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    • Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls?
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  • American history
    • Is Jim Bridger Responsible for What Happened to the Donner Party?
    • Who Was the Real Billy the Kid?
    • What Started the Road to Civil War?
    • What Did Hello Girls Do in WWI?
    • What Is Ida Tarbell Best Known For?
    • What Was Brigham Young’s Swift Pony Express?
    • What Happened Between Jim Bridger and Brigham Young?
    • Who Were the Jamestown Brides?
    • What Is Marcus Whitman Famous For?
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      • Emma Smith
      • Henry B. Eyring
      • Truman G. Madsen
      • Bruce R. McConkie
      • Dallin H. Oaks
      • Brigham Young
      • Hugh Nibley
      • Martin Harris
      • Eugene England
    • Book of Abraham
      • 5 Fascinating Facts about the Book of Abraham
      • Let’s Talk About the Book of Abraham with Kerry Muhlestein
      • Joseph Smith’s Use of Hebrew in the Book of Abraham
      • John Gee on the Book of Abraham
      • New Joseph Smith Papers Book of Abraham Research
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      • Little-Known Facts about Brigham Young
      • Brigham Young and Jim Bridger
      • Common Misunderstandings about Brigham Young
      • Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet
      • Scholar Finds Brigham Young Revelation
      • Winter Quarters
    • Joseph Smith
      • Who Was Joseph Smith?
      • King Follett Discourse
      • Did the Kinderhook Plates Really Fool Joseph Smith?
      • Joseph Smith’s First Vision
      • Truman Maden’s Joseph Smith Tapes
      • Joseph Smith and the Gold Plates
      • Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible (JST)
      • Joseph Smith’s Run for President
      • Joseph Smith Art
      • Zion’s Camp
    • Polygamy
      • Let’s Talk about Polygamy
      • Second Manifesto
      • These Scholars Will Make You Think about Polygamy
      • Frank Cannon’s Attacks on Polygamy
      • Polygamy in ‘Saints Vol. 2’
      • Polygamy Historians and Their Research
      • Polygamy in Latter-day Saint Art
      • Brigham Young, the Council of Fifty, and “Joseph’s Measures”
    • What are Theological Open Questions?
    • What’s Really in the Journal of Discourses?
    • What’s Next for BYU Studies?
    • How Important Is the King Follett Sermon?
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