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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"Do not despise the words of prophets, but test everything; hold fast to what is good; " 1 Thess. 5:21 (NRSV)
We all trust our own unorthodoxies.
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