A Book Callout

[Paddy]

I am in between Uni semesters at the moment and I want to sink my teeth into a good book on LDS Church History. I am looking for something that covers the early beginnings and the Nauvoo period. Does anyone have any good recommendations...??

Thanks

Paddy

[Okrahomer]

I am in between Uni semesters at the moment and I want to sink my teeth into a good book on LDS Church History. I am looking for something that covers the early beginnings and the Nauvoo period. Does anyone have any good recommendations...??

Thanks

Paddy

I am no historian, but at the risk of revealing my lack of sophistication and training:

I suggest this book My link. Its historical scope goes beyond Nauvoo, and may therefore be insufficiently "meaty" for you. At a minimum, I think its huge bibilography might guide you further.

I also found this book to be very interesting: My link

[Okrahomer]

I am in between Uni semesters at the moment and I want to sink my teeth into a good book on LDS Church History. I am looking for something that covers the early beginnings and the Nauvoo period. Does anyone have any good recommendations...??

Thanks

Paddy

I am a bit surprised you haven't received additional suggestions. If you don't mind, I will add another from me: Lucy Mack Smith's History

[Joseph Antley]

If you haven't already, Richard Bushman's Rough Stone Rolling is an obvious must.

[Emerson]

Yeah, Bushman's Rough Stone Rolling is in a league of its own for early Mormonism, especially if you want to just know the history. (As opposed to specific themes.) If you want a thick book devoted to just Nauvoo, I'd suggest Glen Leonard's Nauvoo.

If you want to branch out into more books, I suggest this list, which I argue includes the most important 25 books in Mormon history, as well as this list, which includes the most important articles.

[Paddy]

Thanks for your suggestions. I have read RSR and thought it was great. It has piqued my interest in other church history books.

Thanks again

Paddy

[Nevo]

Thanks for your suggestions. I have read RSR and thought it was great. It has piqued my interest in other church history books.

Thanks again

Paddy

Here are a few more suggestions:

• Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith, by Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery
  
• Early Mormon Documents (5 volumes), by Dan Vogel
  
• Hearken, O Ye People: The Historical Setting of Joseph Smith's Ohio Revelations, by Mark Staker
  
• The 1838 Mormon War in Missouri, by Stephen C. LeSueur
  
• Nauvoo: Kingdom on the Mississippi, by Robert Bruce Flanders
  

[David T]

• Hearken, O Ye People: The Historical Setting of Joseph Smith's Ohio Revelations, by Mark Staker

I second this. This book should be essential reading for anyone with any degree of interest in all in Mormon history, and understanding the original intended context of most of the D&C.