New Mormon Studies CD-ROM: A Comprehensive Resource Library

In the eleven years since the New Mormon Studies CD-ROM was first released, computers have bulked up to about eight times as much RAM and fifteen times the speed. Taking advantage of these developments, the 2009 edition has greater computational capacity and is quicker.

The content has not changed—only the software has. You will find that you can enjoy the same ease of installation and functionality as with your original purchase. Or if you are using this product for the first time, you will discover that you can quickly search by word or phrase through nearly 1,000 books and other items.


Bestsellers

Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church

For the past 175 years, the Latter-day Saint Church has taught that Native Americans and Polynesians are descended from ancient seafaring Israelites. Recent DNA research confirms what anthropologists have been saying for nearly as many years, that Native Americans...

In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith

The majority of Smith's wives were younger than he, and one-third were between fourteen and twenty years of age. Another third were already married, and some of the husbands served as witnesses at their own wife's polyandrous wedding. In...

Salamander: The Story of the Mormon Forgery Murders

What was the "salamander letter" and why were so many people determined to possess—and to conceal—it? Why was this one of the most unusual cases in American forensic history? Come find out!

Latest News

January 28th, 2010

New, Updated CD-ROM Now Available!

We're calling it the New Mormon Studies CD-ROM, 2009 Edition even though it's 2010. Yes, we know! The thing is, by the time we located and zapped some bugs in the software, it was too late to change the...


January 9th, 2010

Historian calls Brigham Young a “soft, pastoral, sweet man”

In a news story today in the Salt Lake Tribune, historian Ron Walker argued that Brigham Young may seem harsh when you read his sermons, but the “real Brigham” includes his letters, wherein “a softer, more pastoral, sweet man...


December 24th, 2009

This Makes the Baby Jesus Cry

In the movie Gomorrah, the Naples mafia (“Camorra”) intimidates people by telling them “if you’re not with us, you’re against us.” Jesus famously turned this mentality on its head by saying that “whoever is not against us is for...


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