Devery S. Anderson

DEVERY S. ANDERSON {[email protected]} is the award-winning author of a serialized history of the Dialogue Foundation. He is the editor of a three-volume documentary history of LDS temple worship, and author of Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement.

Review: An Essential Conversation Matthew L. Harris and Newell G. Bringhurst, eds. The Mormon Church & Blacks: A Documentary History

Articles/Essays – Volume 51, No. 3

A History of Dialogue, Part One: The Early Years, 1965-1971

Articles/Essays – Volume 32, No. 2

For nearly thirty-four years, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought has occupied a place, defined by former co-editor Allen Roberts, as the “pa triarch (or matriarch)” of independent Mormon scholarship.[1] And notwithstanding an increase of…

A History of Dialogue, Part Two: Struggle toward Maturity, 1971-1982

Articles/Essays – Volume 33, No. 2

After Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought was founded by Mormons at Stanford University in 1966, it attracted Latter-day Saint scholars from all over the United States, and soon its success surpassed the expectations of…

A History of Dialogue, Part Three: “Coming of Age” in Utah, 1982-1989

Articles/Essays – Volume 35, No. 2

By 1982 Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought had been publishing for sixteen years and had operated at both ends of the U.S. under three different editorships. It was born, flourished for several years, then…

A History of Dialogue, Part Four: A Tale in Two Cities, 1987-92

Articles/Essays – Volume 41, No. 3