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Best of Year of Polygamy
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Best of Year of Polygamy
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Feb 12th, 2025
Polygamy was integral to the early days of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (AKA: the mainstream Mormon church). This history is not generally talked about (at least not in detail) by the church itself. This podcast goes into detail on what we know and what a variety of people suspect. Since there's a ...
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Join Lindsay for the primer series on Mormon Polygamy that will begin with the wives of Joseph Smith and eventually broaden to contemporary strains of the practice today. This episode deals with Josep | -- | -- | -- | January 1, 2014 | 34:19s | This episode gives a disclaimer of biases and covers Fanny Alger's experience with polygamy. | |||||||
Join Lindsay for the primer series on Mormon Polygamy that will begin with the wives of Joseph Smith and eventually broaden to contemporary strains of the practice today. This episode deals with Eliza | -- | -- | -- | February 26, 2014 | 38:02s | Eliza R. Snow is already well-known just for who she was as an individual. Hearing her story as it pertains to polygamy was very interesting. | |||||||
Join Lindsay for the primer series on Mormon Polygamy that will begin with the wives of Joseph Smith and eventually broaden to contemporary strains of the practice today. This episode deals with Emily | -- | -- | -- | March 26, 2014 | 1:06:31s | One of the most heartbreaking stories of polygamy... This is some of the real impact of polygamy. Episode 22, featuring the story of Eliza Partridge adds more to this story as well and gives another perspective to similar events. | |||||||
Join Lindsay for the primer series on Mormon Polygamy that will begin with the wives of Joseph Smith and eventually broaden to contemporary strains of the practice today. This episode deals with Helen | -- | -- | -- | May 9, 2014 | 32:19s | Must listen given that Helen Mar Kimball is one of the most well-known of Joseph Smith Jr.'s plural wives. | |||||||
Join Lindsay for the primer series on Mormon Polygamy that will begin with the wives of Joseph Smith and eventually broaden to contemporary strains of the practice today. This episode deals with Desde | -- | -- | -- | June 3, 2014 | 25:48s | ||||||||
Join Lindsay as she discusses the famous woman married to Brigham Young, dubbed as “Brigham’s Pet,” Amelia Folsom, said to be his favorite wife. Links mentioned in this podcast: The Tyranny of Mormon | -- | -- | -- | September 4, 2014 | 40:00s | ||||||||
Join Lindsay as she discusses the life of Women’s Exponent writer Lucinda Dalton and the strange case of her posthumous divorce from her polygamist husband. Links mentioned in this podcast: Buy | -- | -- | -- | September 20, 2014 | 38:11s | ||||||||
Join Lindsay as she discusses the life of a remarkable woman, Hannah Tapfield King. Links and text mentioned and read in this podcast: “As the Bird Sings” BYU Studies Article on Hannah Hannah Tapf | -- | -- | -- | November 22, 2014 | 58:17s | A well-told story and a nicely put together episode. Lots of readings from Hannah's own journals. | |||||||
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Join Lindsay for the primer series on Mormon Polygamy that will begin with the wives of Joseph Smith and eventually broaden to contemporary strains of the practice today. This episode deals with polyg | -- | -- | -- | January 29, 2014 | 1:00:05s | Gives a great overview of what was going on Nauvoo - at least as far as polygamy is concerned. | |||||||
Join Lindsay for the primer series on Mormon Polygamy that will begin with the wives of Joseph Smith and eventually broaden to contemporary strains of the practice today. This episode deals with the c | -- | -- | -- | April 7, 2014 | 35:38s | An interesting look at what we know / don't know about Joseph Smith's progeny. | |||||||
Join Lindsay as she discusses the events leading up to the Martyrdom of Joseph Smith and how it affected the Saints and plural marriage afterwards. Links mentioned in this podcast: Buy the reading gui | -- | -- | -- | June 25, 2014 | 32:02s | This episode puts the practice of Mormon plural marriage in the context of other church history. | |||||||
Join Lindsay as she discusses the first public acknowledgement of polygamy, divorces and marriages, the Early Utah Period, and Blood Atonement. Links mentioned in this podcast: Read the transcript of | -- | -- | -- | July 8, 2014 | 25:08s | This episode gives some more religious context as to why polygamy was willing practiced. | |||||||
Join Lindsay as she discusses how the practice of plural marriage evolved in early Mormon Utah in the 1850’s.Links mentioned in this podcast: Buy the reading guide here. Buy the reading guide here. Bu | -- | -- | -- | July 12, 2014 | 47:02s | This gets into some of the politics of polygamy in early Utah. | |||||||
Join Lindsay as she discusses what plural marriages did to prescribed family roles and how it affected the mental health of plural wives. Links mentioned in this podcast: Daily Life on the Nineteen | -- | -- | -- | July 21, 2014 | 1:03:40s | I found this one did a really good of covering some of the social pressures and expectations of the early LDS church. | |||||||
Join Lindsay as she interviews historian Joseph Geisner about 1850’s Utah including stories about Bill Hickman and Porter Rockwell. This episode contains strong themes of violence. This is part two o | -- | -- | -- | August 3, 2014 | 58:19s | This episode helps contextualise the Utah/Mormon experience with the rest of American history. | |||||||
Join Lindsay as she discusses the creation, suspension and continuation of the Relief Society. Links mentioned in this podcast: Keepapitchinin Forgotten Relief Societies 1844-67 by Richard Jensen Wome | -- | -- | -- | August 10, 2014 | 1:03:42s | Just a really fascinating look at the early Relief Society (the LDS women's organisation - similar in some ways to the Catholic Women's League (especially in the early days (sorry about all the parentheses))). | |||||||
Join Lindsay as she discusses the events leading up to the 1890 Manifesto. Links mentioned in this podcast: LDS Church Authority and New Plural Marriages, 1890 – 1904 by D. Michael Quinn The Four | -- | -- | -- | October 25, 2014 | 1:21:25s | ||||||||
Join Lindsay as she explains about some of the key players in Short Creek, Arizona and life of Joseph Musser. Links and text mentioned and read in this podcast: Amazing images from LIFE of the Short | -- | -- | -- | February 22, 2015 | 33:49s | ||||||||
Join Lindsay as she interview Irene Spencer who is the widow of Verlan LeBaron, prophet of the LeBaron group or The Church of the Firstborn of the Fulness of Times. Irene married Verlan at age 16 and | -- | -- | -- | February 23, 2015 | 58:28s | ||||||||
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