
The Special Collections and Archives of Utah State University's Merrill-Cazier Library houses the personal and historical collection of Leonard J. Arrington, renowned scholar of the American West.
The Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lecture annually hosts the presentation of current research by a leading scholar. Among the lecturers have been such notable historians as Thomas G. Alexander, Richard L. Bushman, Sarah Barringer Gordon, Howard Lamar, Jan Shipps, Donald Worster, and Pulitzer Prize-winner Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.

The Leonard J. Arrington
Lecture Series
published by USU Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives
Volume 17 Like the Hajis of Meccah and Jerusalem
Richard V. Francaviglia
ISBN 978-0-87421-884-8 43pp. $7.95
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Volume 16 A Mountain of Paper
Carl Arrington, Susan Arrington-Madsen
ISBN 978-0-87421-846-6 20pp. $7.95
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Volume 15 The Emotional and Priestly Logic of Plural Mariage
Kathleen Flake
ISBN 978-0-87421-802-2 22pp. $7.95
Volume 14 Predicting the Past: The Utah War's Twenty-First Century Future
William P. MacKinnon
ISBN 978-0-87421-752-0 36pp. $7.95
Volume 13 What's True in Mormon Folklore? The Contribution of Folklore to Mormon Studies
William A. Wilson
ISBN 978-0-87421-717-9 20pp. $7.95
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Volume 12 Brigham Young, the Quorum of the Twelve, and the Latter-Day Saint Investigation of the Mountain Meadows Massacre
Thomas G. Alexander
ISBN 978-0-87421-687-5 48pp. $7.95
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Volume 11 In-Laws and Outlaws: Lessons in Research and Friendship and a Report from the Archives
Sarah Gordon Barringer
ISBN 978-0-87421-682-0 38pp $7.95
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Volumes 1 to 10: The Collected Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lectures
ISBN 978-087421-598-4 296pp cloth $29.95
ISBN 978-0-87421-527-4 e-Book $20.00
Book Review The Western Historical Quarterly Spring 2006 / Lavina Fielding Anderson
Book Review Association for Mormom Letters Janurary 3, 2005 / Jeffery Needle
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Volume 9 Rachel's Death: How Memory Challenges History
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
ISBN 978-0-87421-578-6 32pp $7.95
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Volume 8 Encountering Mormon Country: John Wesley Powell, John Muir, and the Nature of Utah
Donald Worster
ISBN 978-0-87421-558-8 32pp $7.95
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Volume 7 Signifying Sainthood 1830 To 2001
Jan Shipps
ISBN 978-0-87421-446-8 28pp $7.95
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Volume 6 The Importance of the Temple in Understanding the Latter-day Saint Nauvoo Experience: Then and Now
Kenneth W. Godfrey (OUT OF PRINT)
Volume 5 Mormon Domestic Life in the 1870s: Pandemonium or Arcadia?
Claudia L. Bushman
ISBN 978-0-87421-289-1 32pp $7.95
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Volume 4 The Theater in Mormon Life and Culture
Howard R. Lamar
ISBN 978-0-87421-285-3 30pp $7.95
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Volume 3 My Idea is to Go Right Through: The Exodus as Reformation
Richard E. Bennett
ISBN 978-0-87421-251-8 26pp $7.95
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Volume 2 Making Space for the Mormons
Richard L. Bushman (OUT OF PRINT)
Volume 1 Faith and Intellect as Partners in Mormon History
Leonard J. Arrington (OUT OF PRINT)
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