Join Lindsay as she interviews author and anthropoligist Virginia Kerns about Sally Kanosh, the indigenous slave girl purchased by Brigham Young’s family. Purchase the book here. Book trailer can be found here.
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Episode 187: The 19th Wife
Ann Eliza Webb Dee Young Denning was married for a time to Brigham Young. After a tumultuous experience with Mormonism, she left the territory and wrote an expose titled, “Wife No. 19, or The Story of a Life in Bondage,” about her […]
Episode 173: The Walker War
Join Lindsay as she discusses Mormon accounts of the Walker War with scholar Ryan Wimmer and how they affected the landscape of Mormon settlement. Links mentioned in this podcast: Ryan Wimmer’s article, The Walker War Reconsidered Utah Division of State […]
Episode 167: The Council of Fifty
Join Lindsay as she interviews historians Jedediah Rogers and Cristina Rosetti about the Council of 50 minutes. Links mentioned in this podcast: Purchase the Minutes and Book Joseph Smith papers on the Council of 50 By Common Consent’s take […]
Episode 166: Sermons: Plurality of Wives—The Free Agency of Man
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
Episode 158: Augusta Adams Cobb (and other Boston Mormon Women)
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 […]
Episode 125: The Succession Crisis
Join Lindsay as she talks with American historian Ben Park, John Hamer, and Danielle Mooney about the many leadership and priesthood splits in the Mormon movement. Links mentioned in this episode: DEBATING SUCCESSION, MARCH 1846: JOHN E. PAGE, ORSON […]
Episode 64: Hannah Tapfield King -English Poetess
Join Lindsay as she discusses the life of a remarkable woman, Hannah Tapfield King. Links and text mentioned and read in this podcast: “As the Bird Sings” BYU Studies Article on Hannah Hannah Tapfield King’s journals transcript Hannah’s […]
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”
Episode 50: Marriage to Brigham Young
Join Lindsay as she interviews former LDS Church archivist and former State of Utah archivist Jeffery Johnson about the women married to Brigham Young. Links mentioned in this episode: Defining ‘Wife’: The Brigham Young Households,” by Jeffrey Johnson […]