Best in Mormon History

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These are top-notch works in the study and writing of Mormon history. (This is for scholarly non-fiction, not religious texts or polemics.)
1
Brigham Young: American Moses
by Leonard J. Arrington
169 members
2 reviews
4
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2
Lengthen Your Stride: The Presidency of Spencer W. Kimball
by Edward L. Kimball
51 members
1 review
4.9
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3
The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith
by Matthew Bowman
158 members
8 reviews
3.9
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4
A Frontier Life: Jacob Hamblin, Explorer and Indian Missionary
by Todd M. Compton
13 members
2 reviews
4.8
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5
Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
by Richard L. Bushman
749 members
16 reviews
½ 4.4
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6
Massacre at Mountain Meadows
by Ronald W. Walker
201 members
6 reviews
4.1
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8
Wayward Saints: The Godbeites and Brigham Young
by Ronald W. Walker
25 members
5
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9
Utah's Black Hawk War
by John Alton Peterson
43 members
5
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11
Carthage Conspiracy: The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith
by Dallin H. Oaks
140 members
2 reviews
3.8
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12
Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
by W. Paul Reeve
42 members
4.2
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14
Victims: The LDS Church and the Mark Hofmann Case
by Richard E. Turley, Jr.
45 members
5
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15
The Angel and Beehive: The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation
by Armand L. Mauss
34 members
3
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16
David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism
by Gregory A. Prince
131 members
3 reviews
½ 4.3
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19
By the Hand of Mormon: The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion
by Terryl L. Givens
193 members
3 reviews
4.1
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20
The Mountain Meadows Massacre
by Juanita Brooks
244 members
2 reviews
3.8
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21
People of Paradox: A History of Mormon Culture
by Terryl L. Givens
88 members
3.9
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22
The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-day Saints
by Leonard J. Arrington
198 members
1 review
3.8
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23
Mormons and the Bible: The Place of the Latter-day Saints in American Religion
by Philip L. Barlow
52 members
3 reviews
4.2
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24
All Abraham's Children: Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage
by Armand L. Mauss
24 members
1 review
½ 4.3
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26
Women of Covenant: The Story of Relief Society
by Janeth Russell Cannon
69 members
1 review
4
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27
The Mormons
by Thomas F. O'Dea
80 members
½ 3.7
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29
The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844
by John L. Brooke
175 members
2 reviews
4
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31
Mormon Sisters: Women In Early Utah
by Claudia L. Bushman
34 members
½ 3.5
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32
On Zion's Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape
by Jared Farmer
64 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
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34
Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet
by John G. Turner
156 members
8 reviews
3.8
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35
The Mormon Image in the American Mind: Fifty Years of Public Perception
by J. B. Haws
11 members
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38
Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith
by Linda King Newell
156 members
1 review
½ 4.4
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39
Early Mormonism and the Magic World View
by D. Michael Quinn
205 members
1 review
4
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40
Quest for Refuge: The Mormon Flight from American Pluralism
by Marvin S. Hill
22 members
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41
The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power
by D. Michael Quinn
92 members
2 reviews
4.2
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42
Transformation of the Mormon Culture Region
by Ethan R. Yorgason
14 members
1 review
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43
Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition
by Jan Shipps
125 members
1 review
½ 3.6
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44
No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith
by Fawn Brodie
716 members
14 reviews
4.1
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