Completed Projects

Forthcoming

• Educating Zion: The Diaries of Ernest L. Wilkinson, 1952–1977, edited by Gary James Bergera. (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, forthcoming 2022)

2022

• A biography of Jerald and Sandra Tanner, by Ronald V. Huggins (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2022).

• A biography of Martha Hughes Cannon, by Constance Lieber (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2022).

2021

• A biography of Harold B. Lee, by Newell G. Bringhurst (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2021).

• Definitive new transcription of the complete diaries, including daybooks, of Wilford Woodruff, edited by Dan Vogel. (Publication by Benchmark Books, 2021, and later as a Signature Books ebook.)

• B. H. Roberts: A Life in the Public Arena, by John Sillito (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2021).

2020

• “‘Through a Glass, Darkly’: Joseph Smith and Plural Marriage,” by Gary James Bergera, in Newell G. Bringhurst and Matthew L. Harris, eds., The LDS Gospel Topics Series: A Scholarly Engagement (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2020), pp. 197–212.

• Roundtable on A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835–1870, by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, in Journal of Mormon History 46 (April 2020): 73–80.

• “Editing Arrington,” Journal of Mormon History 46 (April 2020): 123–34.

2019

• Faith and Intellect: The Lives and Contributions of Latter-day Saint Thinkers, by Leonard J. Arrington, with a Foreword by Philip L. Barlow, edited by Gary James Bergera (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2019).

• “Ezra Taft Benson Meets Nikita Khrushchev, 1959: Memory Embellished,” by Gary James Bergera, in Matthew L. Harris, ed., Thunder from the Right: Ezra Taft Benson in Mormonism and Politics (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019), pp. 53-67.

• Confidence amid Change: The Presidential Diaries of David O. McKay, 1951-1970, edited by Harvard S. Heath (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2019).

2018

• Book review by Gary James Bergera of Textual Studies of the Doctrine and Covenants: The Plural Marriage Revelation, by William V. Smith, in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 51 (Winter 2018): 224-28.

• Book review by Gary James Bergera of The Power of Godliness: Mormon Liturgy and Cosmology, by Jonathan A. Stapley, in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 51 (Fall 2018): 268-73.

• Salt Lake City School of the Prophets, 1867-1883, edited by Devery S. Anderson (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2018).

• Confessions of a Mormon Historian: The Diaries of Leonard J. Arrington, 1971 to 1997, 3 Vols., edited by Gary James Bergera, with a Foreword by Susan Arrington Madsen, and Contributions by Rebecca Cornwall Bartholomew, Lavina Fielding Anderson and Joseph Geisner, Jeffery Ogden Johnson, and Thomas G. Alexander (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2018).

2017

• Book review by Gary James Bergera of LGBT Salt Lake, by A. Seth Anderson, in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 50 (Summer 2017): 189-91.

• Book review by Gary James Bergera of Hosea Stout: Lawman, Legislator, Mormon Defender, by Stephen L. Prince, in Western Historical Quarterly 48 (July 2017): 318-19.

• Book review by Gary James Bergera of American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism, 1867-1940, by Thomas W. Simpson, in Mormon Historical Studies 18 (Spring 2017): 85-89.

• Book review by Gary James Bergera of I Will Lead You Along: The Life of Henry B. Eyring, by Robert I. Eaton and Henry J. Eyring, in Journal of Mormon History 43 (January 2017): 185-91.

2016

• Natural Born Seer: Joseph Smith, American Prophet, 1805-1830, by Richard S. Van Wagoner (Salt Lake City: Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2016).

• Glorious in Persecution: Joseph Smith, American Prophet, 1839-1844, by Martha Bradley-Evans (Salt Lake City: Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2016).

• Book review by Gary James Bergera of Called to Teach: The Legacy of Karl G. Maeser, by A. LeGrand Richards, in Journal of Mormon History 42 (January 2016): 263-67.

2015

• History of Joseph Smith and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: A Source and Text-Critical Edition, edited by Dan Vogel, 8 Vols. (Salt Lake City: Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2015).

• “Memory as Evidence: Dating Joseph Smith’s Plural Marriages to Louisa Beaman, Zina Jacobs, and Presendia Buell,” by Gary James Bergera, Journal of Mormon History 41 (October 2015): 95-131.

2014

• The Council of Fifty: A Documentary History, edited by Jedediah S. Rogers, with a Foreword by Klaus J. Hansen (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2014).

