Encyclopedia of Latter-Day Saint History

Those who thought the four-volume Encyclopedia of Mormonism (New York: Macmillan, 1992) would be the last word in the encyclopedic treatment of Mormon topics will be pleasantly surprised by Garr, Cannon, and Cowan's recently published Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint History. While the former is knowledge in depth on a wide range of historical, religious, and cultural subjects, the latter provides the reader with (as the editors state) "a convenient, one-volume reference work" presenting "accurate, concise, and readable articles on a wide variety of Church history topics." With more than 1,400 entries from 350 plus contributors, this work paints-in broad brushstrokes-the history of the Latter-day Saints in a straightforward, succinct style. Just how succinct this treatment is can be judged by the entries on "Blacks" in both encyclopedias, which were both contributed by Jessie Embry, with Alan Cherry as co-author of the Encyclopedia of Mormonism entry. In the earlier, four-volume work,