Volume 1

ARTICLES

Moderation as a Theological Principle in the Thought of Joseph Smith III

by Clare D. Vlahos Page 3

Joseph Smith III Blessing and the Mormons of Utah

by D. Michael Quinn Page 12

Responses: Paul M. Edwards Page 27

Richard P. Howard Page 28

Engagement with Church History

by F. Henry Edwards Page 30

Mormons and Nineteenth-Century Iowa Historians

by Thomas J. Morain Page 34

Anxious Saints, the Early Mormons, Social Reform, and Status Anxiety

by Geoffery F. Spencer Page 43

BOOK REVIEWS

"Mormonism and the American Experience" by Klaus J. Hansen

Review by Paul M. Edwards Page 54

"The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter Day Saints" by Leonard J. Arrington and Davis Bitton

Review by Barbara Higdon Page 55

"Restoration Studies I" Maurice L. Draper, ed., Clare D. Vlahos, assistant ed

Review by Douglas D. Alder Page 57

"Religion and Sexuality: Three American Communal Experiments of the Nineteenth Century" by Lawrence Foster

Review by Richard P. Howard

"An Early Latter Day Saint History: The Book of John Whitmer," F. Mark McKiernan and Roger D. Launius, eds.

Review by Grant McMurray Page 60

"Mormon Answer to Skepticism: Why Joseph Smith Wrote the Book of Mormon" by Robert N. Hullinger

Review by William D. Russell Page 61

Volume 2

ARTICLES

The Reorganization in Nineteenth Century America: Identity or Historiographical Problem?

by W. Grant McMurray Page 3

Emmeline B. Wells: A Voice for Mormon Women

by Carol Cornwall Madsen Page 11

Themes in Latter Day Saint History

by Richard P. Howard Page 22

Palmyra Revisited: A Look at Early Nineteenth Century America and the Book of Mormon

by Susan Curtis Mernitz Page 30

Anabaptism and Mormonism: A Study in Comparative History

by William E. Juhnke Page 38

Professionalizing Religious Education in the Church: The "New Curriculum" Contoversy

by William J. Knapp Page 47

BOOK REVIEWS

"F. M. Smith: Saint as Reformer, Vol. I" by Larry E. Hunt

Review by Paul M. Edwards Page 60

"F. M. Smith: Saint as Reformer, Vol. II" by Larry E. Hunt

Review by Clare D. Vlahos Page 61

"Saints, Slaves, and Blacks; The Changing Place of Black People Within Mormonism" by Newell Bringhurst

Review by Richard P. Howard Page 63

"Herber C. Kimball: Mormon Patriarch and Pioneer" by Stanley B.Kimball

Review by William D. Russell Page 64

Volume 3

ARTICLES

A Fantasia on the Diaries of John Garver

by Thomas J. Morain Page 3

The Changing RLDS Response to Mormon Polygamy: A preliminary Analysis

by Richard P. Howard Page 14

The Martyrdom of Joseph Smith in Early Mormon Writings

by Davis Bitton Page 29

R. C. Evans: Boy Orator of the Reorganization

by Roger D. Launius Page 40

The Method of Translation of the Book of Mormon

by James E. Lancaster Page 51

BOOK REVIEWS

"Let Em Holler: A Political Biography of J. Bracken Lee" by Dennis L. Lythgoe

Review by Larry E. Hunt Page 62

"Our Heritage of Humor; in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints" by H. Alan Smith

Review by Tom Morain Page 64

"Restoration Studies II," Maurice L. Draper, ed., Bruce Lindgren, asst. ed.

Review by Richard D. Poll Page 65

"Divergent Paths of the Restoration" by Steven L Shields

Review by William J. Knapp Page 68

"Mormon Thunder: A Documentary History of Jedediah Morgan Grant" by Gene A. Sessions

Review by Allan Kent Powell Page 70

Brigham Young: Modern Moses: Prophet of God" by Francis M. Gibbons

Review by Paul M. Edwards Page 71

Volume 4

ARTICLES

Emma Hale Smith and the Polygamy Question

by Linda King Newell Page 3

Joseph Smith and Polygamy: An Alternative View

by Imogene Goodyear Page 16

Charles Derry: A Palimpsestic View

by Norma Derry Hiles Page 22

Joseph F. Smith: From Impulsive Young Man to Patriarchal Prophet

by Leonard J. Arrington Page 30

The First Presidency’s Response to the Civil Rights Movement

by Arlyn R. Love Page 41

Faithful History/Secular Religion

by Melvin T. Smith Page 51

BOOK REVIEWS

"Investigating the Book of Mormon Witnesses" by Richard Lloyd Anderson

Review by A. Bruce Lindgren Page 59

"Mormon Women Speak" edited by Mary Lythgoe Bradford

Review by Imogene Goodyear Page 60

"Lorenzo Snow: Spiritual Giant, Prophet of God" by Francis Gibbons

Review by Paul M. Edwards Page 62

"The Latter Day Saints’ Emigrants Guide" by William Clayton

Review by Greg Smith Page 62

"Isles and Continents" by Maurice L. Draper

Review by Ron E. Roberts Page 63

Volume 5

ARTICLES

Sketches of the Sweet Singer: David Hyrum Smith, 1844-1904

by Valeen Tippets Avery Page 3

RLDS Views of Polygamy: Some Historiographical Notes

by Alma R. Blair Page 3

When will the Little Woman Come Out of the House?

