Join Lindsay as she sits down with American historian and professor Benjamin Park about polygamy in Nauvoo and the atmosphere it created.

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Join Lindsay as she interviews Clair Barrus from Today in Mormon History  about the revelations Joseph Smith had about polygamy, including the revelation that lead to D&C 132.

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• Links and text mentioned and read in this podcast: Religion and Sexuality: The Shakers, the Mormons, and the Oneida Community by Lawrence Foster
• Clair’s blog Today in Mormon History
• The Polygamy Revelations of Joseph Smith article with footnotes
• Shindle affidavit on seduction.
• Pratt/Schindle story in the Sangamo Journal
• Brian Hales’ position on these issues

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. This episode deals with Lucy Walker.

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• Read the text of the post here.
• Buy the reading guide here. Lucy Walker deposition, Temple Lot transcript, respondent’s testimony. 1902 affidavit by Lucy Walker.

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. This episode deals with Martha Knight.

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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. This episode deals with Eliza R. Snow.

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Links mentioned in this podcast:

• Read the text of the post here.
• Buy the reading guide here.
• Other Links mentioned:
• Brian Hales’ essay on the “Stairs incident”
• T&S Timeline of Eliza

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. This episode deals with Mary Rollins Lightner. [powerpresss] Links mentioned in the podcast:

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• Buy the reading guide here.

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Join Alice 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. This episode deals with Alice’s 3rd great, grandmother Patty Sessions.

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• Buy the reading guide here.

Join Alice 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. This episode deals with Alice’s great, great grandmother Sylvia Sessions.

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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. This episode deals with Presendia Huntington Buell.

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• Letter to Presendia Huntington Buell, 15 March 1839 from Liberty Jail
• Buy the reading guide here.

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. This episode deals with Joseph’s first plural wife, Fanny Alger.

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Links and text mentioned and read in this podcast:

• Read the text of the post here.
• Buy the reading guide here.