Welcome to our MHA 2020 virtual exhibit! Even though we are unable to attend MHA in person, we are still excited to share with you our Mormon studies related content. Take a look at our books, journals, interviews, blog posts, and more below. Now is also the perfect time to stock up on our Mormon studies titles with some limited time deals! Check out this month’s free ebook, A Foreign Kingdom by Christine Talbot, here. We are also pleased to announce that a selection of our journals are currently free and open access, including Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Journal of Mormon History, and Mormon Studies Review. Plus, use promo code CONF40 at check out to get 40% off select Mormon studies books, until July 31!
Mormon History Association Presidential Address
The Journal of Mormon History is published on behalf of the Mormon History Association. Read a presidential address by MHA president W. Paul Reeve. Find more of the Journal Mormon History on JSTOR.
First Issue of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought is an independent quarterly established to express Mormon culture and to examine the relevance of religion to secular life. Find our first issue on JSTOR.
More Essential Mormon Studies Journals
Recent and Forthcoming Books
Sherilyn Cox Bennion, contributor to Front Pages, Front Lines on “The Women’s Exponent of Utah”
A Foreign Kingdom by Christine Talbot is free for this month only! Click here to learn more about this giveaway. Plus, read a guest post by Talbot here.
Watch the book trailer for Mormons, Musical Theater, and Belonging in America by Jake Johnson
Listen to interviews with our authors and editors on podcasts and radio
- Jake Johnson on “‘Saturday’s Warrior’ and ‘Book of Mormon’: A look at the faith’s tie to musical theater” from Mormon Land
- Quincy Newell on “The Life of Jane Manning James” from MIPodcast
- Holly Welker on “Arizona Editor Gathers Candid Stories From Mormon Women On Love, Sex And Marriage” from KJZZ
- Joseph M. Spencer on “Briefly First Nephi” from MIPodcast
- Scott C. Esplin on “Return to the City of Joseph: Modern Mormonism’s Contest for the Soul of Nauvoo” from New Books Network
- Benjamin Park on “What made Americans American” from MIPodcast
- Jake Johnson on the Cultural Hall Podcast
- Matthew Bowman on “Christianity and American politics” from MIPodcast
Check out the Q&As below with our Mormon history authors
- Holly Welker, editor of Baring Witness
- Michael Hicks, author of A Mormon Tabernacle Choir
- Dawn Durante, compiler of 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage
- Jake Johnson, author of Mormons, Musical Theater, and Belonging in America
- Kimberly D. McKee and Denise A. Delgado, co-editors of Degrees of Difference
- Christine Talbot, author of A Foreign Kingdom
Further Reading: Check out these blog posts, featured articles, reviews, and essays
- Special Feature: Review of Arno Schmidt’s “The Book of Mormon” by John Durham Peters
- “Commentary: Mormon pageants and the performance of whiteness” by Jake Johnson, The Salt Lake Tribune
- Throwback Thursday: The Story of the Smiths
- Return to the City of Joseph by Scott C. Esplin, reviewed by James S. Bielo
- Thunder from the Right by Matthew L. Harris, reviewed by Lauren F. Turek
- “Mormon Women Claiming Power” by Margaret Olsen Hemming
- “Multiplicity: An Editors’ Introduction” by Quincy D. Newell and Benjamin E. Park from Mormon Studies Review