By Paul M. Edwards Page 29

Joseph Smith’s Translation of the Bible and the Synoptic Problem

by Robert L. Millet Page 41

The Joseph Smith Revision and the Synoptic Problem: An Alternative View

by Anthony A. Hutchinson Page 47

BOOK REVIEWS

"Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith" by Linda Newell King and Valeen Tippets Avery

Review by Mary Lou Goodyear Page 54

"Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition" by Jan Shipps

Review by William D. Russell Page 55

"A Kingdom Transformed: Themes in the Development of Mormonism" by Gordon and Gary Shepherd

Review by Richard P. Howard Page 58

"Heritage and Hope" by Carol Braby

Review by Gregory Smith Page 60

"America’s Saints: The Rise of Mormon Power" by Robert Gottlieb and Peter Wiley

Review by Maurice L. Draper Page 61

"Preface to Faith: A Philosophical Inquiry into RLDS Beliefs" by Paul M. Edwards

Review by Clare D. Vlahos Page 62

Volume 6

ARTICLES

Protective and Learning Images in Latter Day Saint Revelation

by Richard P. Howard Page 3

Great White Father: Gilbert J. Waller and the Church in the Hawaiian Islands

by Arthur L. Gardner Page 10

Mite to Bishop: RLDS Women’s Financial Relationship to the Church

by Patricia Struble Page 23

Joseph Smith and the Hazards of Charismatic Leadership

by Gary James Bergera Page 33

"As Historians and Not as Partisans": The Writing of Official History in the RLDS Church

by W. Grant McMurray Page 43

A Historiographical Frontier: The Reorganized Church in the Twentieth Century

by Roger D. Launius Page 53

The Faith of Emma Smith

by Don H. Compier Page 64

BOOK REVIEWS

"Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism" by Richard Bushman

Review by W. Grant McMurray Page 73

"Restoration Studies III" edited by Maurice L. Draper and Debra Combs

Review by Melodie Moench Charles Page 75

"Brigham Young: American Moses" by Leonard Arrington

and

"Brigham Young and the Expanding American Frontier" by Newell Bringhurst

Reviews by Harold Muir Page 77

"Latter Day Saint Beliefs: A Comparison Between the RLDS Church and the LDS Church" by Steven Shields

Review by Wayne Ham Page 80

"The Mormon Corporate Empire" by John Heinerman and Anson Shupe

Review by Charles Nagy Page 82

"Bonds of Sisterhood: A History of the RLDS Women’s Organization, 1842-1943" by Madelon Brunson

Review by Tom Morain Page 83

"B. H. Roberts: Studies of the Book of Mormon" edited by Brigham D. Madsen

Review by George Smith Page 84

"The Personal Writings of Joseph Smith" edited by Dean Jessee

Review by Roger Launius Page 86

"Zion’s Camp" by Roger Launius

Review by Don Compier Page 87

"The Life and Thought of Orson Pratt" by Breck England

Review by Clare Vlahos Page 88

"Kirtland Elder’s Quorum Record, 1836-1841" edited by Lyndon Cook and Milton Backman, Jr.

Review by Sara Hallier Page 90

"Mormon Polygamy: A History" by Richard Van Wagoner

Review by Alma Blair Page 91

Joseph Smith, Jr’s Red Brick Store" by Roger Launius and Mark McKiernan

Review by Paul DeBarthe Page 92

"Brigham Young University: A House of Faith" by Gary James Bergera and Ronald Priddis

Review by Paul Shupe Page 93

"Unto the Islands of the Sea" by R. Lanier Britsch

Review by Maurice L. Draper Page 94

"Mormons, Indians and the Ghost Dance Religion of 1890" by Garold D. Barney

Review by Melvin T. Smith Page 95

Volume 7

ARTICLES

Truth Affirmed, Error Denied: The Great Debates of the Early Reorganization

by Wayne Ham Page 3

Non-Mormon Views of the Martyrdom: A Look at Some Early Published Accounts

by Kenneth W. Godfrey Page 12

Historic View of the Temple Lot

by Ron E. Romig and John H. Siebert Page 21

Concepts of Deity: A Brief Overview of Yahwist Writings to the Mormon Jehovah-Is-Jesus Doctrine

by George D. Smith Page 28

Politicking Against Polygamy: Joseph Smith, III, The Reorganized Church, and the Politics of the Antipolygamy Crusade, 1860-1890

by Roger D. Launius Page 35

Spreading the "Banner of Truth": A Century of RLDS Missionary Effort in Scandinavia

by W. B. (Pat) Spillman Page 45

Apocalyptic Adversaries: Mormonism Meets Millerism

by Grant Underwood Page 53

The RLDS Church and Biblical Criticism: The Early Response

by William D. Russell Page 62

BOOK REVIEWS

The Kirtland Temple: A Historical Narrative and An Illustrated History of the Kirtland Temple - by Roger D. Launius

