Jessie L. Embry

Jessie L. Embry is the associate director of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University. She has written and edited numerous books about the American West and Mormon history, including Black Saints in a White Church and “In His Own Language”: Mormon Spanish Speaking Congregations in the United States.

BYU Studies Publications

“Provoking the Brethren to Good Works”: Susa Young Gates, the Relief Society, and Genealogy
A Woman’s Choices: The Relief Society Legacy Lectures
Appendix I: Historical Milestones
Appendix II: Microfilm Places and Operators
Appendix III: Microfilm Production
Chapter 1: Small Beginnings
Chapter 2: Coming of Age, 1907–1920
Chapter 3: The Pleasures and Problems of Growth, 1920–1940
Chapter 4: Quest for Effectiveness, 1940–1960
Chapter 5: New Directions, 1961–1975
Chapter 6: Gathering the Records
Chapter 7: Simplification, Decentralization, Cooperation, 1975–1994
Chapter 8: Automating the Records
Epilogue: A New Century
Missionaries for the Dead: The Story of the Genealogical Missionaries of the Nineteenth Century
Navajo Tradition, Mormon Life: The Autobiography and Teachings of Jim Dandy
Not in Vain: The Inspiring Story of Ellis Shipp, Pioneer Woman Doctor
Preface [34:2]
Prologue: The Spirit of Elijah [34:2]
Spiritualized Recreation: LDS All-Church Athletic Tournaments, 1950–1971
Women, Family, and Utopia: Communal Experiments of the Shakers, the Oneida Community, and the Mormons