Join Lindsay as she interviews historian and author Steven L. Shields about the 487 groups or “expressions” that follow Joseph Smith.   Links mentioned in this podcast:

• Purchase Steve’s book, Divergent Paths of the Restoration

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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