Review by Scott Kenny Page 69

Mormonism In Transition: A History of the Latter Day Saints, 1890-1930 - by Thomas G. Alexander

Review by Larry E. Hunt Page 70

Harold B. Lee: Prophet and Seer - by L. Brent Goates

Review by Ian G. Barber Page 73

Indian Origins and the Book of Mormon: Religious Solutions from Columbus to Joseph Smith - by Dan Vogel

Review by C. Robert Mesle Page 74

Political Deliverance: The Mormon Quest for Statehood by Edward Leo Lyman

Review by Alma R. Blair Page 75

Supporting Saints: Life Stories of Nineteenth Century Mormons - Edited by Donald Q. Cannon and David J. Whittaker

Review by Mary L. Bradford Page 76

The Conferring Church - by Richard and Marjorie Troeh

Review by Clifford P. Buck Page 78

Dale Morgan: On Early Mormonisn - Edited by John Phillip Walker

Review by Paul M. Edwards Page 79

The Importances of the Past: A Meditation on the Authority of Tradition - by George Allan

Review by C. Robert Mesle Page 79

The 1838 Mormon war in Missouri - by Stephen C. LeSueur

Review by Susan Curtis Mernitz Page 81

Joseph Smith the Prophet - by George Q. Cannon

Review by Marvin S. Hill Page 82

Volume Eight

ARTICLES

Sacred Fudge Does God hide From Us?

By C. Robert Mesle Page 3

Juanita Brooks as a Mormon Dessenter

by Levi S. Peterson Page 13

American Values for a "New Jerusalem"

by W. Grant McMurray Page 30

History and the Problem of Evil

by Don H. Compier Page 45

Two Responses to Don Compier

Edward A. Warner Page 54

Paul C. Shupe Page 57

Family Ties: Belief and Practice in Nauvoo

by Kathryn M. Daynes Page 63

BOOK REVIEWS

"Invisible Saints: A History of Black Americans in the Reorganized Church" by Roger D. Launius

Review by Newell Bringhurst Page 76

"Salamander: The Story of the Mormon Forgery Murders" by Linda Sillitoe and Allen D. Roberts

Review by Roger D. Launius Page 79

"Sister in Spirit: Mormon Women in Historical and Cultural Perspectives" eds. Maureen Ursenbach Beecher and Lavina Fielding Anderson

Review by Richard D. Poll Page 83

"Early Mormonism and the Magic World View" by D. Michael Quinn

Review by Susan Curtis Mernitz Page 85

"Mormon Polygamous Families, Life in the Principle" by Jessie L. Embry

Review by William N. Norman Page 87

"Mormons at the Missouri, 1846-1852, ‘And Should We Die’" by Richard E. Bennett

"Winter Quarters" by Conrey Bryson

Review by Stanley B. Kimball Page 89

"New Views of Mormon History: A Collections of Essays in Honor of Leonard J. Arrington" eds. Davis Britton and Maureen Ursenbach Beecher

Review by Robert B. Flanders Page 91

"King of Beaver Island: The Life and Assassination of James Jessee Strang" by Roger Van Noord

Review by Wayne Ham Page 93

"Mormon Spirituality: Latter Day Saints in Wales and Zion" by Douglas James Davies

Review by Ron E. Roberts Page 95

"The Latter Day Saint Churches: An Annotated Bibliography" by Steven L. Shields

Review by A. R. Blair Page 96

Historic Sites and Markers Along the Mormon and Other Great Western Trails" by Stanley Kimball

Review by Scott Chisholm Page 98

"An American Prophet’s Record: The Diaries and Journals of Joseph Smith" ed. Scott H. Faulring

Review by Edward A. Warner Page 100

"Trials of Discipleship: The Story of William Clayton, A Mormon" by James B. Allen

Review by Harold T. Muir Page 101

"The Autobiography, Memories and Reflections of E. E. Erickson" ed. Scott C. Kenney

Review by Paul M. Edwards Page 103

Volume 9

ARTICLES

Cousins In Conflict: Joseph Smith III and Joseph F. Smith

by Linda King Newell Page 3

Mormonism’s "Anti-Masonic Bible"

by Dan Vogel Page 17

Polygamy Among James Strang and His Followers

by John Quist Page 31

"MONEY-DIGGERSVILLE" - The Brief, Turbulent History of the Mormon Town of Warren

by Marshall Hamilton Page 49

RLDS Publishing and the Book of Mormon, 1869 - 1910

by Hugh G. Stocks Page 59

BOOK REVIEWS

"The Mormon Murders: A True Story of Greed, Forgery , Deceit and Death" by Steven Neifeh and Gregory White Smith

"A Gathering of Saints: A True Story of Money, murder and Deceit" by Robert Lindsey

Reviews byHarold T. Muir Page 75

"Restoration Studies IV: A Collection of Essays About the History, Beliefs, and Practices of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints" eds Marjorie B. Troeh and Eileen M. Terril

Review by Lavina Fielding Anderson Page 80

"Joseph Smith, III: Pragmatic Prophet" by Roger D. Launius

Review by Danny L. Jorgensen Page 83

"Oliver Cowdrey: The Elusive Second Elder of the Restoration" by Phillip R. Legg

Review by Phillip B. Winkler Page 84

"The Chief: An Administrative Biography of Frederick M. Smith" by Paul M. Edwards

