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Posted on January 4, 2021January 4, 2021

10 Questions with Keith Erekson

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Sponsored by BYU Studies—Sponsored by BYU Studies—Historian Keith Erekson takes readers behind the scenes of the Church History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.

If you want to learn more, check out “A New Era of Research Access in the Church History Library” in the Oct. 2020 edition of the Journal of Mormon History.

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Posted on August 26, 2020August 29, 2020

10 Questions with Neylan McBaine

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Sponsored by BYU Studies— Neylan McBaine is the CEO of Better Days 2020, founder of Mormon Women, and author of Pioneering the Vote: The Untold Story of Suffragists in Utah and the West.

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Posted on May 12, 2020July 15, 2020

10 questions with Claire Cock-Starkey

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Sponsored by BYU Studies—Author Claire Cock-Starkey has written about book lovers, libraries, and even some of history’s most famous last words. She turns her attention to museums in A Museum Miscellany (Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 2019).

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Posted on January 21, 2020January 22, 2020

10 questions with Jedediah Rogers

Sponsored by BYU Studies—Does religion look any different when viewed through the lens of environmental history? Continue reading “10 questions with Jedediah Rogers”

Posted on January 13, 2020March 2, 2020

The Biography of Truman G. Madsen

Sponsored by BYU Studies— Truman G. Madsen is one of the most influential Latter-day Saints of the last 100 years.

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Posted on October 30, 2019October 30, 2019

10 questions with Craig Bruce Smith

World history was forever changed as a result of the American Revolution, but the war also had far-reaching consequences that have gone unexamined—until now. 

Join historian Craig Bruce Smith as he discusses his book, American Honor: The Creation of the Nation’s Ideals During the Revolutionary Era. Continue reading “10 questions with Craig Bruce Smith”

Posted on October 7, 2019October 7, 2019

10 questions with Susannah Gibson

Sponsored by BYU Studies—Susannah Gibson is the author of The Spirit of Inquiry: How one extraordinary society shaped modern science (Oxford University Press, 2019). Continue reading “10 questions with Susannah Gibson”

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