Title: Mormon Menace
Description: Mason demonstrates how anti-Mormonism was one of the earliest grounds for reconciliation between North and South after the Civil War and Reconstruction. Southerners joined with northern reformers and Republicans to endorse the use of federal power to vanquish the perceived threat to Christian marriage and the American republic.
Subjects: Church of jesus christ of latter-day saints, Mormons, Southern states, church history, History, Persecutions, Church history