Review by Larry E. Hunt Page 85

"Illusions of Innocence: Protestant Primitivism in America, 1630 - 1875" by Richard T. Hughes and C. Leonard Allen

Review by Annette Hampshire Page 88

"Mormon Neo-orthodoxy: A Crisis Theology" by O. Kendall White

Review by Paul C. Shupe Page 89

"Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: New England" ed. Donald Q. Cannon

Review by A. R. Blair Page 91

"A Good Time Coming: Mormon Letters to Scotland" ed. Frederick Stewart Buchaanan

"The Call of Zion: The Story of the First Welsh Mormon Emigration" by Ronald D. Dennis

Reviews by Roger D. Launius Page 92

"Mormons in Mexico: The Dynamics of Faith and Culture" by F. LaMond Tullis

Review by Peter Wiley Page 94

"Mormons and Mormonism in U. S. Government Documents: A Bibliography" by Susan F. Fales and Chad D. Flake

Review by Sara Hallier Page 97

"Juanita Brooks: Mormon Woman Historian" by Levi S. Peterson

Review by Paul M. Edwards Page 98

"An Abundant Life: The Memoirs of Hugh B. Brown" ed. Edwin B. Firmage

Review by James B. Allen Page 99

"‘Wild Bill’ Hickman and the Mormon Frontier" by Hope A. Hilton

Review by Melvin T. Smith Page 101

"A Sermon in the Desert: Belief and Behavior in Early St. George, Utah" by Larry M. Logue

Review by William L. Raiser Page 102

"Mormons and Their Historians" by Davis Bitton and Leonard J. Arrington

Review by W. Grant McMurray Page 103

"Establishing Zion: The Mormon Church in the American West, 1847-1869" by Eugene E. Campbell

Review by Kimberly Jensen James Page 106

"Mormonism and Early Christianity" by Hugh Nibley

Review by Keith E. Norman Page 108

Volume 10

ARTICLES

The Legacy of Early Latter Day Saint Women

by Leonard J. Arrington Page 3

"The Legacy of Early Latter Day Saint Women": A Review

by Tom Morain Page 18

"The Legacy of Early Latter Day Saint Women": A Feminist Critique

by Imogene Goodyear Page 21

Whither Reorganization Historiography?

by Roger D. Launius Page 24

Nauvoo’s Masonic Hall

by James B. Allen Page 39

First Impressions: The Independence, Missouri, Printing Operation, 1832-1833

by Ronald E. Romig and John H. Seibert Page 51

The Fiery Darts of the Adversary: An Interpretation of Early Cutlerism

by Danny L. Jorgensen Page 67

A Time and a Season: History as History

by Paul M. Edwards Page 85

BOOK REVIEWS

"Exiles In a Land of Liberty: Mormons In America, 1830-1846" by Kenneth H. Winn

Review by Susan Curtis Page 91

"Joseph Smith’s New York: Reputation Reexamined" by Roger I. Anderson

Review by Harold T. Muir Page 93

"Religious Seekers and the Advent of Mormonism" by Dan Vogel

Review by Edward A. Warner Page 96

"Quest for Refuge: The Mormon Flight from American Pluralism" by Marvin S. Hill

Review by William D. Russell Page 98

"Mormonism and Music" by Michael Hicks

Review by Harold Neal Page 99

"Mormonism in Early Victorian Britain" eds. Richard L. Jensen and Malcom R. Thorp

Review by Roger D. Launius Page 101

"That Noble Dream: ‘The Objectivity Question and the American Historical Profession" By Peter Novick

Review by Louis Midgley Page 102

"Line Upon Line: Essays on Mormon Doctrine" ed. Gary James Bergera

Review by Howard J. Booth Page 104

"History and Faith: Reflections of a Mormon Historian" by Richard D. Poll

Review by Melvin T. Smith Page 107

"The Prophet Joseph: Essays on the Life and Mission of Joseph Smith" eds. Larry C. Porter and Susan Easton Black

Review by Melvin T. Smith Page 107

"Joseph Smith: Selected Sermons and Writings" ed. Robert L. Millet

Review by Edward A. Warner Page 109

Volume 11

ARTICLES

Prophets Are Human, Too

by Maurice L. Draper Page 3

Still "Side By Side" - The Final Burial of Joseph and Hyrum Smith

by Barbara Hands Bernauer Page 17

Fawn M. Brodie as a Critic of Mormonism’s Policy toward Blacks - A Historiographical Reassessment

by Newell G. Bringhurst Page 34

"A Storm in the Camp of Brighamism": LDS-RLDS Relations in Brisbane, Australia, 1901-1918

by Ross Geddes Page 47

A Waystation from Babylon: Nineteenth-Century Saints in Lucas, Iowa

by Ron Roberts Page 60

Rigdonites in Manitoba, 1874-1884

by Carol Freeman Braby Page 71

BOOK REVIEWS

"Father Figure: Joseph Smith, III and the Creation of the Reorganized Church" by Roger D. Launius

