Year of Polygamy

Episode 63: Phoebe Woodruff the Prophet’s Wife

Join Lindsay as she talks with historian Corey Howard about the life of Phoebe Woodruff, first wife to Wilford Woodruff (President of the LDS Church during the Manifesto period). Links and text mentioned and read in this podcast: Todd Compton’s

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Episode 62: Post-Manifesto Marriages

Join Lindsay as she discusses several of the most prominent known marriages that happened after both the 1890 manifesto and the 1904 manifesto.     Links and text mentioned and read in this podcast: Solemn Covenant, The Mormon Polygamous Passage

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Episode 61: Polygamy and Abuse Intro

Lindsay speaks with Kristy Money, author of a recent oped discussing LDS.org’s essays on polygamy and how they can contribute to grooming and predatory behavior. Links mentioned in this podcast: FAIR Mormon’s take on these issues. Brian Hales’ views on

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Episode 60: The 1890 Manifesto

  Join Lindsay as she discusses the events leading up to the 1890 Manifesto. Links mentioned in this podcast:   LDS Church Authority and New Plural Marriages, 1890 – 1904 by D. Michael Quinn The Four Hidden Revelations (1880, 1882,

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Episode 59: The New Church Essay, Part One

This episode originally appeared on Mormonstories.org and is hosted by John Dehlin.  Join John, Lindsay, John Hamer, and J. Nelson-Seawright as they discuss LDS.org’s newest essay on polygamy in Kirtland and Nauvoo. Or listen on Mormon Stories here!    

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Year of Polygamy

Join Lindsay for the primer series on Mormon Polygamy that will begin with the wives of Joseph Smith and eventually broaden to contemporary strains of the practice today. Episode 01: Fanny Alger Episode 02: Lucinda Morgan Harris Episode 03: Louisa

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Episode 58: Ann Gordge- The Mormon Calamity Jane

  Join Lindsay as she discusses the fantastic and gruesome autobiography of the youngest wife of John D. Lee, Ann Gordge.  This episode contains strong themes of violence and listener discretion is advised.     Links mentioned in this podcast:

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Episode 57: Polygamy Gets the Right to Vote

Join Lindsay and Kate Kelly as they discuss the Women’s Suffrage movement and how polygamy played and integral role. Links mentioned in this podcast: Photo of Martha Huges Cannon in the Utah State Senate in 1897 Sister-Wives and Suffragists: Polygamy

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Episode 56: Mormon Polygamy in the Mexican Colonies

Join Lindsay as she talks with historian Barbara Jones Brown about polygamy in Mexico around the turn of the century.   Links mentioned in this podcast: Join the Mormon History Association! Article in Deseret News, “Remembering a Grand Soul, Lorna

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Episode 55: Emmeline Free- Brigham’s “Abandoned Pet”

  Join Lindsay as she interview genealogist Corey Horward about one of Brigham Young’s most beloved wives, Emmeline Free. Links mentioned in this podcast: Emmeline Free Young Biographical Sketch, by Corey Howard Newspaper article, “Brigham’s Abandoned Pet”

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