Thanks to Katherine Pollock for this list!

In 2023, The John Whitmer Historical Association Journal published twenty-three articles through a special edition for the association’s fifth anniversary (Vol 43, no.1) and the Fall/Winter Issue (Vol. 43, no. 2). Topics for these two volumes include international history (Community of Christ in England and Nigeria), women’s history, Latter-day Saint/Community of Christ interdenominational studies, art/theatre/literature, and more. The denominations published about include Community of Christ, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite), and the Church of Christ (Temple Lot).

The John Whitmer Historical Association also has a full index of published articles with short descriptions and past issues (2-year wall) available on its website. Subscriptions to the journal can be made by joining the association with both physical and electronic journal options available. Journal articles can also be found in libraries and through ILL.  

2022 Presidential Lecture:

Christin Mackay, “Mr. Smith Goes to Salt Lake City: Fred M. in Utah 1904-1906,” The John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 43, no. 1 (2023): 5-19.

2022 Richard P. Howard Lecture:

Amy DeRogatis, “Intimate Exposure: The Charley Douglass Daguerreotype and

American Religious History,” The John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 43, no. 1 (2023): 20-40.

Kyle Beshears, ““In Love and Union”: The Writings of Mr. Charles J. Douglass,

Secret Plural Wife of a Mormon King,” The John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 43, no. 1 (2023): 41-54.

R. Jean Addams, “The Temple Lot at Independence, Jackson County, Missouri,” The John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 43, no. 1 (2023): 55-77.

Vickie Cleverley Speek, “How Many People Lived on Beaver Island? Numbering the

Strangites 1848 to 1856,” The John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 43, no. 1 (2023): 78-93.

William D. Russell, “The Role of Reason in the Transformation of the RLDS

Church into “Community of Christ”: A JWHA Founder’s Perspective,” The John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 43, no. 1 (2023): 94-113.

Matthew L. Harris, “A Tale of Two Religions: RLDS and LDS Reponses to the

Civil Rights Movement,” The John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 43, no. 1 (2023): 114-132.

Newell G. Bringhurst, “Eldridge Cleaver and W. Cleon Skousen: Mormonism’s Odd Couple,” The John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 43, no. 1 (2023): 133-147.

Nancy Ross, David Howlett, and Kennedy DeVries, “AWARE, Consciousness Raising, and RLDS Feminist Networks, 1969-1985,” The John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 43, no. 1 (2023): 148-163.

Wendy Eaton, “Emmeline, Bertha, and Ada: “Be of good comfort. Yours in

Bonds, Joseph Smith,” The John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 43, no. 1 (2023):164-184.

Kyle R. Walker, “Another Smith Murdered Near Carthage: The Katharine Salisbury Family and the Persistence of Anti-Mormonism and Political Division in Hancock County, Illinois,” The John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 43, no. 1 (2023): 185-204.

Emily Crumpton-Deason, “Mormons, Danites, & Gentiles: Theatrical Social Commentary in 19th Century America,” The John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 43, no. 1 (2023): 205-117.

David W. Grua and Jonathan A. Stapley, “The Letter and the Spirit: The Lord’s Supper and Set

Forms in Two Restoration Churches,” The John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 43, no. 1 (2023): 218-231. 

Barbara Jones Brown, “A Conversation Between Sandra Tanner and Ronald V. Huggins,” The John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 43, no. 1 (2023): 232-244.

Robert Flanders, “Some Reflections on The New Mormon History,” The John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 43, no. 1 (2023): 245-254.

(Note: The Flanders’ article is a post-humorous publication of a 1977 lecture.)

2023 Wallace B. Smith Lecture:

John C. Hamer, “The Past, Present, and Future of the Prophetic Monarchy in the Latter Day Saint Tradition, The John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 43, no. 2 (2023): 3-28.

Peter A. Judd, “Reorganized Latter Day Saints in London, England: A Sixty-Year Overview, 1866 to 1926,” The John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 43, no. 2 (2023): 29-43.

Steven Bule, “Sutcliffe Maudsley’s Portrait of Lucy Mack Smith: Assessing Nauvoo’s Profile Painter,” The John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 43, no. 2 (2023): 44-65.

Randi Cline, “Becoming Modern Day Pioneers: The Role of Historical Fiction in the Collective Identity and Shared Memory of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,” The John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 43, no. 2 (2023): 66-86.

David Dmitri Hurlbut, ““Social Projects” and the RLDS Church’s Mission in Southeastern Nigeria, 1966-1977,” The John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 43, no. 2 (2023): 87-110.

W. Grant McMurray, “Our Mormon Cousins and the Uses of History,” The John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 43, no. 2 (2023): 111-120.

William D. Russell, “Paul Edwards, JWHA’s Most Beloved Leader, 1935-2022,” The John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 43, no. 2 (2023): 121-136.

Mark Scherer, “The Professor and the Student: A Personal Reflection,” The John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 43, no. 2 (2023): 137-139.

Book Reviews:

Jon Beren Propper, “Review of Bruce W. Worthen’s Mormon Envoy: The Diplomatic Legacy of Dr. John Milton Bernhisel,” The John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 43, no. 2 (2023): 140-143.

Magen Edvalson, “Review of Heather Belnap, Corry Cropper, and Daryl Lee’s Marianne Meets the Mormons: Representations of Mormonism in Nineteenth-Century France,” The John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 43, no. 2 (2023): 143-164.