Review by Clare Vlahos Page 83

"Gentle Monarch: The Presidency of Israel A. Smith" by Norma Derry Hiles

Review by Richard B.Lancaster Page 85

"Temple Foundations: Essays on an Emerging Concept" by Richard A. Brown

Review by Lavina Fielding Anderson Page 88

"Our Legacy of Faith: A Brief History of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints" by Paul M. Edwards

Review by William D. Russell Page 90

"Joseph Smith, The Prophet" by Truman G. Madsen

Review by Donald R. Shaffer Page 94

"The Word of God: Essays on Mormon Scripture" ed. Dan Vogel

Review by Larry W. Conrad Page 95

"Toward Understanding the New Testament" by Obert C. Tanner, Lewis M. Rogers, and Sterling M. McMurrin

Review by Paul C. Shupe Page 97

"The Essential Parley P. Pratt" ed. Peter Crawley

Review by Gerald E. Jones Page 98

"Reed Smoot Apostle in Politics" by Milton R. Merrill

Review by Thomas G. Alexander Page 100

"Strangers In Paradox: Explorations in Mormon Theology" by Margaret and Paul Toscano

Review by Wayne Ham Page 102

"Night Soil" by Levi S. Peterson

Review by Harold T. Muir Page 105

"The Journals of Addison Pratt, Being a Narrative of Yankee Whaling in the Eighteen Twenties, A Mormon Mission to the Society Island, and of Early California and Utah in the Eighteen Forties and Fifties" ed. S. George Ellsworth

Review by Richard W. Sadler Page 107

"The Mormon Presence in Canada" eds. Brigham Y. Card, Herbert C. Northcott, John E. Foster, Howard Palmer, and George K. Jarvis

Review by Roger D. Launius Page 110

Volume 12

ARTICLES

The Temple Lot Suit After 100 Years

by Ronald E. Romig Page 3

The "Renegade" and the "Rigdonites" Fawn M. Brodie and her Varied Encounters with the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

by Newell G. Bringhurst Page 16

Thomas W. Williams: Socialist in Twelve

by W. B. "Pat" Spillman Page 31

Elijah Banta: Community Builder of the Early Reorganization

by James R. Brigham Page 52

"Heirs According to the Promise": Observations on Ethnicity, Race and Identity in Two Factions of Nineteenth-Century Mormonism

by Robert Ben Madison Page 66

"Separate But Equal?": American Ethnic Groups in the RLDS and LDS Churches, A Comparison

by Jessie L. Embry Page 83

BOOK REVIEWS

"The Church Through the Years Volume I: RLDS Beginnings, to 1860" by Richard P. Howard

Review by Glen M. Leonard Page 101

"Let Contention Cease: The Dynamics of Dissent in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints" ed. Roger D. Launius and W. B. "Pat" Spillman

Review by Flora Szilagyi Page 104

"The Founding Prophet: An Administrative Biography of Joseph Smith, Jr." by Maurice L. Draper

Review by Richard B. Lancaster Page 112

"An Intimate Chronicle: The Journals of William Clayton" ed. George D. Smith

Review by Harold T. Muir Page 116

"An Illustrated History of the Messiah Choir" by Eileen M. Terril

Review by Richard Clothier Page 120

"The Kirtland Massacre" by Cynthia Stalter Sasse and Peggy Murphy Widder

Review by Gina Alton Elkins Page 121

"Prophet of Death: The Mormon Blood-Atonement Killings" by Pete Earley

Review by Eirk Hansen Page 122

"Things In Heaven and Earth: The Life and Times of Wilford Woodruff, a Mormon Prophet" by Thomas G. Allexander

Review by B. Carmon Hardy Page 124

"The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter Day Saints" by Leonard J. Arrington

Review by William D. Russell Page 126

"Great Basin Kingdom Revisited: Contemporary Perspectives" ed. Thomas G. Alexander

Review by Stephen C. LeSueur Page 127

"Mormons and the Bible: the Place of Latter Day Saints in American Religion" by Philip L. Barlow

Review by Larry W. Conrad Page 131

"The Autobiography of B. H. Roberts" ed. Gary James Bergera

Review by John C. Olinger Page 132

"A Consuming Faith: The Social Gospel and Modern American Culture" by Susan Curtis

Review by Roger D. Launius Page 133

BOOK NOTES

Hero or Traitor: A Biographical Study of Charles Wesley Wandell

by Marjorie Nelson Page 135

The Witness of Reconciliation

by Wallace B. Smith Page 136

Building the Temple: A Selection of Herald Articles

by Herald Publishing House Page 136

An Illustrated History of Nauvoo

by Steven L. Shields Page 136

The New Mormon History: Revisionist Essays on the Past

ed. D. Michael Quinn Page 136

Peculiar People: Mormons and Same Sex Orientation

ed. Wayne Schow, Ron Schow, Marybeth Raynes Page 137

The Unforgiven: Utah’s Executed Men

by Kay Gillespie Page 138

Music and the Broken Word: Songs for Alternative Voices

by Paul Toscano and Cal Grondahl Page 138

Breeding Leah and Other Stories

by John Bennion Page 138

Volume 13

ARTICLES

At the Barricades of the Gospel: The Conspiracy Theme in RLDS History

by Roger D. Launius Page 3

What Sort of Priesthood for Women at Nauvoo?