• Book review by Gary James Bergera of Go Ye into All the World: The Growth and Development of Mormon Missionary Work, edited by Reid L. Neilson and Fred E. Woods, in Journal of the Mormon History Association 40 (Summer 2014): 243-46.

• Book review by Gary James Bergera of The Journal of a People: The Era of Restoration, 1820 to 1844, by Mark A. Scherer, in Journal of the John Whitmer Historical Association 34 (Spring/Summer 2014): 183-87.

2013

• Cowboy Apostle: The Diaries of Anthony W. Ivins, 1875-1932, edited by Elizabeth Oberdick Anderson (Salt Lake City: Signature Books/Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2013).

• Book review by Gary James Bergera of Joseph Smith’s Polygamy, 3 Vols., by Brian C. Hales, in Journal of the John Whitmer Historical Association 33 (Fall/Winter 2013): 188-97.

• “‘This Time of Crisis’: The Race-Based Anti-BYU Protests of 1968-1971,” by Gary James Bergera, Utah Historical Quarterly 81 (Summer 2013): 204-29.

• Significant Textual Changes in the Book of Mormon: The First Printed Edition Compared to the Handwritten Manuscripts and to the Subsequent Major LDS English Editions, edited by John S. Dinger, with a Foreword by Stan Larson (Salt Lake City: Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2013).

• Book review by Gary James Bergera of The Guardian Poplar: A Memoir of Deep Roots, Journey, and Rediscovery, by Chase Nebeker Peterson, in Utah Historical Quarterly  81 (Winter 2013): 98-100.

• “Student Political Activism at Brigham Young University, 1965-71,” by Gary James Bergera, Utah Historical Quarterly 81 (Winter 2013): 65-90.

2012

• Later Patriarchal Blessings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, compiled by H. Michael Marquardt (Salt Lake City: Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2012).

• Book review by Gary James Bergera of Finding Everett Ruess: The Remarkable Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer, by David Roberts; and of Everett Ruess: His Short Life, Mysterious Death, and Astonishing Afterlife, by Philip L. Fradkin, in Utah Historical Quarterly 80 (Spring 2012): 200-203.

• “The Richard D. Poll and J. Kenneth Davies Cases: Politics and Religion at BYU during the Wilkinson Years,” by Gary James Bergera, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 45, no. 1 (Spring 2012): 43-73.

• The Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri, edited and translated by Robert K. Ritner, with contributions by H. Michael Marquardt, Marc Coenen, and Christopher Brown (Salt Lake City: Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2011); reprinted (paperback) by Signature Books in 2013.

• The Nauvoo City and High Council Minutes, edited by John S. Dinger, with a Foreword by Morris A. Thurston (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2012).

• “Transgression in the Latter-day Saint Community: The Cases of Albert Carrington, Richard R. Lyman, and Joseph F. Smith,” (A Three-Part Series of Essays), by Gary James Bergera, in Journal of Mormon History 37, no. 3 (Summer 2011):118-61 (Carrington); 37, no. 4 (Fall 2011): 173-207 (Lyman); and 38, no. 1 (Winter 2012): 98-130 (Smith).

• Book review by Gary James Bergera of To the Rescue: The Biography of Thomas S. Monson, by Heidi S. Swinton, in Journal of Mormon History 38, no. 1 (Winter 2012): 239-47.

2011

• “The Monitoring of BYU Faculty Tithing Payments, 1957-1963,” by Gary James Bergera, Sunstone, October 2011, pp. 32-43.

• Book review by Gary James Bergera of A Century of Dixie State College of Utah, 1911 to 2011, by Douglas D. Alder, in Utah Historical Quarterly 79 (Summer 2011): 291-92.

• “My Candid Opinion”: The Sandwich Islands Diaries of Joseph F. Smith, 1856-57, edited by Nathaniel R. Ricks (Salt Lake City: Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2011).

• Book review by Gary James Bergera of The Persistence of Polygamy: Joseph Smith and the Origins of Mormon Polygamy, edited by Newell G. Bringhurst and Craig L. Foster, in Journal of the John Whitmer Historical Association 31 (Spring/Summer 2011), 1:108-13.

• “Vox Joseph Vox Dei: Regarding Some of the Moral and Ethical Aspects of Joseph Smith’s Practice of Plural Marriage,” by Gary James Bergera, Journal of the John Whitmer Historical Association 31 (Spring/Summer 2011), 1:31-43.

