Don’t Trust Historians! The Errors of Andrew Ehat

Historian Andrew Ehat had a primary role in shaping the modern LDS historical narrative, including regarding Joseph Smith’s alleged polygamy. But, as usual with the monogamy deniers, his polygamy scholarship is atrocious. In this video, I share just a few examples of that.

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Historian teaching that JRR Tolkien is racist: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10/16/tolkien-ethnic-chauvinism-claim/
Ehat’s Transcript of Fielding’s journal: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1924&context=byusq
Ehat Thesis Quote: https://archive.org/details/EhatIntroOfTempleOrdinances2/page/n181/mode/2up
Joseph Fielding Journal: https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets/fed88dc9-9446-43bf-9fb2-5577ca690893/0/28?lang=eng
The Daniels account of Joseph Smith’s death: https://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/carthage/danielsaccount.html, https://bhroberts.org/records/dMauAb-MlMOfb/w_m_daniels_recounts_at_length_the_events_leading_up_to_the_death_of_joseph_and_hyrum_smith_from_his_perspective_as_a_non_latter_day_saint_member_of_the_state_militia
Hyrum Smith confirming that the Book of Mormon teaches monogamy as a perpetual principle: https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets/e8d44719-6577-4503-86b8-1641367be6b9/0/0