How the Women of the Mormon Church Came to Embrace Polygamy

A HOUSE FULL OF FEMALES
Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870
By Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

• By BEVERLY GAGE
• The New York Times

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is a historian’s historian.

For more than three decades, she has dazzled her profession with archival discoveries, creative spark and an ability to see “history” where it…

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