Excavating Mormon Pasts The New Historiography of the Last Half Century

a past president of the Mormon History Association, established his professional reputation through his biographical studies of Brigham Young and the controversial Joseph Smith biographer Fawn McKay Brodie. He also has an enduring interest in the issue of race within Mormonism--the subject of his first book, Saints, Slaves and Blacks: The Changing Place of Black People within Mormonism (1981) and his most recent, Black and Mormon: Reflections on Latterday Saint AfricanAmericans since 1978 (2004), co-edited with Darron Smith. His MHA presidential address in 2000 formed the basis of his biographical essay in this work.Bringhurst, Newell G. is the author of 'Excavating Mormon Pasts The New Historiography of the Last Half Century', published 2006 under ISBN 9781589580909 and ISBN 1589580907.