Review "Of primary interest to libraries with strong collections in American religious history and, of course, Mormonism. Nicely written, with a fine bibliographic essay and an index." -- Choice

Saints, Slaves, and Blacks: The Changing Place of Black People Within Mormonism (Contributions to the Study of Religion, 4)

Bringhurst, Newell G.

Religion & Spirituality

Greenwood Pub Group

A paperback edition of Newell G. Bringhurst's study of Brigham Young, pivotal figure in the Latter Day Saint movement and noted settler. This copy is a new Library of American Biography paperback, published by Little, Brown and Company in Boston.

Brigham Young and the expanding American frontier (The Library of American biography)

Christian Books & Bibles

Christian Denominations & Sects

Little,Brown

A biography of one of the great biographers of the century focuses on the life of Fawn McKay Brodie, author of Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History and other well-known profiles of famous people.

Fawn McKay Brodie: A Biographer's Life

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Univ of Oklahoma Pr

While Harold B. Lee served as president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for a mere one and half-years--among the shortest tenure of any church leader--his impact on the modern LDS Church remains among the most profound. Lee implemented the Church Welfare Program, which provided relief to suffering church members during the 1930s Great Depression and continues to impact the lives of church members today. As a high-ranking general authority from 1941 to 1973, he championed other innovations, the most important being Correlation. Lee acted in response to the church's record growth and increased diversity to consolidate and streamline churchwide instruction and administration. As a teacher/mentor, he promoted conservative church doctrine and practice, which influenced a generation of church leaders, including future presidents Spencer W. Kimball, Ezra Taft Benson, Howard W. Hunter, Gordon B. Hinckley, and Thomas S. Monson. Noted historian Newell G. Bringhurst succinctly narrates the major, defining events in Lee's remarkable life, while highlighting Lee's important, lasting contributions. This is the first volume in Signature's new Brief Mormon Lives series.

Harold B. Lee: Life and Thought

Signature Books

Excavating Mormon Pasts: The New Historiography of the Last Half Century

Winner of the Special Book Award from the John Whitmer Historical Association Includes Mormon History Association Award Winning Essay by Roger Launius. Excavating Mormon Pasts assembles sixteen knowledgeable scholars from both LDS and the Community of Christ traditions who have long participated skillfully in this dialogue. It presents their insightful and sometimes incisive surveys of where the New Mormon History has come from and which fields remain unexplored. It is both a vital reference work and a stimulating picture of the New Mormon History in the early twenty-first century. “[Excavating Mormon Pasts is] a valuable tool in the ongoing quest for clarity, for truth, for certainty. It is one of several volumes I’ve seen in the past few years that qualify for a ‘must have’ rating.” —Jeffrey Needle, Association for Mormon Letters

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Greg Kofford Books, Incorporated

Originally published shortly after the LDS Church lifted its priesthood and temple restriction on black Latter-day Saints, Newell G. Bringhurst’s landmark work remains ever-relevant as both the first comprehensive study on race within the Mormon religion and the basis by which contemporary discussions on race and Mormonism have since been framed. Approaching the topic from a social history perspective, with a keen understanding of antebellum and post-bellum religious shifts, Saints, Slaves, and Blacks examines both early Mormonism in the context of early American attitudes towards slavery and race, and the inherited racial traditions it maintained for over a century. While Mormons may have drawn from a distinct theology to support and defend racial views, their attitudes towards blacks were deeply-embedded in the national contestation over slavery and anticipation of the last days. This second edition of Saints, Slaves, and Blacks offers an updated edit, as well as an additional foreword and postscripts by Edward J. Blum, W. Paul Reeve, and Darron T. Smith. Bringhurst further adds a new preface and appendix detailing his experience publishing Saints, Slaves, and Blacks at a time when many Mormons felt the rescinded ban was best left ignored, and reflecting on the wealth of research done on this topic since its publication.

Saints, Slaves, and Blacks: The Changing Place of Black People Within Mormonism, 2nd ed.

Greg Kofford Books, Inc.

Brief, paperback biography that discusses Brigham Young, leader in the Latter Day Saint movement.

Brigham Young and the Expanding American Frontier (Library of American Biography)

Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

Including Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman, eleven Mormons have sought the highest office in the United States. Newell G. Bringhurst and Craig L. Foster bring their stories to life as the attempt to answer the question, "Is America Ready for a Mormon President?"

The Mormon Quest for the Presidency: From Joseph Smith to Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman

Foster, Craig L.

Leaders & Notable People

John Whitmer Books

The first in a three-volume anthology in which top scholars examine the entire range and history of Mormon polygamy.

The Persistence of Polygamy: Joseph Smith and the Origins of Mormon Polygamy

In the first volume of the Persistence of Polygamy, Bringhurst and Foster compiled an anthology of original articles on the controversies surrounding Joseph Smith Jr. and the origins of Mormon polygamy. In this second volume, they have assembled an array of new research into the wide diversity of polygamy as practiced by different Latter Day Saint groups during the later nineteenth century. In the third and final volume, they will consider the development of modern Fundamentalist Mormonism and the practice of polygamy after the 1890 manifesto.

The Persistence of Polygamy, Vol. 2: : from Joseph Smith's Martyrdom to the First Manifesto, 1844-1890

Americas

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