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Footnotes
1. The program and videos of the presentations at the Leonard J. Arrington Centennial Conference can be found at https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/arrington100/2017. The speakers on the diary panel were Matthew Godfrey, who catalogued Arrington’s diaries at USU, Greg Prince, the author of a 2016 book on Arrington’s work as a historian, and Gary Bergera, who was then completing the three-volume edition of the diaries published in 2018.
2. Internal accounts of our early history include: Claudia Lauper Bushman, “Introduction,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 6, no. 2 (Summer 1971): 5–8; Claudia L. Bushman, “Preface,” Mormon Sisters: Women in Early Utah, edited by Claudia L. Bushman (Cambridge, Mass.: Emmeline Press, 1976), xi-xiii; Claudia Lauper Bushman, “My Short Happy Life With Exponent II,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 36, no. 3 (Fall 2003): 178–92; Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, “The Pink Dialogue and Beyond,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 14, no. 4 (Winter 1981): 28–39; Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, “Mormon Women in the History of Second-Wave Feminism,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 43, no. 2 (Summer 2010): 45–63; Claudia L. Bushman, Nancy Tate Dredge, Judy Dushku, Susan Whitaker Kohler, and Carrel Hilton Sheldon, “Roundtable: Exponent II History,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 49, no. 2 (Summer 2016): 129–62; and Carrel Hilton Sheldon, “Launching Exponent II,” Exponent II 22, no. 4 (Summer 1999), available at http://www.exponentii.org/history.
3. Bushman, “Preface,” Mormon Sisters, v.
4. Doctrine and Covenants 58:27–28.
5. Gregory A. Prince, Leonard Arrington and the Writing of Mormon History (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2016), 228–31.
6. Leonard J. Arrington, Confessions of a Mormon Historian: The Diaries of Leonard J. Arrington, 1971–1997, edited by Gary James Bergera, 3 vols. (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2018).
7. Leonard J. Arrington and Davis Bitton, The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-day Saints (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979), chap. 16.
8. Leonard J. Arrington, Adventures of a Church Historian (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998), 56–63, 133; Rebecca Foster Bartholomew, “A Life of Simple Goodness; Leonard James Arrington in 1971,” in Confessions of a Mormon Historian: The Diaries of Leonard J. Arrington, 1971–1997, edited by Gary James Bergera (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2018).
9. Leonard J. Arrington, “Blessed Damozels: Women in Mormon History,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 6, no. 2 (Summer 1971): 22–31; Ulrich, “Mormon Women.”
10. Arrington, Confessions, 1:138–40.
11. Ibid., 1:141.
12. Ibid., 1: 134–38. Arrington commented that Packer “didn’t have the Ph.D. and seemed sensitive on that point.” He may or may not have been aware that in 1962, shortly after becoming a general authority Packer received a doctorate in educational administration from BYU. That was an Ed.D, not a Ph.D. See Cassidy Wadsworth, “Remembering President Boyd K. Packer,” Daily Universe, https://universe.byu.edu/2015/07/03/remembering-president-boyd-k-packer1/.
13. Arrington, Confessions, 1:141–42.
14. Ibid., 1:243–44.
15. Ibid., 1:415–17, 437.
16. Ibid., 1:416–17, 436.
17. Ibid., 1:471–73.
18. Ibid., 1:482.
19. Ibid., 1:594. For Jill Mulvay’s own account of her meeting with Ursenbach, see Prince, Leonard Arrington.
20. Arrington, Confessions, 1:753–56.
21. Ibid., 1:755.
22. “The Sisters Speak,” Exponent II 2, no. 4 (June 1976): 17.
23. Kay Longcope, “The Mormon Experience,” Boston Globe, Apr. 13, 1975, ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
24. Bushman, “My Short Happy Life,” 191–92; “Elder Robert D. Hales,” General Authorities and General Officers, https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/church/leader/robert-d-hales?lang=eng.
25. Bushman, “My Short Happy Life,” 191–92; “Elder L. Tom Perry,” General Authorities and General Officers, https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/church/leader/l-tom-perry?lang=eng.
26. Arrington, Confessions, 2:119; Claudia L. Bushman, “Maggie Becomes a Mormon,” Ensign, Mar. 1975, https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1975/03/mormon-journal/maggie-becomes-a-mormon?lang=eng; Carol Lynn Pearson, “The Valentine,” “Prayer for an Afflicted Child,” and “Short Roots,” Ensign, Apr. 1976, www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1976/04/poetry?lang=eng.
27. Sheldon, “Launching Exponent II.”
28. Claudia Bushman, email message to author, July 19, 2019.
29. Bushman, Mormon Sisters, 25–88.
30. This entry comes from a small diary I kept intermittently from 1961 to 1962 and then on and off from 1976 to 1978.
31. Arrington, Confessions, 2:334.
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