Susan Easton Black
Susan Easton Black is Professor Emerita of Church History and Doctrine at Brigham Young University. Dr. Black received a BA in political science from Brigham Young University, an MA in counseling from the University of California, and an EdD in educational psychology from Brigham Young University. Professor Black was a faculty member in Religious Education from 1978 to 2013. She was named an Eliza R. Snow Fellow, associate dean of General Education and Honors, and director of Church history in the Religious Studies Center. She has received numerous academic awards for her research and writing, including the Karl G. Maeser Distinguished Lecturer Award, the highest award given to a professor on the BYU campus. She has authored and edited hundreds of articles and dozens of books, including BYU Studies publications on early LDS newspapers—Frontier Guardian, Nauvoo Neighbor, St. Louis Luminary, and The Prophet.
BYU Studies Publications
- “A Question on My Mind”: Robert McCorkle’s 1844 Letter to Joseph Smith
- St. Louis Luminary: The Latter-day Saint Experience at the Mississippi River, 1854–1855
- The Prophet: The Latter-day Saint Experience in the East, 1844–1845
- Family Land and Records Center in Nauvoo
- How Large Was the Population of Nauvoo?
- Images of the Prophet Joseph Smith
- Martin Harris Comes to Utah, 1870
- Nauvoo Neighbor: The Latter-day Saint Experience at the Mississippi River, 1843–1845
- Setting a Standard in LDS Art: Four Illustrators of the Mid-Twentieth Century
- Suffering and Death on the Plains of Iowa
- The Frontier Guardian: Exploring the Latter-day Saint Experience at the Missouri, 1849–1851
- The Gold Discovery Journal of Azariah Smith
- When the Saints Came Marching In: A History of the Latter-day Saints in St. Louis
- Women of Nauvoo