Join Lindsay as she interviews historians John Dinger, Bryan Buchanan, and John Hatch about the “Joseph Fought Polygamy” arguments. This is part one of two.   Links mentioned in this podcast:

• Joseph Fought Polygamy doc
• Defending Joseph
• Pure Mormonism: Why I’m Abandoning Polygamy
• Corb Lund’s Brother Brigham, Brother Young song
• Nauvoo Expositor
• Nauvoo City Council meetings for June 8 & 10
• Joseph Smith’s letter to Newel K. Whitney, July 27, 1842
• Deed to Sarah Ann Whitney September 6, 1842
• Blessing to Sarah Ann Whitney March 23, 1843
• John C. Bennett’s 1842 expose History of the Saints
• Joseph Smith’s 1844 indictment for adultery and fornication
• The Lott family bible
• Testimony of John Scott in Nauvoo v. O.F. Bostwick

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Join Lindsay as she interviews American historian Ben Park who talks about the exciting and shocking confirmation of Joseph Smith’s polygamy found in a blessing given to Sarah Ann Whitney by Joseph Smith and written in his own hand.   Links mentioned and read in this podcast:

• Ben Park’s blog post on this subject
• View the actual blessing on Joseph Smith Papers Project
• Copy of the property deed to Sarah Ann Whitney
• Brian Hales’ interpretation of Sarah’s story

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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.  

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Links mentioned in this episode:

• DEBATING SUCCESSION, MARCH 1846: JOHN E. PAGE, ORSON HYDE, AND THE TRAJECTORIES OF JOSEPH SMITH’S LEGACY
• D. Michael Quinn’s article on succession 
• Mormon succession geekery
• Wiki: Succession Crisis
• Ronald W. Walker, “Six Days in August: Brigham Young and the Succession,” in A Firm Foundation: Church Organization and Administration, ed. David J. Whittaker and Arnold K. Garr (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2011), 161–96.
• Polygamy on the Pedernales: Lyman Wight’ s Mormon Villages in Antebellum Texas, 1845-1858 by Melvin C. Johnson

Join Lindsay and she and Joe Geisner discuss the newly released Council of Fifty minutes.

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Links mentioned in this podcast:

• Previous podcasts Joe Geisner has been on.
• Council of Fifty Minutes
• D. Michael Quinn’s article on Violence and Joseph Smith
• LDS.org on Council of Fifty Minutes
• Signature Books on Council of Fifty

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 as she discusses the events leading up to the Martyrdom of Joseph Smith and how it affected the Saints and plural marriage afterwards.

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Links mentioned in this podcast:

• Buy the reading guide here. Buy the reading guide here. Buy the reading guide here. Buy the reading guide here.
• Episode 42: The Succession Crisis and LDS Priesthood.

  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 Flora Ann Woodworth.

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Links mentioned in this podcast:

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