191:. In the 1970s women's biographies were published, but not integrated into larger narratives. Other women hired by the Church Historical Department included Jill Mulvay Derr, Carol Cornwall Madsen, and Edyth Romney. Journals dedicated special issues to Mormon women, and the increased interest in Mormon women led to more publications focused on them. Scholars published biographies of Emma Smith, Eliza Snow, Emmeline B. Wells, and Amy Brown Lyman.
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New Mormon history is but a reflection of the change in writing history overall that took root in the 20th century. Quinn states that "the New Mormon
History includes all of the ingredients of 'new history' in America at large but has one crucial addition: the effort to avoid using history as a
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Arrington took an exceptionalist view of Mormon history, which he then taught to other New Mormon historians. This exceptionalist view was that they could believe in both secular history and orthodox Mormon views of the restoration.
106:, beginning in the 1950s, with having "led the charge" of new Mormon history, with non-Mormon scholars Thomas O'Dea and Whitney O. Cross responding in kind with "less prejudiced and more informed monographs on Mormonism".
120:, the newly-established Mormon History Association, and the professionalization of LDS and RLDS history departments provided spaces for historians to do new research in Mormon topics. RLDS scholars founded the
161:. Much of the research in the 1970s used these newly-available sources to examine church history, sometimes in great detail. Leonard Arrington influenced important scholars of Mormon history, including
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described it as "a quest for identity rather than a quest for authority." New Mormon historians include a wide range of both Mormon and non-Mormon scholars, the most prominent of which include
Bushman,
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as key source materials; their concern with individuals' motivations and intentions as explanatory factors for historical events; and their willingness to accept the possibility of historians'
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or faith-based styles of history. Rather than presenting material selectively to either prove or disprove
Mormonism, the focus of new Mormon history is to present history in a more
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wrote "made them seem more secular than they actually were." Mormon history by non-Mormons at this time had a similar detached tone. New Mormon historians often published with the
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named the increasing amount of Mormon scholarship "the New Mormon
History". The "New Mormon History" movement included the non-Mormons Thomas F. O'Dea, P. A. M. Taylor,
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Leonard Arrington as their historian. During Arrington's time as historian, Mormon and non-Mormon historians were allowed to access the
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and dispassionate way, and to situate Mormon history in a fuller historical context. Because it is a break from past historical narratives, new Mormon history tends to be
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102:—church historian from 1901 until his death in 1933—"exemplified much of the philosophy later identified with the New Mormon History." Clyde R. Forsberg Jr. credits
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