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Mormonism as American Legal History

By October 31, 2007


In a recent post, the question was asked, “how significant is Mormon history to the larger narrative of American history?”

I think there are several ways it is significant, and I will just touch on one of them here. In Sarah Gordon’s book, The Mormon Question, she states that the Mormon situati

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Future of Mormon History Publishing

By October 29, 2007


University of Illinois Press has been one of the major reasons for the flowering of Mormon scholarship in recent decades. Many groundbreaking pieces have been published through this venue, and many of their books can be found on all of our book shelves. This made it all the more difficult when rumors started trickling out that they were not going to be doing Mormon history anymore. The rumor was that since Elizabeth Dulany retired, the press did not want to accept

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