Gene A. Sessions

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Sainted Mothers | Vicky Burgess-Olson, ed., Sister Saints

As this book about the sainted mothers of Mormonism was coming off the press, President Spencer Kimball was preparing his opening address for the 148th Annual Conference of the Church. Remembering the Utah IWY fiasco…

The Holding Forth of Jeddy Grant

As the story goes, and as countless Mormon preachers and teachers have told it, embellished it and retold it for generations, it was a classic confrontation between a conspiracy of falsehood and the heroism of…

Accolades for Good Wives | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750

I have written book reviews on a regular basis for almost a decade. Most of them have been in the field of Mormon/ Utah history, although I consistently try to disclaim my expertise in the…

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In the fall 1983 column, we surmised that Merlo Pusey’s history of the George A. Smiths represented, by virtue of its flavor, a respectable and even successful attempt at “family-authorized” biography. Subsequently, a missive from…