Audio of 2019 Conference Speakers
Audio of 2019 Conference Speakers
Plenary Sessions
Opening Plenary
David Walker
Mormons, and Other Western Wonders: Tourist Interests in the Railroad Age
Smith-Pettit Lecture
Anthea Butler
An American Church in the Modernizing World: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Crucible of Change, 1950-1970
Plenary Luncheon
Jana Riess
The Mormon Family in the United States: Mapping Social Change from the 1960s to the Present
Special Film Panel: Jane and Emma
Melissa Leilani Larson
Screenwriter
Danor Gerald
Actor
Arthur Van Wagonen
Executive Producer
Blair Hodges
Moderator
Presidential Banquet
W. Paul Reeve
Reconstruction Religion, and the West: The Great Impeacher Meets the Mormons
Sunday Morning Devotional
Ignacio M. Garcia
Nancy Ross
Richard Elliot
Richard E. Turley, Jr.
Vinna Chintaram
Mylo Fowler
Concurrent #1
Restoration Traditions: Early and Modern Perspectives
R. Jean Addams
The Temple Lot in Independence: Its Acquisition, Early Buildings, and Other Uses
H. Michael Marquardt
The Temple Lot in Jackson County, Missouri, and Observations of Early Church Members
Patrick McKay and James McKay
Restoration Traditions from the RLDS “Position Papers” to the Present
Comments: Clair Barrus
Mormon Encounters in Conflict and Settlement: Potawatomi, Ute, Shoshone, and Mexican Encounters in LDS Settler Colonialism
Reilly Ben Hatch
“A Relic of Gadianton”: Race, Religion, and Assimilation in the Bluff and Posey Wars
Jeffrey D. Mahas
Interactions between Potawatomi and Latter-day Saints in the Nineteenth Century
Andrea G. Radke-Moss
“Nits Make Lice”: The Dehumanization of Children at the Haun’s Mill Massacre of 1838 and the Bear River Massacre of 1863
Nicholas Brian Shrum
“Let the Son Go”: Religious and National Identity of the Women of the Mormon Battalion
Comments: Elise Boxer
The Road to Isolation: Anti-Mormonism on the Mississippi
Brooke R. LeFevre
The Development of Anti-Mormonism in Iowa Territory
Alex D. Smith
The Threat of Mormon Violence: Prelude to Assassination
Brady Glen Winslow
“As Long as They are Good Citizens They Shall Not be Molested”: Mormonism and the Obligations of Citizenship in Antebellum Illinois, July 1844–October 1845
Comments: Bryon Andreasen
“The Evils of a Dole Abolished”: The Church Welfare Plan and Mormon Visions of Self Sufficiency
Dave Hall
Cooperating to Rescue Those in Need: Amy Brown Lyman and the Development of Federal Welfare Policy in Utah
Allison M. Kelley
Walking a Tightrope: Capitalism, Community, and the Church’s Twentieth- Century Economic Vision
Comments: Thomas Alexander
Environmental Histories from the First Vision to 21st-Century Saints
Dwain Coleman
The Environment and Early Latter-day Saints
Nathan Waite
“All Concerned Will Profit the Most”: John A. Widtsoe and the Dividing of the Colorado River
Rebecca Andersen
Looking for Mormons: Imagining a Land, Creating a People
Scott C. Esplin
Church and State in Sacred Space: The National Park Service and Latter-day Saint Historic Sites
Comments: Jedediah Rogers
Roundtable Discussion: English Translations of Mark L. Grover Interviews with Latter-day Saints in Brazil
Matthe J. K. Hill
James R. Krause
Marcelo Leme
Suzanna Shibuta
Author Meets Critics: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870
Gary James Bergera
Claudia Bushman
Christine Talbot
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Concurrent #2
Integrating the Isolated: The Transcontinental Railroad
Fred E. Woods
The Latter-day Saints and the Building of the Transcontinental Railroad
Jeffrey Paul Thompson
Minding the Store: Zion’s Co-operative Mercantile Institution and the Coming of the Railroad
Sasha Coles
Reconstruction by Rail: Mormon Women, Silk Work, and the Politics of Fashion
COMMENTS: Rebecca Andersen
Century of Black Mormons: Recovering the Past, Informing the Future
Anna Neatrour
Century of Black Mormons: Technical Infrastructure and Workflows
Jeffrey J. Turner
Visualizing Past Mormons
Ardis E. Parshall
“That Which Was Lost”: Recovering the Memories and Voices of Black Latter-day Saints
COMMENTS: Robert Burch
COMMENTS: Jenny Reeder
Integration Through the Arts
Jake Johnson
Mormons, Musicals, and American Integration
Rebekah Westrup
Melding of Manhoods: A Visual Attempt to Integrate the Book of Mormon with American Culture
Hillary Kirkham
Exhibiting Cultures, Building the Kingdom: The Church History Museum, Diversity, and Art
Comments: Heather Belnap
Narrative, Myth, and Sacred Space in Latter-day Saint Culture
Scott D. Marianno
Temple of Temples: The Salt Lake Temple as Latter-day Saint Axis Mundi
Claire M. Haynie
Savior Seagulls: The Evolution of a Miracle
