Donald R. Shaffer

PhD at Univeristy of Maryland

Mormon-Gentile Conflict in Illinois Reconsidered? | Annette P. Hampshire, Mormonism in Conflict: The Nauvoo Years

Annette Hampshire’s Mormonism in Conflict: The Nauvoo Years is simultaneously refreshing and exasperating. To her credit, Hampshire strives for a degree of methodological and theoretical rigor that has been sadly absent in most Mormon historiography.…