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Leonard Arrington, Davis Bitton
The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-day Saints (University of Illinois, 1992)
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Matthew Bowman
The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith (Random House, 2012)
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Claudia Bushman
Contemporary Mormonism: Latter-day Saints in Modern America (Praeger, 2006)
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Claudia Bushman, Richard Bushman
Building the Kingdom: A History of Mormons in America (Oxford University, 2001)
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Terryl L. Givens
The Book of Mormon: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University, 2009)
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Classics


Thomas G. Alexander
Mormonism in Transition: A History of the Latter-day Saints, 1890-1930 (University of Illinois, 1986)


Leonard J. Anderson
Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900 (Harvard University, 1958)


Philip L. Barlow
Mormons and the Bible: The Place of the Latter-Day Saints in American Religion (Oxford University, 1991)


Richard Bushman
Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism (University of Illinois, 1987)
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Todd M. Compton
In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith (Signature Books, 1997)
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Jill Mulvay Derr, Janath Russell Cannon, Maureen Ursenbach Beecher
Women of Covenant: The Story of the Relief Society (Deseret Book, 1992)
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B. Carmon Hardy
Solemn Covenant: The Mormon Polygamous Passage (University of Illinois, 1992)
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Armand L. Mauss
The Angel and the Beehive: The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation (University of Illinois, 1994)
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Sterling M. McMurrin
Theological Foundations of the Mormon Religion (University of Utah, 1974)


Linda King Newell, Valeen Tippetts Avery
Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith (University of Illinois, 1994)
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Gregory A. Prince
Power from on High: The Development of Mormon Priesthood (Signature Books, 1995)
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D. Michael Quinn
Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example (University of Illinois, 2001)
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Jan Shipps
Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition (University of Illinois, 1985)
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Wallace Stegner
The Gathering of Zion: The Story of the Mormon Trail (McGraw-Hill, 1964)


Susan Taber
Mormon Lives: A Year in the Elkton Ward (University of Illinois, 1993)
Monographs




Kathryn Daynes
More Wives Than One: Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910 (University of Illinois, 2008)
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Kathleen Flake
The Politics of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle (University of North Carolina, 2004)
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Terryl L. Givens
By The Hand of Mormon: The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion (Oxford University, 2002)
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Sarah Barringer Gordon
The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America (University of North Carolina, 2002)
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Hokulani K. Aikau
A Chosen People, A Promised Land: Mormonism and Race in Hawai’i (University of Minnesota, 2012)
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Francis J. Beckwith, Carl Mosser, Paul Owen
The New Mormon Challenge (Zondervan, 2010)
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Joanna Brooks, Rachel Steenblik, Hannah Wheelwright
Mormon Feminism: Essential Writings (Oxford University, 2016)
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Terryl L. Givens
Wrestling the Angel: The Foundations of Mormon Thought (Oxford University, 2014)
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W. Paul Reeve
Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness (Oxford University, 2015)
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Christine Talbot
A Foreign Kingdom: Mormons and Polygamy in American Political Culture, 1852-1890 (University of Illinois, 2013)
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Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Journal of Mormon History
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Mormon Studies Review
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BYU Studies Quarterly
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Church Almanac (1974-2013)
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Journal of Book of Mormon Studies
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Irreantum: A Literary Journal
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Terryl L. Givens
The Book of Mormon: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University, 2009)
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Matthew Bowman
The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith (Random House, 2012)
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Kathleen Flake
The Politics of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle (University of North Carolina, 2004)
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Claudia L. Bushman
Contemporary Mormonism: Latter-day Saints in Modern America (Praeger, 2006)
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