Saints Volume 2: No Unhallowed Hand is the second book in a four-volume history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Saint volume 1 covered the time period of 1815–1846. Matt McBride explains what the book covers, how it came to be—and what comes next.
Joanne B. Freeman teaches history at Yale University. She is also a prominent Twitterstorian and podcaster, and a mentor to historians such as Michael Hattem. Her latest book looks at the history of violence in Congress and its role as a catalyst for the Civil War.
Erin Krakow thrills fans with her portrayal of Elizabeth Thornton on Hallmark Channel’s When Calls the Heart. In this exclusive interview, Krakow explains what she does in-between takes, teases Season 7, and reveals what day of filming she would most like to do again.
Joseph Smith’s time in Nauvoo was filled with highs and lows. On one hand, he brought his work to a crescendo. On the other, Joseph Smith and other Church leaders were dealing with the raw consequences of polygamy, trying to write a new constitution, and often reacting to one crisis and the other. The difficult season culminated with Joseph Smith’s martyrdom in 1844.
The story says a group of Jewish rebels committed mass suicide at Masada, Israel, 2,000 years ago during the Jewish Second Temple period. But what does archaeology reveal about what actually happened? Join archaeologist Jodi Magness as she discusses her book, Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth.
Everyone knows the story of Jonah and the whale from the Old Testament, but no one knows it quite like Rabbi Steven Bob. He is the author of Jonah and the Meaning of Our Lives.
Joseph Smith’s First Vision occurred in the Sacred Grove in New York in the spring of 1820. Prophets and apostles of subsequent generations have had intimate experiences when visiting the sacred site. The stories of Spencer W. Kimball, Gordon B. Hinckley, George Albert Smith, Stephen L. Richards, and Orson F. Whitney are shared here courtesy of Dennis B. Horne.
Does religion look any different when viewed through the lens of environmental history? Learn more with Jedediah Rogers, co-editor of Utah Historical Quarterly and The Earth Will Appear as the Garden of Eden: Essays on Mormon Environmental History.
Truman G. Madsen is one of the most influential Latter-day Saints of the last 100 years. The grandson of Latter-day Saint prophet Heber J. Grant, Madsen is know for publications such as Eternal Man and Twenty Questions. In this interview, Barnard Madsen takes readers behind the scenes of his Truman Madsen biography.
Latter-day Saints celebrate 1820 as the year in which Joseph Smith first saw and conversed with God the Father and Jesus Christ. To mark the bicentennial of Joseph Smith’s First Vision, the Joseph Smith Papers Project has released a six-episode podcast, The First Vision: A Joseph Smith Papers Podcast hosted by Spencer McBride.