Mormon History

Why I Study Mormon Polygamy

The federal campaign to destroy the 19th-century practice was both historically unique and legally significant.

Aug 5 • Bryan Eisenbise

The Polygamy Case: U.S. v. Reynolds (1879)

Prevailing Protestant norms, not sound judicial reasoning, were behind the Supreme Court's foundational religious-freedom case. And the effects still…

Jul 28 • Bryan Eisenbise

Dear Mormon History, Van Buren was Right

How a Fundamental Misunderstanding of Constitutional Law Resulted in Nearly 200 Years of Misdirected Resentment.

Jul 20 • Bryan Eisenbise

Polygamy and the Forgotten Fight for Religious Freedom

A Legal History of the Nineteenth-Century Campaign against Mormon Polygamy and Its Absence from the Civil Rights Narrative

Jul 5 • Bryan Eisenbise

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