William G. Hartley
William G. Hartley is Emeritus Professor of History at Brigham Young University and has served as president of the Mormon History Association. His areas of expertise are the historical development of the LDS Church’s priesthood and organizations, nineteenth-century LDS emigration, and biography writing. He is the history consultant for the KSL-TV weekly documentary series History of the Saints.
BYU Studies Publications
- “In Order to Be in Fashion I Am Called on a Mission”: Wilford Woodruff’s Parting Letter to Emma as He Joins the “Underground”
- Guest Editors’ Introduction [32:1–2]
- John Lyon: The Life of a Pioneer Poet
- Latter Leaves in the Life of Lorenzo Snow
- Nauvoo Stake, Priesthood Quorums, and the Church's First Wards
- Newel and Lydia Bailey Knight’s Kirtland Love Story and Historic Wedding
- Ordained and Acting Teachers in the Lesser Priesthood, 1851–1883
- Power from On High: The Development of Mormon Priesthood
- Saints and the San Francisco Earthquake
- Saints on the Seas: A Maritime History of Mormon Migration, 1830–1890
- The Closedown of LDS Iowa Settlements in 1852 That Completed the Nauvoo Exodus and Jampacked the Mormon Trail
- The Diaries of Charles Ora Card: The Canadian Years, 1886-1903
- The Great Florence Fitout of 1861
- The Miller, the Bishop, and the "Move South"
- The Mormon Vanguard Brigade of 1847: Norton Jacob’s Record
- The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840–1860
- The Priesthood Reform Movement, 1908–1922
- The Priesthood Reorganization of 1877: Brigham Young’s Last Achievement
- We’ll Find the Place: The Mormon Exodus, 1846–1848