Year of Polygamy Podcast
Year of Polygamy Podcast
The Story of Mormon Plural Marriage
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Aug 25, 2014 • 39min
Episode 49: Emma Lee French
Join Lindsay as she talks about Emma Batchelor Lee French, a favorite wife of John D. Lee of Mountain Meadows Massacre fame. Links mentioned in this podcast: Will Bagley’s: “ONE LONG FUNERAL MARCH”: A REVISIONIST’S VIEW OF THE MORMON […]
Aug 16, 2014 • 1h 27min
Episode 48: Southern Utah Polygamy- Orderville, Santa Clara, Cedar City and Violence
Join Lindsay as she discusses interesting Southern Utah communities that practiced plural marriage including Orderville and the United Order, Santa Clara and Cedar City. TW: This post contains strong themes of violence. Links mentioned in this post: Leonard J. […]
Aug 15, 2014 • 42min
Episode 47: Southern Utah Polygamy- St. George
Join Lindsay as she discusses the history of St. George and several prominent polygamists in the area. Links and text mentioned in this podcast: Jacob Hamblin’s Bio, a Frontier Life by Todd Compton Larry Logue, “A Time of Marriage: […]
Aug 10, 2014 • 1h 4min
Episode 46: A Brief History of Relief Society
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 Women of Covenant: The Story of Relief Society Mormon Enigma The First Fifty […]
Aug 7, 2014 • 59min
Episode 45: Houses of Polygamy
‘ Join Lindsay as she discusses three famous homes integral to the history of Utah polygamy- the Beehive House, the Lion House, and the Gardo House. Links and text mentioned and read in this podcast: You can read the text […]
Aug 3, 2014 • 58min
Episode 44: The Utah War
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 of a two-part episode. Links and text mentioned and […]
Jul 28, 2014 • 1h
Episode 43: Historian Joe Geisner and Violent 1850’s Utah
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 one of a two-part episode.
Jul 26, 2014 • 32min
Episode 42: The Scandal of Soldiers, Wives, and Sex
TW: This podcast contains some discussions of rape. Join Lindsay as she discusses how women’s sexuality became the catalyst for a decade or more of Mormon violence, and the curious Victorian scandal involving Brigham Young’s daughter-in-law and a “Gentile” soldier. […]
Jul 21, 2014 • 1h 4min
Episode 41: Polygamy and the Family Public and Private
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 Nineteenth Century American Frontier By Mary Ellen […]
Jul 12, 2014 • 47min
Episode 39: Early Utah Period Polygamy
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. Buy the reading guide here. Buy the […]