by Richard P. Howard Page 18

Forgotten Outpost: The Reorganized Latter Day Saints in Poland

by Robert Ben Madison Page 31

"The Good War:" RLDS and LDS Americans in World War II

by Jessie L. Embry Page 51

Visions of the Early Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

by Clare D. Vlahos

The Scattered Saints of Southwestern Iowa Cutlerite-Josephite Conflict and Rivalry, 1855-1865

by Danny L. Jorgensen Page 80

BOOK REVIEWS

"The Church Through the Years Volume 2: The Reorganization Comes of Age, 1860-1992" by Richard P. Howard

Review by William D. Russell Page 99

"Southern Cross Saints: The Mormons in Australia" and "Hero or Traitor: A Biographical Study of Charles Wesley Wandall" by Marjorie Newton

Review by Rick Sarre Page 102

"The American Religion: The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation" by Harold Bloom

Review by Clare D. Vlahos Page 105

"Women, Family, and Utopia: Communal Experiments of the Shakers, the Oneida Community, and the Mormons" by Lawrence Foster

Review by William H. Norman Page 110

"Deseret Book Company: 125 Years of Inspiration, information, and Ideas" by Eleanor Knowles

"A herald to the Saints: History of the Herald Publishing House" by Isleta L. Pement and Paul M. Roberts

Reviews by Lavina Fielding Anderson Page 111

"Women and Authority: Reemerging Mormon Feminism" by Maxine Hanks, ed.

Review by Lynn Matthews Anderson page 115

"The New Mormon History: Revisionist Essays on the Past" by D. Michael Quinn, ed.

Review by Louis Midgley Page 118

"Women of the Covenant: The Story of Relief Society" by Jill Mulvay Derr, Janath Russell Cannon, Maureen Ursenbach Beecher

Review by Imogene D. Goodyear Page 121

"Peculiar People: Mormons and Same-sex Orientation" by Ron Schow, Wayne Schow and Marybeth Raynes, eds.

Review by C., Robert Mesle Page 123

"Prisoner for Polygamy: The Memoirs and Letters of Rudger Clawson at the Utah Territorial Penitentiary, 1844-87" by Stan Larson, ed.

Review by Harold T. Muir Page 126

"The Darker Side of Virtue: Corruption, Scandal and the Mormon Empire" by Anson D. Shupe

Review by Dan Edwards Page 127

"Stewardship Concepts and Practices" by Ronald E. Romig and Anne L. Romig

Review by W. Hale Collins page 129

"An illustrated History of Nauvoo" by Steven L. Shields

Review by Erik Hansen Page 130

"Victims: The LDS Church and the Mark Hofmann Case" by Richard E. Turley, Jr.

Review by Susan Staker Page 131

"Men With a Mission, 1837-1841: The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the British Isles" by James A. Allen, Ronald K. Esplin and David J. Whittaker

Review by M. Guy Bishop Page 134

"The Essential Brigham Young" by Eugene E. Campbell, ed.

Review by Newell G. Bringhurst Page 135

Volume 14

ARTICLES

The Evolving RLDS Identity

by Richard P. Howard Page 3

"Almost Mormon - Almost Christian": The Image of the RLDS Church in Contemporary Anti-Mormonism

by Massimo Introvigne Page 11

The Lamanite Mission

Ronald E. Romig Page 25

The Danites Reconsidered: Were They Vigilantes or Just the Mormon Version of the Elks Club?

By Stephen C. Lesueur Page 35

The Seven Ages of Thomas Lyne: A Tragedian Among the Mormons

by Noel A. Carmack Page 53

Joseph Smith, the Mormons, and Antebellum Reform - A Closer Look

by Newell G. Bringhurst Page 73

BOOK REVIEWS

"Having Authority: The Origins and Development of Priesthood During the Ministry of Joseph Smith" by Gregory A. Prince

Review by A. Bruce Lindgren Page 93

"Leading the Charge: Orrin Hatch and 20 Years of America" by Lee Roderick

Review by John Sillitoe Page 95

"Restoration Studies V: a Collection of Essays About the History, Beliefs and Practice of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints" by Darlene Caswell, ed.

Review by Paul Shupe Page 97

"The Truth, The Way, The Life, An Elementary Treatise on Theology: The Masterwork of B. H. Roberts" by Stan Larson, ed.

Review by A. R. Blair Page 103

"The Poetics of Place" by Paul M. Edwards

Review by Alice Lundgren Page 105

"The Ritualization of Mormon History and other Essays" by Davis Bitton

Review by Roger D. Launius Page 106

"Theology: From Tradition to Task"

Review by William Main Page 107

"Waiting for the World’s End: The Diaries of Wilford Woodruff" by Susan Staker, ed.

