Brenden Rensink

BRENDEN W. RENSINK is associate director of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies and professor of history at Brigham Young University. He is a historian of the North American West with expertise in borderlands, Indigenous peoples, the environment, genocide studies, religion, and public history.

Contextualizing and Chronicling the Lives of Enslaved People in Utah Territory | Amy Tanner Thiriot, Slavery in Zion: A Documentary and Genealogical History of Black Lives and Black Servitude in Utah Territory, 1847–1862

Articles/Essays – Volume 58, No. 1

Genealogical research has long played a prominent role in the theology and lived religious experiences of individuals, families, and communities associated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). Given this reality, one…