While Harold B. Lee served as president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for a mere one and half-years–among the shortest tenure of any church leader–his impact…

Fundamentalist Mormon polygamy emerged from LDS Church President Wilford Woodruff’s 1890 Manifesto, which ostensibly rescinded the practice of plural marriage among Mormons. This volume explores Mormon fundamentalism from several perspectives…

Examines Mormonism in the context of American attitudes towards slavery and race, and the racial traditions it maintained for over a century. While Mormons may have drawn from a distinct…