Links

Laura Harris Hales, “Joseph Smith’s Polygamy: Toward a Better Understanding,” 2015 FairMormon Conference

LDS Perspectives Podcast Tough Questions about Mormon Polygamy with Dan Peterson May 24, 2017

Brian Hales, “Dissenters: Portraying the Church As Wrong So They Can Be Right Without It” (posted May 5, 2014).

Articles by Brian C. Hales

• “Opportunity Lost: A Review of Carol Lynn Pearson, The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy: Haunting the Hearts and Heaven of Women and Men.” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 23 (2017): 91-109.
• “The Practice of Polygamy” and “Joseph Smith’s Practice of Plural Marriage,” chapters in A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS History and Doctrine, ed. Laura Harris Hales, Provo, Utah: Religious Studies Center; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2016.
• “Dating Joseph Smith’s First Nauvoo Sealings,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 20 (2016): 1-16.
• “John Taylor’s 1886 Revelation,” in The Persistence of Polygamy: Joseph Smith and the Origins of Mormon Polygamy, vol. 3, Independence, Missouri: John Whitmer Books, 2015.
• “A Response to Denver Snuffer’s Essay on Plural Marriage, Adoption, and the Supposed Falling Away of the Church – Part 2: Façade or Reality?” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 16 (2015): 31-61.
• “A Response to Denver Snuffer’s Essay on Plural Marriage, Adoption, and the Supposed Falling Away of the Church – Part 1: Ignoring Inconvenient Evidence,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 16 (2015): 1-29.
• “John C. Bennett and Joseph Smith’s Polygamy: Addressing the Question of Reliability, Journal of Mormon History, vol. 41 (April 2015) no. 2, 131–181.
• “Identifying Joseph Smith’s Plural Wives” Journal of Mormon History, vol. 40 (Summer 2014) 155–68.
• “A Response to Grant Palmer’s ‘Sexual Allegations against Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Polygamy in Nauvoo,’” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 12 (2014): 183-236, with Gregory L. Smith.
• “Big Trouble in River City: American Crucifixion and the Defaming of Joseph Smith,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 11 (2014): 177–207, with Craig Foster.
• “LDS Joseph vs. RLDS Joseph: The Battle to Control the Public Memory of Joseph Smith,” with Don Bradley, in Newell G. Bringhurst and Craig L. Foster, eds., The Persistence of Polygamy: Joseph Smith and the Origins of Mormon Polygamy, vol. 2, Independence, Missouri: John Whitmer Books, 2013, 99-151.
• “Joseph Smith’s Plural Wives after the Martyrdom,” Mormon Historical Studies, vol. 13, no. 2. Fall 2012, 255-69.
• “‘A Continuation of the Seeds’: Joseph Smith and Spirit Birth.” Journal of Mormon History 38, no. 4 (Fall 2012): 105–30.
• Review of Andrew H. Hedges, Alex D. Smith, and Richard Lloyd Anderson, eds., Journals, Volume 2: December 1841-April 1843.  Vol. 2 of the Journals series of The Joseph Smith Papers.  Journal of Mormon History, 38, no. 3 (Summer 2012): 236-53.
• “Joseph Smith’s Personal Polygamy,” Journal of Mormon History, vol. 38 (Spring 2012) no. 2, pp. 163-228.
• “Encouraging Joseph Smith to Practice Plural Marriage:The Accounts of the Angel with a Drawn Sword,” Mormon Historical Studies vol. 11, no. 2, Fall 2010, 23-39.
• “The Latest Word,” Review of “George D. Smith, Nauvoo Polygamy: “… but we called it celestial marriage.” (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2008). Dialogue, Winter, 2009, 42 (Winter 2009) 213-35.
• “Fanny Alger and Joseph Smith’s Pre-Nauvoo Reputation,” Journal of Mormon History, 35 (Fall 2009) 4: 112-90.
• “Emma Smith, Eliza R. Snow, and the Reported Incident on the Stairs,” Mormon Historical Studies, vol. 10, no. 2, Fall 2009, 63-75.
• “’Guilty of Such Folly?’: Accusations of Adultery and Polygamy Against Oliver Cowdery,” Mormon Historical Studies vol. 9, no. 2, Fall 2008, 41-57.
• “The Joseph Smith – Sylvia Sessions Plural Sealings: Polyandry or Polygyny,” Mormon Historical Studies vol. 9, no. 1, Spring 2008, 19-28.
• Brian C. Hales,  “John T. Clark: The ‘One Mighty and Strong.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 39, no. 3 (Fall 2006): 46-63.
• Brian C. Hales review of Debbie Palmer and Dave Perrin, Keep Sweet: Children of Polygamy; Jenny Jessop Larson, Brainwash to Hogwash: Escaping and Exposing Polygamy; and Kathleen Tracy, The Secret Story of Polygamy, Journal of Mormon History, Fall 2006, 236-43.
• “Review,” Janet Bennion, Deseret Patriarchy: Mormon and Mennonite Communities in the Chihuahua Valley, Journal of Mormon History, 31 (Spring 2005) 1: 214-20.

For Joseph Smith’s Polygamy:

• http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/topic/polygamy
• http://en.fairmormon.org/Polygamy
• http://en.fairmormon.org/Polygamy_book
• What Mormons Believe: Polygamy

For Mormon Fundamentalist Polygamy:

• http://www.mormonfundamentalism.com/index.html
• http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/commentary/fundamentalist-mormons
• http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/mormon-fundamentalists-
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_fundamentalism