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Old 09-26-2007, 03:59 PM   #9
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I'll come back with more (and on other topics), but these will help you get a solid foundation in Mormon History:

1. Leonard J. Arrington, Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900

2. Leonard J. Arrington and Davis Bitton, The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-day Saints

3. Leonard J. Arrington & Co. Building the City of God: Community & Cooperation Among the Mormons

4. Leonard J. Arrington, Brigham Young, American Moses

5. Edward Lyman, Political Deliverance: The Mormon Quest for Utah Statehood

6. Thomas Alexander, Mormonism in Transition: A History of the Latter-day Saints, 1890-1930

7. Richard L. Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling

8. L.K. Newell and V.T. Avery, Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith

9. V.T. Avery, The 1838 Mormon War in Missouri

10. Carmen Hardy, Solemn Covenant: The Mormon Polygamous Passage

11. Todd Compton, In Sacred Lonliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith

12. Dean C. Jessee, Personal Writings of Joseph Smith (When the JS Papers Project comes out, be sure to get that too)

13: D. Michael Quinn, Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power

14. D. Michael Quinn, Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power

15. D. Michael Quinn, Mormonism and the Magic World View

16. Greg Prince and Rob Wright, David O Mckay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism

17. Armand Mauss, All Abraham's Children: Changing Conceptions of Race & Lineage

18. Armand Mauss, The Angel and the Beehive: The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation

19. BH Roberts, A Comprehensive History of the Church

20. BH Roberts, The Life of John Taylor

21. BH Roberts, Studies of the Book of Mormon

22. John Silito, History's Apprentice: The Diaries of BH Roberts

23. Ed & Andrew Kimball, Spencer W. Kimball

24. Juanita Brooks, The Mountain Meadows Massacre

25. Robert Flanders, Nauvoo: Kingdom on the Mississippi

26. Glen Leonard, Nauvoo: A Place of Peace, A People of Promise

27. James Allen & Glen Leonard: The Story of the Latter-day Saints

28. Will Bagley & Dave Bigler, Army of Israel: Mormon Batallion Narratives

29. Subscribe to the Mormon History Association's Journal of Mormon History

30. Subscribe to Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought

Happy reading!
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