• Book review by Gary James Bergera of From the Muddy River to the Ivory Tower: The Journey of George H. Brimball, by Mary Jane Woodger and Joseph H. Groberg, in Journal of Mormon History 37 (Spring 2011), 2:246-49.

• “The 1966 BYU Student Spy Ring,” by Gary James Bergera, Utah Historical Quarterly 79 (Spring 2011): 164-88.

• The Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary History, edited by Devery S. Anderson (Salt Lake City: Signature Books/Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2011).

2010

• Book review by Gary James Bergera of Years of Promise: The University of Utah’s A. Ray Olpin Era, 1946-1964, by Anne Palmer Peterson, in Utah Historical Quarterly 78 (Fall 2010): 387-88.

• “LDS History Principles: Public Theory, Private Practice,” by Gary James Bergera, Journal of Mormon History 36 (Fall 2010): 80-92.

• Candid Insights of a Mormon Apostle: The Diaries of Abraham H. Cannon, 1889-1895, edited by Edward Leo Lyman (Salt Lake City: Signature Books/Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2010).

• Entries by Gary James Bergera on “Arrington, Leonard James,” “Cannon, George Quayle,” “Church Organization and Government,” “Clark, Joshua Reuben, Jr.,” “Hinckley, Gordon Bitner,” “Roberts, Brigham Henry,” “Smith, George Albert,” and “Smith, Hyrum,” in Mormonism: A Historical Encyclopedia, edited by Paul Reeve and Ardis Parshall (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2010).

2009

• Book review by Gary James Bergera of Amasa Mason Lyman, Mormon Apostle and Apostate: A Study in Dedication, by Edward Leo Lyman, in Mormon Historical Studies 10 (Fall 2009): 195-98.

• The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, 1832-1877, 5 Vols., edited by Richard S. Van Wagoner (Salt Lake City: Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2009).

• “Ezra Taft Benson’s 1921-23 Mission to England,” by Gary James Bergera, Journal of Mormon History 35 (Fall 2009): 85-111.

• Book review by Gary James Bergera of Exposé of Polygamy: A Lady’s Life among the Mormons, by Fanny Stenhouse, edited by Linda Wilcox DeSimone, in Utah Historical Quarterly 77 (Summer 2009): 2276-78.

• The Parallel Doctrine and Covenants: The 1832-1833, 1833, and 1835 Editions of Joseph Smith’s Revelations, Introduction by Curt A. Bench (Salt Lake City: Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2009).

2008

• “‘This Great Thing Which Has Come to Me a Humble, Weak Farmer Boy’: Ezra Taft Benson’s 1943 Call to the Apostleship,” edited by Gary James Bergera, Mormon Historical Studies 9 (Spring/Fall 2008): 177-86.

• “‘Weak-Kneed Republicans and Socialist Democrats’: Ezra Taft Benson as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, 1953-1961, Part Two,” by Gary James Bergera, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 41 (Winter 2008): 55-95.

• “‘Rising Above Principle’: Ezra Taft Benson as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, 1953-1961, Part One,” by Gary James Bergera, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon History 41 (Fall 2008): 81-122.

• Ezra Taft Benson’s F.B.I. File (Salt Lake City: Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2008).

• Book review by Gary James Bergera of Louis Auguste Bertrand (1808-1875): Journaliste Socialiste and Pionnier Mormon, by Christian Euvrard, in Journal of Mormon History 34 (Summer 2008): 219-25.

• The Parallel Book of Mormon: The 1830, 1837, and 1840 Editions, Introduction by Curt A. Bench (Salt Lake City: Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2008).

• “Ezra Taft Benson’s 1946 Mission to Europe,” by Gary James Bergera, Journal of Mormon History 34 (Spring 2008): 73-112.

• “The Use of ‘Lamanite’ in Official LDS Discourse,” by John-Charles Duffy, Journal of Mormon History 34 (Winter 2008): 118-67.

2007

• The Mormon Church on Trial: Transcripts of the Reed Smoot Hearings, edited by Michael H. Paulos, with an introduction by Harvard S. Heath (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2007).

• Book review by Gary James Bergera of On the Road with Joseph Smith, by Richard Lyman Bushman, in Journal of Mormon History 33 (Fall 2007): 195-204.

• Early Patriarchal Blessings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, compiled by H. Michael Marquardt (Salt Lake City: Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2007).

