7.9 History is Fascinating

Back to American Zion!  Today we look at the chapter “One Family Under God”, 1945-70.  Themes of civil rights, womanhood, and intellectualism are brought together as we look deeper at the post-WWII world of Mormonism!

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American Zion: A New History of Mormonism, by Benjamin E. Park

https://www.amazon.com/American-Zion-New-History-Mormonism/dp/1631498657

Berkeley Ward Centennial

https://berkeleyward.org/100/

Sterling McMurrin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_M._McMurrin

Joseph Fielding Smith

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Fielding_Smith

Man, His Origin and Destiny, by Joseph Fielding Smith, is discussed here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_views_on_evolution#Joseph_Fielding_Smith

J. Edward Johnson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edward_Johnson

Free Speech Movement

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Speech_Movement

Hugh Nibley

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Nibley

No Man Knows My History, by Fawn M. Brodie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Man_Knows_My_History

No, Ma'am, That's Not History, by Hugh Nibley

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No,_Ma%27am,_That%27s_Not_History

The Mountain Meadows Massacre (1950) by Juanita Brooks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mountain_Meadows_Massacre_(book)

Mormon Doctrine (book), by Bruce R. McConkie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_Doctrine_(book)

The Giant Joshua, by Maurine Whipple

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giant_Joshua

Too sacred for public consumption -or- Disgusting the prophet’s wife, by Eric Jepson

https://motleyvision.org/2009/07/09/too-sacred-for-public-consumption-or-disgusting-the-prophets-wife/

Eugene England

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_England

Truman G. Madsen (includes note he directed the Berkeley LDS Institute of Religion)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman_G._Madsen

Preliminary work from the author of the dissertation mentioned

https://latterdatasaints.org/author/elena/

Example, A Timeline of LDS Sunday School Manuals: 1972-Present, by Elena H. Call:

https://latterdatasaints.org/a-timeline-of-lds-sunday-school-manuals-1972-present/#more-1260

Elias: An Epic of the Ages, by Orson F. Whitney

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias:_An_Epic_of_the_Ages

Short Creek raid

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Creek_raid

The big article on the priesthood ban in Dialog, by Lester E. Bush

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V08N01_13.pdf

Truth & Treason (2025 movie)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_%26_Treason

Zelophehad’s Daughters

https://zelophehadsdaughters.com/

Helen Andelin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Andelin

Fascinating Womanhood, by Helen Andelin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascinating_Womanhood

The Feminine Mystique, by Betty Friedan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feminine_Mystique

The Stepford Wives (2004 film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stepford_Wives_(2004_film)

Indian Placement Program

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Placement_Program

The Night Watchman, by Louise Erdrich

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Watchman_(novel)

(atonement poem), by Theric Jepson

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/articles/atonement-poem/