polygamy

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• 10/13/19
  

  Rethinking Polygamy: An Interview with Sarah M.S. Pearsall

  by Kyla Sommers

  "Polygamy controversies place us amid major events in early America because such clashes were about the organization and governance not just of house- holds but of societies, nations, and empires.”

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  10-1-15
  

  Mormons acknowledge early polygamy days at renovated museum

  The Mormon church’s renovated history museum set to reopen this week features a small and surprising display about an uncomfortable part of the faith’s history that for generations has been glossed over: polygamy.

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• SOURCE: The Salt Lake Tribune
  6-17-15
  

  Laurel Thatcher Ulrich says bad marriages had women running to and away from Mormon polygamy

  Her observations were made in the course of her presidential address to the Mormon History Association

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• SOURCE: NYT
  11-10-14
  

  It’s Official: Mormon Founder Had Up to 40 Wives

  Mormon leaders have acknowledged for the first time that the church’s founder and prophet, Joseph Smith, took as many as 40 wives, some already married and one only 14 years old.

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• SOURCE: AP
  10-24-14
  

  Mormon Founder had Teen Bride During Polygamy Days

  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says most of Smith's wives were between 20 and 40 years old.

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• SOURCE: KSL.com
  12-17-13
  

  LDS Church details practice, history of polygamy

  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released a document about plural marriage on its website Monday.