7.9 History is Fascinating

Back to American Zion! Today we look at the chapter “One Family Under God”, 1945-70. Themes of civil rights, womanhood, and intellectualism are brought together as we look deeper at the post-WWII world of Mormonism! Link to our Face in Hat discord server! YouTube channel! Thanks Eric! Dialogue Podcast Network American Zion: A New History of Mormonism, by Benjamin E. Park Berkeley Ward Centennial Sterling McMurrin Joseph Fielding Smith Man, His Origin and Destiny, by Joseph Fielding Smith, is discussed here: J. Edward Johnson Free Speech Movement Hugh Nibley No Man Knows My History, by Fawn M. Brodie No, Ma'am, That's Not History, by Hugh Nibley The Mountain Meadows Massacre (1950) by Juanita Brooks Mormon Doctrine (book), by Bruce R. McConkie The Giant Joshua, by Maurine Whipple Too sacred for public consumption -or- Disgusting the prophet’s wife, by Eric Jepson Eugene England Truman G. Madsen (includes note he directed the Berkeley LDS Institute of Religion) Preliminary work from the author of the dissertation mentioned Example, A Timeline of LDS Sunday School Manuals: 1972-Present, by Elena H. Call: Elias: An Epic of the Ages, by Orson F. Whitney Short Creek raid The big article on the priesthood ban in Dialog, by Lester E. Bush Truth & Treason (2025 movie) Zelophehad’s Daughters Helen Andelin Fascinating Womanhood, by Helen Andelin The Feminine Mystique, by Betty Friedan The Stepford Wives (2004 film) Indian Placement Program The Night Watchman, by Louise Erdrich (atonement poem), by Theric Jepson

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7.9 History is Fascinating is an episode from Face in Hat by Aaron Brewster and Eric Jepson.

This episode is 66:42 long.

This episode was published on Dec 20, 2025.

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