Sunstone Mormon History Podcast

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Sunstone Mormon History Podcast

by Sunstone

There’s the Mormon history you do know … and the Mormon history you don’t. Join Lindsay Hansen Park (Year of Polygamy) and historian Bryan Buchanan as they dig into all aspects of Mormonism’s astonishing 200-year past—uncovering the little-known stories that chronicle how a six-person church grew into a multi-billion-dollar religion.

100 episodes

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1

Episode 161: Brave Little Book of Mormon

0:00 Mar 18, 2026

2

Episode 160: The Heber J. Grant Journals—Fruits of a New Policy

0:00 Mar 6, 2026

3

Episode 159: Books of the Massacre

0:00 Feb 11, 2026

4

Episode 158: Dan Neal on Polygamy, Murder and Mayhem in Idaho

0:00 Dec 1, 2025

5

Episode 157: Mountain Meadows Massacre, Pt. 5

0:00 Oct 29, 2025

6

Episode 156: Mountain Meadows Massacre, Pt. 4

0:00 Oct 3, 2025

7

Episode 155: Mountain Meadows Massacre, Pt. 3

0:00 Sep 18, 2025

8

Episode 154: Mountain Meadows Massacre, Pt. 2

0:00 Sep 4, 2025

9

Episode 153: Mountain Meadows Massacre, Pt. 1

0:00 Aug 20, 2025

10

Episode 152: FIELD TRIP: Coffin Canes

0:00 Aug 6, 2025

11

Episode 151: The 1886 Revelation Validated

0:00 Jul 23, 2025

12

Episode 150: The Steptoe Expedition

0:00 Jul 10, 2025

13

Episode 149: The Handcart Disaster

0:00 Jun 25, 2025

14

Episode 148: The Gathering

0:00 May 21, 2025

15

Episode 147: The Tragic Tale of Eleanor McLean

0:00 May 1, 2025

16

Episode 146: Runaway Judges with John Dinger

0:00 Apr 15, 2025

17

Episode 145: Runaway Officials

0:00 Apr 2, 2025

18

Episode 144: Mail Bag: Malissa Lott

0:00 Mar 20, 2025

19

Episode 143: MAIL BAG

0:00 Feb 27, 2025

20

Episode 142: Wild Bill Hickman

0:00 Feb 12, 2025

21

Episode 141: The Utah War, part two

0:00 Jan 29, 2025

22

Episode 140: The Utah War, part one

0:00 Jan 17, 2025

23

Episode 139: The History of the Exponent II

0:00 Jan 1, 2025

24

Episode 138: Mormon Castrations and Warren Snow

0:00 Dec 20, 2024

25

Episode 137: Mormon Reformation, part three

0:00 Dec 5, 2024

26

Episode 136: Mormon Reformation, part two

0:00 Nov 13, 2024

27

Episode 135: Mormon Reformation, part one

0:00 Oct 30, 2024

28

Episode 134: Before They Were Famous: Jedediah Grant

0:00 Oct 15, 2024

29

Episode 133: The Black Hawk War

0:00 Oct 3, 2024

30

Episode 132: Fountain Green and the Mormons

0:00 Sep 18, 2024

31

Episode 131: The Scandinavian Mission

0:00 Sep 4, 2024

32

Episode 130: Before They Were Famous: Charles C. Rich

0:00 Aug 22, 2024

33

Episode 129: Dr. Matt Harris, Second Class Saints

0:00 Aug 9, 2024

34

Episode 128: Before They Were Famous: Amasa Lyman

0:00 Jul 19, 2024

35

Episode 127: The Walker War, part two

0:00 Jul 2, 2024

36

Episode 126: The Walker War, part one

0:00 Jun 13, 2024

37

Episode 125: Our Favorite Time Periods in History; a chat

0:00 May 30, 2024

38

Episode 124: The Indian Slave Trade

0:00 May 14, 2024

39

Episode 123: The Gold Mission

0:00 May 2, 2024

40

Episode 122: Ownership of the Kirtland Temple, a History

0:00 Apr 17, 2024

41

Episode 121: Youtube and Historical Sources Discussion

0:00 Apr 4, 2024

42

Episode 120: San Bernardino Mormons

0:00 Mar 21, 2024

43

Episode 119: History of Mormon Sunday School

0:00 Mar 6, 2024

44

Episode 118: Believers and Skeptics panel

0:00 Feb 23, 2024

45

Episode 117: The Gunnison Expedition and Massacre

0:00 Feb 7, 2024

46

Episode 116: Before They Were Famous: Emmeline B. Wells

0:00 Jan 25, 2024

47

Episode 115: BONUS EPISODE: History of the LeBaron Family

0:00 Jan 12, 2024

48

Episode 114: The PEF (Perpetual Emigration Fund)

0:00 Dec 27, 2023

49

Episode 113: Mormon Thieves

0:00 Dec 13, 2023

50

Episode 112: Wasters and Destroyers

0:00 Nov 30, 2023

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