Excavating Mormon Pasts: The New Historiography of the Last Half Century

Winner of the Special Book Award from the John Whitmer Historical Association Includes Mormon History Association Award Winning Essay by Roger Launius. Excavating Mormon Pasts assembles sixteen knowledgeable scholars from both LDS and the Community of Christ traditions who have long participated skillfully in this dialogue. It presents their insightful and sometimes incisive surveys of where the New Mormon History has come from and which fields remain unexplored. It is both a vital reference work and a stimulating picture of the New Mormon History in the early twenty-first century. “[Excavating Mormon Pasts is] a valuable tool in the ongoing quest for clarity, for truth, for certainty. It is one of several volumes I’ve seen in the past few years that qualify for a ‘must have’ rating.” —Jeffrey Needle, Association for Mormon Letters