The month before Joseph Smith was assassinated, he gave a personal tour of Nauvoo, Illinois, to two prominent men of the time: Charles Francis Adams and Josiah Quincy Jr.
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Joseph M. Adelman is an assistant professor of history at Framingham State University and the author of Revolutionary Networks: The Business and Politics of Printing the News, 1763-1789 (JHU Press, 2019).
The transcontinental railroad is inseparable from the history of the American West. It may not be a person like mountain man Jim Bridger, but the railroad figures just as prominently. Scott Lothes takes readers behind the scenes and describes a stunning new collection of railroad photographs.
Sometimes the greatest stories are found in the most unlikely places. Thanks to a lonely grave in a Colorado cemetery, scores of women largely lost to history are having their stories shared with thousands.
Sara Georgini is Series Editor for The Papers of John Adams and author of Household Gods: The Religious Lives of the Adams Family (Oxford, 2019). Her book includes a fascinating account between Joseph Smith and Charles Francis Adams in Nauvoo, Illinois.
The What’s Her Name podcast, co-hosted by Olivia Meikle and Katie Nelson, tells the stories of fascinating women you’ve never heard of, but should have.
Arlene Sánchez Walsh is a religious historian of Latina/o religion and author of Pentecostals in America.
Wes Granberg-Michaelson served as the General Secretary of the Reformed Church in America for 17 years. He is the author of “Future Faith: Ten Challenges Reshaping Christianity in the 21st Century.”
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William Bickerton is the only prophetic claimant to Joseph Smith’s prophetic mantle that didn’t personally know the Prophet. Biographer Daniel Stone tells the story of the man he cabook lls a “forgotten latter day prophet.”
SALT LAKE CITY — Every so often, a talented writer will discover a story lost to history with tremendous application for today. Such is the case with Yale University historian Joanne Freeman and her latest book.