B. Carmon Hardy

B. CARMON HARDY {[email protected]} is emeritus professor of history at California State University, Fullerton. He has a long-time interest in Utah and Mormon history and has published extensively on these subjects. His best-known works are: Solemn Covenant: The Mormon Polygamous Passage (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992); and Doing the Works of Abraham: Its Origin, Practice, and Demise, Vol. 9, in THE MORMONS AND THE AMERICAN FRONTIER, general editor Will Bagley (Norman, Okla.: The Arthur H. Clark Co., 2007).

Self-Blame and the Manifesto

Articles/Essays – Volume 24, No. 3

Dialogue 24.3 (Fall 1991): 43–57
Before the Manifesto was first read in conference, members and church leaders fully believed in plural marriage as being a commandment from God. Once the Manifesto was read, over time members started wondering if it was because of their own actions that polygamy was no longer a commandment.

Polygamy, Mormonism, and Me

Articles/Essays – Volume 41, No. 2

Dialogue 41.2 (Summer 2009): 85–101
Hardy describes the long, difficult process of researching polygamy during a time that the church wasn’t open about polygamy.

The Persistence of Mormon Plural Marriage

Articles/Essays – Volume 44, No. 4