• In the President’s Office: The Diaries of L. John Nuttall, 1879-1892, edited by Jedediah S. Rogers (Salt Lake City: Signature Books/Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2007).

• “Tensions in David O. McKay’s First Presidencies,” by Gary James Bergera, Journal of Mormon History 33 (Spring 2007): 179-246.

• Statements of the LDS First Presidency: A Topical Compilation, compiled by Gary James Bergera, with a Foreword by Dale C. LeCheminant (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2007).

2006

• Danish Apostle: The Diaries of Anthon H. Lund, edited by John Hatch (Salt Lake City: Signature Books/Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2006).

• Nauvoo Sealings, Adoptions, and Anointings: A Comprehensive Register of Persons Receiving LDS Temple Ordinances, 1841-1846, compiled by Lisle G Brown (Salt Lake City: Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2006).

2005

• “John C. Bennett, Joseph Smith, and the Beginnings of Mormon Plural Marriage in Nauvoo,” by Gary James Bergera, Journal of the John Whitmer Historical Association 25 (2005): 52-92.

• “Identifying the Earliest Mormon Polygamists, 1841-44,” by Gary James Bergera, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 38 (Fall 2005): 1-74.

• Pedestals and Podiums: Utah Women, Religious Authority, and Equal Rights, by Martha Sonntag Bradley (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2005).

• Book review by Gary James Bergera of David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism, by Gregory A. Prince and Wm. Robert Wright, in Sunstone, September 2005, pp. 65-67.

• Joseph Smith’s Anointed Quorum, 1842-1845: A Documentary History, edited by Devery S. Anderson and Gary James Bergera (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2005); and The Nauvoo Endowment Companies, 1845-1846: A Documentary History, edited by Devery S. Anderson and Gary James Bergera (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2005).

• “‘The Challenges of Those Days’: President Gordon B. Hinckley and the Will to Believe,” by Gary James Bergera, Sunstone, May 2005, pp. 38-45. 

2003

• “‘Illicit Intercourse,’ Plural Marriage, and the Nauvoo Stake High Council, 1840-44,” by Gary James Bergera, Journal of the John Whitmer Historical Association 23 (2003): 59-90.

• “‘The Commencement of Great Things’: The Origins, Scope, and Achievement of the Journal History of the Church,” by Gary James Bergera, Mormon Historical Studies 4 (Spring 2003): 23-39.

• “The Personal Cost of the 1838 Mormon War in Missouri: One Mormon’s Plea for Forgiveness,” edited by Gary James Bergera, in Mormon Historical Studies 4 (Spring 2003): 139-44.

• “‘Only Our Hearts Know’–Part 2: Sunstone during the Elbert Peck Years (An Unofficial History),” by Gary James Bergera, Sunstone, July 2003, pp. 24-39.

• “Buckeye’s Laments: Two Early Insider Exposés of Mormon Polygamy and Their Authorship,” by Gary James Bergera, Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 96 (Winter 2003): 350-90; reprinted in Dimensions of Faith: A Mormon Studies Reader, edited by Stephen C. Taysom (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2011), pp. 329-73.

• Book review by Gary James Bergera of Selected Collections from the Archives of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, edited by Richard E. Turley Jr., in Journal of Mormon History 29 (Spring 2003): 254-59.

• “‘Only Our Hearts Know’–Part 1: Sunstone during the Daniel Rector, Elbert Peck, and Linda Jean Stephenson Years (An Unofficial History),” by Gary James Bergera, Sunstone, March 2003, pp. 42-51.

2002

• Conflict in the Quorum: Orson Pratt, Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, by Gary James Bergera (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2002).

• “The Earliest Eternal Sealings for Civilly Married Couples Living and Dead,” by Gary James Bergera, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 35 (Fall 2002): 41-66.

• Book review by Gary James Bergera of Nauvoo: A Place of Peace, A People of Promise, by Glen M. Leonard, in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 35 (Fall 2002): 239-46.

• Book review by Gary James Bergera of A Disciple’s Life: The Biography of Neal A. Maxwell, by Bruce C. Hafen, in Journal of Mormon History 28 (Fall 2002): 200-206.

• “Copyright and Fair Use for Mormon Historians,” by Gary James Bergera, Journal of Mormon History 28 (Spring 2002): 52-66.

2001

• Book review by Gary James Bergera of Orson Hyde: The Olive Branch of Israel, by Myrtle Stevens Hyde, in Journal of Mormon History 27 (Fall 2001): 267-74.