Review by Harold T. Muir Page 109

"The Millenarian World of Early Mormonism" by Grant Underwood

review by Richard Neitzel Holzapfel Page 110

"A Ministry of Meetings: The Apostolic Diaries of Rudger Clawson" by Stan Larson

Review by M. Guy Bishop Page 113

"Sarah McDonald: ‘Bishop of the First Ward’" by Peggy Peterson Barton and Drew Barton Quinn

Review by Lavina Fielding Anderson Page 114

"The Light of the Morning" by Elaine Stienon

Review by Steven L. Shields Page 116

Bylaws of The John Whitmer Historical Association

Page 117

Volume 15

ARTICLES

The Boring of Mormonism

by Isleta L. Pement Page 3

"March On, Weary Well-Doers": Duty and Delight in the Pursuit of Inquiry

by Lyman F. Edwards Page 9

The Murders in Carthage: Non-Mormon Reports of the Assassination of the Smith Brothers

by Roger D. Launius Page 17

Somethin’ To Do: Mormon Recreation in Kanesville, 1849-1852

by Richard Ian Kimball Page 35

The Long Path to Evan B. Morgan’s Dream Book: A Saga of Early Welsh-American "Josephites"

by Ron Roberts Page 51

"Something Was Wanting": The Meteoric Career of John Greenhow, Mormon Propagandist

by R. Ben Madison Page 63

BOOK REVIEWS

"Selling God: American Religion in the Marketplace of Culture" by R. Laurance Moore

Review by Edward A. Warner Page 83

"Contemporary Mormonism: Social Science Perspectives" by Marie Cornwall, Tim B. Heaton and Lawrence A. Young, eds.

Review by Danny L. Jorgensen Page 85

"Inventing Mormonism: Tradition and the Historical Record" by H. Michael Marquardt and Wesley P. Walters.

Review by Donald R. Shaffer Page 88

"Utopian Episodes: Daily Life in Experimental Colonies Dedicated to Changing the World" by Seymour R. Kesten

Review by Clare D. Vlahos Page 91

"Differing Visions: Dissenters in Mormon History" by Roger D. Launius and Linda Thatcher, eds.

Review by Paul Shupe Page 94

"The Unsolicited Chronicler, An Account of the Gunnison Massacre, Its Causes and Consequences, Utah Territory, 1847-1859, A Narrative History" by Robert Kent Fielding

Review by Melvin T. Smith Page 97

"Multiply and Replenish: Mormon Essays on Sex and Family" by Brent Corcoran, ed.

Review by Jeanne Murphey Page 99

"Religion, Feminism, and Freedom of Conscience: A Mormon/Humanist Dialogue" by George D. Smith, ed.

Review by B. R. Siegfried Page 104

"Mormon Lives: A Year in the Elkton Ward" by Susan Buhler Taber

Review by Violet Kimball Page 108

"Black Saints in a White Church: Contemporary African American Mormons" by Jessie L. Embry

Review by Lysander I. D. Overstreet Page 110

Volume 16

ARTICLES

Theological Re-Symbolization of the RLDS Tradition: The Call to a Stage Beyond Demythologizing

by W. Paul Jones Page 3

National Socialists and Social Idealists: The RLDS Church in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945

by R. Ben Madison Page 15

The Latter Day Saints in Ohio: Writing the History of Mormonism’s Middle Period

by Roger D. Launius Page 31

Josephites at the Tops of the Mountains: RLDS Congregations in Utah

by Jessie L. Embry Page 57

Wingfield Watson and the Reorganization

by Bill Shepard Page 65

"Simply Folly": Stephen Post and the Children of Zion

by M. Guy Bishop Page 79

"More a Movement Than an Organization": Utah’s First Encounter with Heresy, The Gladdenites, 1851-1854

by Richard Saunders Page 91

BOOK REVIEWS

"Process Theology: A Basic Introduction" by C. Robert Mesle

Review by Everett J. Tarbox, Jr. and Edward A. Warner Page 109

"The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power" by D. Michael Quinn

Review by Edward. A. Warner Page 115

"The Angel and the Beehive: The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation" by Armand L. Mauss

Review by Gregory A. Prince Page 117

"Summoned to Pilgrimage: The Temple as Focus of a Pilgrim People" by Velma Ruch

Review by Edward A. Warner

"The Refiner’s Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844" by John L. Brooke

Review by Paul M. Edwards Page 120

"The Refiner’s Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844" by John L. Brooke

"The Journals of William E. McLellin: 1831-1836" by Jan Shipps and John W. Welch, eds.

Reviews by Philip L. Barlow Page 123

"Restoration Scriptures: A Study of Their Textual Development" (2^nd Edition) by Richard P. Howard

Review by William D. Russell Page 131

Volume 17

ARTICLES

Walls, Windows or Mirrors: An LDS Perception of the LDS-RLDs Boundry (Presidential address)

by Jessie L. Embry Page 3

Sister’s Lives, Sister’s Voices: Neglected Reorganized Latter Day Saint Histories

by Danny L. Jorgensen Page 25

The Raspberry Care Visit

by Biloine W. Young Page 43

"His Word Was as Good as His Note": The impact of Justus Morse’s Mormonism(s) on His Families

by Michael S. Riggs Page 49

John Sharp and T.B.H. Stenhouse: Two Scottish Converts Who Chose Separate Paths

by Craig L. Foster Page 81

Fawn M. Brodie and Deborah Laake: Two Perspectives on Mormon Feminist Dessent

by Newell G. Bringhurst Page 91

James Blakeslee, the Old Soldier of Mormonism

by William Shepard Page 113

BOOK REVIEWS

"Theology -Volume 3: Revisioning the Church" by Richard A. Brown, editor

Review by Henry K. Inouye Page 136

"‘Unfortunate Emigrants’: Narratives of the Donner Party" by Kristin Johnson, editor

