Today, Cornell University Press releases an exciting new book featuring fourteen essays that track changes in the ways Americans have perceived the Latter-day Saints since the 1830s. From presidential politics, to political violence, to the definition of marriage, to the meaning of sexual equality—the editors and contributors place Latter-day Saints within larger American histories of territorial expansion, religious mission, Constitutional interpretation, and state formation. These essays also show that the political support of the Latter-day Saints has proven valuable to other political groups at critical junctures.
The volume includes chapters by Keith A. Erekson, Adam Jortner, Spencer W. McBride, Benjamin E. Park, Natalie K. Rose, Amy S. Greenberg, Thomas Richards Jr., Brent M. Rogers, Stephen E. Smith, Matthew C. Godfrey, Matt Mason, Rachel St. John, J. B. Haws, and Patrick Q. Mason. It was was edited by Spencer W. McBride, Brent M. Rogers, and Keith A. Erekson.
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