At an academic gathering in 2011, the distinguished historian Richard Bushman declared that we had entered a “golden age” for Mormon studies. The setting was an academic conference held in the ...
“Laurel Thatcher Ulrich!” one woman shouted, naming the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who famously observed that “well-behaved women seldom make history.” Over the past five decades, Exponent II ...
With his fourth book on Mormonism, Givens (By the Hand of Mormon; Viper on the Hearth) earns his place as one of the great LDS scholars of his time. Students of religion, history and culture will find ...