Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years among the Mormons, by Jan Shipps For some time, Jan Shipps has been the preeminent non-Mormon interpreter of Mormonism. Her book, Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years among the Mormons, is a compilation of her writings for the past thirty years, much of it a personal, intellectual …
Speaker: Dennis Lythgoe
Pursuing the Historical Roots of Mormon Black Priesthood Denial: Personal Reflections and a Progress Report
Pursuing the Historical Roots of Mormon Black Priesthood Denial: Personal Reflections and a Progress Report Involved in this panel discussion are three scholars, each of whom has written and published extensively on the issue of blacks of African ancestry and their changing place within Mormonism over the past 170 years. They will focus on two …
THE LEGACY OF THE WWII GENERATION OF MORMON HISTORIANS
THE LEGACY OF THE WWII GENERATION OF MORMON HISTORIANS This panel examines the accomplishments of the “New Mormon Historians” who came of age shortly after World War II, including James B. Allen, Leonard Arrington, Davis Bitton, Gene Campbell, George Ellsworth, and Brigham Madsen. Dean May, Dennis Lythgoe, Brigham Madsen