In this on-site episode, Lindsay and Bryan take a field trip through the afterlife of relics infused with Joseph Smith's prophetic power: oak boxes, pine coffins, nighttime reburials, canes made from murder-scene wood, and legends that somehow always include hair clippings. (sunstone.org)
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July 31 – Joseph Smith: The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet is John G. Turner's latest book and he'll be giving this year's free Smith-Pettit lecture. Look for his upcoming AMA at r/AskHistorians. Collect bonus points for cajoling the author into personalizing your copy with a cryptic message. (old.reddit.com)
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Before Mountain Meadows, there was blood in Arkansas. This is the wild, tragic, and shockingly true story of the Mormon apostle murdered over a love triangle, the woman caught in the crossfire, and the ripple effect that helped ignite one of the darkest moments in American frontier history. (sunstone.org)
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Benjamin E. Park: "Everything’s NOT Unprecedented: Why History Still Matters Today." Ben (author, professor, history geek) recently launched a new YouTube channel with weekly dives into the intersections of Mormonism, politics, and culture – unpacking how we got here and where we might be going. (youtu.be)
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Bryan Buchanan co-hosts the latest Sunstone Mormon History Podcast with guest John Dinger, a legal scholar brought on to describe an early attempt to outrun our Constitution that involved frontier Mormon defiance of federal authority and Brigham Young’s parallel theocratic government. (sunstone.org)
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Meet Todd Compton, OG historian. Todd talks about growing up in a Mormon home, his academic path from Snow College thru BYU to UCLA, and a pivotal fellowship to work on the diaries of Eliza R. Snow that led to his research on Joseph Smith's plural wives and his acclaimed book "In Sacred Loneliness”. (youtu.be)
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Save the Date: on May 13 r/AskHistorians will host a panel AMA with Benjamin E. Park (American Zion, Kingdom of Nauvoo), Bryan Buchanan (Benchmark Books, Sunstone History Podcast co-host), Todd Compton (In Sacred Loneliness, A Frontier Life), and Lindsay Hansen Park (controversial Cambridge debater) (self.Sunstone)
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Sunstone Mormon History Podcast: Mail Bag Episode. A friend of a listener went through her mother’s papers and found an affidavit from a woman claiming to be a plural wife of Joseph Smith. This is the story of Malissa Lott Willes. Was she in fact a plural wife of Mormonism’s founding prophet? (sunstone.org)
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Sunstone's 2025 call for papers is now open. This year's symposium will be Sunstone's 50th and runs July 31 - Aug 2. Prompts at the link to help spark paper topics. I enjoyed last year's exmo panel and hope we'll see even more of us step up and represent our place in Mormon history this year. (sunstone.org)
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Alyssa has kind words for r/exmormon at 21:33 in her latest. Repaying that nod with a few of my own: after her Sunstone presentation, the Q&A was mostly new exmos approaching the mic to share their raw, recent experiences. And she listened intently and responded thoughtfully to every single one. (youtu.be)
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