On Wednesday, we here at JI declared we were happy to (try to) answer any questions about polygamy people may have, in response to the Church publishing two more essays on the topic. In preparation for that post (or several posts) next week, I’ve hunted through the archives to find older posts on the subject. (Warning, there are a lot.) I’ve tried to group them thematically here below.
LDS responses to anti-polygamy legislation
Responses: Patrick Mason on David Pulsipher on Mormon Civil Disobedience
Joseph H. Dean and Joseph F. Smith on Mexico/Polygamy
The Manifesto and post-Manifesto polygamy
A Review of Lu Ann Faylor Snyder and Phillip A. Snyder, eds., Post Manifesto Polygamy: The 1899-1904 Correspondence of Helen, Owen, and Avery Woodruff (and another review here)
Wasted Seed and Spent Men: Corinne Allen Tuckerman and the Politics of Polygamy after 1890
Reading Like a Conspiracy Theorist, Part 1: A Post-Manifesto Polygamist?s Diary, Part 2: The Case for Polygamy, Part 3: Quinn and Hardy
From the Archives: Joseph Smith III Congratulates Wilford Woodruff on the Manifesto
Remembering polygamy
From Embrace to Embarrassment: Remembering Joseph Smith?s Polygamy
Peculiar Questions Briefly Answered: Charles W. Penrose on Polygamy, Etc.
?Plurality of Wives was an Incident, Never an Essential?: James E. Talmage on Polygamy
Mormon Folklore, Part Two (Polygamy)
Celestial Polygamy is Inevitable
Grub Street History: Peggy Fletcher Stack and The Polygamies of Joseph Smith and Warren Jeffs
Women and the Manifesto: Painting with Broad Strokes
Specific Polygamous Relationships
Helen Mar Kimball blessing and the dating of her marriage to Joseph Smith
Hannah Tapfield King?s Introduction to Polygamy and Hannah Tapfield King, Gendered History, and Class
Movie Review: Emma Smith: A Really Great Catch and Emma Smith Movie, Again
Polygamy and gender
?The cheerless, crushed and unwomanly mothers of polygamy?
Passionate Stability: Polygamy, Dating, and the Creation of Modern Mormon Gender
Polygamy and race
Black Methodists, White Mormons: Race and Antipolygamy
?Prelude to American Imperialism?: Mormon Polygamy, Natural Law, and Whiteness
Miscellaneous
When Did Mormons Become Straight: The Intersections of Mormon History and Queer Theory
Spatial Dynamics and Polygamous Burial Practices
Notes from the Utah State Historical Society?s 56th Annual Conference, Part 2: Polygamy
Thanks for this, Saskia.
Comment by Steve Fleming — October 25, 2014 @ 9:07 am
Fantastic! Thanks for chasing all these down!
Comment by J Stuart — October 25, 2014 @ 9:46 am
So glad to have all these links in one place. Happy weekend reading, everyone!
Comment by Tona H — October 26, 2014 @ 6:48 am
The “Celestial Polygamy is Enevitable” article got my attention. So much attention is paid to polygamy as practiced in the early days of the church, with sisters today constantly saying they would NEVER participate in plural marriage. Yet, there is a silent contingent of sisters who have married, then been widowed, and then remarried. I don’t hear them claiming they could never be in a plural marriage situation. Perhaps we will all have to choose a one and only. But for those who’ve had happy marriages to more than one spouse, the thought of having to choose is horrible.
Comment by IDIAT — October 26, 2014 @ 1:20 pm
This is very helpful! Thanks for compiling it!
Comment by Patrick — October 26, 2014 @ 5:38 pm