Review by Jessie L. Embry Page 141

"Lost Legacy: The Mormon Office of Presiding Patriarch" by Irene M. Bates and E. Gary Smith

Review by Reed . Holmes

"From Historian to Dissident: The Book of John Whitmer" by Bruce N. Westergren

Review by Ronald E. Romig Page 114

"Sidney Rigdon: A Portrait of Religious Excess" by Richard S. Van Wagoner

Review by Edward A. Warner Page 146

"Historical Atlas of Mormonism" by S. Kent Brown, Donald Q. Cannon, Richard H. Jackson, editors

Review by Phillip L. Barlow Page 151

"Authority in the RLDS Theological Tradition: Two Views" by Gregory Prymak

Review by Paul M. Edwards Page 156

Volume 18

ARTICLES

Beyond Modernity: The Future of the RLDS Church

by Danny L. Jorgensen Page 5

Christ Centered Boredom: History and Historians

by Paul M. Edwards Page 21

Sect to Denomination: Counting the Progress of the RLDS Reformation

by George N. Walton Page 38

Alexander William Doniphan and the 1838 Mormon War in Missouri

by Roger D. Launius Page 63

Missouri Governor Lilburn W. Boggs and the Mormons

by Alexander L. Baugh Page 111

A Time of Transition: The Kirtland Temple, 1838-1880

by Christin Craft Mackay and Laachlan Mackay Page 133

BOOK REVIEWS

"In Sacred Loniness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith" by Todd Compton

Review by Joni Wilson Page 149

"Saintly Scoundrel: The Life and Times of Dr. John Cook Bennett" by Andrew F. Smith

Review by Harold T. Muir Page 151

"The Sword of Laban: Joseph Smith, Jr. and the Dissociated Mind" by William D, Morain

Review by Jeanne Murphey Page 153

Volume 19

ARTICLES

"The Association is in Our Hands"

Ron Romig Page 5

"The Spirit, the Book, and the City: Retrieving the Distinctive Voice of the Restoration"

Anthony Chvala-Smith Page 17

"The Book of Mormon: An Asset of Liability fora Becoming Peace Church?

Andrew Bolton Page 29

"Emma’s Enduring Compassion: A Personal Reflection"

Joni Wilson Page 43

"In Sacred Loneliness - An Introduction and Some RLDS Portraits"

Todd Compton Page 63

"Why didn’t You Go West, John Smith?"

Gregory Smith Page 79

"Historic Building and Preservation: LDS and RLDS Traditions"

BOOK REVIEWS

"The Sword of Laban: Joseph Smith, Jr. and the Dissociate Mind" by William D. Morain

Review by Thomas J. Morain Page 111

"The Personal Writings of Eliza Roxey Snow" edited by Maureen Ursenbach Beecher

Review by Elizabeth Anderson Page 123

"We’ll find the Place: The Mormon Exodus 1846-1848" by Richard E. Bennett

Review by Bill Shepard Page 125

"The Iowa Mormon Trail: Legacy of Faith and Courage" by Susan Easton and William G. Hartley

Review by Barbara J. Bernauer Page 127

"In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith" by Todd Compton

Review by Jeanne Murphy Page 128

"My Best for the Kingdom: History and Autobiography of John Lowe Butler, a Mormon Frontiersman" by William G. Hartley

Review by Livina Fielding Anderson Page 135

"The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19^th Century America" by Paul E. Johnson & Sean Wilentz

Review by Newell G. Bringhurst Page 137

"The First Mormon Temple: Design, Construction, and the Historic Context of the Kirtland Temple" by Edwin C. Robinson

Review by C. Mark Hamilton Page 139

"Early Mormon Documents: Volume II" by Dan Vogel

Review by Larry Norris Page 141

Volume 20

ARTICLES

"Gathering the Remnants: Establishing the RLDS Church in Southwest Iowa"

Barbara J. Bernauer Page 5

"History and Mission in Tension: A View from Both Sides"

W. Grant McMurray Page 34

"New wine in Old Skins: A Reply to Paul M. Edwards"

Susan Curtis Page 48

"Gunfighters, Prostitutes and Mormon Historians: The Historian and the Memory Maker"

Paul M. Edwards Page 59

"Doctor Philastus Hurlbut: Originator of Derogatory Statement about Joseph smith, Jr."

Dale W. Adams Page 76

"The Mormon Succession Crisis: A Family View"

Janet Burton Seegmiller Page 94

"From Reaction to Proaction? African Americans in the Reorganized Church"

Mark A. Scherer Page 111

"The Changing Face of Priesthood in the RLDS Church"

Jeff Braithwaite Page 133

"Mormons or Samoans? Congregational and Ethnic Organizations Among Mormon Samoans in Independence, Missouri"