Join Lindsay as she hosts a sermon given by Brigham Young, delivered by actor Micah Nickolaisen.   Link to the sermon:

• Plurality of Wives—The Free Agency of Man

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Join Lindsay as she interviews Joe Geisner about the Martin and Willie Handcart Company experience and how it relates to polygamy.   Links mentioned and read in this episode:

• Kirsten Erickson’s experience
• Brigham Young’s One Mighty and Strong Statement
• South Pass: Gateway to a Continent by Will Bagley
• “ONE LONG FUNERAL MARCH”: A REVISIONIST’S VIEW OF THE MORMON HANDCART DISASTERS by Will Bagley
• LDS Overland Travel Database
• Devil’s Gate: Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy by David Roberts
• Denver Post: Handcart Hypocrisy 
• Sunstone: Two-Wheeled Torture Devices: A Contrarian’s View Of The Handcart Disaster
• Live Science: Going West Wasn’t So Deadly for Early Mormon Pioneers
• Human Mortality in a Natural Disaster: The Willie Handcart Company
• John Turner’s take on the Handcart expeditions
• Leadership, Planning, and Management of the 1856 Mormon Handcart Emigration by Don H. Smith
• By Common Consent: Learning the wrong lessons
• LDS version of the rescue
• HANDCART MYTH AND FACT
• The Martin Handcart Company at the Sweetwater – BYU Studies

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Join Lindsay as she interviews scholars Cristina Rosetti and Sara Vraneš about the history of sexuality and reproduction for Mormon women.   Links and books mentioned in this podcast:

• Rediscovering the history of Midwives
• The Relief Society magazine : organ of the Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
• A Gift Given, A Gift Taken: Ye Ancient and Honorable Order of Midwifery
• Relief Society Birth and Death Rituals: Women at the Gates of Mortality
• A Timeline of Mormon Sexuality
• Sex & Sexuality in the 19th Century
• Mormon Polygamy Documents about Bennett and Abortion
• Blog on black women’s reproduction
• Kimball’s talk: God Will Not Be Mocked

   

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Join Lindsay as she interviews scholars Cristina Rosetti and Sara Vraneš about the history of sexuality and reproduction for Mormon women.   Links and books mentioned in this podcast:

• Rediscovering the history of Midwives
• The Relief Society magazine : organ of the Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
• A Gift Given, A Gift Taken: Ye Ancient and Honorable Order of Midwifery
• Relief Society Birth and Death Rituals: Women at the Gates of Mortality
• A Timeline of Mormon Sexuality
• Sex & Sexuality in the 19th Century
• Mormon Polygamy Documents about Bennett and Abortion
• PART TWO HERE

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Join Lindsay as she discusses the history of Utah’s “Dixie Wine Mission.” Links and articles mentioned and read this in this episode:

• Dennis R. Lancaster’s BYU Dissertation: Dixie Wine Mission
• A Frontier Life book about Jacob Hamblin
• History of John C. Naegle and family
• Dennis Lancaster’s Sunstone article on the Wine Mission
• More about Naegle
• Isabella Grape

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  Join Lindsay as she talks about the history of the Word of Wisdom, following the death of Joseph Smith to the modern observances of LDS people today.   Links mentioned and read in this episode:

• Marijuana , Mormon Racists , Mexican Bandidos, and Crazy Queen Carlotta
• BEFORE THE BEARD: TRIALS OF THE YOUNG JOSEPH F. SMITH
• Clair Barrus’ research draft on Word of Wisdom
• Clair Barrus’ website
• LDS Newsroom Statment on Marijuana
• https://www.cityweekly.net/utah/utah-brewing-timeline/Content?oid=2157612
• http://www.utahhumanities.org/stories/items/show/135
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Springs_Hotel_and_Brewery
• https://www.saltlakemagazine.com/buzzed-beehive-brief-history-drinking-utah/
• http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=50218443&itype=CMSID
• http://devourutah.com/index.php/2017/07/10/fresh-suds-salt-lake-valley/
•  https://www.slugmag.com/lifestyle/history-of-beer-in-utah/
• http://pre-prowhiskeymen.blogspot.com/2016/08/brigham-young-and-valley-tan-whiskey_18.html)
• https://www.cityweekly.net/utah/utah-brewing-timeline/Content?oid=2157612f)
• https://www.thedeadhistory.com/emos-grave-salt-lake-city/ Jacob Moritz opened and owned several very successful breweries.
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19331516/jacob-moritz
• http://www.oldbreweries.com/breweries-by-state/utah/logan-ut-2-breweries/henry-worley-brewery-ut-9a/
• http://larkturnthehearts.blogspot.com/2009/05/corner-of-3rd-west-and-center-st-logan.html
• https://www.sltrib.com/artsliving/food/2017/11/16/this-utah-river-played-a-part-in-salt-lake-citys-beer-brewing-history-and-now-it-could-help-restore-a-victorian-mansion/
• https://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/j/JORDAN_RIVER.shtml
• http://www.oldbreweries.com/breweries-by-state/utah/logan-ut-2-breweries/jacob-theurer-brewery-ut-8a/d
• https://books.google.com/books?id=dPI7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA222&lpg=PA222&dq=Jacob+Theurer+utah&source=bl&ots=r9NDMZtvnb&sig=7X7SZQoEV_wf9OYI7r4D6susP6I&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwidhqu0sencAhXKIjQIHcALDnY4ChDoATABegQIAxAB#v=onepage&q=Jacob%20Theurer%20utah&f=false
• http://utahstories.com/2013/03/fisher-brewing-company-part-i/
• http://www.ldsliving.com/A-Controversial-Bar-Famous-Guests-More-Things-You-Didn-t-Know-About-Hotel-Utah-Before-It-Became-the-Joseph-Smith-Memorial-Building/s/82527

 

• EXTRAS:
• Here’s a few fun quotes about drinking as well from various prophets: https://www.fairmormon.org/answers/Question:_Why_did_Brigham_Young_build_a_whiskey_distillery_in_Utah%3F
• Click here to see some really fun photos of old bars in Utah: http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=56987423&itype=CMSID#gallery-carousel-446996 and more(https://www.peachridgeglass.com/2012/09/historic-photos-of-saloons-and-breweries-around-utah-in-the-wild-west-days/
• Other breweries in Utah (can’t confirm if Mormon or not): http://www.oldbreweries.com/breweries-by-state/utah/salt-lake-city-ut-13-breweries/henry-wagener-brewery-ut-34a/)

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Join Lindsay as she covers the early history of the Mormon idea of the “Word of Wisdom.”   Links mentioned or read in this podcast:

• Clair Barrus’ research draft on Word of Wisdom
• History of the Word of Wisdom by Scott Kenney
• Fair Mormon’s take on Joseph Smith drinking in Carthage
• Clair Barrus’ website

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Join Lindsay as she interviews researcher Antonio Trevisan about the life of eccentric prophet, Ross LeBaron. Links mentioned in this podcast:

• Trevisan’s website about Ross
• Fred Collier’s website
• Discussion about Tom Green’s trial at Sunstone
• Article on the Law of Adoption

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Join Lindsay as she and Bryan Buchanan discuss the life and shenanigans of William Smith, younger brother to Joseph Smith Jr. Links mentioned or discussed in this podcast:

• William B. Smith: In the Shadow of a Prophet
• Sisters of Joseph Smith
• Connell O’Donovan’s work on William Smith

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Join Lindsay as she interviews historian and biographer Connell O’Donovan about the life of Augusta Adams Cobb, the “Lioness of the Lord,” plural wife to Brigham Young. Links mentioned in the podcast:

• Before the Beard: Trials of the Young Joseph F. Smith
• The Flag Augusta Cobb and Eliza Snow sewed.
• Augusta Adams Cobb on Findagrave
• Augusta Adams Cobb overland travel records
• Sunstone presentation from Connell O’Donovan about Augusta’s letters
• Connell on Juvenile Instructor
• Information on Brigham Young’s household
• Paypal Connell to support his work: odonovan@ucsc.edu
• GoFundMe for Connell
• Connell O’Donovan’s research
• Connell O’Donovan’s research on Augusta

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