num_pages: 310
description:  The New Mormon History is the banner under which many professional historians today approach Latter-day Saint historiography. Scholars who embrace this term attempt to put significant events into context rather than bracketing data that might seem challenging to traditional assumptions. These scholars are also as interested in the experience of the rank-and-file as in the lives and edicts of the leaders and pursue questions about women minorities domestic life diet fashion and the common church experience. They employ statistical analysis and theories and methods of the social sciences in their work. In this collection D. Michael Quinn has selected fifteen essays which demonstrate the methods of this new history. Contributors include Thomas G. Alexander James B. Allen Leonard J. Arrington Maureen Ursenbach Beecher Eugene E. Campbell Kenneth L. Cannon II Mario S. DePillis Robert B. Flanders Klaus J. Hansen William G. Hartley Stanley S. Ivins Dean L. May Linda King Newell B. H. Roberts Jan Shipps and Ronald W. Walker. Participants offer new ideas and give readers the opportunity to determine for themselves the relative success of these approaches by presenting examples. The collection demonstrates areas of interpretation that may be considered revisionist as well.
language: English
title: The New Mormon History: Revisionist Essays on the Past
publisher: Signature Books