Panel Discussion: Parley P. Pratt Letters and Documents, Volume 1
Alexander Baugh
R. Steven Pratt
Mitchell Pratt
Moderator: Sharalyn Howcroft
Concurrent #3
Gender, Sexuality, and Mormonism in the Latter 20th Century
Chris Babits
Repairing Mormon Men and Women: Conversion Therapy in the LDS Ranks
Heather J. Stone
Trading Charity for Safety: Isolating Young Women in Mormon Homelands, 1975- 2000
Christine Talbot
“Out-Family-ing the Mormons”: Gender and Family in ERA Politics among the Mormons
Comments: Saskia Tielens
Roundtable: Indigenous and “Lamanite” Identities in the Twentieth Century
Farina King
Robert Joseph
Kaleb C. Miner
Elisa Eastwood Pulido
A Crossroads for the Canon: Scriptural Changes of the 1870s
Ryan S. Gardner and Nathan H. Williams
A Closer Look at the 1876/1879 Editions of the Doctrine and Covenants
John C. Thomas
Markers of Isolation and Integration: Interpreting the 1876/1879 Editions of the Doctrine and Covenants
Janiece Johnson
Altering the Book: Orson Pratt, the 1879 Book of Mormon, and Its Reception
Comments: Robin Scott Jensen
Author Meets Critics: Colleen McDannell, Sister Saints: Mormon Women Since the End of Polygamy
Kristine Haglund
Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp
David Walker
Concurrent #4
Better to Represent Ourselves: Latter-day Saint Women’s Activism in the U.S. and Europe
Rebekah Ryan Clark
“A More Universal Sisterhood”: Latter-day Saints in the National Council of Women, 1888-1987
Tiffany Taylor Bowles
Polygamy and Prejudice: The Effect of Plural Marriage on the National Perception of Latter-day Saint Suffragists
James Perry
Isolation and Acceptance: the Experiences of Selina Martin as a Latter-day Saint Suffragette in Britain
Grant P. Emery
The Shepherdess and the Informant: Contrasting Responses to Wartime Isolation in Nazi-Occupied Paris
Remembering and Forgetting: The Perils of Constructing Faithful History from a Human Past
Michael Scott Van Wagenen
Memory of the Mormon Battalion and the Formation of Latter-day Saint Identity
Rebecca A. Roesler
Jedediah’s 1856 Reformation and the Grant Legacy
Matthew Bowman
Correlation as Restoration: Sacralizing a Reform Movement
Author Meets Critics: Daniel P. Stone, William Bickerton: Forgotten Latter Day Prophet
Christopher Blythe
Benjamin E. Park
Concurrent #5
Polygamy Past, Polygamy Present
Darcee Barnes
Presidential Pardon for Polygamy
Richard E. Bennett
Mormon Fundamentalism on Trial: Recent British Columbia Rulings on Polygamy in Canada
Philippa Juliet Meek
From Loving to Obergefell and Beyond: Plural Marriage as the Next Sexual Justice Issue
Comments: Kathryn Daynes
Artifact in Mormon History: A Cross- Cultural Examination
Elise Boxer
Indigenous Cradleboards as Material Culture and History
Ian E. Barber
“A Strange and Interesting Document”: The Latter-day Saint Shaping of a Prophetic Māori Covenant
Barbara Jones Brown
A Stitch in Time: Using Artifact to Uncover Hidden Women’s History
Keith A. Erekson
Ain’t Nothin’ But a Forgery: “Elvis’s Book of Mormon” and 20th-Century Latter-day Saint Popular Culture
Comments: Alan L. Morrell
Latter-Day Saint Mission Studies in Historical Perspective
Korben Sharp-McBride
A Missionary in Maritime: The 1853 Voyages of William F. Carter
Austin Cary
The Effect of Negative Newsprint Media on Convert Baptism in County Durham
David Golding
Alien Engraving: The Search for Gold Plates and Hungarian Atlantis in the Ecuadorian Jungle
Ronald E. Bartholomew
From the Margins to the Center: Latter-day Saint Integration in the Mission Studies Academy
Comments: Matthew McBride
Masculine, Feminine, and Mormon Identity
Matthew DeSpain
“With Blood in Her Tracks and Meat Like Rawhide”: Clashing Masculinities and the Beginnings of Lakota-U.S. Hostile Relations
Boyd Jay Petersen
The Work of Mother Eve: Gender Identity and the Isolation and Integration of LDS Women
Taylor G. Petrey
“Masculine, Manly Men”: The Psychologization of LDS Approaches to Homosexuality
Comments: Stacilee Ford
Panel Discussion: Two Diaries, Two Eras – Telling the Story of Mormonism, 1951-1999
Gary James Bergera
Harvard Heath
Concurrent #6
The Challenge of Integrating Church History from the Periphery to the Center: Global Perspectives
Taunalyn Rutherford
Integrating the Isolated: The South Asian Experience
Joe M. Chelladurai
Once Upon a Time in Madras: Early Latter-day Saint Missionary Efforts, 1853-1854
Mark L. Grover
Integrating Church History from the Periphery to the Center: The South American Experience
Fernando Pinheiro da Silva Filho
Fragmented History: Challenges and Perspectives Writing the History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Brazil
Comments: Ignacio Garcia