American Zion: A New History of Mormonism Featured *A 2019 Outstanding Science Trade

*A 2019 Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students: K–12 (National Science Teachers Association and the Children's Book Council)*

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her passengers keep dying—and not from equipment failures

As the other guests wait impatiently

and humanity in a near-future Nigeria

American Zion: A New History of Mormonism Featured *A 2019 Outstanding Science TradeNew Yorker "The Best Books Weve Read in 2024 So Far" The first major history of Mormonism in a decade, drawing on newly available sources to reveal a profoundly divided faith that has nevertheless shaped the nation. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints was founded by Joseph Smith in 1830 in the so called burned over district of upstate New York, which was producing seers and prophets daily. Most of the new creeds flamed out; Smiths would