Scholars who embrace this term attempt to put significant events into context rather than bracketing data that might seem challenging to traditional assumptions. These scholars are also as interested in the experience of the rank-and-file as in the lives and edicts of the leaders, and pursue questions about women, minorities, domestic life, diet, fashion, and the common church experience. They employ statistical analysis and theories and methods of the social sciences in their work.In this collection, D. Michael Quinn has selected fifteen essays which demonstrate the methods of this new history. Contributors include Thomas G. Alexander, James B. Allen, Leonard J. Arrington, Maureen Ursenbach Beecher, Eugene E. Campbell, Kenneth L. Cannon II, Mario S. DePillis, Robert B. Flanders, Klaus J. Hansen, William G. Hartley, Stanley S. Ivins, Dean L. May, Linda King Newell, B. H. Roberts, Jan Shipps, and Ronald W. Walker. Participants offer new ideas and give readers the opportunity to determine for themselves the relative success of these approaches by presenting examples. The collection demonstrates areas of interpretation that may be considered revisionist as well.
^ (2012). New Mormon History: Revisionist Essays on the PastISBN 9781560850113 (revised Dec 2013)
^D. Michael QuinnThe New Mormon History: Revisionist Essays on the Past (Essays on Mormonism Series), Signature Books. Amazon. ISBN 9781560850113 (revised Nov 2014)
^The New Mormon History: Revisionist Essays On The PastIndigo. ISBN 9781560850113 (revised May 2022)
It is not surprising that LDS movement would be inspired by the text and form criticism movement that began in the early 20th century. It is not surprising that the primary "battle" is between this new perspective and the more traditional one in LDS movement itself. There is no "new" LDS history as there has never been a "new" Jesus story. Stories are told over and over again by humans and interpreted by others and it is a fact that a historical account of Jesus would be more neutral if it was written today..
D. Michael Quinn, one of the foremost practitioners of the type of work distinguished as the "New Mormon History," certainly thinks so. He has assembled in this volume a set of fifteen previously published essays and a short epilogue by B. H. Roberts, all demonstrating most ably the basic trends identified as "New Mormon History" (to Quinn a broadly descriptive rather than polemical label). He notes that this type of historical analysis seeks to attain a "functional objectivity" and avoid several "deadly si..
Michael Quinn has collected a body of work that is sure to be remembered as one of his least controversial works in general circulation. That's all well and good, but it wasn't as "fun" to read as some of his own writings.
