This discussion brings together scholars and thinkers to discuss two books: Gary Topping’s Leonard J. Arrington: A Historian’s Life and Polly Aird’s book about Peter McAuslan entitled Mormon Convert, Mormon Defector: A Scottish Immigrant in the American West, 1848-1861. Through the publication of his groundbreaking Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints …
Tag: New Mormon History
Toward a New Mormon Cultural Studies, or, Ten Books I wish Someone (else) Would Write
Toward a New Mormon Cultural Studies, or, Ten Books I wish Someone (else) Would Write In recent years, some founders of the ‘New Mormon History” of the 1960s and 1970s have pronounced their project–which applied professional tools of economic and social history to the study of Mormonism–dead. What will (or should) the next wave of …
Fiddling While It Burns: The Irrelevance of the New Mormon History
Fiddling While It Burns: The Irrelevance of the New Mormon History