOURCE: The Salt Lake Tribune
  12-2-16
  

  New scholarship coming to Mormon lessons, but will instructors really teach it?

  For more than a century, Mormons have been telling a straightforward story of their movement's founding, prophetic leadership and believers. During the past few years, however, they have been confronted with a dramatic retelling, with fresh details, context and examples of human foibles fleshing out — and sometimes debunking — the familiar facts they have always believed.

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• SOURCE: The Salt Lake Tribune
  6-13-16
  

  New biography tells all about a forthright Mormon historian, Leonard Arrington, who told all

  To the end of his life Arrington worried that he might face some kind of church discipline for his candid approach to the past.

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• SOURCE: Deseret News
  2-7-16
  

  LDS Church has gone from 0 to 4 historians specializing in women’s history

  "We all know there is a lot of sensitivity related to questions about women in the church right now."

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• SOURCE: The Raw Story
  1-22-16
  

  This Mormon pseudo-historian is why the Oregon militants are so confused about the Constitution

  Constitutional scholars generally hold W. Cleon Skousen’s theories in churlish regard.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  8-4-15
  

  Mormon church publishes photos in push toward transparency

  Mormons believe that 185 years ago, Smith found gold plates engraved with writing in ancient Egyptian in upstate New York. They say God helped him translate the text using the stone and other tools, and it became known as the Book of Mormon.

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• SOURCE: OUPblog
  7-14-15
  

  “Are there black Mormons?”

  by W. Paul Reeve

  Black Saints were among the first to arrive in the Salt Lake Valley in 1847 and have been a part of the Mormon experience from its beginnings.

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• SOURCE: Deseret News
  6-6-15
  

  New generation of historians presenting a better view of Mormonism to the world, speaker says

  The comments were made by J.B. Hates at the 50th anniversary of the Mormon History Association Conference.

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• SOURCE: The Salt Lake Tribune
  3-8-15
  

  New Mormon mission

  How to teach members the messy part of LDS history, theology