Joe Geisner, "Writing Mormon History: Historians and Their Books" (Signature Books, 2020) - a podcast by Marshall Poe

Every great book has a great backstory. In Joe Geisner’s new edited work, Writing Mormon History: Historians and Their Books (Signature Books, 2020), well-known historians describe their journeys of writing books that have influenced our understanding of the Mormon past, offering an unprecedented glimpse into why they wrote these important works.
Writing Mormon History?is a must-read for anyone interested in Mormonism--historians, students of history, scholars, and aspiring authors. The volume’s contributors are: Polly Aird,?Will Bagley,?Todd Compton,?Brian Hales,?Melvin Johnson,?William MacKinnon,?Linda King Newell,?Gregory Prince,?D. Michael Quinn,?Craig Smith,?George D. Smith,?Vickie Cleverley Speek,?Susan Staker,?Daniel Stone,?John Turner
The majority of the essays appear here for the first time.
Daniel P. Stone holds a PhD in?American religious history from Manchester Metropolitan University (United Kingdom) and is the author of?William Bickerton: Forgotten Latter Day Prophet (Signature Books, 2018).?He has taught?history courses?at the University of Detroit Mercy and Florida Atlantic University, and currently, he works as a research archivist for a private library/archive in Detroit, Michigan. 
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